RESISTANCE REPORT : 15 JANUARY 2008

Resistance report for events of tuesday 15 january 2008 :

Resistance fired two Grad rockets into US base in ath-Tharthar tuesday evening
In a dispatch posted at 11:03pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi Resistance fired two Grad rockets at a US base in the ath-Tharthar area in northeastern al-Anbar Province on Tuesday evening.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that Resistance men in a large truck that contained a rocket launcher fired off the two Grad rockets at the ath-Tharthar military base that the Americans share with their puppet regime allies.  The barrage caused damage as could be seen from the fire that was seen burning in the camp after the attack.  Witnesses said they say US aircraft hovering over the base firing heat flares in an attempt to prevent further Resistance attacks.

Five mortar shells land in "Green Zone" tuesday evening
In a dispatch posted at 10:11pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that several mortar shells slammed into the area near the “Green Zone” home of Ibrahim al-Ja‘fari, US-backed Shi‘i sectarian leader and former puppet “prime minister” during a political meeting he was hosting there.

Yaqen reported a source in the meeting as saying that 12 political groups that recently signed an agreement of understanding were holding their first meeting at al-Ja‘fari’s home when the attack occurred.  Al-Ja‘fari’s home is located in the top-security district of central Baghdad dubbed the “Green Zone” by the Americans.

The barrage wounded one of al-Ja‘fari’s bodyguards and inflicted material damage on his house.

Earlier, in a dispatch posted at 7:15pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that five mortar shells blasted into the top-security area around the Republican Palace in downtown Baghdad – the district that US forces have dubbed the “Green Zone” in an attack on Tuesday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the nature and extent of damage caused by the barrage was unknown.

Sectarian murder spree continues : six more bodies found dumped around Baghdad tuesday
In a dispatch posted at 6:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi puppet police announced that six more bodies of victims of sectarian murder had been recovered around Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that four of the bodies were found in al-Karakh and two in ar-Rusafah.  The victims had been bound and blindfolded and shot to death.

Body guards of puppet "Iraqi justice Minister"  run over five primary school children, killing two
In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that bodyguards of the puppet “Iraqi Minister of Justice” ran over five primary school children in central Baghdad.
Yaqen reported members of the puppet “Iraqi National Guard” manning a checkpoint at the scene said that a car carrying guards of Safi as-Safi, the US-backed “Iraqi Minister of Justice,” drove their car over five school children from the al-Masarrah co-educational primary school, killing one of them, 10-year-old Husayn Muyi Hamzah.  Four other school children were severely injured in the incident, one of them dying after being taken away by the guards.

The puppet “National Guards” manning the checkpoint said that the “Minister’s” bodyguards failed to obey commands issued by the checkpoint officers, who then opened fire on the bodyguards’ car.  The bodyguards then returned fire, completely destroying a puppet police car.  They then got out of the cars to carry the dead and wounded children away.  Three were later located in a nearby hospital, two had died.

The “National Guards” told Yaqen that the “Minister’s” body guards go back and forth in the area every day behaving in the same way: driving at insane speeds and shooting their weapons at drivers parked by the side of the road and at passers by.

Collaborator "awakening" official killed in armed attack in Baghdad's as-Sadriyah neighborhood tuesday afternoon
In a dispatch posted at 3:45pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed fighters clashed with collaborationist “Awakening” police in the as-Sadriyah neighborhood of central Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attackers killed Khudayr Laftah Matar, an official with the “Awakening” collaborator police in the attack.  Two other “Awakening” collaborators and four civilians were wounded in the clash ant taken to al-Kindi Hospital for treatment.  The attackers left the scene when US troops showed up to cordon off the area.

Bomb targets puppet police patrol in Baghdad's al-Karakh district tuesday morning
In a dispatch posted at 11:52am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a passing patrol of puppet policemen on the main road in Baghdad’s al-Karakh district Tuesday morning.
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the blast wounded two puppet policemen and five other individuals.

Puppet policeman killed in attacks on checkpoint in ash-Sharuqat
In a dispatch posted at 2:47pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a person wearing an explosive belt and a car bomber both detonated their payloads near a checkpoint manned by puppet police and collaborator “Awakening” police to the west of the town of ash-Sharuqat, 250km north of Baghdad on Tuesday morning.

Yaqen reported a source in the provincial puppet police as saying that the personnel at the checkpoint were suspicious of an individual approaching their position so they ordered him to halt.  The individual then blew himself up by detonating an explosive belt, killing himself but causing no other casualties.  After a crowd of puppet policemen and “Awakening” collaborators had gathered on the scene of the blast, a man drove an explosives-laden vehicle into the area.  Puppet policemen tried to stop the vehicle by shooting at it, but that only caused it to explode, killing one puppet policeman and wounding another eight people.

US troops gun down iraqi civilian in ash-Sharuqat
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces shot and killed an Iraqi civilian in the city of ash-Sharuqat, 250km north of Baghdad, on Tuesday morning.

Yaqen reported a US column came to a halt in the middle of a market in the city and spotted a car moving at high speed.  The driver of the car did not respond to a sign from one of the Americans to halt and so the US troops opened fire, killing the driver.  The body of the man, an employee at the energy department in Bayji, was taken to ash-Sharuqat General Hospital.

Collaborator policeman killed in al-Miqdadiyah
In a dispatch posted at 5:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that one collaborationist “Awakening” policeman had been killed and a second wounded in the Balwar area of central al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a sources in the collaborator “Awakening” police as claiming that the casualties were caused by “random gunfire.”

Bomb blast wounds puppet police major
In a dispatch posted at 3:18pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the car in which a major in the puppet police was riding in the area of al-Huwayjah, 200km north of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported an official in the puppet police operations command post in Kirkuk who asked not to be identified as saying that the blast damaged a car and wounded the major.

Puppet regime forces carry out mass raids north, south of Kirkuk monday night
In a dispatch posted at 1:12pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi puppet regime forces launched campaigns or mass raids, searches, and arrests in the regions of al-Huwayjah, 50km south of Kirkuk, and in Dibs, northwest of Kirkuk on Monday night.

Yaqen reported Brigadier General Sarhad Qadir, the Director of the puppet police in the regions as saying that the arrests were still going on and included districts in the areas of al-‘Abbasi, az-Zab and Sarkaran as well.  In the course of the mass raids, the general said, six “suspects” had been arrested.

Bomb targets puppet police official in Kirkuk tuesday
In a dispatch posted at 10:20am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade in which the director of the operations center for the puppet police in Kirkuk was riding on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the bomb went off by the motorcade of Colonel Yadkar Muhammad when it was near the Third Bridge in the city as Colonel Muhammad was on his way to his office at the police headquarters.  The blast damaged a vehicle in the motorcade but Colonel Muhammad survived.

Bomb kills puppet policeman in al-Mawsil 
In a dispatch posted at 7:02pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of puppet policemen in the as-Sukkar neighborhood of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported that the blast killed one puppet policeman and wounded a second.

Puppet "Emergency police" raided the office of Muqtada as-Sadr movement in ad-Diwaniyah
In a dispatch posted at 8:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that puppet “ad-Diwaniyah Emergency Police” had raided the office of the pro-Iranian Muqtada as-Sadr movement in ad-Diwaniyah, 180km south of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source who asked not to be identified as saying that the al-Baqir Brigade of the puppet “Emergency Police” raided the as-Sadr office at midday Tuesday.  The puppet police did not ransack the office, however, and after finding nothing of interest left the premises.

Puppet regime forces arrest 350 "suspected" jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in ad-Diwaniyah 
In a dispatch posted at 2:15pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Brigadier General Safa’ Kazim, the commander of the puppet police for ad-Diwaniyah, 180km south of Baghdad, announced that 350 people had been arrested in the course of a sweep by puppet forces targeting pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi Shi‘i sectarian militiamen in the city.

Yaqen reported that the majority of the people arrested were “suspected of involvement” in assassinations of members of the puppet regime’s security personnel or “civilians.”  The general added that his forces had delivered 37 other “suspects” to the puppet police Karbala’ and Dhi Qar provinces.  The mass arrests are part of a campaign by the US-backed Shi‘i sectarian puppet regime in ad-Diwaniyah to eliminate pro-Iranian militias.

In recent months the Jaysh al-Mahdi has been the target of US and puppet regime forces, in particular in Baghdad and the cities of southern Iraq where the Americans and their Iraqi puppet regime allies have killed or captured a large number of the militia’s commanders and cadres.  The Jaysh al-Mahdi has also come into conflict with other, rival Shi‘i sectarian militias as they vie for control of the southern part of the country.

Bomb targets British patrol west of al-Basrah tuesday morning
In a dispatch posted at 10:35am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of British occupation troops in the ash-Shu‘aybah area to the west of al-Basrah in southern Iraq on Tuesday morning.

Yaqen reported a British spokesman as saying that the bomb went off as the British patrol was operating together with US and Iraqi puppet army forces.

Fire sweeps through oil refinery near al-Basrah early tuesday
In a dispatch posted at 10:12am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a massive fire broke out at the ash-Shu‘aybah oil refinery about 20km west of the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah at dawn on Tuesday.  A source in the puppet regime in al-Basrah Province thought it probable that the fire had been deliberately set.

Yaqen reported the source as saying that there was a sound of explosions going off just before the fire started, implying that the blaze was ignited by a bomb or Katyusha rockets.  The fire began in two units where benzene is produced and then spread to other parts of the facility.  All the firefighting units in the city of al-Basrah responded to the alarm and began attempting to extinguish the fire.

The ash-Shu‘aybah refinery is one of the largest such plants in southern Iraq.  The fire there was the third major blaze to sweep through Iraqi oil refinery facilities in the last few days.

Later, in a dispatch posted at 2:32pm, Yaqen reported the spokesman for the puppet “Iraqi Oil Ministry” as claiming that the fire in al-Basrah had been caused by helicopter belonging to US occupation forces.  ‘Asim Jihad, the puppet “Ministry” spokesman said that his agency had repeatedly told the Americans and British to change their flight plans so as to avoid flying over the refineries.

Jihad explained that gas escaping from the refineries into the air can ignite and fuel fires in refineries.

Jihad also said that “Ministry” personnel had been able to get control of the fire, which had inflicted material damaged on the gas unit of the refinery.  He denied, however, that the refinery had been shut down.  Ten people were reported injured as a result of the fire.

                                                                                                                                                            Source : albasrah.net