Iraq: pesanti attacchi anti-Usa
More US Troops Dies In Baghdad Attacks, Resistance Heavy In Other Locations
Mar 09, 2005
By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice; Edited For Publication By JUS.
The Iraqi resistance is once again heating up with an increase in daily attacks being reported. With no clear government due to elections held under occupation, Iraqi continues to be a thorn in the side of the US Administration.
Three US Troops Die, One American Commits Suicide In Bomb Attack
A bomb exploded by a US patrol in the al-Mansur neighborhood of Baghdad at 11:20am Tuesday local time, a source in the so-called Iraqi police told Mafkarat al-Islam. The blast disabled a US armored vehicle and reportedly killed three soldiers and wounded five others. The source added that one of the wounded soldiers, who had been injured in the thigh, shot himself to death as he lay on the ground before the arrival of an American medical team.
Witnesses told the correspondent that the soldier who committed suicide was not seriously wounded, compared to his injured comrades but nevertheless he shot himself in the head with his personal weapon, killing himself instantly and bringing the number of dead in the incident to four.
At the time the correspondent filed his report, posted at 1:05pm Tuesday afternoon Mecca time, US forces were still totally surrounding the scene of the attack. Another group of American troops evacuated the casualties to the headquarters of the former Iraqi Intelligence Service (now an occupied facility) in the same neighborhood.
Bombings Harass, Kill US Troops In Abu Ghraib
A bomb exploded in Abu Ghraib, 30km west of Baghdad as a US column was passing through the city, Mafkarat al-Islam reported in a dispatch posted at 7:25pm Mecca time Tuesday night. The correspondent reported that the blast completely destroyed a US Humvee and reportedly killed four American troops.
Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam in Abu Ghraib that there was another bomb that exploded next to a US column made up of several armored vehicles, and then another roadside bomb that blew up in the Shaykh Darri area, reportedly destroying a US vehicle and killing four more Americans.
Resistance Pounds US Base In Saddam International Airport
Iraqi Resistance forces fired an intense barrage of rockets and mortars lasting for 15 minutes and was still going on when the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent filed a report posted at 10:50am Mecca time Tuesday morning. Witnesses reported that smoke was rising from the base as explosions went off everywhere inside the facility.
Powerful Bomb Destroys New US Armored Vehicle In Ba‘Qubah
A bomb exploded by a US military column in the al-Maymunah neighborhood in western Ba‘qubah at 9am Tuesday, totally destroying a new model American armored vehicle, the name of which is unknown. The new vehicles were brought into Iraq after American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last visited the occupied country. The explosion reportedly killed seven US troops instantly.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces encircled the area where the attack occurred. After searching the area they turned up a wire by the side of the road and linked to a small battery hidden under a traffic signal at the end of the street. It appears that the wire was part of the mechanism used to detonate the bomb.
After the attack, the Americans arrested one traffic warden whom they accused of allowing the Resistance to rig the explosive under the traffic light. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that after the arrest all the city’s traffic police declared a general strike in solidarity with their arrested co-worker, whose arrest they regarded as inexcusable.
Resistance Martyrdom Fighter On Motorcycle Kills Five US Troops
A martyrdom fighter driving an explosives-laden motorcycle blew himself up by a group of US soldiers in the middle of the city of Mandali in Diyala Province on the Iranian border at 10am Tuesday morning local time. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the attack left five US troops dead and six more wounded.
Witnesses told the correspondent that the fighter detonated his motorcycle next to a US column on foot near a local primary school for girls. The witnesses said that five American troops died in the attack and six more were wounded, most of them in very serious condition.
After the bombing, US troops cordoned off the area completely and began a comprehensive search of the girls’ school and the houses nearby. They found nothing related to the attack.
Eight Americans Reported killed in Mosul Tuesday
In a dispatch posted at 7:20pm Mecca time Tuesday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a US military column in western Mosul. The US column was made up of four Humvees and was driving through the ash-Shurtah neighborhood in the west of Mosul when the fighter slammed his black BMW into the column and exploded, according to a source in the so-called Iraqi police.
The blast completely destroyed two Humvees and killed eight American soldiers, according to a source in the fire department that rushed to the scene after the attack and found the two totally wrecked Humvees and the bodies of the eight soldiers strewn about the ground. The source in the puppet police also said that two US vehicles were destroyed in the attack and eight Americans killed.
Afterwards, US troops encircled the area and imposed a curfew on the area, which was still in force when the correspondent submitted his report.
Resistance blasts US base in Kirkuk Airport
In a dispatch posted at 8:40pm Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Resistance forces had fired four powerful Grad rockets into the US base set up in Kirkuk International Airport, sending three plumes of dense smoke rising into the sky as secondary explosions went off inside the American facility after the attack, indicating that US munitions were going off.
Eyewitnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the rockets blasted into the western parts of the airport. No casualty reports were available.
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