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In Fallujah: Battles Continue Intermittently; US Halts Retreat
Dec 01, 2004
By Omar Al-Faris, JUS and Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice

Intermittent clashes broke out first on Monday night in the south of the city, but around dawn Tuesday moderate fighting developed and intensified in the northern extremity of al-Fallujah as the battle for control of the city continues.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam located on the south side of the city reported that intermittent battles broke out Monday night in the ash-Shuhada’ neighborhood in the south and in the al-Jubayl in the southwest, but died down at dawn.

In the north of the city, first moderate clashes broke out but then intensified for about half an hour beginning at 7am Tuesday. Mujahideen fired C5K, SPG9, and RPG7 rockets, and BKC machine guns and pounded US occupation forces with approximately thirty three 82mm and 120mm caliber mortar rounds.

The correspondent, in a dispatch posted at 3:20pm local time Tuesday said that the fighting was still continuing intermittently at the time he filed his report. US aircraft were unable to get enter the fighting, because the Mujahideen and American forces were fighting too closely together.

No US troops were present in the area between the as-Sakani neighborhood and the al-Jawlan neighborhood – a distance of about half a kilometer. A Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent inside al-Fallujah observed that there were no direct clashes between the US forces and the Mujahideen in the neighborhoods of al-Wahdah, al-Jumhuriyah, Old Fallujah, al-Muhandisin, or ad-Dubbat. This is attributed to the fact that the Mujahideen decided to use those areas as zones for hit-and-run attacks in an effort to wear down and divide the American forces and as the result, the Americans did not station troops there.

US operations to pull units out of Fallujah halted Monday night, probably due to the fighting that fighting was raging in nearby ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah and its is likely the Us wanted to keep extra units nearby.

US forces dominate the neighborhoods of al-Mu‘allimin and al-Jaghifi, while the center of the Mujahideen is in the southern part of the city which itself constitutes 55 percent of the area of al-Fallujah. In addition the Mujahideen controls the al-‘Askari neighborhood and about three-fourths of al-Jawlan.

US forces have tightened their grip in the northwest part of the neighborhood of al-Jawlan, where Mujahideen had been able to break through and into the city. US forces in al-Jawlan prevented a deputation of the residents of as-Saqlawiyah from entering the neighborhood to collect and bury bodies of people killed in the US bombardments. The Americans claimed that the situation inside the neighborhood was “insecure.”

Some units of the Red Crescent are present in the city – both its northern and southern halves – in order to provide relief food aid to the residents who have been suffering badly as a result of the US siege.

Allawi “National Guard” Troops Paste Posters Of Pro-American Cleric Sistani On Mosques

Members of Allawi’s so-called “Iraqi national guard” have been plastering pictures of pro-American Shi‘i cleric ‘Ali as-Sistani in the mihrab niches at the front of all mosques in the parts of Fallujah that the US invaders and their collaborators have occupied. The American invaders have from the beginning sought to stir up and capitalize on sectarian strife in Iraq.

They began by establishing a puppet governing council to rule the country under American auspices. In addition, sectarian Shi‘i Badr Brigade gunmen who invaded Iraq along with the US forces have been incorporated into the so-called “Iraqi national guard.” Sectarian hatred of the Sunni population has been instilled in the gunmen who frequently view the pro-American clerical body led by ‘Ali as-Sistani as their source of spiritual guidance. Military vehicles belonging to the “national guard” joined the American invaders and drove into Fallujah emblazoned with sectarian anti-Sunni religious slogans.

There have been frequent reports that the population of Fallujah is more afraid of murderous abuse at the hands of the sectarian fanatics than they are of the behavior of the American invaders themselves. Most recently the correspondents for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Fallujah report that the “national guards” are given to urinating, defecating, and spitting on al-Fallujah’s Sunni mosques, and they have scrawled obscenities upon them as well. There has been a report that the “national guard” issued calls via loudspeakers for Shi‘i residents of al-Fallujah to report to a particular mosque from which they were trucked out of the city to spare them whatever violence the invaders planned for their Sunni neighbors.

In contrast to such behavior, other religious leaders of the Shi‘i community in Iraq such as Muqtada as-Sadr, have condemned the US attacks on al-Fallujah and issued statements prohibiting Shi‘i Iraqis from serving the US in its assault on the people of the city.


US Forces Carry Out “Punishing” Operation in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah
Dec 01, 2004
By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice; Edited by JUS

US forces attempted to carry out a “punishing” operation on ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah out of which Resistance forces have been operating to harass the rear lines of American troops attacking nearby Fallujah city according to a dispatch at 12:50am local time Wednesday morning from Mafkarat al-Islam.

The US operations were also intended to cover the US withdrawal from the city that was accompanied by Resistance ambushes, many of them originating in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah and targeting US forces on the road out of Fallujah towards the US-occupied base in al-Habbaniyah.

In ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah on Tuesday, the fighting was varied. It lasted continuously from Monday evening and into the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday. It then flared up again at about 7am Tuesday and lasted until 10:15am. Calm then reigned until 3pm when skirmishes began to break out. US forces then started pulling out of some parts of ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah, but then they returned at about 5pm Tuesday evening and very fierce fighting erupted, in which the Resistance fired Tariq and Grad rockets as well as 60mm, 82mm, and 120mm mortar rounds and 68mm C5K rockets.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah saw six military vehicles ablaze in just one part of the town, but he was unable to ascertain whether they belonged to the US or British invader forces.

Then at 10:15pm Tuesday night, US forces again began to withdraw from ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah, heading back towards their al-Habbaniyah base. The correspondent noted, however, that the withdrawal of the Americans was unorganized, with different vehicles crossing each other’s paths as they pulled out along a number of paved and dirt roads.

US forces also stormed the ar-Rahman Mosque in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah, tearing up copies of the Qur’an and attacking worshippers. The Allawi “national guard” raided apartments of citizens in the residential area, breaking down doors and stealing money and women’s gold jewelry at gunpoint, before leaving the area.