Iraqi Resistance
Report for events of Tuesday, 15 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled
by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Tuesday, 15 July 2008.
· Two Iraqi policemen killed, four people wounded when mortar shell
lands near Iranian Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday evening.
· Ansar al-Islam claims credit for rocket attack on US camp in north
Baghdad suburb of at-Taji Tuesday.
· Presumed al-Qa‘idah belt bombers strike recruiting station in
Ba‘qubah Tuesday morning.
· Belt bomber kills four civilians in al-Mawsil Tuesday morning.
· In continued preparations for American attack on Iran, Iraqi regime
police arrest 10 anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in raids,
searches in al-Basrah.
Baghdad.
Two Iraqi policemen killed, four people wounded when mortar shell lands
near Iranian Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 10:35pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that a mortar shell landed near the Iranian Embassy
and the Baghdad provincial government building in the Iraqi capital’s
as-Salihiyah district Tuesday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi security forces who asked to remain
anonymous as saying that the Tuesday evening attack killed two traffic
policemen, one a Captain. Four other people were wounded in the attack.
US and Iraqi regime security forces rushed to close off the as-Sanak and
al-Jumhuriyah bridges following the incident.
Ansar al-Islam claims credit for rocket attack on US camp in north
Baghdad suburb of at-Taji Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:10pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the
Yaqen News Agency reported that the Islamist organization Ansar al-Islam
declared that its forces had fired four S5K rockets at the US military
camp in the at-Taji area of northern Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a communiqué issued by the group, a Kurdish Islamist
group reportedly allied with al-Qa‘idah, as saying that the rocket
attack was part of the Ansar al-Islam’s campaign of revenge against the
US for its role in the offensive against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil and
surrounding Ninwa Province, a campaign launched by the US on 10 May this
year.
Bomb intended for government minister wounds two civilians in eastern
Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:03pm Tuesday afternoon
Beijing time (11:03am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that
a bomb exploded after the motorcade of the Minister of Electricity had
driven through the al-Jaysh ash-Sha‘bi intersection in the Zuynah
district of eastern Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in the police as saying that the blast wounded
two civilians who happened to be on the scene at the time. The
Electricity Minister, Wahid Karim, and all those accompanying him were
unhurt, and none of the vehicles in the motorcade suffered any damage.
The Minister was on his way to his office at the time of the attack.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
Bomb kills policeman in Tikrit.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:59pm Tuesday evening
Beijing time (2:59pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that
an adhesive bomb exploded in the car of an Iraqi government policeman in
Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad, at midday Tuesday.
Xinhua reported Colonel Hasan Ahmad of the provincial police command as
saying that the bomb went off as the policeman was on his way to Tikrit
General Hospital. As a result of the blast, he was severely wounded and
died shortly after admission to the hospital.
Samarra’.
Travelers kidnapped near Samarra’.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:59pm Tuesday evening
Beijing time (2:59pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that
gunmen in a Japanese car kidnapped two travelers near Samarra’, 120km
north of Baghdad and took them away to an unknown destination.
Balad.
Mortar barrage targets Camp Anaconda Monday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 9:50am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the al-Bakr Airbase, known to the Americans as
Camp Anaconda near Balad, 68km north of Baghdad, came under mortar
barrage on Monday evening.
Yaqen reported a source in the Yathrib area police as saying that at
least 15 mortar rounds landed in the American-occupied facility, sending
plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Tribal police chief gunned down in al-Miqdadiyah.
In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that a sniper shot and killed the head of the
US-backed “Awakening” tribal police for the northern al-Miqdadiyah area
(85km northeast of Baghdad).
Yaqen reported a source in the al-Miqdadiyah police as saying that
Ya‘qub Samir al-Mahdawi, head of the “Awakening” in areas to the north
of al-Miqdadiyah was gunned down while he stood at a checkpoint in the
village of Babilan, 12km north of al-Miqdadiyah. Al-Mahdawi died on the
spot.
Ba‘qubah.
Presumed al-Qa‘idah belt bombers strike recruiting station in Ba‘qubah
Tuesday morning.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 2:47pm Tuesday afternoon
Beijing time (9:47am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that
two men wearing explosive belts had blown themselves up at a recruiting
station for Iraqi security services in the city of Ba‘qubah, 65km
northeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday morning.
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that
the bombers infiltrated into the crowds of volunteers seeking to join
the Iraqi army at the Sa‘d Camp in Ba‘qubah.
In a dispatch posted at 8:33pm Beijing time (3:33pm in Baghdad) Xinhua
reported that by latest count, 28 of the recruits had been killed in the
double bombing and another 64 had been injured, some of those severely.
Xinhua reported that security forces rushed to the scene after the
attack and helped evacuate the casualties while beginning an
investigation into the attack and how the bomber had infiltrated the
area with his payload.
At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.
Bomb wounds three policemen in Kirkuk Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11:15am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Rapid
Intervention forces in Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad on Tuesday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Kirkuk Police Directorate as saying that
the bomb went off near the Baghdad car park as a patrol of the Rapid
Intervention police was driving past. Three of the patrolmen were
wounded and their vehicle damaged. The casualties were taken to Kirkuk
General Hospital for treatment.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Belt bomber kills four civilians in al-Mawsil Tuesday morning.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:33pm Tuesday evening
Beijing time (3:33pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that
in the course of battles between gunmen and Iraqi police, a man wearing
an explosive belt blew himself up amidst a group of civilians in the
city of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Tuesday morning.
Xinhua reported a source in the al-Mawsil police as saying that police
patrols clashed with gunmen in the al-Bursah commercial area in western
al-Mawsil before noon Tuesday and it was during the exchange of gunfire
that a suicide bomber blew himself up amidst a group of civilians,
killing four of them and wounding five more.
The source added that a car bomb that had been parked by the side of a
road in the al-‘Arabi neighborhood of northern al-Mawsil also exploded
before noon Tuesday, damaging several residential houses but inflicting
no casualties.
Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an
offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and
surrounding Ninwa Province.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
In continued preparations for American attack on Iran, Iraqi regime
police arrest 10 anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in raids,
searches in al-Basrah.
In a dispatch posted at 1:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that Iraqi government police arrested 10 members of
the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in various parts of al-Basrah
on Monday night.
Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an
offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing,
the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be
preparation for an American attack on Iran.
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