[R-G] Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 14 June 2006.

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 14 June 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial 
board, the Free Arab Voice.  http://www.freearabvoice.org

Wednesday, 14 June 2006.

ˇ       US offensive underway in Baghdad: 41,000 troops launch 
raids, searches, and arrests in Iraq's Sunni areas.  Witnesses say 
hundreds arrested, puppet army reports say 3,000 homes raided by 
late afternoon in massive American sweep of predominantly Sunni 
areas in Baghdad.

ˇ       Sunni religious scholars issue Fatwa ar-Ribat, banning 
Sunnis from fleeing Baghdad and abandoning it to Shi`i sectarian 
militias who are seeking to purge the capital of Sunnis.

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.

Resistance fighters attack US headquarters in al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 4:30pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier Iraqi 
Resistance fighters attacked the US military headquarters in the 
center of al-Fallujah, some 60km west of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the al-
Fallujah puppet police as saying that Resistance fighters armed with 
rocket propelled grenades assaulted the US headquarters damaging the 
observation towers and setting fire to one US vehicle.

Ar-Ramadi.

Resistance bomb wounds US troops in southern ar-Ramadi.

In a dispatch posted at 9:30am Makkah time Wednesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a US military column on the main road in the at-Ta'mim area of 
southern ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in at-
Ta'mim as saying that  the bomb, which was planted by the side of as-
Siramik Road disabled a military munitions transport vehicle, 
wounding two American troops.

Abu Ghurayb.

Resistance bomb explodes in Abu Ghurayb leaving four US troops 
reported killed.

In a dispatch posted at 9:45am Makkah time Wednesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a US military column on the main road in northern Abu Ghurayb, about 
30km west of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as 
saying that a bomb by the side of he old road to al-Fallujah 
northwest of Abu Ghurayb blew up by a passing American column, 
completely destroying a Humvee and killing four US troops who were 
aboard it.

Baghdad.

US offensive gets underway in Baghdad massive campaign of raids, 
searches, and arrests sweeps Baghdad's Sunni districts.

In a dispatch posted at 9:50am Makkah time Wednesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops accompanied by 
their Iraqi puppet army and police allies launched a massive 
campaign at dawn on Wednesday, as they had announced on Tuesday.

According to Quds Press, some 41,000 US and puppet troops and police 
as well as sectarian militiamen were taking part in the massive 
sweep.  Quds Press reported official spokesmen as saying that the 
offensive in Baghdad would "concentrate on areas where there have 
been a lot of armed attacks; areas that armed men are thought to use 
regularly, such as al-A`zamiyah and al-Karakh."

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local 
eyewitnesses as saying that the campaign was aimed solely at Sunni 
areas as US troops and their allies began raiding homes and 
arresting dozens of people.

People with the long beards or short "dishdashahs" characteristic of 
religious people as well as those known for going to Sunni mosques 
regularly were being rounded up by the troops. The forces of the 
Americans and their allies included large and conspicuous numbers of 
Shi`i sectarian militias such as the Badr Brigades, known for the 
torture and murder of Sunni prisoners.

When the Americans found more than one male in a house they would 
arrest most of them, leaving the youngest in the home.

Iraqi puppet army troops, puppet police, and the Shi`i militiamen 
were seen raiding, searching, and robbing and plundering homes, 
taking not only money and valuables but even bottles of perfume and 
clothing.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent was able to take a photograph of 
one Sunni home ransacked by the Americans' Shi`i sectarian allies.  
It is posted at:
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=114098

Campaign of arrests and repression carries on apace in Baghdad 
neighborhoods.

In a dispatch posted at 1:10pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops accompanied by 
Iraqi puppet army and police and Shi`i sectarian militias were 
continuing their massive wave of raids and arrests.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the southern Baghdad 
suburb of ad-Durah reported that as of about 12:30pm local time 
Wednesday, the Americans and their allies had rounded up more than 
40 local Sunni residents in the suburb.  The prisoners range in age 
from 18 to 50 years.

The correspondent reported the Imam of the al-Mahdiyah neighborhood 
mosque as saying that the wave of raids and arrests in the area was 
still under way.

In the western Baghdad district of al-`Amiriyah, the raids and 
arrests were continuing apace, particularly near the Muluki Mosque, 
but no count of the number of prisoners taken by the Americans was 
available.

Witnesses say hundreds arrested, puppet army reports say 3,000 homes 
raided by late afternoon in massive American sweep of predominantly 
Sunni areas in Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 8:20pm Makkah time Wednesday evening, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as of 7pm local time Wednesday 
afternoon the American troops accompanied by Iraqi puppet army and 
police and Shi`i sectarian militiamen had searched more than 3,000 
homes of Sunni Iraqis in various parts of the districts of al-
`Amiriyah, ad-Durah, al-A`zamiyah, ash-Sha`b, as-Salikh, and al-
Ghazaliyah as well as in the al-Jihad neighborhood and elsewhere in 
the area of the occupied Iraqi capital.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in 
the Iraqi puppet army who asked not to be identified as saying that 
as of 7pm local time Wednesday afternoon, the Americans and their 
allies had arrested 192 people, as far as the Iraqi puppet army was 
aware.

But in the course of a walking trip through the areas swept by the 
Americans and their puppet allies, the Mafkarat al-Islam 
correspondent found local people talking about arrests by the 
hundreds.  In one case even a mentally unbalanced person named Hamid 
al-Khabal who lived with his blind mother in al-`Amiriyah near the 
Muluki Mosque was picked up and taken away with the other prisoners.

At the time he filed his report, the correspondent said that a 
curfew had been imposed on the predominantly Sunni areas just 
minutes earlier.  He said that American troops using loudspeakers 
had declared that they would shoot to death anyone they saw outside 
the doors of his house.

Sunni religious scholars issue Fatwa ar-Ribat, banning Sunnis from 
fleeing Baghdad and abandoning it to Shi`i sectarian militias.

In a dispatch posted at 9:15pm Makkah time Wednesday night, Mafkarat 
al-Islam reported that in the face of a concerted effort by the US-
backed puppet regime and its sectarian Shi`i militias to purge 
Baghdad of its Sunni population, a number of Sunni Muslim religious 
scholars have issued an Islamic legal opinion prohibiting Sunnis 
from leaving Baghdad and abandoning their homes and goods to the 
Shi`i sectarian militias.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the legal 
ruling called the Fatwa ar-Ribat ("the Fatwa of Encamped Preparation 
for Struggle") was issued on Wednesday in the wake of reports of 
wholesale flight of Sunnis from Baghdad, fearful of the bloody 
violence that the Shi`i sectarian militias are likely to visit upon 
the Sunnis under the protective wing of the American military and 
its current operation to purge the country of supporters of the 
Iraqi Resistance.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Shaykh 
Khalid al-`Azzawi, one of the 10 religious scholars who signed the 
Fatwa, as saying that the aim of the Shi`i sectarians was to purge 
Baghdad of Sunnis, turning it into a completely Shi`i 
city.  "Therefore the Sunni people are obliged to resist them and 
not comply with their ugly sectarian plans aimed at expelling the 
Sunnah and making Baghdad, the capital of Harun ar-Rashid into a 
haven for ignorance at the hands of the followers of as-Sistani and 
al-Hakim," (in reference to the anti-Resistance Shi`i religious 
authority Ayatallah `Ali as-Sistani and the head of the pro-American 
Badr Brigades militia, `Abd al-`Aziz al-Hakim)

"The Sunnis today must encamp in preparation for struggle in the 
path of God," al-`Azzawi told Mafkarat al-Islam, because war is 
being fought against them because of their religion and their belief 
that there is only one God who has no partners.  Whoever dies at the 
hands of the sectarians is a martyr who we reckon as being with God, 
and whoever stays alive will have great merit."

Asked about the special threat posed to women at the hands of the 
ferocious Shi`i sectarian militias, Shaykh al-`Azzawi said, "there 
is no harm in taking the women to a safe place while the men remain 
in the house, if the man fears that he will be dishonored."

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam stated that the Fatwa ar-
Ribat reflects the reality of what is going on in Iraq as the Sunni 
population faces a bloody offensive by US troops and the Shi`i 
sectarian regime, military, police, and death squads backed by 
Washington.  The correspondent reported that Iraqis are bitter about 
the silence of Muslim religious leaders around the world who have 
failed to raise an alarm over the sectarian cleansing to which they 
are being subjected.  "They are busy filling their stomachs and 
their wallets," ["al-kurush wa-al-qurush"] the local people say of 
the Islamic world's quiescent religious establishment.

Resistance bomb wounds puppet "Shock Troops" in Baghdad's al-Qahirah 
district.

In a dispatch posted at 12:38pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb 
exploded by a patrol of puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops 
(Maghawir)" in the al-Qahirah section of eastern Baghdad.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in 
the puppet police as saying that an explosives-laden car that was 
parked by the side of the main road leading to the an-Nida' Mosque 
blew up by the patrol, disabling one vehicle and wounding two of the 
puppet "Shock Troops."  Three civilians were killed and five more 
wounded in the explosion.

Resistance bomb kills puppet policeman in northeastern Baghdad 
before noon.

In a dispatch posted at 12:33pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a puppet police patrol in the al-Waziriyah section of northeastern 
Baghdad before noon on Wednesday.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses in al-Waziriyah as saying that  the bomb exploded by a 
puppet police patrol on the road that leads to the al-A`zamiyah 
district.  The blast disabled a patrol vehicle, killing one puppet 
policeman and wounding a second.  Some civilians who were nearby at 
the time were also injured in the explosion.

Resistance bomb blasts US tank in al-A`zamiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 12:15pm Makkah time midday Wednesday, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a US patrol on the main road in the al-A`zmiyah district of northern 
Baghdad.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses in al-A`zamiyah as saying that the bomb, which was 
planted on `Umar ibn `Abd al-`Aziz Street, blew up by a passing 
American patrol, completely destroying and setting on fire an 
American tank and killing or wounding the members of its five-man 
crew.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.

Resistance bomb targets US fuel convoy south of Bayji Tuesday 
evening.

In a dispatch posted at 12:39pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a convoy of tankers hauling fuel to American bases on the road 
between the refinery area of Bayji, about 200km north of Baghdad and 
Tikrit to the south Tuesday evening.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in 
Bayji as sayingthat the explosion totally destroyed one truck, 
killing the driver, a Turk who was working for the American 
occupation forces.

Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.

Resistance fires Katyusha barrage into US camp Wednesday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 12:31pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired three 
medium-range Katyusha rockets into the US military headquarters in 
al-Miqdadiyah, about 85km northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday morning.

The Diyala Province correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses in al-Miqdadiyah as saying that the rockets scored 
direct hits on the American facility, sending plumes of smoke rising 
into the sky.  American helicopters were seen hovering at low 
altitude over the camp and surrounding areas after the barrage.

Ba`qubah.

Resistance fighters ambush puppet "Iraqi National Guards" as they 
prepare to raid homes east of Ba`qubah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:40am Makkah time Wednesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters assaulted 
a group of Iraqi puppet "National Guards" on the main road between 
Kan`an and Balad Ruz east of the city of Ba`qubah, some 65km 
northeast of Baghdad.

The Ba`qubah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses in the area as saying that the Resistance fighters 
ambushed the puppet "National Guardsmen" as they were getting ready 
to launch house-to-house raids.  The Resistance fighters armed wit 
light and medium weapons and pipe rockets destroyed a puppet "Guard" 
vehicle, killing five of the puppet "National Guard" troops and 
wounding four more of them.

Babil Province.
Al-Mahmudiyah.

Video produced by Iraqi Islamic Army documents Resistance attack on 
US personnel carrier near al-Mahmudiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Makkah time Wednesday night, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Iraqi Islamic Army Resistance 
organization had broadcast a video showing a bomb attack they had 
carried out on a US personnel carrier in the al-Mahmudiyah area, 
about 30km south of Baghdad.

The video, as broadcast on al-Jazeera satellite TV and monitored by 
Mafkarat al-Islam, showed a US military vehicle ablaze.

Maysan Province.
Al-`Amarah.

Twenty Resistance mortar shells slam into British base in al-`Amarh 
at dawn Wednesday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:27pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired twenty 
82mm mortar rounds into the British military headquarters in the 
city of al-`Amarah in southeastern Iraq at dawn on Wednesday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the 
al-Wahdah area adjacent to the British-occupied base known as Camp 
Abu Naji as saying that all twenty mortar shells blasted directly 
into the facility, setting off violent explosions that were heard 
all over the nearby neighborhoods.  Smoke billowed up from Camp Naji 
after the Resistance barrage.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

Resistance bomb wounds British troops in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 12:15pm Makkah time midday Wednesday, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a British military column on the main road in northern al-Basrah.

The al-Basrah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses in the al-Latif area as saying that the bomb exploded 
by a British column that was driving up Baghdad Road.  The blast 
disabled an armored vehicle, wounding three British troops.

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