[R-G] Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 6 February 2007.

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 6 February 2007.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial 
board, the Free Arab Voice.  http://www.freearabvoice.org

Tuesday, 6 February 2007.

ˇ       Iraqi "commanders" of Bush – al-Maliki Offensive against 
Baghdad population named.

ˇ       Resistance fighters ambush US patrol 1km from "Green Zone" 
Tuesday as a reported 13 American troops die in Baghdad Tuesday.

ˇ       Resistance bomb leaves US soldier dead near al-Hillah Monday 
afternoon.

ˇ       British headquarters in al-Basrah shelled Tuesday afternoon.

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Baghdadi.

Resistance bomb kills three puppet policemen in al-Baghdadi Monday 
evening.

In a dispatch posted at 10:21am Makkah time Tuesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a puppet police patrol in the al-Baghdadi area, about 200km 
northwest of Baghdad, on Monday evening.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-
Baghdadi as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of 
the main road hat runs by the city blew up, destroying a patrol 
vehicle and killing three puppet policemen on the spot.

Al-Fallujah.

Resistance bombards US base near al-Fallujah Monday night.

In a dispatch posted at 10:19am Makkah time Tuesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired two 
heavy 120mm mortar shells at the US "al-Mazra`ah" base ("the Farm") 
one of the largest US bases near al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, 
at about 8:30pm Monday night.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as 
saying that the attack set off explosions that could be heard a 
great distance away.

Baghdad.

Iraqi "commanders" of Bush – al-Maliki Offensive against Baghdad 
population named.

In a dispatch posted at 10:36pm Makkah time Tuesday night, Mafkarat 
al-Islam reported that as the launch of the awaited joint offensive 
by US and puppet Iraqi regime forces on Baghdad approaches, Salam 
Zakam az-Zawbi`i, a prominent member of the Sunni sectarian Muslim 
Brotherhood and of the collaborationist "Islamic Party" announced 
that he would be one of the commander in the campaign.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that puppet regime 
officials have been saying that the count down for the launch of the 
offensive has already begun and that in addition to the pro-American 
Sunni az-Zawbi`i, the other commanders are to be one Kurd and two 
Shi`ah.

The correspondent reported that az-Zawbi`i ran in the 
parliamentary "elections" staged by the US occupation forces and was 
then nominated by the "Islamic Party" for the role of deputy puppet 
prime minister for security affairs – an honorary position with no 
real power.  Az- Zawbi`i has occupied that post for a long period 
having no impact on events as the regime and its sectarian militia 
allies drove Sunnis out of various neighborhoods of Baghdad.

Iraqis were therefore stunned, the correspondent reported, to learn 
that az-Zawbi`i had been chosen as one of the commanders in the 
Bush - al-Maliki Offensive, which is aimed at driving Sunnis out of 
Baghdad after many have already been violently expelled from Hayfa 
Street, and the districts of al-Hurriyah, and Baghdad al-Jadidah.

According to information available to Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad, 
the four Iraqi commanders chosen to lead the Bush – al-Maliki 
Offensive are:

1.      `Abbud Qanbar, a commander in the Shi`i sectarian Badr 
Brigades.

2.      Barham Salih, the husband of the sister of  `Abd al-`Aziz al-
Hakim, the chief of the pro-American "Supreme Council for the 
Islamic Revolution in Iraq" (SCIRI).  Salih is a Kurd who formerly 
held a high rank in the Kurdish separatist Peshmergah militia and 
took part in attacks on the Ansar al-Islam Resistance organization 
in northern Iraq.  He was awarded a badge of honor by US forces for 
his service to the American occupation.  Known for his ties 
to "Israel," Salih has been active in "normalizing" relations 
between Kurds and Jews under the occupation.

3.      Salam az-Zawbi`i, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he has 
a Ph.D. in soil and water sciences from al-Anbar University (2000).

4.      Ahmad Chelebi, a prominent personality on whom the US 
depended when it launched its invasion and occupation of Iraq.  A 
Shi`i, he has lived at times in Iran and at times in the US since 
the occupation of Iraq in 2003. He has been charged with mobilizing 
support among Shi`ah in Iraq for the Bush – al-Maliki Offensive. 

The correspondent reported that az-Zawbi`i was to be the official 
spokesman of the offensive in an attempt to conceal the sectarian 
nature of the military drive.  He added that the "Islamic Party" was 
swept by mass resignations on Tuesday following the announcement of 
az-Zawbi`i's role.  Those quitting the party denounced it 
for "departing from its principles" and for failing to deliver on 
what it promised would be protection for the Sunni population if 
they joined the American-run "political process."

Resistance fighters ambush US patrol 1km from "Green Zone" Tuesday 
as a reported 13 American troops die in Baghdad Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:10pm Makkah time Tuesday night, Mafkarat 
al-Islam reported that in what appeared to be one of the clearest 
signs yet of the collapse of American and Iraqi puppet regime 
authority in Baghdad, Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed an American 
patrol in as-Salihiyah Tuesday, just one kilometer from the top 
security "Green Zone" area around the Republican Palace.  Employees 
of the ad-Diyar satellite TV station that overlooks the Tigris River 
told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack left one American soldier 
dead and a second wounded.  Afterwards, the Iraqi Resistance 
fighters got away from the scene.

Also on Tuesday, four massive explosions shook the US base in the 
Baghdad district of al-`Amiriyah.  The correspondent for Mafkarat al-
Islam reported worshippers at the al-Firdaws Mosque as saying that 
the explosions went off as they were entering the mosque, located 
near the US base.

After the blasts clouds of smoke enveloped the sky over the area.  
The worshippers said that the Imam of the mosque hurried to complete 
the prayers, expecting that the Resistance attack on the base would 
be followed by the usual American deployments, raids, and searches 
around the area.

A second Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US column on the 
service road to the Airport as it runs through al-`Amiriyah.  The 
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the explosion left 
one American soldier dead and three more wounded.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb went off by a US patrol in Baghdad's al-
Yarmuk district, inflicting heavy damage on a US military vehicle, 
but the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that no information 
on the nature or extent of US casualties was available.

An explosives-laden car that had been parked by the side of a road 
in the southern Baghdad district of `Arab Jabbur went off by a force 
of American troops, killing four of them at 8am local time Tuesday 
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.

Another Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the gardens 
of `Adnan al-Mulla, killing two American troops and wounding three 
more of them, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.  The US soldiers then 
arrested the owner of the gardens and his blood-soaked body was 
found dumped a distance from his house.

The son of the owner of the gardens told Mafkarat al-Islam that the 
body of his father, who was 60 years old, had four American bullets 
in it.  He said the US troops shot him after he refused to tell them 
the names of the Resistance fighters who carried out the ambush.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb went off by a joint patrol of US and Iraqi 
puppet troops in the ad-Dawudi area of Baghdad's al-Mansur District 
Tuesday.  The blast killed one soldier and wounded three more guards 
at the al-Manar company in the area told Mafkarat al-Islam.

Another Resistance bomb exploded by an American patrol in the al-
Qadisiyah district of Baghdad, moderately wounding one US soldier, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported.

A car bomb that had been parked by the side of a road I the Nafaq 
ash-Shurtah area went off by a joint patrol of US and puppet Iraqi 
army troops. Resistance men then pounced on the patrol firing rocket-
propelled grenades from the direction of a clinic in the area.Five 
American troops and two puppet Iraqi army soldiers were killed in 
the ambush, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.  Two US military vehicles 
and one Iraqi puppet army vehicle were all seen on fire on the 
scene, which US forces locked down the scene for four hours, also 
closing down the shops and clinic in the area.

In addition to the bomb attacks on US forces, the Iraqi Resistance 
pounded four US bases in the Iraqi capital with rockets and Shells 
on Tuesday.  Hit were the US base in the Baghdad district of 
Muhammad al-Qasim, the former Fedayeen base in as-Salikh, the base 
set up in the former Iraqi Staff Headquarters in al-`Amiriyah, and 
the headquarters of US occupation troops in Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah 
district.

Resistance fighters repulse sectarian militiamen intent on expelling 
Sunnis from south Baghdad district.

In a dispatch posted at 5:06pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that violent fighting took place between 
Iraqi Resistance fighters and pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen 
in southern Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fighting took 
place in the ash-Shurtah al-Khamisah district of Baghdad in which 
Resistance fighters repulsed an attack by Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen 
aimed at expelling Sunnis from the district.  Fighters battled with 
light and medium weapons and machine guns in combat that went of for 
an hour.  No accurate count of Jaysh al-Mahdi casualties was 
available but some houses in the area were damaged and a number of 
residents were killed or wounded in the fighting.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.

US forces carry out mass arrests in Bayji on Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 5:10pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops carried out an extensive 
campaign of raids and arrest of civilians in Bayji, about 200km 
north of Baghdad on Monday.

The Tikrit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US 
forces completely sealed off he city and then US military vehicles 
deployed in very large numbers.  US helicopters were seen hovering 
at low altitude over the city as the Americans raided and searched 
homes in an unprecedented way, arresting 50 local youths on the 
pretext that were members of armed organizations.  The correspondent 
reported that the raids went on for four full hours.

Babil Province.
Al-Hillah.

Resistance bomb leaves US soldier dead near al-Hillah Monday 
afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 11:18am Makkah time Tuesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by 
a US patrol near the city of al-Hillah, about 60km south of Baghdad 
at 4pm local time Monday afternoon.

The al-Hillah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side 
near the as-Sumud puppet police station on the road linking al-
Hillah with Baghdad blew up by a US patrol, completely destroying a 
Huvmee, killing one US soldier and wounding two more of them.  After 
the attack, US forces closed the highway.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

British headquarters in al-Basrah shelled Tuesday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 4:56pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that short while earlier two mortar 
rounds were fired at the headquarters of British forces in the Shatt 
al-`Arab Hotel in the middle of the southern city of al-Basrah.

The al-Basrah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported 
eyewitnesses and puppet policemen who were posted near the British 
headquarters that the two shells blasted into a communications tower 
and the British guards room where they monitored the area around the 
building.

Swarms of helicopters flew into the area after the attack as sirens 
wailed within the British-occupied complex.

Joint force of puppet troops, Shi`i sectarian militia raid Sunni 
area in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:49am Makkah time Tuesday morning, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a force of puppet regime troops 
together with Shi`i sectarian militiamen raided the area Umm an-
Ni`aj in the southern city of al-Basrah and arrested three local men.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in Umm 
an-Ni`aj as saying that the neighborhood awoke when a number of 
patrol cars with puppet police and troops together with civilian 
vehicles rolled into the area.  The joint force raided and searched 
a large number of houses.  At the time of reporting the raids and 
searches were still underway.

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