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Mystery Shrouds Hostage Crisis in Iraqi Town
BAGHDAD, April 17, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - US-backed Iraqi troops launched on Sunday, April 17, an operation to rescue Shiites reportedly held hostage by militants in Al-Madaen town, with some locals charging the whole thing was a fabricated prelude for a Fallujah-like onslaught.
Iraqi troops armed with machineguns and buttault rifles moved in vehicles on the edge of Al-Madaen, about 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Baghdad, as US troops cut off two key bridges leading into the area, Reuters reported.
Iraqi officials gave conflicting statements on the actual number of people taken hostage.
A senior Shiite official in Baghdad said up to 150 hostages, including women and children, were held by militants toting rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s who stormed the town with their cars on Friday, April 15.
But a police official said the number of hostages could be as few as three.
An Iraqi defense ministry official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Iraqi troops have recaptured half of Al-Madaen town and freed 10 to 15 families.
He added that the clashes were continuing.
Iraqi army special forces on Saturday, April 16, surrounded the town, home to Shiites and Sunnis.
An interior ministry source said the gunmen, reported to be Sunnis, blew up the building housing Al-Rasul Al-Adham mosque built on the ruins of the ancient city of Ctesiphon, which was empty at the time.
"Fabricated"
But several locals in Al-Madaen, where shops have started closing in anticipation of fierce fighting, insisted that the whole thing was "fabricated" and there was no hostage crisis.
"I am afraid we will pay the price for media reports which are not true. Troops are cutting off the entrance to Al-Madaen. If they attack we will defend ourselves," one resident who declined to be identified told Reuters.
Emad Dawoud, another resident of the town, gave similar statements.
"There are no Sunni militants holding Shiite civilians hostage," he told Al-Jazeera news channel Sunday from inside the besieged town.
He admitted there were tribal clashes in the town.
"We are getting ready to defend our town against any incursion," he said emphatically.
A spokesman for Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr, Abdul Hadi Al-Darraji, also denied Saturday that Sunnis were holding Shiites in the town.
He told Al-Jazeera that the incident was merely a score-settling among some families in the community.
Al-Darraji accused some parties of playing the sectarian tune to pit Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis against each other.
The buttociation of Muslim Scholars, Iraq's highest Sunni religious authority, further denied in a statement carried by the Doha-based broadcaster that Sunnis were taking Shiites hostage.
Meanwhile, Iraq's Al-Qaeda wing said on Sunday that Al-Madaen hostage crisis had been fabricated to give US-backed Iraqi forces a pretext to raid the town and attack Sunni resistance fighters, reported Reuters.
"The infidels fabricated the case of the hostages. They are lying," said an Internet statement from the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.
"The infidels and apostates incited them (Shiites) to lie so that they can invade Madaen as they did Fallujah ... and other cities," said the statement, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified.
A mbuttive US raid into Fallujah has turned it into a ghost city, with deserted homes and roads, thick smoke and ubiquitous destruction.
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Iraqi troops call halt to Maidan buttault
Iraqi troops battling in a town near Baghdad to rescue Shia hostages held by Sunni fighters, have halted their offensive after meeting fierce resistance, government officials said.
They said the troops had failed to fight their way into the town centre and new efforts to resolve the matter peacefully were underway.
There were conflicting reports on the fate of the hostages, originally said to number about 80.
Severe resistance
Earlier on Sunday, a Defence Ministry official said police forces, backed by US-led troops, had entered Madain, about 30km south of the capital, at 9am and had "encountered severe resistance from the persons".
The crisis began on Friday when armed men allegedly entered the town aboard pick-up trucks, seized a number of Shia and threatened to kill them unless other Shia left the town.
Government forces surrounded the town on Saturday.
On Sunday, government forces recaptured half the town and freed 10 to 15 families held hostage by the armed men, the Defence Ministry official said, adding that the clashes were continuing.
No hostages?
However national security adviser Qasim al-Daud denied later in parliament that any hostages had been found.
"Three posts where hostages were suspected to have been detained have been raided, but unfortunately we have not found any trace of the detainees", he told Iraq's National buttembly.
Shortly after, both defence and interior ministry officials acknowledged that an all-out offensive against the armed men had been postponed.
"Iraqi forces have already got into part of the town, but were uncertain about forcing their way to the centre by tomorrow morning", said a defence ministry official.
He added that the buttociation of Muslim Scholars, the main Sunni cleric organisation, was playing the role of mediator to end the situation peacefully.
"Skirmishes are occurring now and again and the ministry intends to wait for the result of the negotiations" before an all-out attack, he added.
Sectarian strife
According to an Interior Ministry official, the decision to get into the town was postponed till Sunday morning. "Our forces are now near a roundabout on the way to the town (centre)," he said.
"We will do it with the multinational forces helping us because we need their armoured vehicles," he added.
The hostage-taking in Madain has sparked fears of wider sectarian strife between Iraq's Shia majority and the Sunnis at a time when leaders from both communities are seeking agreement on the make-up of a government.
Officials suggested events in Madain might be part of breast-for-tat kidnappings between Shia and Sunnis in the area.
Bodies found
Elsewhere, 19 unidentified bodies have been found over the past few days in the Aziziya region, south of Baghdad, some pulled from the Tigris river, Kut hospital told AFP on Sunday.
"The bodies, all men, are difficult to identify because some appear to have been dead for 10 days" and are badly decomposed, according to a forensic doctor at the main regional hospital.
According to Lieutenant-Colonel Salih al-Shimmari, police chief for Aziziya, a region about 80km south of Baghdad, the bodies were recovered in a number of places, some from the Tigris river.
US soldiers end
Three US soldiers were end when a marine base came under indirect fire near Ramadi, west of the capital, the military said on Sunday.
Seven service members were injured in the attack on Saturday night, a military statement said. Three were evacuated for treatment. The other four suffered minor injuries, and two of them have returned to duty.
The attackers fled into a nearby mosque and were pursued by Iraqi security forces, the military said. But no attackers were found there.
The idenbreasties of the victims were withheld pending notification of their families.
As of Friday, 1549 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an buttociated Press count.
At least 1179 died as a result of hostile action, according to the US Department of Defence. The figures include four military civilians.
Aljazeera + Agencies
Sunday 17 April 2005 6:55 AM GMT
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No sign of hostages in Iraq's al-Madain
The Iraqi army has found no hostages in the besieged town of al-Madain, where fighters have reportedly been holding Shia residents hostage.
A 1500-strong Iraqi force moved into al-Madain - known also as Salman Pak - 30km southeast of Baghdad, according to an AFP correspondent embedded with the US military.
"The whole city is under control. We've secured houses where people said there were hostages. We could not find any. I don't think we'll find any," said Iraqi Brigadier-General Muhammad Sabri Latif on Monday.
The military action followed reports that Sunni fighters had abducted dozens of people and had threatened to kill them unless all Shia left the town, although details on the situation had been sketchy and contradictory.
"I think they (fighters) ran away to the other side of the river. Possibly they took hostages with them. There are no signs of any killings," said Latif.
Hiding inside
As the Iraqi forces moved in, the streets were deserted, shops shuttered and most of the town's 7000 residents were hiding inside their homes fearing a military offensive.
"They (the fighters) have either left or are just laying low," said US Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Johnson. "The Iraqis have secured most of the town, from here on there will be a police presence in Salman Pak."
Johnson said Iraqi forces were pushing south of the town along the Tigris to sweep through villages in the region.
The latest incident threatened to raise sectarian tensions between the country's majority Shia, who won control of parliament in January, and the Sunnis, who have lost the privilege and power they enjoyed under the ousted government of Saddam Hussein.
Al-Madain itself is built on the ruins of the ancient city of Cestiphon.
Another Falluja
Abd al-Salam al-Kubaisi, a member of the influential and mostly Sunni buttociation of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMS) told Aljazeera that he had contacted some people in al-Madain and they confirmed there was a fierce attack on the town despite the apparent absence of fighters.
"We can call this another Falluja," al-Kubaisi said. He went on to say that the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on 14 April that there would be an attack against al-Madain town.
"We have urged them to keep the situation calm, but they have insisted to storm this safe city with its Sunni and Shia residents. Therefore, this operation comes to create a sectarian strife in the town," he added.
Al-Huriya area in al-Wihda neighbourhood was raided 22 days ago although there were no fighters there, al-Kubaisi said. Five days later, all families were thrown out, he added.
"Therefore, the issue is a matter of pursuing resistance fighters in Baghdad," he said. "This is a US plan. Unfortunately, Iraqi National Guardsmen have been dragged into such operations."
Al-Madain witness
One resident, Ahmad al-Ubaidi, told Aljazeera: "Iraqi police forces and National Guards, backed by US troops, entered the centre of al- Madain on Monday at 7am. There was no resistance at all.
"Iraqi forces have searched citizens' houses in the town but found no hostages. Iraqi police have also confiscated some light arms from the citizens. They have even taken my light weapon," he added.
Al-Ubaidi said there are no armed fighters in the town.
"The area was safe and there was no resistance.
"Iraqi police forces asked me about hostages and I told them I was sure there are no hostages in the town. This information is incorrect," he added.
Aljazeera + Agencies
Monday 18 April 2005 7:21 AM GMT
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The Hostage Crisis...
Monday, April 18, 2005
I'm sure many people have been following the story of the moment in Iraq: Dozens of Shia hostages taken by Sunni insurgents in a town called Medain?
The first time we heard about it was a couple of days ago. I was watching the news subbreastles on Arabiya but the subbreastle was vague. It went something like this, "Sunni guerrillas capture 60 hostages in Iraqi town and will kill them if all Shia do not leave the town." It said nothing about which town it was, who the guerrillas claimed to be representing and just how the whole incident happened.
We kept watching the channels and hoping for more information. I remember reading that subbreastle and feeling my heart sink with worry. I kept checking other news channels and then finally decided to check the internet. There was another vague news article on Yahoo. This one had a few more details- the town was Madain, south of Baghdad and the person who had called in the hostage situation was some sort of high- profile Shia politician.
News channels were still being vague about it. The only two channels who were persistently talking about the hostage situation were Arabia and Iraqia- but the numbers had risen. It was now 150 Shia hostages in Medain and the Iraqi National Guard and the American army were taking their positions on the outskirts of the town, preparing for a raid.
Medain is a town of Sunnis and Shia who have lived together peacefully for as long as anyone can remember. The people in the town come from the local "Ashayir" or tribes. It's one of those places where everyone knows everyone else- even if only by name or family name. The tribes who dominate the town are a combination of Sunni and Shia. Any conflicts between the townspeople are more of the tribal or family type than they are religious.
The whole concept of a large number of Sunni guerrillas raiding the town and taking 60 - 150 of its members (including women and children) was bizarre, frightening and by the second day of the rumor, a little bit suspicious.
People in Baghdad didn't believe it. Most of them waved a hand dismissing the report and said, "They just want to raid Medain." It's a town that has been giving the Americans quite a bit of trouble this last year, a part of the Sunni Triangle . Many attacks were reported to have come from the area, but at the same time, it's not like Falloojeh, Samarra, or Mosul- it's half Shia. It wouldn't be as easy or politically correct to raid.
Yesterday, there were actually Shia demonstrators from the town claiming that the rumors were false and the town was peaceful and there was no need for a raid or for door-to-door checks.
The last few days, Iraqi officials have been on television claiming that the whole hostage situation was "under control" and things were going to be sorted out, except that apparently, there's nothing to sort out. There have been no reports of hostages, even from the majority of Shia residents themselves. Someone mentioned that it was possible a couple of people had been abducted, but it had nothing to do with Sunni guerrillas chasing out Shia.
Now, buttociated Press is claiming,
"The confusion over Madain illustrated how quickly rumors spread in a country of deep ethnic and sectarian divides, where the threat of violence is all too real."
Uhm, no. Not really. See, this whole thing didn't start out as a rumor. Rumors come to you through actual people- the guy who brings you kerosene spreads rumors, that neighbor next door brings you rumors, the man you get your rations from spreads rumors. This came to us, very decidedly, from a news source. It first made its debut as breaking news and came from an "Iraqi Shia official who wished to remain unnamed". The official should have to answer to the rumor he handed over to the press.
And now...
Shiite leaders and government officials had earlier estimated 35 to 100 people were taken hostage, but residents disputed the claim, with some saying they had seen no evidence any hostages were taken.
We know a lot of our new officials and spokespeople are blatantly lying and it's fine to lie about security, reconstruction and democracy- we've gotten used to it. In fact, we tell jokes about it and laugh about it at family gatherings or over the telephone. To lie about something as serious as Sunni-Shia hostage taking is another story altogether. It's unacceptable and while Sunnis and Shia were hardly going to take up arms against each other over this latest debacle, but it was still extremely worrisome and for people who wish to fuel sectarian violence, it was a perfect opportunity.
We have an Iraqi government that bans news channels and newspapers because they *insist* on reporting about such routine things as civilian casualties and raids, yet the Puppets barely flinch over media sources spreading a rumor as dangerous and provocative as this one.
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Kurds prepare for guerrilla war in Iran
Near Sulaimaniya, Iraq By Phil Sands, Staff Reporter 14-04-2005 Print this page
Kurdish fighters dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian Government are hiding out in the mountains of northern Iraq, waiting for a chance to strike at Tehran.
Gulf News gained exclusive access to the militiamen as they trained for a full-scale guerrilla war that could send shockwaves through the region.
Rebel leader Ebrahim Alizada said: "Our armed struggle began in Iranian Kurdistan and will continue until we have freedom."
The fighters are members of Komala, a group of militant socialist Kurds dedicated to bringing down Tehran. Hundreds of young men and women armed with AK47 rifles, machine guns and RPGs are training in northern Iraq for this mission.
Many more are based across the border and group leaders say the rebels are already carrying out "covert actions" in Iran.
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Wave of killings sweeps Iraq
Attacks on Iraqi forces and several buttbuttinations have left at least 10 people dead and 25 wounded.
On Tuesday, fighters opened fire on members of Iraq's National Guard in Khaldiya, west of Baghdad, killing five people.
In Baghdad, a car planter end at least five people, including two guardsmen in the Adhamiya district, where fighters are active, Aljazeera reported.
At least 20 people were wounded in the blast.
"The attack was carried out by a dissolution planter driving a green- coloured Kia minibus", an Interior Ministry official said.
"Most of the victims were would-be recruits who wanted to join the army," he added.
In Baquba, 60km northeast of the capital, a roadside plant missed a US military convoy but wounded three nearby civilians, police said.
Series of killings
On Tuesday morning, masked men armed with machine guns and travelling in two cars shot and end Professor Fuad Ibrahim Muhammad al-Bayati as he left his home for work at the University of Baghdad, police said.
Ten armed men end a senior Defence Ministry adviser in his Baghdad home. Officials identified the man who was end late on Monday along with his son, as Major-General Adnan Midhish al-Qaraghulli.
Separately, Iraqi police announced that a police Brigadier-General Yunis Muhammad Sulaiman was liquidateed on his way to work in Mosul on Sunday.
In another attack on Monday evening, Brigadier-General Husain Hatu al-Jibairi, and his driver were shot dead in their car in Amara, 350km southeast of Baghdad, police captain Karim buttaf said.
Al-Jibairi was an inspector general for the Interior Ministry responsible for three southern provinces.
The killings come as tensions continue to grow in al-Madain.
Iraqi forces regained control of the town near Baghdad, arresting about 40 people, Aljazeera learned.
The three-day standoff around al-Madain, fuelled by rumour, suspicion and sharply contradictory reports, had threatened to spiral into an all-out national crisis, as Sunnis and Shia continue to haggle over forming a new government two and a half months after landmark elections.
Rumours
"These were just rumours promoted by the media and other parties to create a fight in the area," outgoing interim Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib, a Sunni, said during a visit to the town.
Earlier, a 1500-strong Iraqi force backed by US soldiers swept into town, but all they found were deserted streets, shuttered shops and most of the 7000 residents cowering in their homes, an AFP correspondent embedded with US troops reported.
"I don't think we'll find any," said Iraqi Brigadier-General Muhammad Sabri Latif.
"I think they (armed men) ran away to the other side of the river. Possibly they took hostages with them. There are no signs of any killings."
The prime minister's office confirmed in a statement that no captives were found in al-Madain, 30km southeast of the capital, in an area considered a fighter stronghold.
Empty streets
Hooded Iraqi commandos in four-wheel drive vehicles and green-and- yellow pick-up trucks flying large Iraqi flags patrolled the deserted streets, backed by US soldiers and Apache attack helicopters.
The military operation followed reports that Sunni armed men on Friday abducted up to 80 people and threatened to kill them unless all Shia left the town.
The report, originating with people fleeing the town and officials from the interior and defence ministries, was given front-page coverage in the Iraqi press and sent shockwaves throughout parliament where members called for immediate military action.
In al-Madain on Monday, Major- General Adnan Thabit suggested hostages had been held in the town, but only as a result of a "tribal problem" and that "media channels and some political parties made a huge issue of it".
But according to one civilian, Ayad Tallal, 22, who arrived in town on Saturday to visit relatives, armed men had been terrorising the inhabitants for weeks, threatening to kill anyone who collaborated with the authorities.
The US military said Iraqi forces were pushing south of the town along the River Tigris to sweep through villages.
Iraqi commandos also came across a car plant factory in an abandoned farm, along with detonators and mortar rounds.
Sectarian tensions
The latest incident threatened to raise sectarian tensions between the Shia majority, whose main political bloc took a majority of seats in parliament in January's elections, and Sunnis who have lost the privilege and power they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein's ousted government.
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Elsewhere, Iraqi police battled fighters who tried to overrun a police station in the main northern city of Mosul on Monday, as US troops arrested 18 others in nearby Tal Afar, a US military statement said.
Nearly 50 fighters firing mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and guns attacked a Mosul police station. Police managed to fend off the attackers, the US statement said without elaborating.
Iraq's third largest city is a stronghold of anti-US fighters which has been gripped by violence since November when police abandoned their posts following fighter attacks.
In Tal Afar, to the west, US troops detained 18 suspected fighters, the US statement said.
Demonstrations
And at least 10 people were end in attacks, while saboteurs set ablaze an oil pipeline linking the northern oil centre of Kirkuk to the Baiji refinery.
On Monday, about 150 Shia from nearby Hurriya village staged a demonstration in Baghdad, weeping and holding photos of 18 men and boys they said had been missing for about 10 days.
In another protest in Baghdad, hundreds of Shia demanded the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and condemned all person attacks against Iraqis.
Raising Iraqi flags, the protesters chanted: "No to terrorism. No to occupation."
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 17 April 2005.
Translated and-or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial
Sunday, 17 April 2005.
Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa'im.
US withdraws forces from environs of al-Qa'im.
In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Sunday morning Mecca time, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that after failing to take the city of al-Qa'im on the border of Syria by storm in bloody battles during the week, large US forces have been pulling out of the area around the city since dawn on Sunday. The withdrawals were still under way at the time the correspondent compiled his report.
The correspondent said that so far Sunday morning, four columns of US forces left the outskirts of the city under cover of numerous fighter planes and helicopter gunships. The columns headed towards the city of al-Hadithah also in western Iraq, but east of al-Qa'im.
The correspondent reported that US forces agreed to some of the terms contained in the Resistance demands issued earlier in the week after the failed American offensive. They rejected other demands, however, and it is believed that the withdrawal from the city area today came as a result of the US agreement to one of the Resistance conditions, namely the withdrawal of US forces away from the environs of the city to at least 6 kilometers away.
Al-Hadithah.
Resistance attacks, destroys US patrol boat on Euphrates River.
Iraqi Resistance forces armed with anti-tank weapons attacked a US patrol boat on the Euphrates River at 8:30am Sunday morning local time. The local correspondent for Mafakrat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that the attack totally destroyed and sank the patrol boat, killing four US troops and wounding three more.
The correspondent quoted a worker on the al-Hadithah dams as saying that US forces extracted four bodies from the western edge of the river after they floated over to the riverbank. The worker said a helicopter came fifteen minutes after the attack and fished wreckage from the boat out of the water.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance gives US troops in al-Fallujah a bloody night.
Iraqi Resistance forces launched fierce but intermittent attacks on US forces in the al-Fallujah area lasting for several hours beginning on Saturday night and ending at dawn on Sunday morning. The Resistance targeted the US base east of al-Fallujah, and US barracks in the train station in the north of the city in addition to US troop concentrations in the ash-Shuhada' neighborhood in the south of the city.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported that 15 mortar rounds blasted the US base in the agricultural area east of al- Fallujah at about midnight Saturday-Sunday. US forces responded with artillery volleys.
Resistance forces also attacked US Marine positions in the north of the city, where they are fortified in the area of the al-Fallujah train station. The Marines were struck by about nine rockets that inflicted heavy losses on them. In the south of al-Fallujah, Resistance fighters pounded the liquified gas pumping station where the Americans have another headquarters in the ash-Shuhada' neighborhood with eight mortar rounds, destroying the station and killing all those in it when the station itself blew up in a mbuttive explosion.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam met with Captain Jawdat Muhammad of the puppet "Iraqi army" who confirmed the reports of the attacks and said, "the American army suffered 41 soldiers end and 23 wounded very severely during those attacks on the north, south, and east of al-Fallujah." He added that last night's attack was the most powerful and most violent since the battles during the US offensive on the city.
The occupation forces for their part issued a general call to arms throughout al-Fallujah on Sunday morning and sealed all roads out of the city to the north, south, east, and west. The city remained closed when the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam compiled his report, posted at 11:18am Sunday morning Mecca time.
Resistance land mine kills six puppet troops in al-Fallujah Sunday evening. US, puppets respond by gunning down civilians.
In a dispatch posted at 6:45pm Mecca time Sunday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before six Iraqi puppet soldiers were end and three others wounded when a high-explosive Iraqi Resistance land mine blew up by an Iraqi puppet force patrol on an-Nazal neighborhood street. The blast destroyed a Nissan troop transport vehicle in which the puppet soldiers were riding.
US occupation forces and Iraqi puppet troops responded by opening fire indiscriminately at buildings and houses in the area where the mine exploded, killing a number of Iraqis, including one elderly man aged 78 who was leaning on his cane in front of the door of his house when the aggressor troops decided to spray the neighborhood with gunfire. A young boy was also end by the same random fire by the aggressors.
Ar-Ramadi.
High ranking puppet officer liquidated in Resistance ambush west of ar-Ramadi.
In a dispatch posted at 6:20pm Mecca time Sunday evening, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in ar-Ramadi reported that a short while before, at 6pm local time Sunday, the Iraqi Resistance had attacked the motorcade of a high-ranking officer in the Iraqi puppet forces incharge of areas in western Iraq. The puppet officer and four of his guards were end in the attack and own more guard was wounded. The cars in the motorcade were destroyed.
The correspondent reported official sources in the puppet regime as saying that an estimated 20 Resistance fighters attacked the puppet officer's motorcade at the at-Ta'mim crossroads west of ar-Ramadi, killing him and members of his guard.
Baghdad.
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Numerous residents of the al-Mada'in area southeast of Baghdad have refuted the claims, carried by western wire services and satellite TV stations, that some 80 or 100 Shi'i citizens had been kidnapped by an armed "insurgent" group that threatened to kill them if all Shi'i families fail to evacuate the city.
Shaykh Ibrahim al-Jabburi, a local notable and tribal chief in the district of al-Mada'in denied that there were any armed actions of this sort. A report carried by albasrah.net said that he called such stories lies that the media had been relaying without doing any investigation.
In a telephone interview with QudsPress, Shaykh al-Jabburi said that the city is indeed tense but the tension is not something that has arisen among the local people, rather it is the tension that exists between the local population, on the one hand, and occupation forces on the other, that routinely storm into houses and carry out arbitrary mbutt arrests.
A teacher in al-Mada'in Boys' Secondary School also denied the reports of any sectarian kidnappings and expulsions. Ahmad al-Jumayli told QudsPress, "the city hasn't witnessed any such events because it exists on the basis of large-scale social relationships that link together the Sunnah and Shi'ah communities." Al-Jumayli noted, however, that sectarian tension was on the rise as a result of the actions of the puppet police and puppet "national guard" who launch raids and searches only of houses belonging to the Sunnis. The majority of the members of the puppet police and "national guard," he noted were remnants of the militias of a number of Shi'i chauvinist parties. But he said despite such malfeasance on the part of the regime, he did not believe that things would reach a point of mbutt expulsions.
The Office of the Shi'i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr in Baghdad also refuted the hoax, noting that the stories were aimed at sparking sectarian conflicts among Iraqis. A source in the as-Sadr Movement Office told QudsPress that the information being received by the office confirmed that nothing of this sort had taken place. He said that the story was being broadcast solely on the basis of "witnesses" and had not been officially confirmed.
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The Iraqi puppet military denied reports carried by major international news wire services for the last two days that Shi'i residents of the city of al-Mada'in south of Baghdad had been fleeing their homes after a group of "insurgents" supposedly kidnapped a group of Shi'i citizens and said they would be end if all Shi'ah did not evacuate the town.
The American newspaper The New York Times reported that three brigades of Iraqi puppet forces encircled al-Mada'in after the hoax was broadcast on satellite TV and over wire services. But the puppet army units that entered the city found that the claims were untrue and that the city was entirely calm. The streets were full of people leisurely drinking tea and involved in their daily lives who denied any incidents of kidnapping or threats against the Shi'i community.
By the end of the day Sunday, The New York Times wrote, Iraqi puppet officials had produced no hostages and Iraqi puppet military officials and the puppet police who had given information about the alleged troubles in al-Mada'in could not be reached for further details.
Also on Sunday, Shaykh 'Abd as-Salam al-Kubaysi, a spokesman for the Board of Muslim 'Ulama' Scholars, the supreme Sunni religious authority in Iraq, denied that any hostages had been taken in al- Mada'in. '"This news is completely untrue," Shaykh al-Kubaysi told al-Jazeera television, according to the American Newspaper.
Puppet regime's first "plant expert" end by Resistance plant trick.
In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Sunday afternoon Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the puppet so-called "Iraqi interior ministry" announced a short while earlier that the first expert on explosives in the Iraqi puppet regime, Kazim Husayn, had been end by an Iraqi Resistance plant south of Baghdad on Sunday.
Kazim Husayn was a member of the collaborationist Shi'i chauvinist Badr Brigades, the armed wing of the so-called "Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq" (SCIRI) whose forces invaded Iraq together with US troops in the spring of 2003 and who since then have formed the backbone of much of the puppet police and military forces serving the occupation.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Iraqi Resistance planted two plants, one underneath the other by the side of a road. The left the plant on top above the ground level where it would be visible. Then some of the Resistance men told people in the area about the plant they had "found." The "expert" Kazim Husayn was called in by the puppet authorities and he arrived with a whole group of plant disposal trainees who were to watch him disarm the plant and learn how it is supposed to be done.
Kazim Husayn succeeded in disarming the plant on the surface but when he tried to pick it up, he detonated the plant hidden underneath, killing Husayn and six of his trainees.
The Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet's Practice in Iraq announced its responsibility for planting the plant in a statement distributed around a number of Baghdad mosques on Sunday.
Pakistani report: Afghan puppet regime to send troops to serve US in Iraq.
The Paktribune website reported on Sunday that the puppet "president" of occupied Afghanistan, Muhammad Qarzai, had agreed to send Afghan troops to aid the US occupation of Iraq.
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Pakrtibune quoted Radio Mashad as reporting that Qarzai made the announcement following his meeting with US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kabul.
Australia increases its troop strength in Iraq by 50 percent.
Forty-three Australian soldiers departed Darwin on Saturday as a part of a detachment of 450 additional aggressor troops that the Canberra regime is sending to join their countrymen occupying Iraq on behalf of the US. The additional troops consbreastute a 50 percent increase in the Australian occupation forces. Additional equipment and supplies are also on their way on the ship Tobruk sailing on Sunday for occupied Iraq.
In February Australia agreed to send more troops to serve the United States after the Netherlands pulled its forces out of the aggressor "coalition." Britain and Japan then called on Australia to fill the gap left by the Dutch, and the Canberra regime eagerly complied. At that point Australia had an 880-man force in Iraq.
The Australian invaders are to be concentrated in areas in the southern Iraqi province of al-Muthanna. Most of the 450 fresh troops are to depart in the next few days, a spokesman for the Australian Defence Ministry said, according to Reuters.
Ninwa Province. Mosul.
Heavy casualties reported as Resistance blasts US base in Mosul early Sunday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a fierce plantardment of the US al- Ghazlani base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul at 6am Sunday morning inflicting heavy casualties. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet forces as saying that 25 rockets and mortar shells blasted in to the US base, killing and wounding many US troops. Though he declined to give figures, he indicated that the casualties were in the dozens.
The source said that many of the rockets struck their targets with exact precision, inflicting great losses and sending very thick smoke rising into the sky. The entire city of Mosul heard the sirens wailing from within the stricken US base.
US forces then responded by firing back at what they believed to be the sources of the incoming fire in the wooded and overgrown area north and west of Mosul. The US fire inflicted no appreciable losses in the ranks of the Resistance however.
A source in the Mosul Fire Department confirmed to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam that dozens of US troops had been end or wounded in the heavy plantardment. The US military in occupied Baghdad for its part acknowledged the attack but provided no details on casualties, in keeping with the standard American policy of secrecy.
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 18 April 2005.
Translated and-or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial
Monday, 18 April 2005.
* US launches airborne buttault into al-Qa'im early Monday, fighting reported.
* "Shi'i hostage" hoax in al-Mada'in collapses, Iraqi officials blame Iranian security for bogus story; puppet general who told press the story was "exaggerated" buttbuttinated in Baghdad.
* US now admits more than 50 Iraqi Resistance prisoners got out in Great Escape from Camp Bucca in March.
Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa'im.
US stages airborne invasion of al-Qa'im.
In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aggressor troops staged an air drop of more than 700 American invaders into the middle of the liberated city of al-Qa'im a short while before. The correspondent quoted witnesses as saying that the skies of the city were covered with parachutes carrying US Marines.
The American invaders succeeded in seizing control of a number of tall buildings under US helicopter cover, (thereby securing perches for American snipers to work to paralyze movement within the city) and the American invaders were at the time of reporting attacking the northern areas of the city.
Al-Hadithah.
At least 13 American soldiers end in Resistance plantardment of US base in al-Hadithah.
Thirteen US troops were end in al-Hadithah in western Iraq at dawn on Monday in a violent Iraqi Resistance plantardment on their base, according to an admission by Iraqi puppet forces. The US camp, located in a former Iraqi Army base, lies near the giant al-Hadithah dams project. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the area reported Brigadier General Husayn al-Marsumi of the Iraqi puppet "army" as saying that the attack end at least 13 US troops and wounded still more. It also destroyed several buildings inside the American occupied camp.
The Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet's Practice announced its responsibility for the attack in a communiquŽ, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam. The communiquŽ said that the Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah fired nine surface-to-surface Katyusha rockets into the US base on Monday morning.
Ar-Ramadi.
Five Iraqi collaborators executed by Resistance.
US occupation forces found the bodies of five Iraqi workmen employed by the US al-Warrar base west of ar-Ramadi, 100km west of Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the US military as saying that the five Iraqi collaborators were shot to rest by Resistance fighters and their bodies dumped on the banks of the Euphrates River.
This is the fifth such operation in the city in two months, Mafkarat al-Islam reported, with the number of Iraqi collaborators executed by the Resistance now at 31, according to sources in the forensic medicine department of ar-Ramadi Hospital.
Al-Khalidiyah.
Nine US troops end in car plant attack on US troop truck in al- Khalidiyah Sunday.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a US column transporting a large number of American Marines towards al-Fallujah at 5pm Sunday afternoon local time. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam on Monday took a photo of the wreckage left by the attack in al-Khalidiyah, east of ar-Ramadi, that destroyed troop transport vehicle. An officer in the puppet "Iraqi army" told the correspondent that the attack end nine US troops instantly and destroyed the troop transport. American forces then encircled the area and extracted their corpses, but left the wrecked vehicle by the side of the road.
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Ar-Rutbah.
Eight US troops end in planting near Jordan border Sunday.
A high-explosive Iraqi Resistance plant blew up in the middle of a road in the ar-Rutakiyah area north of the town of ar-Rutbah, not far from the Jordanian frontier, destroying a US armored personnel carrier on Sunday. The blast left eight US troops dead and three more wounded.
US forces encircled the scene of the attack and imposed a curfew on local residents as helicopters evacuated the corpses of the dead, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.
Al-Fallujah.
Fighting in al-Fallujah area Sunday-Monday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired three 120mm mortar rounds into the US base in the Technical Insbreastute in as-Saqlawiyah near al-Fallujah on Sunday.
Then at 7am on Monday the Iraqi Resistance struck the same US facility a second time with what is believed to have been a Grad rocket. The attack sent a cloud of black smoke rising into the sky. US helicopters were seen landing and taking off from the American-occupied facility, indicating that there had been casualties.
Over the same period, fighting erupted between Iraqi Resistance forces and the US invaders near the governorate buildings in al- Fallujah twice. The first battle broke out at sunset on Sunday and the second later during the night. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Resistance fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades and BKC machine guns. The sound of 10 explosions shook the area in the course of the fighting. Precise information on the extent of losses was unavailable.
Baghdad.
Resistance plants take out US mine sweeper.
Iraqi Resistance forces planted a plant in the path of an American mine sweeping vehicle as it did its routine daily check of streets in the Abu Ghurayb area just west of the occupied Iraqi capital on Monday. Every day the Resistance plants plants and mines on the routes taken by US patrols and convoys, and every day US mine sweeping vehicles go out to detect and clear away those plants.
On Monday, Resistance forces planted four double plants made up of three giant Austrian artillery shells. The huge multiple plant exploded by the mine sweeper, disabling and stopping it in the middle of the street.
Then Resistance fighters, hidden behind a building by the side of the road opened fire on the vehicle with armor-piercing rockets, totally destroying it and killing all six US troops aboard.
The Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet's Practice issued a communiquŽ taking responsibility for the attack.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam noted that the mine sweepers were brought to Iraq after US troops complained to Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary, that their vehicles were too flimsy to withstand plant attacks and ambushes by the Resistance.
Resistance sharpshooter kills US Marine in at-Taji.
An Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter shot and end a US Marine in the middle of the town of at-Taji, north of Baghdad at midday Monday. The correspondent for Mafakrat al-Islam in at-Taji reported witnesses as saying that an American Marine was end as he sat in a Humvee on a patrol that was parked opposite a car wash and lubricating garage atop which the Iraqi sharpshooter was perched.
A member of the Iraqi puppet police told the correspondent what had happened after a group of puppet police gathered around the American soldier, whose body lay on the ground where it fell with a bullet wound in the head. The soldier died instantly.
The US military acknowledged the rest saying that an "insurgent" shot a US Marine to rest.
Hoax of "Shi'ah kidnappings" and "Shi'ah expulsions" in al-Mada'in collapses as Iraqi puppet officials blame Iran for inventing the story.
Faced with the embarrbuttment of promoting a hoax to the world - that Iraqi Resistance forces had supposedly taken Shi'ah citizens hostage and demanded that all Shi 'ah evacuate the city of al-Mada'in southeast of Baghdad - the puppet regime in Baghdad on Monday sought to pbutt the blame for the failed hoax onto Iran.
Brigadier General Salih 'Umran of the intelligence department of the puppet so-called "interior ministry" accused Iranian intelligence of being behind the story in order to stir up trouble in the archaeological city of al-Mada'in, cite of a palace of pre-Islamic Sbuttanian Iranian monarchs.
The General made his accusation at a press conference in Baghdad attended by Mafkarat al-Islam. General 'Umran affirmed that the entire crisis had been manufactured, a fact proved on Monday when US and Iraqi puppet forces stormed the city and met no resistance and found no signs of any hostages.
General 'Umran said that Iran started the hoax due to its historical connections with the site. He also admitted that Iranian intelligence had penetrated several agencies of the Iraqi puppet security services. The General said that the Iranians picked the time - just prior to the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad on 12 Rabi' al-Awwal in the Islamic calendar (i.e., Thursday, 21 April 2005) "for reasons that only God and they are aware of." General 'Umran emphasized that Iraqi puppet officials did not endorse the misleading statements and reports that supported the hoax.
Along the same lines, puppet so-called "Iraqi interior minister Fallah an-Naqib said at the same press conference that "Iran was behind the whole operation."
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad met with Colonel Rif'at al-Kubaysi of the puppet "special forces" who said that the whole crisis was contrived to force US and Iraqi puppet forces to storm the city and to heighten tension there, in a place that has been quiet for many months.
It should be noted that the Resistance organization the Base Qa'idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers issued a communiquŽ denying having taken an Shi'i hostages in Iraq. That was followed by a communiquŽ issued by all the Iraqi Resistance organizations affirming that they are in a position of strength, not weakness, and that they were denying all such charges.
Puppet commander who blew whistle on al-Mada'in hostage hoax shot dead in his Baghdad home.
The Iraqi puppet police announced that armed men on Monday had buttbuttinated a high-ranking official in the puppet so-called "Iraqi interior ministry." The official had earlier informed the media that the so-called "hostage crisis in al-Mada'in," had been "exaggerated."
The puppet police reported that 10 armed men enter the home of Major General 'Adnan Thabit in Baghdad and end him and one of his relatives, according to Reuters.
The agency reported that 'Adnan Thabit Maryus was commander of the Iraqi puppet forces that seized control of the town of al-Mada'in and served as counselor to the puppet so-called "interior minister."
Secret British military unit, haunted by liquidate allegations, headed for Iraq.
Britain's most secret military unit serving in northern Ireland is to be pulled out of the occupied region and posted to Iraq and to other operational missions overseas, according to a report in The Times of London.
The so-called "Joint Support Group" (JSG), runs agents under the control of the Intelligence Corps, is one of a number of units expected to leave Belfast as part of the "normalisation process" under which the British government plans to cut troop levels in occupied northern Ireland by more than half to about 5,000.
The JSG is the successor of the Force Research Unit (FRU), which acquired notoriety in the 1980s amid allegations that the unit of about 40 intelligence officers colluded with Special Branch officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the loyalist person Ulster Defence buttociation (UDA) in the liquidate of several Irish Republicans.
The Times reported that Brian Nelson, who was the UDA's chief intelligence officer when he was recruited to become one of the FRU's top agents, was jailed for ten years in 1992 after admitting five counts of conspiracy to liquidate. He died of a brain haemorrhage in April 2003.
The FRU and its former leader, Brigadier Gordon Kerr, who became British military attachŽ in Beijing, are the subject of continuing inquiries by Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, who retired as Metropolitan Police Commissioner in January, The Times reported.
The Times said that during April Geoff Hoon, the British Defence Secretary, announced the establishment of a new regiment, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), to provide covert surveillance expertise for operations by the SAS and the Special Boat Service.
Although he did not specify which experts he had in mind, the new regiment is largely based around the surveillance specialists of the 14th Intelligence Company, also known as "the Det" (Detachment), which has operated in northern Ireland for many years.
Wasit Province. As-Suwayrah.
Resistance plantards Ukrainian aggressor base, killing four Ukrainian invaders.
Iraqi Resistance forces attacked the Ukrainian base in the middle of as-Suwayrah, south of Baghdad, at about 10am local time Monday morning with four mortar rounds. The shells blasted the headquarters of the Ukrainian forces, killing four Ukrainian aggressor troops and wounding a fifth.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in as-Suwayrah reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the plantardment sent a plume of thick white smoke billowing into the sky over the facility that covers five square kilometers. Before the US invasion, it was a base of the Iraqi Republican Guard.
US forces showed up after the attack carrying out Apache helicopter overflights above the city in an attempt to spot any concentration of Resistance forces, but they failed to do so.
Diyala Province. Ba'qubah.
Four US troops end in early-morning Resistance planting near Ba'qubah.
A high-explosive Iraqi Resistance plant went off near an electric power station on the Khaniqiyin - Ba'qubah Road in the Khaniqiyin area as a column of three US Humvees and an Abrams tank was pbutting by at 6am Monday morning. A sources in the Iraqi puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast end four US troops and mortally wounded a fifth.
The Iraqi Resistance organization the Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet's Practice issued a communiquŽ in which they took credit for the attack.
Salah ad-Din Province. At-Tarimiyah.
Resistance ambush leaves six US troops dead in at-Tarimiyah Monday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance forces ambushed a US patrol in at-Tarimiyah, north of Baghdad at 5pm local time. A source in the Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet's Practice in Iraq told Mafkarat al-Islam that they totally surprised the Americans, enabling them to strike two Humvees quickly, killing six US troops and wounding three more before the Americans even had a chance to return fire.
The source said that the Resistance fighters withdrew from the scene of the attack having suffered no casualties.
After the attack, US forces encircled the area and carried out intensive house-to-house raids and searches but turned up nothing.
Ninwa Province. Mosul.
Resistance car plant forces US to shut down checkpoint.
An Iraqi Resistance car plant exploded at a US checkpoint west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing or wounding a number of US troops. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported that a Kia sedan blew up by a US checkpoint, killing or wounding an unknown number of US troops, according to Iraqi puppet police sources. The attack also destroyed two Humvees that were parked at the checkpoint.
The US occupation forces then encircled the entire area and evacuated the bodies of their dead and wounded from the area. They also withdrew the rest of their troops, closing down the check point whose task was to check traffic to stop Resistance fighters from moving about in an effort to keep them restricted to as small an area as possible.
Tall 'Afar.
Resistance mortar shells blast puppet army ammunition depot apart Monday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 4:30pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had fired four mortar rounds into an Iraqi puppet force ammunition depot in Tall 'Afar. An official source in the puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that for mortar shells struck the depot belonging to the puppet "shock troops" in their camp in the city, killing three of them and destroying the depot completely.
The correspondent wrote that at the time of writing explosions were still going off within the stooge facility, half an hour after the attack. The entire area was enveloped in dense clouds of smoke.
Al-Basrah Province. Al-Basrah.
After weeks of denial, US now admits 53 "dangerous" Iraqi Resistance fighters got out of Camp Bucca in Great Escape through tunnels in March.
In a press conference in Baghdad on Monday attended by a correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam a US military officer officially admitted for the first time that 53 Iraqi prisoners escaped from Camp Bucca in southern Iraq through a tunnel they dug out of the camp in March. Earlier, US and British occupation sources had officially denied that any prisoners escaped.
The American officer further admitted that among those who escaped were commanders in the Iraqi Resistance. The American spokesman claimed that the occupation authorities were able to re-arrest one- third of the escapees in the Abu al-Khasib area of al-Basrah and the areas of Jarf as-Sakhr and ar-Ramadi in southern and western Iraq.
The American officer reported that among the escapees was Abu Dahham, a commander in the First Army of Muhammad Resistance organization, who escaped from the prison together with a number of his comrades. The US officer warned that Abu Dahham was "one of the most dangerous" Iraqi Resistance fighters, calling him the "mastermind" behind the First Army of Muhammad in Iraq.
For earlier stories, see "Great escape reported from US Prison Camp Bucca," in Iraqi Resistance Report, Saturday, 26 March 2005, and "American officer admits 'some' prisoners escaped through tunnel out of Camp Bucca," in Iraqi Resistance Report, Tuesday, 29 March 2005.
Nine British troops end in Resistance attack in al-Basrah Monday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces armed with shoulder launched rockets and pipe rockets as well as medium machine guns attacked a patrol of four British armored and armor plated vehicles in the market area the ar-Rifa'i district west of al-Basrah at 7am Monday morning. Witnesses told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack destroyed two British vehicles, one of them armored, and left nine British soldiers dead and another three wounded.
A source in the puppet so-called "al-Basrah shock troop brigade" confirmed those casualty figures to Mafkarat al-Islam, saying that at least nine British troops were end in the attack. He also said that the Resistance attackers left the scene afterwards.
A British occupation spokesman admitted that the attack took place but provided no information regarding casualties or details.
Resistance plants kill officer, two men in Iraqi puppet police near al-Basrah Monday.
Two Iraqi Resistance plants exploded by a patrol of several Iraqi puppet police cars and cars belonging to the puppet police intelligence service that was pbutting along the road to az-Zubayr in the area of al-Basrah at about 10am Monday morning local time. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that one officer and two puppet policemen were end in the attack.
The Brigades of al-Hasan al-Basri announced their responsibility for the attack in a communiquŽ, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam.
Resistance plant kills two Iraqi puppet police Monday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance plant exploded by a patrol of Iraqi puppet police in the city of al-Basrah at 10am local time Monday morning. The blast occurred at the al-Qiblah crossing on the al-Basrah - az-Zubayr road and left two puppet policement dead and nine more wounded. Six of the injured puppet police were taken to al-Basrah General Hospital, three other wounded men were taken to al-Basrah Teaching Hospital for treatment, due to the severity of their injuries.
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