• "Pflicht des Widerstands"
• IAMS Backs Iraqi Resistance, Opposes Killing Civilians
• Widerstand erfaßt Baghdad
• Fighters attack US-led forces across Iraq
• Fighting rages in Baghdad
• Rotes Kreuz wird deutlich
• Fallujah captives: Saddam set up insurgency cells in 2001
• Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 20 September 2004
• Iraqi Resistance Report for 19 November 2004.
• Falluja in Pictures 19/11/2004 http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com/

"Pflicht des Widerstands"

21.11.2004

Wie IslamOnline am Samstag berichtete, hat die International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS, Internationale Vereinigung Muslimischer Gelehrter) erklärt, daß der Widerstand gegen die Besatzungstruppen im Irak für alle dazu tauglichen Muslime innerhalb und außerhalb des Iraks eine "Pflicht" ist.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-11/20/article02.shtml

"Der IAMS betont und unterstreicht kraft seines Amtes, daß die Unterstützung des irakischen Volkes bei seinem harten Kampf gegen die [US-] Besatzung eine Pflicht für jeden dazu fähigen Muslim inner- und außerhalb des Iraks ist", so der IAMS in der Abschluß- erklärung des zweitägigen Treffens des IAMS in der libanesischen Hauptstadt Beirut.

In der Erklärung wurden die "edlen Widerstandskämpfer" aber auch aufgefordert, sich bei ihrem Kampf an die Regeln der Shariah zu halten. So wurden sie aufgefordert, weder Frauen, Kinder oder alte Menschen anzugreifen, auch wenn sie Bürger der den Irak besetzenden Länder sind, solange sie sich nicht aktiv an Kampfhandlungen beteiligen.

"Und wenn sie gefangengenommen werden, müssen sie gut behandelt werden und ein gerechtes Verfahren bekommen. Aber es ist nicht gestattet, Geiseln zu nehmen und zu drohen, sie zu töten, um ein baldiges Ende zu erreichen", so die Erklärung.

Auch sei es Muslimen nicht erlaubt, die Besatzer in irgendeiner Weise auf Kosten des irakischen Volkes und seines Widerstandes zu unterstützen, "weil dies wie eine Ermunterung der Besatzer wäre, ihre Aggressionen gegen das irakische Volk weiterzuverfolgen."

Der Einfluß dieses Aufrufs des IAMS ist nicht zu unterschätzen. Im IAMS sind 200 hochrangige sowohl sunnitische als shiitische Gelehrte aus allen Teilen der Welt organisiert, so daß die Erklärungen der Organisation ein beträchtliches Gewicht haben.

http://www.freace.de/artikel/200411/211104a.html

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IAMS Backs Iraqi Resistance, Opposes Killing Civilians

By Ayman Al-Masri, IOL Correspondent

BEIRUT, November 20 (IslamOnline.net) - The International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS) ruled that resisting occupation troops in Iraq is a "duty" on able Muslims in and outside the war-torn country and that aiding the occupier is impermissible.

"The IAMS ex officio underlines and underscores that helping the Iraqi people in their uphill struggle against the (US) occupation is a duty on every able Muslim in and outside Iraq," the pan-Muslim body said in a statement Friday, November 19.

Concluding a two-day meeting in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, the Dublin-based body said this kind of jihad does not necessitate a central command to organize military operations, but willing Muslims can do it on their own.

It also urged the "noble resistance fighters" to stick to Shari`ah rules in their praiseworthy resistance.

"Collaborators"

The IAMS, which brings together 200 Muslim scholars from the four corners of the world, further said it is not permissible for any Muslim to support the occupiers at the expense of the Iraqi people and their resistance.

"Because it would be like encouraging the occupiers to pursue their aggressions against the Iraqi people," said the statement, read by IAMS Secretary General Mohammad Salim Al-Awa.

The pan-Muslim body also exhorted Iraqis forced, by necessity, to join the ranks of US-trained Iraqi and police forces to be careful in dealing with their fellow citizens and not to harm them in any way.

It, meanwhile, urged resistance fighters not to harm Iraqi policemen or soldiers as long as they do not support the enemy.

A cohort of prominent Saudi scholars have defended resistance against the occupation forces in Iraq as a legitimate right, prohibiting cooperation with the occupiers and collaboration against resistance groups.

Civilians

On the indiscriminate attacks that claim the lives of innocent civilians, the IAMS asked resistance fighters not to target women, children and the elderly even if they were of the occupiers' nationalities provided that they were not involved in hostilities.

"And if they are taken prisoner, they should be treated well and put on a fair trial. But it is not permissible to hold hostages and threaten to kill them to achieve a certain end," said the statement.

The IAMS had vigorously denounced the kidnapping and killing of civilians as an aggression against others, pressing for the swift release of all civilian hostages in Iraq.

Islam does not permit aggression against innocent people, whether the aggression is against life, property, or honor, and this ruling applies to everyone, regardless of post, status and prestige.

The IAMS additionally said Iraqi resistance should be mindful of "queues of enemies who want to blemish the image of Islam by carrying out deadly operations in the name of resistance".

"Those handful of groups could very likely be linked to Zionist and foreign intelligence services."

The pan-Muslim body pressed the occupation troops to pull out of Iraq and hand over power to an international organization that would supervise free and fair elections, paving the way for full sovereignty.

Supporting Palestine, Sudan

The IAMS also exhorted all Muslims to support the admirable second Palestinian Intifada, urging all Palestinian factions to act in unison to live up to daunting challenges ahead.

It called on the warring parties in Darfur, west of Sudan, to put into effect its peace initiative, which calls for a conference bringing together Sudanese people from different walks of life to resolve all pending and sticking disputes and turn a new leaf.

An IAMS delegation visited Darfur in September at a request from the Sudanese government to mediate between Khartoum and the two rebel groups in the region.

IAMS President Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi said before the visit that it was incumbent upon Muslims to mediate between warring Muslim parties to turn off bloodshed, especially that some foreign powers were using the conflict as a pretext to intervene in Muslim countries.

On Afghanistan, the IAMS statement warned that drug mafias were controlling the natural resources of this country, calling on Muslims to help the Afghan people out of their current limbo.

The UN's annual opium survey revealed that three years after the massive US-led invasion, Afghanistan was still facing the threat of being a corrupt "narco-state" after the opium production rose by two thirds this year.

The IAMS repeated calls on the Arab and Muslim governments to overhaul their political, economic and social systems, protect their Islamic and Arab identities and resist foreign dictations.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-11/20/article02.shtml

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Widerstand erfaßt Baghdad

20.11.2004

Einem Al-Jazeera-Bericht aber auch einem Artikel der New York Times zufolge ist es am Samstag in mehreren Städten im Irak, insbesondere auch in der Hauptstadt Baghdad, zu schweren Kämpfen gekommen.
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Der starke Anstieg der Angriffe von Widerstandskämpfern auf USSoldaten in Baghdad dürfte dabei zum großen Teil auf das von USSoldaten in der größten sunnitischen Moschee der Stadt verübte Massaker zurückzuführen sein.

Insbesondere im Stadtteil Azamiyah, in dem sich auch die Moschee Abu Hanifa steht, kam es dabei tagsüber zu offenen Kämpfen zwischen US-Soldaten und Widerstandskämpfern. Einem AP-Bericht zufolge war dort ein brennender Humvee des US-Militärs zu sehen in dessen Innern sich AP-Filmaufnahmen zufolge offenbar noch der Körper des Fahrers befand. "Etliche" weitere gepanzerte US-Fahrzeuge brannten demnach ebenfalls. Im gleichen Stadtteil wurde auch bei Tagesanbruch eine Polizeistation angegriffen. Dabei wurde ein Polizist getötet.

Am frühen Samstagmorgen ist nach US-Angaben ein weiterer US-Soldat getötet worden, als seine Patrouille in ein "Trommelfeuer von Schußwaffen, Panzerfäusten und Bomben" kam. 9 weitere Soldaten wurden hier verletzt.

Im Stadtteil Khadra explodierte eine Bombe als eine US-Patrouille vorbeifuhr. Hier wurden nach Aussage des Polizisten Ali Hussein zwei US-Soldaten verletzt.

Gegen Mittag explodierte eine Autobombe an einer Kreuzung der Saadoun-Straße, die sich gegen einen Konvoi eines "privaten Sicherheitsunternehmens" - also Söldner - richtete.

Im Westen der Stadt wurden 4 Mitarbeiter des "Ministeriums" für Bauwesen, darunter eine leitende Beraterin, erschossen.

In einer anderen Meldung berichtete Al-Jazeera, daß es auch in den Stadtteilen al-Gazaliya, al-Amariya, auf dem Antar-Platz und in der Haifa-Straße zu Kämpfen gekommen ist.
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Der Journalist Ziad al-Samarrai sagte gegenüber Al-Jazeera, daß sich die Kämpfe auf andere Stadtteile, darunter auch al-Dura, ausweiten.

Auch in Ramadi, Mosul sowie Fallujah kam es erneut zu schweren Kämpfen.

Insbesondere die Zunahme der Gewalt in der irakischen Hauptstadt kann als klares Indiz dafür gewertet werden, daß den US-Besatzern die Kontrolle über das Land mehr und mehr entgleitet. Dies könnte auch eine mögliche Erklärung für die massive Provokation in der Moschee Abu Hanifa sein.

http://www.freace.de/artikel/200411/201104b.html

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Fighters attack US-led forces across Iraq

Fighters opposed to the US-backed government in Iraq have attacked Iraqi and US forces in Baghdad in daylight, with violence continuing to rage across the country.

A dawn assault with rocket-propelled grenades on a police station in the mainly Sunni district of Adhamiya on Saturday killed at least three officers - a day after Iraq's US-backed National Guard raided a historic mosque.

US tanks and helicopters helped beat off fighters after a three-hour battle near the Abu Hanifa mosque, where four worshippers were killed and 17 arrested on Friday.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a US soldier was killed and nine wounded when their patrol was caught in an ambush, the US military said.

Also in the capital, armed men assassinated a senior adviser to Iraq's ministry of public works along with three of her employees in an attack on their car on Saturday, a ministry spokesman said.

More violence

Jasim Muhammad said Amal Abd al-Hamid al-Mamalji was killed with her driver, secretary and a security guard. The spokesman said the gunmen blocked Mamalji's car as she drove to work and opened fire.

Separately, in the western Amriya district, fighters in cars opened fire on an Iraqi National Guard unit. A guard at the scene said seven of the assailants were killed and seven passers-by wounded.

An all-out offensive by more than 10,000 US troops on the Sunni city of Falluja, just west of Baghdad, over the past two weeks has killed, by US estimates, about 1200 fighters.

Intended to quell fighters before an election due in late January, it has been accompanied by scattered violence throughout the Sunni heartlands north and west of the capital.

US official backtracks

A senior US general, backtracking somewhat on confidence expressed by other officers, acknowledged it was "too early to say ... that the backbone of the insurgency is broken".

Lieutenant-General Lance Smith, deputy US commander in the region that includes Iraq, added that his command may ask for 3000 to 5000 more troops. Confirming plans outlined some weeks ago, he said this would be mainly by delaying the scheduled departure of some soldiers, to improve election security.

On Thursday, Lieutenant-General John Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Falluja, had said he felt the allout assault on the city had "broken the back of the insurgency".

Meanwhile, US forces have begun restoring basic services and clearing Falluja of explosives but have set no date for civilians to return to the city, an officer said on Saturday.

"This will be driven by events, not dates. We have to restore basic services such as water and electricity first," Major Francis Piccoli said. "We are also going from house to house to clear out any insurgents and weapons."

The International Committee of the Red Cross has criticised the "utter contempt" for humanity shown by all sides in Iraq amid the fierce fighting for control of Falluja.

Violence in north

In Ramadi, the scene of frequent clashes just west of Falluja, US forces sealed off roads into the city early on Saturday and called on people through loudspeakers to hand over "terrorists".

Helicopters flew overhead and Americans blocked access in or out of the majority Sunni city as troops searched buildings south of the centre.

In Mosul, nine Iraqi soldiers were feared executed on Saturday as US and Iraqi troops fought fighters in the city.

Senior Iraqi and US military sources said they probably belonged to an Iraqi army unit that had joined US troops for a massive onslaught against fighters in the country's third-largest city.

In another development, a Polish woman freed by kidnappers in Iraq and flown to Warsaw said she was treated well, raising hopes for other foreign captives after a week in which the only other woman held captive, British aid worker Margaret Hassan, was thought to have been killed.

Aljazeera + Agencies
Saturday 20 November 2004 3:46 PM GMT

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Fighting rages in Baghdad

Three Iraqi policemen have been killed in heavy fighting out between armed fighters and Iraqi National Guards supported by US troops in western Baghdad.

Columns of thick black smoke rose above the area in the neighbourhood of al-Aadhamiya and gunfire and explosions echoed over the rooftops on Saturday.

US Apache helicopters buzzed overhead.

Circumstances surrounding the deaths of the policemen remain unclear, but they are thought to have been involved in a firefight with armed groups who attacked their station in the al-Aadhamiya district of the city.

An Iraqi journalist in the area, Ziad Badruldin, told Aljazeera that he saw the al-Aadhamiya police station up in flames.

Badruldin, however, also said there are reports that the three were killed when their car was set ablaze near the al-Aadhamiya bridge.

Clashes, the reporter said, had also occurred in Antar Square. Other confrontations occurred in al-Gazaliya, al-Amariya and Haifa Street.

Badruldin said he saw destroyed US vehicles near the Abu Hanifa mosque.

Aljazeera aired video of a US armoured vehicle, believed to be a Hummer, destroyed by armed fighters in the clashes. Its occupants are believed to have been killed, but there has been no comment from US military authorities on the incident.

Fighting spreads

Another Iraqi journalist Ziad al-Samarrai told Aljazeera that fierce clashes were spreading to other districts of the city including alDura.

"Fighters have pushed their way to streets and roads and are using rocket-propelled grenade launchers. US forces responded with artillery fire."

The fighting came a day after Iraqi troops backed by US soldiers raided a major mosque in al-Aadhamiya and clashed with worshippers.

At least four people were killed in the raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque and nine wounded, the Association of Muslim scholars and witnesses said.

Blasts

In related incidents, two blasts rocked Baghdad on Saturday morning.

A large plume of grey smoke could be seen rising from the area near the health ministry, after the first explosion occurred just before 8:00am (0455 GMT).

It was unknown what caused the explosion.

A second explosion erupted in the center of Baghdad at around 12:40pm (0940 GMT), according to an AFP correspondent.

The cause of the blast was unknown.

The explosions came a day after a car bomb and clashes in a raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque in the capital killed at least five people, including an Iraqi policeman. Nine more Iraqis died in other attacks across the shattered country.

Official killed

Aljazeera has also learned that an unknown armed group shot and killed an advisor to the interim Iraqi Ministry of Works and Public Affairs on Saturday in Baghdad.

Dr Amal Abd al-Hamid, her secretary, driver and bodyguard were all killed in the attack in the al-Qadisiyah neighbourhood.

Also on Saturday, five students were detained by Iraqi police at the Technology University of Baghdad. The arrest came in the wake of a demonstration at the university which called for an end to the "massacres and atrocities" committed in Falluja.

Ramadi

US troops blocked roads into Ramadi on Saturday and urged residents through loudspeakers in the south of the Iraqi city to stay in their homes and hand over "terrorists", local witnesses said.

They said US forces were not allowing anyone to enter or leave Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, and were searching buildings in southern neighbourhoods while helicopters circled overhead.

Anti-American fighters have clashed daily with US-led troops in Ramadi since they launched a full-scale offensive on the nearby city of Falluja, just to the east, about 12 days ago.

Aljazeera + Agencies

Saturday 20 November 2004 9:25 AM GMT

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Rotes Kreuz wird deutlich

20.11.2004

In einer am Freitag vom Internationalen Komitee des Roten Kreuzes veröffentlichten Erklärung ist dessen Direktor für Einsätze Pierre Krähenbühl in seiner Kritik der Vorgehensweise des US-Militärs im Irak ungewöhnlich deutlich geworden.
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/66VK3T?OpenDocument

"Mit dem Fortschreiten der Kampfhandlungen in Fallujah und anderswo scheint jeder Tag eine weitere Mißachtung der fundamentalsten Grunds ätze der Menschlichkeit zu bringen: der Verpflichtung, das Leben und die Würde der Menschen zu schützen", so Krähenbühl.

Krähenbühl zeigte sich derart empört, obwohl er offenbar die Medienberichte nur oberflächlich verfolgt. So spricht er in seiner Erklärung von nur einem von US-Soldaten erschossenen Verwundeten, obwohl es tatsächlich Berichte über fünf solche Fälle gibt. Auch die Verantwortlichkeit für die Ermordung der Leiterin der Hilfsorganisation CARE, Margaret Hassan, kann kaum als so eindeutig angesehen werden, wie er offenbar glaubt. Bisher hat sich keine irakische Gruppierung zu dem Mord bekannt. Vielmehr hatten zuvor zahlreiche irakische Organisationen selbst die Gruppe um Abu Musab al-Zarqawi hat sich dem angeschlossen - ihre umgehende Freilassung gefordert.

"In dieser Woche war es die Tötung eines verwundeten Kämpfers und noch einer weiteren Geisel - Margaret Hassan - die die Welt schockierten. Wie jeder andere bewaffnete Konflikt ist auch dieser an Grenzen gebunden und diese müssen zu jedem Zeitpunkt respektiert werden", schrieb Krähenbühl.

"Für die an diesem Konflikt beteiligten Parteien ist die Befolgung des internationalen humanitären Rechts eine Verpflichtung, keine Möglichkeit. Es gibt ein absolutes Verbot der Tötung von Menschen, die keine aktive Rolle bei den Kampfhandlungen einnehmen oder diese beendet haben. Es ist ebenso verboten, sie zu foltern oder sie jeglicher Form unmenschlicher, entwürdigender oder erniedrigender Behandlung zu unterziehen. Darüberhinaus müssen die an dem Konflikt beteiligten Parteien den Verwundeten - Freund wie Feind - angemessene medizinische Versorgung auf dem Schlachtfeld zur Verfügung stellen oder es zulassen, daß sie an einen anderen Ort zur Behandlung gebracht werden. Sie müssen alle Möglichkeiten ausschöpfen, um es von den Kämpfen eingeschlossenen Zivilisten zu ermöglichen, die Grundlagen des Überlebens wie Nahrung, Wasser und medizinische Versorgung zu erlangen", so Krähenbühl in der Erklärung.

Insbesondere mit diesen Sätzen wendet er sich dabei überdeutlich gegen die von US-Soldaten begangenen Kriegsverbrechen.

"Die Geiselnahme, gleichgültig ob von Irakern oder Ausländern, ist unter allen Umständen verboten. Wenn diese Regeln oder irgendwelche anderen anzuwendenden Regeln des internationalen humanitären Rechts verletzt werden, müssen die verantwortlichen Personen für ihre Handlungen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden", forderte Krähenbühl.

"Bedauerlicherweise haben die letzten Ereignisse erneut gezeigt, wie schwierig es für neutrale, unabhängige und unparteiische Hilfsorganisationen geworden ist, den Opfern des Konflikts im Irak zu helfen und sie zu schützen. Das Internationale Komitee des Roten Kreuzes appelliert ein weiteres Mal, daß alles
mögliche getan wird, um solchen Organisationen zu erlauben, den tausenden leidenden Irakern zu helfen", schrieb er.

Hier verzichtete Krähenbühl allerdings erneut darauf, die Verantwortlichen für diese Probleme beim Namen zu nennen. So hat das US-Militär Hilfskonvois des Roten Halbmonds, der arabischen Schwesterorganisation des Roten Kreuzes, aktiv daran gehindert, die Stadt zu betreten.

Trotz dieser Zurückhaltung hinsichtlich namentlicher Kritik an den USA ist diese Erklärung in ihrer Direktheit allerdings trotzdem bemerkenswert.

http://www.freace.de/artikel/200411/201104a.html

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Fallujah captives: Saddam set up insurgency cells in 2001

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Friday, November 19, 2004

BAGHDAD - Insurgents captured in Fallujah have told Iraqi military interrogators that most of those fighting in Fallujah were former security officers for the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The insurgents said Saddam organized special operations units, starting in 2001, to counter any foreign invasion in Iraq. Most of those units, the insurgents said, are still active in the Sunni Triangle.

Officials said the Sunni insurgency was being directed from Syria. They said Saddam loyalists were receiving funding and orders from senior aides of the former Saddam regime based in Damascus, including ex-Vice President Izzet Ibrahim Al Douri.

Iraqi Interior Minister Faleh Hassan Al Naqib said his government and the U.S.-led coalition faced a revolt throughout the Sunni Triangle, Middle East Newsline reported. Al Naqib said the revolt was being directed by a unified command and control network led by Saddam loyalists. He said the insurgents sought to prevent or disrupt national elections scheduled for Jan. 27.

"The battle for Fallujah has become the test for Saddam loyalists," an Iraqi official said. "Fallujah was the center of the terrorism and the symbol of the terrorists."

The uprising in the Sunni Triangle has included insurgents who had been based in Fallujah. Officials said Sunni insurgents, including Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, and up to 2,000 fighters left Fallujah over the last two months to launch a revolt in other cities.

At a news conference in Baghdad, on Nov. 16, Al Naqib said the great majority of insurgency casualties in Fallujah were Iraqi nationals. He said only 24 foreigners were found dead among the more than 1,250 reported killed in 10 days of fighting in Fallujah.

Al Naqib identified Mohammed Yunus Ahmad as the key liasion and coordinator between Saddam loyalists in Syria and Iraqi insurgents. Ahmad had been a minister and a senior official in Iraq's ruling Baath Party.

Al Naqib also said Saddam formed an Islamic insurgency group Jaysh Mohammed, composed of former special operations officers. The minister said the leader of the group, identified as Moayad Yassin Ahmed, was arrested on Nov. 15. Ahmed, also known as Abu Ahmed, was identified as a former officer in the Iraqi Air Defense Command.

Ahmed was said to have met former Iraqi minister Al Ahmed in Syria to coordinate the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Al Naqib said Saddam established Jaysh Mohammed as the military wing of the Baath Party in April 2003 after the fall of the regime.

Officials said the Iraqi resistance appears to have changed tactics and no longer seeks a head-on clash with the U.S. military for the control of major cities. Instead, Saddam loyalists and foreign volunteers have launched attacks on police stations and other facilities meant to intimidate security forces and seize weapons and material.

"This ultimately is not going to be won in the kinetic sense - in battle," U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. "It's going to be won in having Iraqis taking ownership and investing their own personal sweat and blood." Iraq's interim government has been bracing for an insurgency throughout the Sunni Triangle.

Iraqi officials said the U.S.-led invasion of Fallujah has sparked a revolt in cities throughout the Sunni Triangle. They cited insurgency campaigns in Baghdad, Baiji, Baqubah, Hadith, Mosul, Ramadi, Samara and Tikrit.

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                      Iraqi Resistance Report
             for events of Saturday, 20 September 2004

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Saturday, 20 November 2004.

Fighting in al-Fallujah on Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:30pm Saturday night Mecca time, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that fighting between the Resistance and the US attackers raged on Saturday in the southern neighborhoods of ash-Shuhada', al-Jubayl, and an-Nu'aymiyah, and in the industrial zone. The Resistance is still holding its own, the correspondent wrote, and Saturday's fighting was noteworthy for the fact that intermittent - lasting an hour, then stopping, then resuming and flaring up again and then stopping again for awhile, before starting again, and so on.

This situation has been a source of optimism for the Resistance.

The correspondent noted that the Resistance uses its weapons sparingly, firing four mortar rounds at four specific US vehicles, or one rocket shell for one vehicle - that is when the vehicles open fire from one direction. If the source of US fire is a concentration of tanks, the Resistance shoots intensively at the source of the incoming fire.

On Saturday, the Resistance used a large number of 60mm and 82mm mortar rounds, as well as C5K rockets. The Resistance thwarted a US attempt to break into the industrial zone, halting the American advance and pushing the US forces back to their former positions. The fighting in the other neighborhoods - ash-Shuhada', al-Jubyal and an-Nu'aymiyah - was a matter of exchanging gunfire. The US forces there made no attempt to advance.

Fierce fighting broke out in the al-'Askari neighborhood in the eastern part of al-Fallujah, however, meaning that now the Resistance controls a little more than half of the city. This is what Shaykh 'Abdallah al-Jannabi, the Chairman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah said when he told the press that the Resistance controls 60 percent of the city. A leader of one of the Resistance organizations in al-Jubayl said, "our ranks are holding up and holding together. We can see the effects of the prayers of the Muslims for us in these battles."

This is in confirmation of the view that the fighting in al-Fallujah is an example of urban warfare in which the fortunes of the sides shift back and forth quickly. This is particularly true since the US force use weapons that are banned internationally, and which can change the course of battle at any moment, as took place in the north of the city. Since the Resistance there was holding its own, the US forces resorted to the use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons shifting the balance in their favor.

Mafkarat al-Islam's correspondent outside al-Fallujah reported that the US vehicles ringing al-Fallujah on Saturday stayed firmly planted in their places - a very important point for the people of al-Fallujah, since the movement of the vehicles means that the US forces are embarking on some concerted effort to break into the city. When the vehicles stay put, however, it means that they will have a certain lull in the American efforts to drive on their city.

US forces withdrew 250 heavy vehicles from the concentration around the city during the last four days, sending them off in the direction of Mosul in the north of the country, where the Resistance has opened a new front of action against the occupation forces.

The people of Iraq hope that the Resistance will continue to defy the American aggressors for another week because that will mean, according to political observers, the collapse of American power.

Morning battle in al-Ghazaliyah spreads to as-Sakani neighborhood.

At about 9:30am fierce fighting broke out on the highway in the area of al-Ghazaliyah, southwest of Baghdad. Resistance fighters fired RPG7 and C5K rockets and BKC automatic weapons destroying two trucks and a US armored vehicle. Afterwards the fighting spread, reaching the as-Sakani neighborhood, where two US Humvees were destroyed along with a Nissan pickup truck belonging to the puppet "Iraqi national guard." Eleven US troops and three puppet soldiers were killed. Three Resistance fighters were martyred and four others wounded.

Attack in ad-Dujayl.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked two trucks loaded with provisions for the US troops in the 14 July area of ad-Dujayl north of Baghdad. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent wrote that the attack that took place at about 11am Saturday left two trucks destroyed and killed three US troops aboard them.

Resistance keeps up heavy bombardments of US troop concentrations around al-Fallujah.

Iraqi Resistance forces continued their bombardments of US troop concentrations around al-Fallujah on Saturday.

First of all, on Friday, Iraqi Resistance forces blasted US troop concentrations south and north of the city. Resistance fighters in the "at-Taji Arm" fired more than 40 rockets, including 10 highly destructive Ababil missiles, and the rest powerful Tariq and Grad rockets. That bombardment continued into Saturday, when the "atTaji Arm" fired more than 21 rockets, of which six were the powerful Ababil, and the rest Tariqs and Grads.

At 2pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired eight rockets and then fired another eight more shortly before sundown. All of those missiles were launched from al-'Amiriyah.

US troop concentrations in the as-Sakani neighborhood west of alFallujah, in the al-Barradat Field between the old and the new bridges, at the command point located near the new bridge, as well as the US concentrations on the southern edges of the city were all targeted on Saturday.

This has been the third day in which the Resistance has mounted such a qualitatively new level of operations, in particular making use of the highly destructive Ababil rockets. On Friday, more than nine fires could be seen burning in US vehicles south of the city. These were not the same vehicles that were set ablaze during the US bombardment of the city during the morning and midday hours.

As-Saqlawiyah residents bury 103 civilian bodies from a small part of al-Fallujah as Americans tell them to leave the bodies of Resistance fighters for the dogs to eat.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported Saturday that the operation to collect and bury the bodies of victims killed by the US assault on al-Fallujah is still under way. The number of bodies buried as of yesterday, Friday, was 103, among them were a number of women and children.

The correspondent wrote in a dispatch posted Saturday at 8:25pm Mecca time, that the last batch of victims' bodies consisted of 20 corpses, none of which showed signs of being struck by any sort of weapon or ammunition. Their clothing was also not torn or burned. The bodies, however, were blackened due to the Americans' use of some internationally banned chemical weapons with which they bombarded the city.

It appears that US forces used two types of chemical gas, since the first batch of bodies were swollen and yellowed. The 103 bodies that have been buried so far were all picked up from a small part of the al-Jawlan neighborhood, an area comprising about 15 percent of the neighborhood.

US forces refuse to allow the residents of as-Saqlawiyah, who are actually picking up and loading the bodies, to retrieve the bodies of Iraqi Resistance fighters. The Americans tell the people to leave them where thy lie to be eaten by dogs and cats. This is in contrast to what they do with the bodies of civilians, which they permit to be loaded up and taken away for burial. About 22 bodies were seen that dogs and cats had been eating from - something that can easily be discerned from the way that flesh has been shredded away from faces, hands, forearms, and feet of those bodies. One such body was found with its legs totally eaten up, leaving only the bones.

The residents who took part in transporting and burying the bodies say that the treatment they received from the Americans was good, but that they were met with derision and jeering by the puppet socalled "Iraqi national guards" who would laugh and smile and tell the residents, "pickup your dead! This is the destiny that awaits you!" The Americans only dealt with them by signaling them to go in, pick up the bodies, and then leave.

Fierce fighting continues in southern half of al-Fallujah as Resistance pledges to fight to the last drop of their blood.

Fierce fighting continued Saturday morning in the southern half of al-Fallujah according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city. In a dispatch posted at 9:30am Saturday morning Mecca time, the correspondent wrote that the fierce fighting was still raging in the ash-Shuhada' and al-Jubayl neighborhoods and in the industrial zone - all in the southern part of the city.

Seven unprecedented explosions rocked the area on Friday and at dawn Saturday, he reported. Four of the blasts shook the city Friday night. Three more explosions resounded Saturday at dawn. The correspondent wrote that he was unable to ascertain the cause of the blasts.

Informed sources thought it likely that the US occupation troops would use chemical weapons in the southern half of the city, after their failure to break through Resistance defenses using more conventional weaponry. The American invaders resorted to the use of chemical weapons in their attacks on the northern half of the city in recent days.

Meanwhile US troops have destroyed most of the private cars that they have found in al-Fallujah, out of fear that they might be used in martyrdom car bombing missions against their forces.

In other news, a member of the al-Fallujah Resistance organizations told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that the Resistance would continue fighting against the occupation to the last drop of their blood or at least until their ammunition was exausted.

Elsewhere in Iraq ...

Iraq explodes in battle at 6:30am - "zero hour" - as Resistance launches new strategy of nation-wide coordination.

All parts of Iraq witnessed fighting against the US occupation on Saturday beginning early in the morning.

Half-past six am was zero hour for the Iraqi Resistance forces. At that time they launched attacks on US troops and fighting erupted all over the country. It flared particularly violently in Baghdad.

These battles marked the launch of a new Resistance strategy based on the coordination of actions between the Resistance groups in different parts of Iraq, and the unification of their efforts for the liberation of the country.

The developments in al-Fallujah are playing a major part in this new Resistance strategy. Since the beginning of the Battle of alFallujah, the Resistance organizations have striven to coordinate between themselves to reduce the pressure that the Americans can bring to bear on al-Fallujah. Several days ago Iraq witnessed an intifadah uprising whose aim was to break the American siege of the city. But the results of the uprising exceeded the Resistance organizations' expectations, and they managed to seize control of several large cities and important centers throughout the country. These successes did not entail major losses on the part of the Americans and their stooges, however, as the occupation forces hunkered down in their bases and camps, refusing to come out, meaning that the Resistance control of the cities was merely apparent control.

The Resistance was not satisfied with apparent control, however, and resolved to draw the US troops into battle in order to inflict such casualties on them that they would not be able to forget. The Resistance cut back its attacks over the past four days. Indeed the last two days - Thursday and Friday - were marked by the lowest number of attacks launched by the Resistance in the last three months. This is merely an effort to arouse a false sense of security in the Americans, however, so that they come out of their hiding places. This is what happened and the Resistance was waiting for them at zero hour Saturday morning. As of the writing of this report (posted on Mafkarat al-Islam at 10pm Saturday Mecca time) fighting continues to rage in several parts of Iraq.

Baghdad.

Fierce daylong fighting in al-'Amiriyah district.

Violent battles raged in the al-'Amiriyah area of Baghdad from 9:30am until sunset Saturday. US forces had suffered heavy losses in the fighting by noon. A Resistance car bomb destroyed two GMC command cars and two Humvees. Clashes in which Resistance fighters fired C5K and RPG7 rockets and BKC automatic weapons left two Bradley armored vehicles and a Humvee destroyed and disabled another armored vehicle. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that 22 US soldiers were killed in the fighting and that 15 Iraqi civilians also died when US troops opened fire indiscriminately around the area.

Fierce fighting in al-A'zamiyah district.

At 6:30am Saturday Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 and C5K rockets and BKC automatic weapons attacked US troops and puppet "national guards" on the main road in the al-A'zamiyah district of Baghdad, destroying two Nissan pickups belonging to the puppet forces, and three Humvees and two Bradley armored vehicles belonging to the US troops. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that 16 US troops and 9 puppet guardsmen were killed.

At 6:30am Saturday Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets, 60mm mortars, and BKC automatic weapons attacked a puppet police station in the al-A'zamiyah district of Baghdad, destroying four Nissan patrol cars and killing 15 puppet police. Ten Iraqi Resistance fighters and civilians were killed and others wounded in the fighting.

At 3:20pm Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets battled US troops, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and disabling another and killing a reported six US troops.

Kurdish Mossad agent abducted.

Iraqi Resistance forces wounded a Kurdish individual in one of his legs and then kidnapped him in the al-Bayya' district of Baghdad. The Kurd was working as an agent for the Zionist Mossad secret police, and was taken to an unknown destination.

Afternoon ambush in al-Ghazaliyah.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked two US trucks in the al-Ghazaliyah area west of Baghdad at about 3:30pm Saturday, destroying the vehicles and killing two US troops.

Bombing west of Baghdad kills US soldier.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the Suwayd area of the ashShurtah neighborhood west of Baghdad as a US Humvee was passing at exactly 12:30pm Saturday, killing a US soldier and wounding two others.

Airport Road bombing reportedly kills three US troops.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on Airport Road in Baghdad as a US Humvee was passing at about 3pm Saturday, killing three US soldiers and wounding two others.

Attacks in al-Qadisiyah kill collaborators, US troops.

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a white Avalon car being driven by four persons who worked for the administration of the US-installed puppet "interim government." The attack that took place at 2pm in the al-Qadisiyah district of Baghdad destroyed the car and killed the four collaborator officials, one of them a woman.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded as a US column of Humvees was passing along the highway bridge leading to the center of the city in al-Qadisiyah. The blast that took place at about 4pm destroyed two Humvees and killed five US troops and wounded four other American soldiers who were riding in the vehicles.

Attacks in Abu Ghurayb.

At 12:15am Iraqi Resistance forces destroyed three US military trucks in the ash-Shuhada' area, destroyed a Bradley armored vehicle with an RPG7 rocket in al-Kharnabit, and detonated a bomb and then opened fire with an RPG7 rocket on US forces in the Khan Darri area, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle. The three attacks left nine US soldiers dead and six others wounded. One Resistance fighter was killed and four other Resistance fighters were wounded in the three attacks.

At 10:15am Iraqi Resistance forces struck a US Bradley armored vehicle with an SPG9 rocket in he ash-Shayhah disrict of Abu Ghurayb, destroying it and killing two US troops and wounding three other American soldiers.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US patrol on the highway in Abu Ghurayb at about 4pm Saturday, destroying a US Humvee and killing three US soldiers and wounding a fourth.

Ambush on Hayfa Street.

At 3pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets ambushed a US patrol on Hayfa Street in Baghdad's al-Karakh district, destroying one Humvee, disabling a Bradley armored vehicle and killing a reported four US troops.

Attack in al-I'lam area of Baghdad.

Iraqi Resistance forces destroyed a pickup truck belonging to the puppet so-called "Iraqi national guard" in the al-I'lam area of Baghdad, killing four soldiers aboard it at 5pm Saturday.

Resistance attack wounds Turkish truck driver.

At about 5pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a civilian truck bringing supplies to US forces in the at-Tarimiyah area north of Baghdad, wounding a Turkish driver.

Attacks in ad-Durah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the al-Bu'itha area of ad-Durah, disabling an American armored vehicle and killing a US machine gunner aboard it at 5pm Saturday.

Three collaborationist Badr Brigade gunmen were killed at about 4pm Saturday when Resistance fighters firing Kalashnikov assault rifles attacked their white Nissan Sunny car in the al-Mikanik area of ad-Durah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the 'Arab Jabbur area of the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah, disabling a Bradley armored vehicle and killing one US soldier and wounding a second at about 9am Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 and C5K rockets clashed with US forces and their Iraqi puppet "national guards" in the Hur Rajab area, destroying a Humvee and an Abrams tank. Seven US troops and six puppet soldiers were reported killed by the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent, two of them by Resistance sharpshooters.

Bombing in as-Suwayrah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US Humvee in as-Suwayrah Saturday, southwest of Baghdad, killing one US soldier and moderately wounding two other American troops.

Fighting in al-Janibayn.

At about 1:30pm Saturday fighting broke out in the al-Janibayn area near Baghdad, in which two Humvees were destroyed and three Bradley armored vehicles and a truck belonging to the puppet "national guard" were disabled. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that seven US troops and five puppet soldiers were killed in the fighting and two Resistance fighters martyred. More than six Resistance fighters were also wounded.

Attacks on Airport Road.

At 3:30pm Saturday Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US patrol on Airport Road near the al-Furat neighborhood, destroying a GMC command car and a Humvee and killing two US intelligence officers and two soldiers.

At 7pm Saturday Iraqi Resistance forces detonated a bomb
destroying a US GMC on Airport Road in the area between
the neighborhoods of al-'Amiriyah and al-Jihad. The blast
flipped the GMC over several times, killing two soldiers
and seriously wounding a third.

Attack in as-Sayyidiyah.

At 7pm Saturday, an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the
highway in as-Sayyidiyah south of Baghdad disabling a Humvee and killing one US soldier and wounding two others.

Resistance attacks in ar-Ridwaniyah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US Humvee in arRidwaniyah southwest of Baghdad, destroying the vehicle and killing three US troops at 5pm Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces detonated a bomb and then opened fire with RPG7 rockets on a US Bradley armored vehicle in the Middle Palace [al-Qasr al-Awsat] area of ar-Ridwaniyah at about 9am Saturday, destroying the Bradley and killing four US troops.

Ambushes in al-Mushahadah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US Humvee in the al-Mushahadah area north of Baghdad, killing a reported three soldiers aboard it at about 5:30pm Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets and BKC automatic weapons attacked a US column in the al-Mushahadah area north of Baghdad at about 10:30am Saturday, destroying a Humvee and a truck loaded with provisions, and killing four US troops.

Resistance bomb attacks in Salman Bak.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US armored personnel carrier (APC) in the Salman Bak area, killing a reported four US soldiers aboard it at about 2pm Saturday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US Abrams tank in the Salman Bak area, disabling the tank and killing one soldier aboard it at 2:30pm Saturday.

Resistance bomb destroys supply truck in al-Ishaqi.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a civilian truck loaded with supplies for the US occupation troops in the al-Ishaqi area between Balad and at-Taji north of Baghdad, destroying the truck and killing the driver who was believed to be Asian.

Al-Latifiyah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on a dirt road as a US patrol was passing in al-Latifiyah at about 4:30pm Saturday, destroying an Abrams tank and killing five US troops aboard it, according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent.

Resistance bombardments around the country Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired four Grad rockets into the US base in Saddam International Airport at 6am Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired six Katyusha rockets into the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 7am Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired three Grad rockets into the US al-Bakr base in Balad north of Baghdad at about 8am Saturday.

At 8am Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired eight Katyusha rockets into the British base at al-Mahawil north of al-Hillah.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired five 82mm mortar rounds into the joint US-puppet "national guard" base in at-Taji north of Baghdad at about 8:30am Saturday.

At 10:30am Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired nine 82mm mortar rounds into the British base in al-Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired six 82mm mortar rounds into the US al-Muthanna airbase in Baghdad at about 12:30pm Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces shelled the US facility in the former headquarters of the Iraqi chiefs of staff in Baghdad with eight 120mm mortar rounds at about 1pm Saturday.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded American troops concentrated in the Abu Ghurayb prison at about 2:30pm Saturday with eight 82mm mortar rounds.

From 3pm to 3:15pm Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US troops in the former Iraq Meat Company in 'Uwayrij south of Baghdad with four Katyusha rockets.

At 4pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance fighters fired four Katyusha rockets and two Grad rockets into the US base in Saddam
International Airport.

At about 4pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired six Katyusha rockets into the British base at al-Mahawil north of al-Hillah.

Iraqi Resistance forces shelled the US facility in the former headquarters of the Iraqi chiefs of staff in Baghdad with 15 Katyusha rockets at 4pm Saturday, evidently directly hitting an arsenal because smoke continued to rise over the facility until 8:30pm.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired five 120mm mortar rounds into the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 5:30pm Saturday.

At 6pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance fighters fired nine 120mm mortar rounds into the US base in Saddam International Airport.

At 6:30pm Saturday Iraqi Resistance fighters fired seven 60mm mortar rounds into the headquarters of the puppet "national guard" in the ar-Risalah neighborhood in Baghdad.

At about 7:15pm Saturday Iraqi Resistance fighters fired four Katyusha rockets into the US occupation headquarters in the Republican Palace area known to the invaders as the "green zone."

At about 7:45pm Saturday Iraqi Resistance forces fired a Grad rocket into the US camp at the Equestrian Club in the al-Furat neighborhood of central Baghdad.

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                       Iraqi Resistance Report
                        for 19 November 2004.

Friday, 19 November 2004.

Al-Fallujah.

Battle continues as Resistance holds on to the south while harrying US forces in northern al-Fallujah.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah, in a report posted at 9:30pm Mecca time Friday night, reported that battles between the Resistance and US Marines had intensified along the perimeter of the ash-Shuhada' and al-Jubayl neighborhoods and the industrial zone of southern al-Fallujah. For the first time in four days, fighting is reported in the al-'Askari neighborhood as well.

On Thursday the Iraqi Resistance broke through into the northern half of al-Fallujah, where the American invaders are in a stronger position, and got into the al-Muhandisin neighborhood. The they pulled back to the southern part of the city, controlled by the Resistance in what appears to have been a Resistance attack and retreat operation.

US troops have not been able to advance into the southern half of the city for three days. The Resistance, however, opened fighting yesterday in he al-'Askari neighborhood in the east of the city after several days during which virtually no Resistance activity took place in that part of town.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent noted that US forces in their attacks on the ash-Shuhada' and al-Jubayl neighborhoods on Thursday used a new type of gas, different from those used before. The new gas overcomes the victim and causes asphyxiation. Twenty bodies of victims of the gas were found in the two neighborhoods in the last four days.

It appears that the Resistance fighters had come to cope with the dessicating gas used by the US forces, as Resistance fighters could be seen carrying around water-dampened cloths.

Meanwhile, US forces are still trying to comb through the northern part of al-Fallujah, but Resistance fighters strike them with ambushes, hampering their operations. In fact as of the moment of writing this report, the correspondent wrote that American troops had only been able to raid about 15 percent of the houses in the northern part of al-Fallujah. Americans mark houses that they have already raided by painting a red cross on it.

The Iraqi Resistance appears to have decided to concentrate its efforts in the southern half of the city. They have not permitted American snipers to take up positions in the south of the city. The correspondent observed that the only US snipers on the south side of the city were on the outsides of the industrial workshops in the industrial zone and on the outsides of the houses in the ash-Shuhada' and al-Jubayl neighborhoods. No US snipers have been able to get inside the southern part of the city.

The Resistance in the southern part of the city is holding up and holding together very strongly. The Battle of al-Fallujah is urban warfare, even though al-Fallujah is a small city - its length from north to south being only 4.5km and its width from east to west only 4km. Therefore the room to manoeuver within the city is limited. Despite the diminutive size of the city there are more than 1,050 tanks and armored vehicles besides the armored personnel carriers and Humvees ringing the city. This is a larger number of vehicles than encircled Baghdad during the American invasion of the country in the spring of 2003.

For fourth straight day: Resistance forces cut American supply lines to forces attacking al-Fallujah.

Iraqi Resistance forces for the fourth straight day have been able to cut the US supply lines feeding American troops besieging alFallujah. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the area reported that Resistance forces had cut the three main roads leading to alFallujah, in particular the road leading from Abu Ghurayb to alFallujah, in addition to two other routes running to the north and south.

By cutting the land routes to al-Fallujah, the Iraqi Resistance is seriously obstructing the supply of the American attackers in and around the city.

Sectarian hatred stirred up to serve US imperialism.

The correspondents of Mafkarat al-Islam in the areas of asSaqlawiyah and al-'Amiriyah outside al-Fallujah report observing that every vehicle belonging to the puppet so-called "Iraqi national guard" that is participating in the US assault on al-Fallujah without exception is festooned with pictures
supposed to represent the Imam 'Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Imam Husayn ibn 'Ali, the two top "patron saints" of Shi'i Islam. Some of the pictures carry the motto, "With the blessings of our Master 'Ali we enter al-Fallujah."

Also visible flying over many of the "national guard" cars are the distinctive black flags of the Shi'i clerical establishment.

Inside al-Fallujah, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reports that the members of the "national guard" have committed massacres of unarmed civilians, including women, children, and the elderly. Local civilians in al-Fallujah now fear the behavior of the "national guard" more than they fear the actions of the American occupation troops themselves.

Eyewitnesses inside the city report that members of the "national guard" have cut up the bodies of civilians that they find. Refugees from the city's al-Jawlan neighborhood said that "national guardsmen" ran over the bodies of civilians with their cars and jumped on them with their feet. US troops only do such things to the bodies of Resistance fighters, but the "national guards" do it to the bodies of civilians, including women, children, and old people, in addition to the bodies of the Resistance fighters.

The behavior of the "national guardsmen" towards civilians has been extremely bad, the sources report. Even translators working for the Americans hit and slap prisoners, despite the fact that their job supposedly is only to translate.

It is evident, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondents write, that these "national guard" puppet troops are motivated by an intense sectarian hatred, stoked by declarations and fatwas issued by leading Shi'i clerics in an-Najaf.

Mafkarat al-Islam is careful to note, however, that there are Shi'i leaders who have denounced the American attack on the city of al-Fallujah. These include the Ayatallah Ahmad al-Baghdadi, Shaykh Jawad al-Khalisi, and Sayyid Muqtada as-Sadr. These Shi'i religious leaders have condemned what is going on in al-Fallujah and have issued fatwas prohibiting Shi'i Muslims from taking part in the war against al-Fallujah, denouncing as sinners those who engage in the campaign even if they do so under the banner of the "national guard" or the puppet police.

Iraqi Baath Party denounces "Iraqi Islamic Party" and religious reaction as a historic tool of colonialism and US imperialism.

The Arab Baath Socialist Party in Iraq published a declaration on Friday entitled "Religious Reaction is the historically the closed reserve for the policies of the United States." The Baath statement denounced the activity of various forms of religious reaction.

In the first place there is the religious reaction that acts hand in glove for Iran, and has done so under the Shah as well as under Khomeini. Such religious reactionaries served as a traitorous base that welcomed and served the machinations of US efforts to destroy Iraq - economically, socially, and culturally. As it served Iranian interests in Iraq, it also targeted the Arab character of Iraq and its unity as a country.

In the second place, the Baath statement said, there is the religious reaction that has historically served western colonialism and US imperialism. It served US imperialism in its global cold war against the socialist camp after the Second World War, the Baath statement said. Such reactionary religious elements were also instrumental in obstructing the Arab renaissance, and the effort reassert Arab unity under the banner of Arab nationalism and in particular under the banner of the Arab Baath Party with its program for Arab renaissance and unity. It obstructed these efforts on bases that served colonialism and US imperialism by trying to counterpose Islam to Arabism. In a totally contradictory manner, these religious reactionaries advocated leaping over Arab unity to somehow achieve pan-Islamic unity, but meanwhile they supported and legitimized the local petty Arab regimes that historically were allied with the colonialist west and the United States and that were formed on sectarian or dynastic bases.

At the present time, the Baath Party statement said, the so-called "Islamic Party" in Iraq is playing just such a reactionary role in service to US imperialism. It is a party that arose out of the occupation and that operates under the umbrella of the occupation's political program. It emerged on the basis of its acceptance of the sectarian arrangement imposed by the US occupation, in which political roles are apportioned to different religious communities. On this basis, it has taken part in carrying out the plans of the US occupation. On the basis of this sectarian role, it has worked with the US occupation in the provinces of Baghdad, Al-Anbar, Diyala, Salah ad-Din at-Ta'mim and Ninwa [where there are large Sunni populations, trans.] It performed this role on behalf of the occupation at the time of the US offensive in April, when the Americans first attacked al-Fallujah [and the "Islamic Party" tried to play the role of a go-between with the occupation while undermining Resistance demands] and it continues to play this role on behalf of the US occupation today, the Baath Statement said. It is trying to lay plots against the Iraqi Resistance for the benefit of the occupation and the puppet authority.

"The 'Iraqi Islamic Party' in its organization, policies, and leadership, constitutes a crude, lowly, and disgraceful example of reactionary religious plotting," the Baath statement said, noting that has been condemned and rejected for its collaboration by the Muslim Brotherhood organization in other Arab regions, notably Jordan and Syria, from the very beginning, and from that in Egypt later on. "It does its manoeuvering on a margin granted to it by the occupation, inasmuch as it has always opposed the jihadi armed confrontation that is being waged by the Iraqi national resistance movement on the basis of the cause of
resistance and liberation," the Baath statement concluded.

Iraqi Resistance organization seizes US weapons west of al-Fallujah, blows up US vehicle in Abu Ghurayb.

The Iraqi Resistance organization Brigades of the 1920 Revolution, the military wing of the National Islamic Resistance has announced that it has seized US weapons after an operation it carried out west of al-Fallujah. In a video broadcast by al-Jazeera satellite TV, some of the American weapons and military materiel that the Brigades are displayed.

Meanwhile, the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution have taken credit for an attack on a US military patrol in the Abu Ghurayb area west of Baghdad. Al-Jazeera TV also broadcast a video showing the detonation of bombs under a US military vehicle directly blasting the American vehicle and setting it ablaze.

Baghdad.

Americans kill 14 Iraqi civilians as clashes erupt when US troops storm Abu Hanifah Mosque in Baghdad.

US invader troops together with puppet so-called "Iraqi national guards" and puppet policemen stormed into the Mosque of Abu Hanifah an-Nu'man in the al-A'zamiyah area of Baghdad on Friday. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that the attack took place at about 11am and was followed by clashes between the Americans and their stooges on the one side and members of the Iraqi Resistance forces in the area.

The Abu Hanifah Mosque is associated with the tomb of one of Sunni Islam's greatest religious figures, Abu Hanifah an-Nu'man, the founder of the oldest and largest school of Islamic jurisprudence, who taught in Baghdad and died in prison there in the year 767, having refused to serve a Caliph.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent wrote that the Resistance fighters fired RPG7 and SPG9 rockets and BKC automatic weapons in the fighting. In the end, the fighting left two US military Bradley armored vehicles, a Humvee, a Nissan patrol car belonging to the puppet police, and a Nissan pickup belonging to the puppet "national guard" troops destroyed. Eleven American troops, three puppet policemen and six puppet "national guards" were killed in the battle. In addition, three US troops were seriously injured by Resistance gunfire.

The US and stooge forces responded to the Resistance fighters by firing indiscriminately around the area, killing 14 Iraqi civilians.

Resistance bomb ambush in Qanat al-Jaysh in Baghdad targets US supply convoy.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the path of a US truck loaded with supplies for the US forces as it drove along the highway passing through Qanat al-Jaysh in Baghdad at 5pm Friday afternoon. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that the blast destroyed the truck and killed one American soldier and wounded another.

Resistance bombing in ar-Rashidiyah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US patrol in the arRashidiyah area in Baghdad at 4pm Friday, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops who were aboard it.

Resistance kills two US intelligence officers in evening attack in al-Hurriyah, Baghdad.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 and RPG8 rockets attacked US forces on the highway in the ad-Dawli'i area in the al-Hurriyah district of Baghdad at about 6:30pm Friday evening, destroying a command GMC car and a Humvee. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the area reported that two US troops were killed and two others wounded and that two American intelligence officers in the GMC were also killed in the attack.

Resistance destroys two US supply trucks in al-Mushahadah.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked two US trucks, one of them civilian, the other military, in the al-Mushahadah area north of Baghdad at 11am Friday. The attack destroyed the civilian truck that was loaded with supplies for the US occupation forces and also the military truck that was carrying water for the American troops. Two US troops were killed in the attack.

Resistance rocket attack kills four US soldiers Friday afternoon.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US military truck on the highway in the al-Ghazaliyah area, destroying the truck and killing four US soldiers at 4:30pm.

Resistance attacks in Abu Ghurayb.

At 4:15pm Friday, Iraqi Resistance forces detonated a bomb in the path of a US patrol in the Khan ad-Darri area of Abu Ghurayb, destroying a Humvee and killing one US soldier and wounding three others.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US convoy in the ash-Shuhada' neighborhood of Abu Ghurayb west of Baghdad at 8:30am Friday, destroying a civilian fuel tanker and a US military truck and killing three US troops.

Two Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded under a US Bradley vehicle in Abu Ghurayb west of Baghdad, destroying the vehicle and killing four US troops aboard it at 9am Friday morning.

Three suspected CIA agents killed in Resistance attack on Airport Road.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked an armored US GMC vehicle believed to belong to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Airport Road, destroying the GMC and killing three CIA agents inside.

Attack in as-Suwayrah.

At about 9:45am Friday, Iraqi Resistance forces attacked and destroyed a Humvee in the as-Suwayrah area south of Baghdad, killing two US troops and wounding four others.

Bombing destroys armored vehicle in Salman Bak.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US armored vehicle in Salman Bak on Friday, destroying it and inflicting undetermined casualties on the US side.

Resistance car bomb kills eight puppet policemen in Baghdad Friday morning.

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by an Iraqi puppet police patrol as it was stopped in the az-Zuyunah district of Baghdad at 10:30am Friday. The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the blast destroyed two puppet police cars and disabled a third in addition to killing eight puppet policemen and wounding nine others. The correspondent noted that the blast also wounded a number of Iraqi passersby.

Resistance assassinates two collaborators.

Iraqi Resistance fighters in two incidents followed two lackeys of the US occupation on Friday on Hayfa Street in the al-Karakh district of Baghdad. The first agent of the Americans was
assassinated when Resistance forces opened fire on him with Kalashnikov assault rifles at about 9am local time. The second American lackey was gunned down by the Resistance, also with Kalashnikov assault rifles, at 12:30pm.

World Vision Australia driven out of occupied Iraq.

Australia's last "aid" organization in Iraq, World Vision, has announced that it will close its operations in the country "because it is too dangerous," according to the director of the organization's emergency relief operations, Geoff Shepherd.

"The move follows violent activities across Iraq, the death of Margaret Hassan and the previous death of World Vision's own head of operations in Iraq," Shepherd said in a statement. World Vision's representative, a man called Muhammad Hushyar, was shot to death in Mosul "by unknown armed men" at the end of September.

On its website, World Vision describes itself as "an international Christian relief and development organization." It says that it was founded in 1950 by American missionary Bob Pierce who began his work in the American-occupied sector of Korea during the Korean War of US aggression in 1950-1953. World Vision Australia's website currently highlights the organization's efforts in the Sudan, another Arab Islamic country under intense western imperialist and Zionist pressure.

Al-Latifiyah.

Resistance destroys two Bradleys in morning ambush in al-Latifiyah.

At about 10am Friday, Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG8 rockets clashed with US troops in al-Latifiyah, destroying two Bradley armored vehicles and disabling a third, killing eight US troops.

Bombardments around Iraq Friday.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 5am Friday with three Katyusha rockets.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the headquarters of the US occupation in the Republican Palace compound known to the US invaders as the "green zone" at 7:30am local time with two Grad rockets.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US al-Bakr military base in Balad north of Baghdad where the puppet so-called "Iraqi national guard" are also based with two Grad rockets at 1:30pm Friday.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 3pm Friday with four Katyusha rockets.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the headquarters of the US occupation in the Republican Palace compound known to the US invaders as the "green zone" at 4pm local time with six 82mm mortar rounds.

At about 6:30 Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the British alMahawil bae with nine 82mm mortar rounds.

At 7 Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US airbase at alMuthanna in Baghdad with three Katyusha rockets.

At 7:30 Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US airbase at alMuthanna in Baghdad with eight 82mm mortar rounds.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded Saddam International Airport with four 120mm mortar rounds at 8:30.

At 10:30 Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded Saddam International Airport with two Grad rockets.

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