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Iraqi Resistance Report XXXXVIII
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The events of Thursday,29
January 2004 through Saturday, 31 January2004 .
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice (http://www.freearabvoice.org).

Thursday, 29 January2004 .

One person was killed and some 13 others wounded on
Thursday in two separate attacks on two patrols by the
Iraqi puppet police in vicinity of the cities of
Kirkuk and Baqubah.

Puppet police Major General Anwar Ahmad Amin told the
Agence France Presse (AFP) that one puppet policeman
was killed and another injured Thursday morning when
Iraqi Resistance fighters fired a rocket-propelled
grenade (RPG) at a puppet police checkpoint in the
village of al-Muradiayah,83 km south of Kirkuk

A roadside bomb exploded on Thursday in Baqubah,65 km
north of Baghdad, reportedly wounding 11 Iraqis,
including at least eight members of the puppet
so-called civil defense forces set up and run by the
US occupation. The injuries of two persons were
described as serious.  The explosion was apparently
detonated by remote control and was targeted at an
Iraqi puppet police patrol that was passing at the
time.  Captain Salar Husayn of the puppet so-called
civil defense forces said that eight members of the
collaborationist organization were wounded in the
blast along with two persons who, he said, were
civilians. One of the injured, puppet civil defense
force member Yunus Ali, said the bomb was placed in
an abandoned cart. "When we got closer to the cart,
the explosion took place," he said.

In al-Basrah a spokesman for the British occupation
forces who control the city said that a bomb exploded
by the side of a road as a convoy of local puppet
officials was passing by.  Three people whom the
spokesman claimed were passers by were injured in
the blast.

After the explosion in the village south of Kirkuk,
puppet police Major General Shayrgo Shakir announced
that the puppet so-called civil defense forces had
raided several villages in the area and had arrested
five people whom he described as suspects.

Sources:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716
http://www.islamonline.net/Arabic/news/2004-01/29/article06.shtml
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&locale=ar_ME&storyID=4238222

Friday, 30 January2004 .

Friday evening media sources in the Iraqi capital
reported powerful explosions shook various parts of
the city.  Initial reports brought no details about
the source of the blasts or the damage or casualties
they might have inflicted, according to television
reports from al-Jazeera satellite TV.  A Reuters
dispatch said that a roadside bomb had gone off in the
center of Baghdad and that US occupation forces had
cordoned off the area and later left.  Reuters said
that an American spokesman had no further details and
therefore Reuters offered no further information
either.

Shortly before those powerful explosions, at about
8:30pm local time (17: 30GMT) Iraqi Resistance
fighters fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the
Dutch Embassy in Iraq late on Friday, hitting the roof
with one and setting it on fire. The blaze was quickly
extinguished, and there were no injuries. Security
guards and US occupation soldiers said the projectile
detonated on the roof after the embassy had closed for
the day. Another missed the building, and two other
launchers were found in the garden behind the embassy,
guards said.

Guards fired at the Resistance fighters' vehicle but
they escaped, according to embassy guard Karim
az-Zubaydi.  Dutch Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Martine de Haan said there were no injuries.

The blast resounded through Baghdad, and a US quick
reaction force from the1 st Armored Division was sent
to the scene, the US occupation command said. Earlier
reports said the projectile was a rocket, but the
military said later it was a rocket-propelled grenade.

"We saw the light of the fire on the roof, and the
firefighters came to the scene and put out the fire on
the roof," said18 -year-old Fadi Ghassan, who lives
near the embassy. He said he heard two explosions.

The Netherlands has about1 , 100occupation troops in
Iraq.  The Dutch Embassy staff were pulled out of
Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq in March, but they
returned in August. In October the government again
withdrew most of the staff after an attack on the
United Nations' Baghdad headquarters and other
bombings.  The embassy is now conducting most of its
business out of Amman, Jordan.  Only five Dutch
employees are manning the embassy. Four were in
Baghdad Friday, but none was in the building at the
time of the attack, the Dutch foreign ministry said.

Earlier on Friday, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked
a column of four US occupation armored vehicles in the
city of Mosul, northern Iraq Friday morning.  The
Resistance fighters used rocket-propelled grenades
(RPGs) in their attack, which destroyed one of the
vehicles.  It is unknown whether there were any
casualties among the American troops.  Eye witnesses
reported that they saw a Volkswagen car speeding away
from the site of the attack at the time the US column
was passing by.

Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a checkpoint of the
puppet so-called civil defense forces near Kirkuk on
Friday.  Puppet civil defense Major General Anwar
Hama Amin, the commander of the American appointed
organization, told the Agence France Presse (AFP) that
one of the Resistance fighters was martyred in the
attack and another wounded in the assault.  Amin said
six individuals on a pickup truck attacked a civil
defense checkpoint in Sulayman Bak.  The members of
the force returned fire hitting one and wounding
another.  The other attackers were able to escape.

This was the second attack at a check point in the
Kirkuk area in two days, the day before having
witnessed an attack on a check point90 km south of
Kirkuk.

Also in Kirkuk on Friday, US occupation forces defused
an explosives-laden car on the main road south of
al-Huwayjah,50 km southwest of Kirkuk, frequented by
American military convoys and oil tank trucks.  The
tank trucks make the run up the road taking oil from
the Kirkuk oil fields to the refinery in Bayji.

Iraqi Resistance fighters fired two rocket-propelled
grenades at the Dutch Embassy in Iraq on Friday,
hitting the roof with one and setting it on fire. The
blaze was quickly extinguished, and there were no
injuries. Security guards and US occupation soldiers
said the projectile detonated on the roof after the
embassy had closed for the day. Another missed the
building, and two other launchers were found in the
garden behind the embassy, guards said.

Guards fired at the Resistance fighters' vehicle but
they escaped, according to embassy guard Karim
az-Zubaydi.  Dutch Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Martine de Haan said there were no injuries.

The blast resounded through Baghdad, and a US quick
reaction force from the1 st Armored Division was sent
to the scene, the US occupation command said. Earlier
reports said the projectile was a rocket, but the
military said later it was a rocket-propelled grenade.

"We saw the light of the fire on the roof, and the
firefighters came to the scene and put out the fire on
the roof," said18 -year-old Fadi Ghassan, who lives
near the embassy. He said he heard two explosions.

The Netherlands has about1 , 100occupation troops in
Iraq.  The Dutch Embassy staff were pulled out of
Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq in March, but they
returned in August. In October the government again
withdrew most of the staff after an attack on the
United Nations' Baghdad headquarters and other
bombings.  The embassy is now conducting most of its
business out of Amman, Jordan.  Only five Dutch
employees are manning the embassy. Four were in
Baghdad Friday, but none was in the building at the
time of the attack, the Dutch foreign ministry said.

In al-Khalidiyah,80 km west of Baghdad, some700
people rallied to demand that the American occupation
forces lift the curfew imposed on their town and that
the aggressor forces halt their house raids and free
the citizens whom theyve taken prisoner.  The AFP
reported that the demonstrators started their march
through the streets of the town after afternoon
prayers in the Mosque of Khalid ibn al-Walid, and
rallied in front of the American military position in
the area.  No clashes were reported.

Abd ar-Rahman Ibrahim, Imam of the mosque said that
the peaceful march had been arranged because the
Americans have turned the town into a field of
operations.  They fire guns at houses and have
arrested a number of women.  Theres a dusk-to-dawn
curfew too.  Where are those who fall ill supposed to
go?  The Imam said that the Americans had imposed the
curfew three days previous after three occupation
soldiers of the82 nd Airborne Division were killed in
a roadside bombing.

An official in the Iraqi oil industry has reported
that Resistance fighters attacked an oil pipeline
carrying crude oil from a Kirkuk oilfield to the main
refinery area in Bayji and ad-Durah on Friday morning.
 The Dow Jones network quoted an official as saying
that an explosion occurred near al-Fatihah area,240 km
north of Baghdad.  The source noted that the blast did
not affect the refining industry, since there is
sufficient reserves, he claimed, to continue supplying
the refineries for a few days.

In ar-Ramadi, west of Baghdad, an number of
shopkeepers have reported receiving threats that said
that if they did not stop working with the Americans
within 10 days they would be killed.

Meanwhile the US military commander of the so-called
Central Command, General John Abizaid, expressed the
expectation that Iraqi Resistance activities would
increase as summer approaches.  The American commander
linked the expected increase in Resistance to the
American plan for a show in mid-summer of a so-called
transfer of power to Iraqis.

US sources now admit that the US occupation of Iraq
will continue at least until2006 .  But since the
current regime in the occupied country, in which US
proconsul L. Paul Bremer oversees a puppet so-called
governing council, is obviously a US imperial
imposition on the country, the transfer of  power
charade is aimed at setting up an alternative puppet
government that other western powers will be willing
to recognize, thereby granting the US occupation the
legitimacy, cover, and help that it wants as it sets
about remaking the map of the Arab region.  Such at
any rate, is Washingtons hope.

Washingtons fear, as reflected in Abizaids remarks,
is that the Iraqi Resistance will make a mockery out
of US claims that any new puppet regime represents
the will of the Iraqi people.


Special Report: (Based on an Associated Press dispatch
by John J. Lumpkin)

US occupation forces use electronic jamming techniques
to deflect bombs so they explode among Iraqis while
protect their own men.

Next time you read that a roadside bomb exploded near
a convoy or patrol of the US occupation forces, but
killed only Iraqi civilians in the area, you should
probably conclude that this was the effect of
technology being deliberately employed by the
aggressor forces, protecting their own men while
killing off Iraqi civilians.  Its a method that the
Associated Press says has been extensively used by the
Zionists.

In a story for the AP, John Lumpkin reported on30
January 2004 that US occupation soldiers riding in
convoys in Iraq are relying on electronic jammers
to help protect against the roadside bombs but that
sometimes the jammers only delay the detonation of
bombs, and as a result the explosives go off after the
US convoy has passed, killing Iraqi bystanders.

The jammers work by preventing a remotely transmitted
signal - say, rigged from a cell phone - from
detonating an explosive when the bomber presses the
button. Depending on the distance, power, and design
of the jammer, some might prevent the bomb from going
off. Others might instead set it off before or after
the convoy passes, so that the bomb explodes among
Iraqi bystanders.

The extent to which the devices are used by the
aggressor forces is secret, but it was this technology
that Lumpkin says saved Pakistan's leader from a
recent assassination attempt and it is definitely
being used in Iraq.


General Peter J. Schoomaker, the US armys chief of
staff acknowledged their use in testimony this week
before the House Armed Services Committee, but he
declined to discuss the bomb defenses in detail. The
military does not want to provide useful information
to the Iraqi Resistance.  Congressman Gene Taylor, a
Democrat from Mississippi suggested that few are being
used.  Taylor told Schoomaker. "The percentage of
vehicles that have some form of electronic jammer  it
is minuscule, and I know it, you know it, and the Iraq
insurgents know it."  But Schoomaker pointed out that
protection for the occupation troops doesn't depend on
universal use. Every vehicle doesnt have to be
equipped, he said.  You have to have groups of
vehicles that have that kind of capability, under an
umbrella.

Roadside bombs have been primary killers of US
occupation troops in Iraq. Many go off under passing
convoys, killing or injuring the occupants of one of
the vehicles.  But in some cases, they have gone off
only after a convoy has passed.

That can be a sign that a jammer on one of the
vehicles did its job, said James Atkinson, head of the
Granite Island Group, a Gloucester, Mass.-based
security and counterespionage firm.

Anti-bomb jammers have been in use since the early
1980s, Atkinson said. Depending on their
sophistication, jammers can cost from hundreds to
millions of dollars. Most can be powered by a car
engine.  Some work by transmitting on frequencies that
bombers are known to use. Guerrillas frequently rig
remote-controlled detonators out of garage door
openers, car alarm remotes or cellular phones,
Atkinson said.  Others, called barrage jammers, put
out signals on a wide range of frequencies, he said.
These will knock cellular phones and CB radios off the
air in a given area.  Both kinds can cause a premature
or late detonation of a bomb, or prevent it from going
off entirely.

"When you see a car bomb that goes off several blocks
away from its intended target, it's usually a dead
giveaway it was jammed," Atkinson said.

Jamming devices carried in the motorcade of Pakistan's
President Pervez Musharraf delayed the detonation of a
huge bomb that exploded moments after his limousine
passed over a bridge near the capital 14 December
2003, Pakistani intelligence has said.

Since then, Pakistan has imported more jamming devices
for security of VIPs, a senior government official
told The Associated Press on the condition of
anonymity Thursday. He refused to give further
details, including where the devices were imported
from, citing security reasons.

In occupied Palestine, a special unit in the Zionist
Ministry of Defense developed jamming technology in
the early1990 s and used it extensively in southern
Lebanon in the mid- to late1990 s in an effort to
neutralize roadside charges placed by the Hezb Allah
Resistance. In the end, of course, that effort proved
a failure and the Zionist forces were routed from most
of southern Lebanon in May2000 .
It is unclear what defenses exist against other kinds
of bombs, such as those that rely on timers or are
hard-wired to a switch. Pakistani officials claimed
their jamming devices also interrupted a timer.


Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman,
Jordan, Saturday, 31 January2004 .
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blast_6
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_jammers&cid=540&ncid=1480
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2004/1/1-30-17.htm
http://us.moheet.com/asp/cunt_show.asp?lol=1183173
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&locale=ar_ME&storyID=4252156
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IdNews=23906



Saturday, 31 January2004 .

An Iraqi Resistance bomb planted on a road exploded
Saturday as a US occupation army convoy passed by,
killing three US occupation soldiers, the US military
occupation said.  A military spokesman said an
improvised bomb blew up about 25 miles southwest of
Kirkuk, near a convoy of the4 th Infantry Division.
The bomb was planted on the road linking Kirkuk with
Tikrit.  The US military stated that they had disarmed
a second explosive device 300 meters from the main US
regional military base at the occupied Kirkuk airport.

In Mosul an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded
Saturday outside a puppet police station, killing13
people and wounding more than40 , witnesses and
hospital staff said.  Four of the wounded were high
ranking officers in the puppet police force.
Witnesses in Mosul saw severed limbs and decapitated
bodies on the street in front of the police station.
Windows of buildings were shattered and plumes of
smoke could be seen in the area.  The fagade of the
puppet police station was destroyed by the powerful
blast.  After the explosion, occupation forces sealed
off the area and streets leading to it.  The commander
of the American101 st Airborne Division arrived on the
scene as his soldiers were closing off the area.

Some witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity,
said it appeared that a car drove through a security
barricade in front of the puppet police station before
exploding outside the building.

Eye witness Muhammad Abd al-Karim,39 , who works in a
shop opposite the puppet police station, said that an
Opal car came racing into the area.  He said that the
driver was able to get it through a barricade and then
he detonated his car in the huge explosion.

A part of the fagade of the building was destroyed and
two lower floors totally devastated.  A large concrete
block that had been put in place to guard the police
station from attack was blown on top of the martyrdom
car by the force of the blast.  In all five cars,
including the martyrdom vehicle, were set ablaze.
Al-Jazeera television network said the pieces of the
car apparently carrying the bomb were found 300 yards
away.

Saturday was a pay day and the puppet police station
was crowded with staff at the time of the midmorning
attack, said puppet police Lieutenant Muhammad Fadil

One puppet policeman, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said the blast was so powerful that there
were casualties not only on the street but also inside
the building.  Among the wounded were two puppet
policemen with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, one,
with the rank of Major, and one Lieutenant, according
to Dr. Najm Abdallah Shuayb, head of the Emergency
Room at Mosul Hospital.  Puppet police Captain Salim
Dawud confirmed Dr. Shuaybs information.  Another
physician in the hospital, Dr. Haytham Abdallah, said
that four of the wounded were in serious condition.

The attack occurred a day before the start of the
four-day Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice.

A bomb in the al-Baladiyat area of Baghdad on Saturday
killed at least five people including three
Palestinians and others were wounded when the crowded
and largely Palestinian neighborhood was struck by
what was apparently a mortar round.  A spokesman for
the Palestinian community in the neighborhood told the
World Today Radio (Radiu al-Alam al-an) that a mortar
shell had been fired at an apartment in a residential
building, killing the three people.  He added that
more than1 , 300Palestinian families live in
al-Baladiyat neighborhood.  Witnesses said that at
least seven wounded persons were taken to hospital.

Late on Saturday evening Reuters said that
eyewitnesses in Baghdad were reporting a second
explosion in a Baghdad neighborhood of Baladiyat that
left at least one Iraqi dead and many others injured.
It was the same area where the earlier bomb had gone
off.

According to al-Jazeera TV, five Palestinians were
killed in the mortar attack and five others wounded
when the first mortar shell struck the largely
Palestinian residential building.  A second mortar
round landed between two buildings.

Al-Jazeeras correspondent noted the absence of any
Iraqi puppet police or US occupation troops, as well
as the lack of ambulances in the area of the blast.
Al-Baladiyat neighborhood is home to many Palestinian
refugees of the 1948 occupation of Palestine.  The
al-Jazeera correspondent said that bodies of those
killed had been taken to the al-Quds mosque and that
they would be buried after Eid al-Adha.

The al-Jazeera correspondent said that the President
of the Palestinian National Committee in the area, Dr.
Qusay Rifat said We dont wan to accuse any party in
particular of being behind this attack, but we did
read on the remnants of the two mortar shells the
sentence Made in USA.

Also on Saturday, a bomb exploded under a senior
puppet police officer's car parked in front of his
house in Baghdad.  "We woke up frightened when we
heard a big explosion," said puppet police Colonel
Adnan Radif al-Ani, who heads a quick response field
collaborating with the occupation. He said the bomb
was apparently triggered by a timer.
"Maybe I was targeted because I am working with the
Americans," he told The Associated Press.  The AP
claimed that the bomb slightly injured five children
in the street.

Abu Ghurayb near Baghdad, site of a US-run
concentration camp and military base, came under
mortar attack on Saturday.  US forces returned fire at
what they said was the source of the incoming mortar
shells.  Houses near the American camp were reportedly
damaged.  There was no information on casualties, if
any.  The US forces keep no account of Iraqi civilian
casualties.

Earlier, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked US
vehicles in the Abu Ghurayb area.  As is standard
practice for the American aggressors, they responded
to the attack by randomly opening fire in every
direction.  Four Iraqi cars were totally destroyed in
the US attack.

Meanwhile in Tazah, an area in the southern part of
the city of Kirkuk, Mahdi Muhammad, deputy chairman of
the Turkoman party the Turkoman Front in Tazah was
assassinated and the chairman, Husayn Mali, seriously
injured by unknown gunmen who opened fire on their
car, according to Kirkuks puppet police commander
Major General Turhan Yusuf.  Mali was taken to
hospital.  The Turkoman Front, like the Arab ethnic
groups in the city, opposes the plans of powerful
Kurdish chauvinist parties (whose leaders sit on the
US puppet so-called Governing Council), to partition
Iraq into a federal state and to annex Kirkuk to the
Kurdish statelet.

On the day of that assassination, the Iraqi puppet
police had been placed on high alert in anticipation
of Resistance attacks Turhan Yusuf also stated.  He
told the media that more than5 , 000of his puppet
policemen in 15 police stations in the city had been
put a condition of heightened readiness as the Islamic
holiday Eid al-Adha approached.

In Baqubah, the Iraqi puppet police reported that a
38-year old Iraqi named Abd al-Qadir Salah who was a
specialist in the assembly of electronic appliances,
had been killed in a bomb explosion in his home in the
city on Friday evening.  They speculate that he had
been trying to assemble a bomb at the time.

In the Haague, the Netherlands, the Dutch newspaper
the NRC Handelsblad reported that more than an hour
prior to Fridays rocket attack on the Dutch embassy
in Baghdad, embassy staff were alerted that an attack
that their building was imminent.  Three
rocket-propelled grenades struck the embassy on Friday
evening.  Having received prior warning, however, the
Dutch diplomats were able to leave the building before
the attack occurred.  The unnamed Dutch diplomat in
Baghdad who was cited as the source of the story did
not state who it was that alerted the embassy staff.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry had no comment on the
report.

On Saturday, the eve of the Islamic festival Eid
al-Adha, US occupation forces released a token number
of 120 prisoners from the Abu Ghurayb concentration
camp near Baghdad.  In all, the occupation reportedly
has some28 , 000prisoners in its vast network of
prison camps across the country.

Islamic groups in the city of al-Fallujah circulated a
declaration on Saturday outlining their plan for
taking over control of Iraqi cities after the
withdrawal of US occupation forces from them.  The
declaration said that the US is preparing to retreat
in defeat from the country having been vanquished by
the Mujahideen.

The declaration said that the Mujahideen would take
control over the entrances and exits from liberated
cities and impose a curfew for a period of three days.
 Houses of stooges will be surrounded, and they will
be arrested.  Therefore we advise them to leave
Iraq. It said that people who are true in the
police, security services, and traffic control will be
allowed to continue at their jobs.  It said that
incompetents and former Baathists who had returned to
their jobs in return for becoming lackeys of the
occupation will be thrown out. The declaration
threatened to reply harshly to any person who opens
fire on the Mujahideen as they deploy.

The declaration said that there would be formed a
council of the country made up of all the scholars of
Islamic law, medicine, engineering, and civil law who
have not offered their hands to the occupation.

This declaration is being observed and anyone who
tears it up will be found out and subjected to a harsh
reckoning, however long it takes, the document
warned.

Men with their faces covered distributed the
declaration which was signed by 12 fundamentalist
organizations and groups including: The Iraqi Islamic
Patriotic Resistance [al-Muqawamah al-Wataniyah
al-Islamiyah al-Iraqiyah], the Salafi Movement for
Propagation and Jihad [al-Harakah as-Salafiyah
li-d-Dawah wa-l-Jihad], the al-Qariah Organization
[Tanzim al-Qariah], the Army of Partisans of the
Sunnah [Jaysh Ansar as-Sunnah], and the Army of
Muhammad [Jaysh Muhammad].

Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman,
Jordan, Sunday, 1 February2004 .
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http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2004/2/2-1-1.htm





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