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Iraqi Resistance Report XXXXIX
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The events of Sunday,1
February 2004 through Wednesday, 4 February2004 .
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org

Sunday, 1 February2004 . EId al-Adha.

One US occupation soldier was killed and 12 others
wounded on Sunday evening in a rocket attack on an
American base in the area of Balad,75 km from Baghdad.
 A US military occupation spokesman said that at least
seven Iraqi Resistance rockets were fired on the base.
 The wounded were taken to a field hospital belonging
to the unit, the4 th Infantry Division.  The spokesman
said that two of those wounded in the attack are in
critical condition, but five received only light
wounds and the rest were treated and released,
according to the US statement.  The US aggressor
spokesman said that an American helicopter gunship
responded to the attack by firing at what was believed
to be the source of the rockets.  Later US occupation
troops rounded up 12 Iraqi men and four women.

Elsewhere in Iraq, one US occupation soldier was
killed Sunday and two others hurt when their Humvee
overturned near the town of Hadithah, according to the
US occupation authorities.

Also on Sunday the British Ministry of Defence
announced that one British occupation soldier
functioning as part of the35 th Engineers Battalion
stationed in al-Basrah had been killed on Saturday.
Islam memo quoted the US propaganda radio station
Radio Sawa as saying that the British announcement
gave no further details of the death apart from
observing that the soldiers death was related to the
nature of engineering work.

In another delayed death announcement, the US
occupation announced Sunday that one American soldier
had died on Saturday of wounds received several days
ago in a roadside bomb blast west of Baghdad. A US
military occupation statement quoted by Reuters, said
that the soldier, who was attached to a special force
was wounded on Tuesday, 27 January2004 , in a powerful
Resistance attack.

Two Iraqi Resistance martyrdom bombers struck the
Irbil offices of two collaborationist Kurdish
chauvinist parties in near-simultaneous attacks Sunday
in an attack marking the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice
Id al-Adha. At least 57 people were killed and more
than 235 were wounded, officials said. One
collaborationist Kurdish minister in the
US-installed and US-run puppet interim government
said the death toll could top100 .

The Iraqi Resistance martyrdom attacks at the Irbil
offices of the chauvinist so-called Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP, which is led by Masud
al-Barzani) and the chauvinist Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK, which is led by Jalal at-Talibani)
occurred as party leaders were receiving hundreds of
visitors to mark the start of the four-day Muslim
holiday, Id al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice. Iraqi
officials in the US-controlled regime said that some
of the top Kurdish chauvinist leaders were greeting
people when the attacker approached them and detonated
the explosives strapped around his body.  The second
attack took place at about the same time in the PUK
office across town, PUK spokesman Kazim Ali said.
Several people were killed and injured in the PUK
attack, he said.  Irbil houses the Kurdish so-called
parliament. Under US-imperial aerial protection since
1991, and then under the US occupation  since the
spring of2003 , Iraqi Kurdish chauvinist parties, have
ruled a Switzerland-sized swath of northern Iraq on
behalf of western interests. Talibani and Barzani both
sit on the US-appointed puppet so-called Interim
Governing Council presided over by L. Paul Bremer, US
Proconsul of Iraq.

The dead included the puppet governor of the region,
ministers in the local puppet administration and
several senior officials, Muhammad Ihsan, the
so-called minister for human rights for the Kurdish
chauvinist regional government, told The Associated
Press. "There are a tremendous number of injured,"
Ihsan said, adding that the targeted sites were the
parties' branch offices, about eight miles apart.

The high ranking dead include Irbil puppet governor
Akram Mintik, puppet deputy prime minister Sami Abd
ar-Rahman, puppet minister of council of ministers
affairs Shawkat Shaykh Yazdin, and puppet agriculture
minister Sad Abdullah who is also a politbureau
member of the KDP, Ihsan said. Al-Jazeera TVs
correspondent said that Shakhwan Abbas, the man in
charge of the Irbil branch of the PUK was also among
the dead.

A state of emergency was declared in the Kurdish area,
and doctors have been asked to return from vacation.
An urgent appeal has been issued to residents to
donate blood.

Irbil city morgue director Tawana Karim told the AP
that 57 bodies had been brought to the morgue and
"figures are increasing." At least 235 people were
admitted to the city's three hospitals with injuries,
medical sources said. "These figures are estimates but
I believe about 60 people were killed at the PUK and
about 80 at the KDP.

"On the first day of the Id we receive people and
well wishers and that's why security wasn't as tight
as during the rest of the days. They (the Iraqi
Resistance) took advantage of this."

The attack also was believed to have been the first in
which the martyrdom fighters wired bombs to themselves
and detonated them while on foot, akin to the suicide
attacks by Palestinian fedayeen in occupied Palestine.
 There have been a multitude of martydom car bombings
in Iraq.

Abu Ghurayb, site of a US-run concentration camp, east
of the city of al-Fallujah came under Iraqi Resistance
mortar attack on Sunday.  Eye witnesses said that they
heard six explosions and saw clouds of smoke rising
from inside the prison compound after a number of
mortar rounds crashed into the area, aimed at the US
occupation troops stationed there.

The witnesses, quote by the Qatari news agency Qana,
said that the American occupation troops returned fire
and that the exchange of fire continued for some time.
 The witnesses reported that as a result of the
exchange of shells, a number of cars driving on the
highway were damaged.

An Iraqi puppet police official announced Sunday that
an Iraqi Resistance attack on a puppet police patrol
in Kirkuk,255 km north of Baghdad, left four puppet
policemen wounded.  Puppet police Colonel Khattar
Abdallah Arif said that Resistance fighters had
thrown a hand grenade at a puppet police patrol in the
al-Urubah neighborhood in the east of Kirkuk.

On Sunday, about 20 Iraqis were killed in an explosion
at a munitions dump in the Polish-controlled
south-central region of the country, according to a
spokesman for Polish occupation forces.  The blast
occurred after midnight in the desert about 112 miles
southwest of Karbala after Iraqis broke into the
munitions storage site, Polish military occupation
spokesman Colonel Robert Strzelecki told the Polish
news agency PAP.  Strzelecki said it was unclear what
caused the blast. The dump, formerly used by the Army
of the Republic of Iraq, before the US invasion,
consists of about 100 bunkers spread over a wide area
and contained munitions such as artillery shells and
rockets, he told PAP.

Late on Saturday a two blasts ripped into the
predominantly Palestinian residential neighborhood of
al-Baladiyat in Baghdad.  The first blast, (reported
in the Iraqi Resistance Report for 29 through31
January2004 ) killed four Palestinian refugees and one
Iraqi visitor and wounded five others, witnesses said.

Later a second blast in the same neighborhood took the
life of one more Palestinian.  Relatives said one man
died on the way to hospital from shrapnel wounds
sustained in the explosion.  "We heard the blast and
saw that the deceased was missing," said Ali Muzan.
"He died on the way to the hospital."

Residents of the neighborhood of al-Baladiyat on
Sunday carried the bodies of the four Palestinians in
coffins draped in Palestinian flags from a mosque to
their homes before taking them to a cemetery for
burial. Some young men in the funeral procession fired
rifles in the air, a traditional Arab gesture.
Although it was not known who fired the mortar, angry
mourners blamed the United States.

Many women in the procession sobbed. Men chanted
"Allahu Akbar!", or "God is Greatest!", "America is
the enemy of God!" and "A martyr is God's beloved!"
Two of the dead - Ihsan Husayn,40 , and his son, Ahmad
Husayn, 18 - were hit in the head by shrapnel that
went through the windows of their apartment, said the
elder Husayn's sister, Fatimah Husayn.  A third victim
was18 -year-old Sami Abbas, said his mother Zahriyah
Abd ar-Rahman. The identities of the other two people
killed were not immediately known.

Early on Sunday, US undersecretary of defense, Paul
Wolfowitz, a notorious neo-conservative and Zionist
whose sister lives in occupied Palestine, arrived on a
previously secret trip to Iraq. The US official, a
major architect of US-Zionist aggression on the Arab
Nation, arrived by plane from Germany where he had
been visiting US servicemen due to be deployed here in
a major troop rotation that poses security headaches
for the American military. The Pentagon claims that
the biggest turnover since World War II will reduce
the US troop presence in Iraq by spring 2004 to
105, 000from130 ,000.  On the other hand, many
logistical, supply, and other functions of the US
military are being transferred to civilian
contractors who will, in effect allow the combat
strength of the aggressor forces to stay high, or
perhaps even increase.

It was said that Wolfowitz would join US occupation
troops in watching television coverage of the American
commercial sporting event, the American football
superbowl.  The location and details of Wolfowitz's
itinerary were kept secret by the invader forces out
of fear of the relentless and powerful Iraqi
Resistance.  During Wolfowitz's last visit to Baghdad
in October, Resistance fighters fired rockets at the
hotel where he was staying, killing one US occupation
soldier and wounding more than 15 people.

In keeping with the changes that US occupation forces
are planning in an attempt to reduce their losses in
dead and wounded, officials in the occupation said on
Sunday that the US was planning to reduce its visible
presence in the city of Baghdad in coming months as
they move to the perimeter of the city, leaving
responsibility for security in the occupied Iraqi
capital to puppet security forces trained and run by
the American invaders.  This type of deployment, also
followed by Zionist occupation forces in Palestine,
facilitates continued control of the city and ready
access to it, but reduces opportunities for Resistance
fighters to attack within the urban setting where
people and buildings provide support and cover for
patriots.

US occupation forces are subjected to daily Iraqi
Resistance attacks and the large and visible US
headquarters in the Republican Palace, renamed the
Green Zone by the invaders, has frequently been a
target of mortar and rocket attacks.  To try to escape
this relentless pressure from the Resistance, US
Brigadier General Martin Dempsey, commander of the1 st
Armored Division, said that his division was building
six base camps on the outskirts of Baghdad to which
they plan to move the1 st Cavalry so that when our
successors came in behind us they would be on the
outside [of Baghdad] looking in. We were very much on
the inside looking out, Brigadier General Martin
Dempsey, commander of the1 st Armored Division, spoke
to reporters together with visiting aggressor Paul
Wolfowitz.

Dempsey said that when he took command in July there
were 60 base camps through the city. "It comes along
with sandbags, concrete barriers, concertina [barbed]
wire, and it just causes a lot of disruption that we
are beyond now," he said. "So we'll be on the
perimeter of the city."

Currently there are 24 base camps in Baghdad, a number
which is to fall to eight by May.  Two of those camps
are still to be in the so-called Green Zone,
headquarters area of the US occupation, which is under
heavy fortification, protection, and guard.

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Monday, 2 February2004 .

The number of dead from Sundays martyrdom attacks on
the two Kurdish chauvinist collaboration party
headquarters in Irbil rose on Monday to 67 as several
of the approximately 200 injured persons died of their
wounds, according to new findings announced by medical
sources.

The director of Irbil Hospital, Muzaffar Habib told
Agence France Presse (AFP) that 58 corpses were
brought to the hospital.  Two persons died while under
treatment in the hospital raising that total to60 .
Meanwhile the Director of the University Hospital in
Irbil, Dr. Salah Abdallah, for his part said, we
received 51 wounded, of whom seven died today, Monday
morning.

Honduras defense minister Federico Baribi announced
Monday that Tegucigalpa will be replacing its forces
in Iraq, starting today, 2 February2004 .  Honduran
troops are being rotated at the same time that
Washington is rotating its much larger occupation
force in occupied Iraq. Islammemo quoted an Associated
Press dispatch as saying that Baribi announced that
the first contingent of 185 Honduran troops who had
been carried out patrols in an-Najaf streets would
arrive home on Monday, having departed Iraq on Friday
after having spent six months serving the United
States occupation of Iraq.  The remaining 238 Honduran
troops are to go home to their Central American
country in the next two weeks.  A new brigade is
scheduled to arrive in Baghdad in the current week.
The Honduran base in the city of an-Najaf has been
struck twice by mortar shells, but occupation
authorities claim that no casualties resulted from
those attacks.  Four Honduran troops have been
reported wounded, however, in other incidents.


Dutch diplomatic sources report that they expect the
Netherlands diplomats attached to the Dutch embassy
in Baghdad to continue working in the occupied Iraqi
capital for the present.  They will not, however, be
working out of their own embassy building because it
sustained heavy damage in a rocket attack last week.
Holland Radio reported that the embassy building is
still sealed and no information has been released
regarding the investigation surrounding the attack.  A
Dutch newspaper, the NRC Handelsblad, reported
Saturday on the authority of an unnamed embassy source
that all the embassy staff left the building before
the attack because they received a warning one hour
prior to the rocket barrage, giving them time to
evacuate.

The Iraqi puppet police announced on Monday that US
occupation forces and the puppet police had arrested
five Iraqis, three of whom were suspected of
involvement in the explosion on Saturday that left
three US occupation soldiers dead near Kirkuk.


Special Report: al-Jazeera interviews Imam of Abu
Hanifah Mosque in Baghdad.

Shaykh Ahmad Hasan at-Tah, prominent member of the
Board of Muslim Ulama of Iraq and of the Council of
Islamic Juridical Consultation (Majlis al-Ifta)
praised efforts by Sunni and Shii religious leaders
to strengthen the unity of the Iraqi people in
confrontation with calls for sectarian dissention and
violence.  Their joint support for national unity has
had a positive effect on the street, the Shaykh told
al-Jazeera in an interview, and has prevented the
situation from getting out of control in the current
difficult conditions.

At-Tah, who is also Imam of the Abu Hanifah Mosque in
Baghdad, one of the most important Sunni mosques in
the Iraqi capital, said that there are those who are
trying to shake the Iraqi peoples unity in the ranks.
 Reliable witnesses have seen an American soldier
paste a portrait of former Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein over a portrait of [the Shiite] Imam as-Sadr
in al-Jihad neighborhood.  This is an action that can
have dangerous repercussions in terms of stirring up
confessionalist conflict.

In his interview with Al-Jazeera.net, the Shaykh
rejected the idea that religious leaders were
responsible for sectarian violence and terror,
stressing that: The violent people are those who
attack and occupy the country.  The terrorist is the
person who ravages the sanctity of homes, who
handcuffs men, and steals peoples belongings.  He
said that most of the occupation troops steal jewelry
and any other valuable items they find during house
raids.  This has become a commonplace that everybody
talks about.

The Shaykh said that international law grants people
the right to defend their land and to expel an
occupier.  Therefore the Ulama [Islamic religious
leaders] call on the citizens of Iraq to defend
themselves, their honor, and their wealth, with
whatever means are available.  There is no law on
earth that prohibits people from doing that.

In answer to the charge that mosques have become a
venue for political appeals, Shaykh at-Tah said that
Islam is a way of life that does not differentiate
between politics, law, and personal status.  Therefore
it is not appropriate for mosques to ignore such
things.  He said that this charge is made by
secularists who are trying to use every possible means
to force Islam out of peoples lives, in particular
out of government, and to limit it just to performing
prayers.

The Shaykh pointed out that the mosques played a
pioneering role in guarding national unity, in calming
the people and in preventing many of them from getting
out of hand after the fall of the former regime and
the entry of the occupation forces and the collapse of
security as a result of the disappearance of central
authority.

He said that the Board of Ulama, despite its limited
resources, has great authoritative moral influence
among the Sunnis, and it has striven to reduce
difficulties for people.  It encourages people of good
will to form welfare associations, and these have
played a big role in alleviating human suffering for a
large number of Iraqis.

Shaykh Ahmad at-Tah pointed out that before he became
a member of the General Secretariat of the Board of
Ulama, he was a vice president of a welfare
association outside the capital Baghdad where he
served16 , 000persons.

Shaykh at-Tah called on Iraqis to reconcile and stand
in one rank against the occupier, for it is by unity
that Iraqis can defy the occupation.

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Tuesday, 3 February2004 .

A spokesman for the US occupation announced that one
American occupation soldier was killed and one other
wounded Tuesday evening when an Iraqi Resistance bomb
exploded on a road in the village of al-Iskandariyah
 35miles south of Baghdad.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired two rockets at
US-occupied Saddam International Airport near Baghdad
at6 :15am local time, according to the American
military occupation.  The US invaders said that there
were no casualties as a result of the Resistance
attack but offered no information on possible damage
that the rockets might have caused.  The US invaders
have turned Saddam International Airport into one of
their major bases in the greater Baghdad area.

A US aggressor spokesman who did not give his name
said that the rockets were launched from a densely
populated area of the capital.  He said that the US
occupation command sent military forces to comb the
area, but that helicopters could not take off due to
thick fog hanging over the airport.  He gave no
further information.

In Kirkuk,255 km north of Baghdad, the Iraqi
Resistance fired Katyusha rockets at an American
occupation base.  The attack came shortly after
visiting aggressor, the US deputy secretary of defense
Paul Wolfowitz held a meeting with Kurdish, Turkoman,
and Arab collaborationist leaders from the region.
The Iraqi puppet police attempted to apprehend the
Resistance fighters who fired the rockets but they
shot an Iraqi civilian to death instead.

The Iraqi Resistance forces also attacked an Iraqi
puppet police station in Kirkuk, killing one puppet
policeman and wounding two other puppets and one
passerby

A spokesman for the Iraqi puppet police in the city of
Karbala reported on Tuesday that three puppet
policemen were killed on Monday night in an Iraqi
Resistance attack near the city.  Rahman Mishawi said
that the Resistance fighters, riding in a red BMW
opened fire on a puppet police pickup truck in an area
30km north of Karbala.  He confirmed that the three
puppet policemen were killed and that the gunfire
caused the pickup to burst into flame when the bullets
struck the fuel tank.

There has been an attempt on the life of Iraqi puppet
police Brigadier General Abbas al-Husayni, commander
of Iraqi puppet police in the city of Karbala.  Iraqi
Resistance forces opened fire on his motorcade as it
was heading to the city of an-Najaf.  According to
Qana, the Qatari news agency, al-Husayni survived the
attack, but three of his bodyguards were killed.

The Iraqi puppet police have announced that the US
occupation forces failed in an attempt on Tuesday to
arrest the Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolution
Command Council Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri, in an
operation they carried out in Mosul,370 km north of
Baghdad.  Puppet police Lieutenant Haqqi Ismail
al-Hamadani reported that the US aggressors raided the
house of Shaykh Jumah ad-Duwwar in the as-Sumud
neighborhood west of Mosul.  Shaykh ad-Duwwar was able
to elude the aggressor forces by escaping through a
back door, but the invaders captured two of the
Shaykhs sons instead.  US occupation forces did not
confirm this report.

US occupation forces captured two Iraqis in Tikrit
after finding an explosive device on the road that an
American occupation convoy was about to take.  The
commander of the1 st Armored Division  in Iraq, Martin
Dempsey, said that the Iraqi puppet police had
arrested two persons  one of whom they believe to be
Iranian, the other Afghani  who were attempting to
put a bomb on a road.

In Kirkuk the Iraqi puppet police arrested for local
men on the charge that they opened fire at a
checkpoint in the city, killing a puppet policeman and
wounding three other people, according to the
provincial puppet police commander, Lieutenant General
of the puppet police Shayrgo Shakir Hakim who spoke to
Agence France Presse (AFP).  Hakim said that two of
the men were from Kirkuk and the other two from
Tikrit.  After their arrest, he said, they confessed
to firing at the checkpoint.  Hakim said that three of
the men were members of the Arab Bath Socialist Party
and one of Saddams Fedayeen.  On Monday one puppet
policeman was killed and two others wounded along with
a passer by.

On Tuesday a Japanese government Boeing 747 took off
from an air field on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
en route for US-occupied Iraq carrying the first
contingent of a reported 600 Japanese aggressor
infantry.  The Japanese occupation troops are to serve
the United States by helping to try to suppress the
Iraqi peoples liberation struggle.  They are to be
stationed in the southern part of occupied Iraq in the
area of as-Samawah.  The full contingent is expected
to be in place before the end of March.

The first contingent of Japanese aggressor troops
includes 90 military engineers and doctors.  It is to
remain for some days in Kuwait to overcome jet lag and
acclimatize before moving out to as-Samawah where
since 19 January a group of 40 Japanese advance guard
reconnaisance forces have been preparing the quarters
for the rest of the unit.

Meanwhile a spokesman for the Honduran Ministry of
Defense, Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Morino, announded
that the first contingent of 180 Honduran occupation
soldiers has departed for Iraq on an airplane
chartered by the US occupation.  The full complement
of Honduran soldiers is to total370 , including11
women.  They are to replace the1 st Honduran Brigade
that has been deployed in occupied Iraq since August
 2003serving the United States in repressing the Iraqi
peoples liberation struggle.  The Honduran
replacements are to be a component in the so-called
multinational troops, a unit made up of troops from
Honduras, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and
Spain under US invader command.

The death toll in the weekend double martyrdom
bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil climbed
to101 , according to a statement by the US occupation
issued on Tuesday.


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Wednesday, 4 February2004 .

An Iraqi Resistance explosive device detonated at
9:15am local time Wednesday as a British occupation
patrol was passing along a road near the airport of
the city of al-Basrah.  The occupied airport is one of
three main British aggressor bases in the area.  The
occupation forces reported the bombing but claimed
there were no casualties.  British occupation forces
sealed off the area after the attack.

Iraqi Resistance fighters opened fire with mortars on
US invaders near the western Iraqi town of ar-Ramadi.
The US occupation troops responded with high explosive
artillery fire, which wounded two Iraqi civilians.  A
spokesman for the US military occupation reported the
incident Wednesday and added that five houses and two
vehicles were also damaged, but refused to confirm
whether the casualties were wounded by American fire
or mortar shrapnel.

US occupation forces killed a nine-year-old Iraqi boy
and wounded his mother on Tuesday near Kirkuk
according to the American aggressor commander in the
area, Colonel William Mayville, who claimed that the
killing was an accident.

The US officer said during a meeting with the
commander of puppet police in the area, Major General
Shayrgo Shakir Hakim and the deputy governor Ismail
al-Hadidi, it was a mistake when our forces in Kirkuk
fired a mortar on areas lying 10 kilometers south of
Kirkuk.  We believed that they were terrorist
positions.

Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that during the
meeting the US occupation officer added that one of
the shells fell by mistake near a family killing the
boy and wounding his mother and brother.  He said,
an investigation has been opened and will hold the
soldiers who launched the mortar shells responsible.
He said I have authorized Ismail al-Hadidi and Major
General Shayrgo to visit the family to convey our
apologies and to give them US$2, 500for the killing of
the child and US$1, 500for those who were wounded.

In Madrid, the Spanish Defense Ministry has announced
the death of Major Gonzalo Perez Garcia, security
chief for the Spanish-Latin American Plus Ultra
brigade in the US-led occupation, who was wounded in
the head in an Iraqi Resistance attack on 22 January
2004. Perez (42) was flown back to Spain unconscious
after the attack.  There he was admitted to a military
hospital where his condition rapidly deteriorated on
Wednesday.  Spanish surgeons had been unable to remove
the bullet from Perezs brain who was never able to
regain consciousness.

Sources in the al-Basrah Governorate have revealed a
big financial scandal in a large branch of an occupied
Iraqi bank.  The sources say that about 500 million
counterfeit Iraqi dinars have been substituted for
genuine currency during the change of currency from
the pre-invasion Iraqi currency to the occupation
currency  a switchover that was accomplished by15
January.

Islammemo reports that the BBC correspondent in
al-Basrah says that the matter is currently being
investigated, particularly inasmuch as it has been
learned that persons close to one of the members of
the US-puppet so-called Interim Governing Council of
Iraq and influential persons in the puppet so-called
milistry of finance were involved in the scandal.

Message posted on the al-Basrah website:
http://www.albasrah.net
By Dr. Fadel Badran.

On week ago the heroic Resistance attacked an American
convoy on the road to al-Hillah, thinking that the
number of American troop transport vehicles was small.
 But after dealing with the target and overcoming it,
there immediately appeared new and larger vehicles.
At first the Resistance fighters believed that they
had fallen into a trap but with the help of the
Almighty, they overcame one of the vehicles that was
carrying munitions and it exploded on the whole rest
of the convoy.  The proud Iraqi fighters finished off
the remaining enemy personnel as they scurried from
the vehicles.

But the matter did not end there.  The Resistance
fighters followed up on the results of their barrage
on an American camp set up in a phosphate factory near
al-Musayyib.

And here comes something really new!

Thanks to God they discovered dozens of dead American
thugs who had been buried in graves that had not been
completely covered.  They were left naked so that
there would be no sign or insignia on them to indicate
that they were American thugs.

All that we ask is that the US press be informed of
this so that they might go to the place and check it
out for themselves.  The people of the area know the
place.  Its the chemical materials factory that was a
camp for the American thugs near al-Musayyib.

Allahu Akbar!

Sources:
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IdNews=24102
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=24139
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040204/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_040204150044
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IdNews=24124
http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat_mukhtara/arabic/022004/bdran_040204.htm
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&locale=ar_ME&storyID=4285480






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