- Free Arab Voice Editors Note: We remind our viewers that
Mafkarat al-Islam has reporters on the ground with the Iraqi resistance.
these reports are first hand accounts of the events. Translated from their
original Arabic, they are published uncut and uncensored.
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- Resistance Ambush Sparks Day-Long Confrontation With
Invader Troops
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- At least 14 Americans were killed in ar-Ramadi yesterday
as a day of fierce and heavy fighting that raged from about 11:00am local
time until sunset got under way.
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- The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported
that the clashes began when a group of Resistance fighters ambushed an
American patrol consisting of four Humvees and a number of foot soldiers.
Resistance fighters pounded the Humvees with rocket-propelled grenades
(RPGs) destroying all of them and sparking a battle on al-Ishrin (1920)
Street that lasted until sunset as US reinforcements poured into the area.
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- The American side threw Apache helicopters and tanks
into the fray but in the end 14 US troops were killed and eight others
wounded, most of them the troops who were aboard the Humvees that were
attacked during the morning.
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- The Resistance also shot down one US Apache helicopter
in the course of the fighting. During the fierce battle the US forces blew
up the Abd ar-Razzaq Science Library, the most famous library and a meeting
place for ar-Ramadis students.
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- Resistance Kills Seven US Sharpshooters
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- In another incident, as the battle raged, a group of
US snipers took up positions on the third floor of a building opposite
the local American aggressor headquarters set up in the Republican Palace,
located behind the Chamber of Commerce. The American sharpshooters positioned
to provide covering fire for the US headquarters picked off people in the
nearby areas.
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- Eyewitnesses who live in the building told Mafkarat al-Islams
correspondent that Iraqi Resistance fighters took out the seven American
snipers in a two-stage operation. The Resistance first fired a head-on
barrage of RPGs at the third-floor position of the American snipers. An
armed detachment of the Resistance then stormed the position, raking it
with automatic weapons fire to make sure that the American snipers were
dead.
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- Resistance Downs US Helicopter Three US Troops Killed
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- An officer in the Iraqi puppet police reported that Iraqi
Resistance forces shot down an American aggressor helicopter on Wednesday
during a fierce battle in the city of ar-Ramadi. Three of the personnel
who had been aboard the helicopter were killed in the crash, the source
told Reuters.
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- Reuters reported several eye witnesses as saying that
the helicopter had been brought down. The correspondent for al-Jazeera
satellite TV reported earlier in the day that there had been reports at
that time unconfirmed of an American helicopter shot down in the eastern
districts of ar-Ramadi where violent and bloody battles raged for several
hours between the Resistance and occupation troops, leaving numerous dead
and wounded.
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- The al-Jazeera correspondent reported that local people
had seen Resistance fighters deploying throughout the city streets in strength.
They said that the battle must have been ferocious, since it lasted so
long and since the Americans were still unable to assert their control
over the situation in the city.
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- Witnesses: Resistance Car Bomb Kills 16 Americans In
Ramadi Fighting
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- According to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam eyewitnesses
reported that 16 Americans were killed by an Iraqi Resistance car bomb
in Ramadi as they tried to launch a flanking attack on Resistance fighters
engaged nearby.
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- The witnesses reported that at about 1:00pm Wednesday
afternoon, as the fighting on al-Ishrin Street grew intense, the US invader
troops attempted to encircle the Resistance fighters by advancing around
the large mosque located to the east of al-Ishrin street. The Americans
sent a force of Humvees and a number of tanks preceded by infantrymen into
the neighborhood around the mosque through which they proceeded cautiously
lest they fall into a Resistance ambush.
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- But after advancing only a little way into the neighborhood,
a booby-trapped GMC car parked nearby suddenly blew up, killing sixteen
of the footsoldiers instantly, according to eyewitnesses. The blast compelled
the remaining US troops, tanks, and Humvees to call off their planned flanking
attack and retreat from the area.
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- Comment
From Mohammed Daud Miraki
7-22-4
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- Dear Mr. Rense -
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- This are more of the casualties sustained by US forces
in Iraq and Afghanistan that the corporate media fail to report about.
It is my opinion that the corporate media is complicit in the global slaughter
of innocent people and therefore are no longer neutral parties in this
conflicts. Based on their lack of neutrality, they are becoming legitimate
targets for resistance forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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- Sincerely,
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- Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD mdmiraki@ameritech.net
www.afghandufund.org
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