- 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 that flared particularly
violently in Baghdad.
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- 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.
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- The developments in Fallujah are playing a major part
in this new Resistance strategy. Since the beginning of the Battle of Fallujah,
the Resistance organizations have striven to coordinate between themselves
to reduce the pressure that the Americans can bring to bear on 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.
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- 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 filing of
this report by Mafkarat al-Islam at 10pm Saturday Mecca time, fighting
continues to rage in several parts of Iraq.
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- IN BAGDAD
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- Fierce Daylong Fighting In Al-'Amiriyah District
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- 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.
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- Fierce Fighting In Al-A'Zamiyah District
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Kurdish Mossad Agent Abducted
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- 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.
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- Afternoon Ambush In Al-Ghazaliyah
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- 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.
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- Bombing West Of Baghdad Kills US Soldier
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- An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the Suwayd area
of the ash-Shurtah neighborhood west of Baghdad as a US Humvee was passing
at exactly 12:30pm Saturday, killing a US soldier and wounding two others.
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- Airport Road Bombing Reportedly Kills Three US Troops
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- 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.
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- Attacks In Al-Qadisiyah Kill Collaborators, US Troops
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Attacks In Abu Ghurayb
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Ambush On Hayfa Street
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- 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.
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- Attack In Al-I'Lam Area Of Baghdad
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- 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.
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- Resistance Attack Wounds Turkish Truck Driver
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- 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.
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- Attacks In Ad-Durah
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Bombing In As-Suwayrah
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- 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.
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- Fighting In Al-Janibayn
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- 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.
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- Attacks On Airport Road
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Attack In As-Sayyidiyah
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- 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.
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- Resistance Attacks In Ar-Ridwaniyah
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- An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US Humvee in
ar-Ridwaniyah southwest of Baghdad, destroying the vehicle and killing
three US troops at 5pm Saturday.
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- 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.
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- Ambushes In Al-Mushahadah
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Resistance Bomb Attacks In Salman Bak
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Resistance Bomb Destroys Supply Truck In Al-Ishaqi
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- 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.
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- IN AL-LATIFIYAH
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- 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.
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- BOMBARDMENTS SATURDAY
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- *Iraqi Resistance forces fired four Grad rockets into
the US base in Saddam International Airport at 6am Saturday.
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- *Iraqi Resistance forces fired six Katyusha rockets into
the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 7am Saturday.
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- *Iraqi Resistance forces fired three Grad rockets into
the US al-Bakr base in Balad north of Baghdad at about 8am Saturday.
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- *At 8am Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired eight
Katyusha rockets into the British base at al-Mahawil north of al-Hillah.
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- *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.
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- *At 10:30am Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired nine
82mm mortar rounds into the British base in al-Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad.
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- *Iraqi Resistance forces fired six 82mm mortar rounds
into the US al-Muthanna airbase in Baghdad at about 12:30pm Saturday.
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- *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.
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- *Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded American troops concentrated
in the Abu Ghurayb prison at about 2:30pm Saturday with eight 82mm mortar
rounds.
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- *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.
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- *At 4pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance fighters fired four
Katyusha rockets and two Grad rockets into the US base in Saddam International
Airport.
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- *At about 4pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired
six Katyusha rockets into the British base at al-Mahawil north of al-Hillah.
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- *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.
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- *Iraqi Resistance forces fired five 120mm mortar rounds
into the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 5:30pm Saturday.
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- *At 6pm Saturday, Iraqi Resistance fighters fired nine
120mm mortar rounds into the US base in Saddam International Airport.
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- *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.
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- *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."
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- *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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