- Resistance attacks continue throughout Iraq and was particularly
heavy in the Hit on Thursday as fighters attacked US occupation forces
with BKC machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, bazookas, and C5K rockets
that resulted in American casualties.
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- Ambush In As-Sabihat Area
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- Resistance forces armed with rockets and bazookas, taking
cover behind concrete barriers placed at the outskirts of town by the Americans,
attacked a US column by the wooden bridge in the as-Sabihat area. Witnesses
reported that one Resistance fighter was martyred in the attack and another
wounded. The Americans called in helicopters to carry away the bodies of
their soldiers from the scene, the exact number of which was unknown.
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- A fierce battle between Resistance forces and US occupation
troops raged for 20 minutes Thursday evening in Hit. The local correspondent
of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at about 5:45pm Thursday, local time,
a battle broke out on the strategic road in the al-Bu Haiyiyat area. Resistance
fighters fired BKC machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, bazookas, and
C5K rockets. The battle ended at about 7:05pm, with six Humvees totally
burnt and more than 15 American soldiers reported dead.
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- The correspondent reported witnesses as saying that a
US column fell into a trap set by the Resistance. Resistance fighters had
concealed themselves on top of hills and rises in the area overlooking
the road the Americans were traveling on. Fighters made use of the commanding
heights when they ambushed the Americans below.
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- In his report, posted at 8:55pm Mecca time, the correspondent
reported that fires were still burning in the wrecked US vehicles and the
bodies of the dead Americans were still strewn about the road, while some
others were smoldering inside the flaming wrecked vehicles.
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- Sources said that four Resistance fighters were martyred
in the attack, one of them a fraternal Arab fighter. They were killed when
a US helicopter fired a rocket at their position as they were leaving the
battlefield after the end of the fighting.
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- Resistance Shoots Down Unmanned US Spy Plane In Hit
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- Resistance forces shot down an unmanned US reconnaissance
plane over Hit at 4 am Thursday. The aircraft crashed in the az-Zawiyah
area east of the city. An armed Resistance detachment claimed responsibility
for the downing of the craft, saying that it was shot down using a 37mm
anti-aircraft gun. The group, which did not disclose its name, pledged
to prevent all US aircraft from using the local airspace.
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- Attack In Ramadi
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- Iraqi Resistance forces in Ramadi attacked US troops
at 3pm Thursday, reportedly destroying two Humvees and killing six American
soldiers and wounding two others. No further details are available.
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- US Camp In Al-Qa'im Bombed
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- Resistance forces fired nine 120mm mortar rounds into
the US base known as 22A in the area of al-Qa'im in al-Anbar Province on
the Syrian border at 6am Thursday. The intensity of the blasts produced
by the bombardment woke up the whole city, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.
Thick smoke enveloped the area as sirens wailed. No other details are available.
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- Attack in Ramadi
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- Resistance forces in ar-Ramadi attacked US troops at
3pm Thursday, destroying two Humvees and killing six American soldiers
and wounding two others.
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