Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network January 16th Updates
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1.Iraqi Resistance Report:
Updated News Reports Compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr , from the Editorial Board of the Free Arab Voice.
2.Iraqi Resistance Data Report Updates
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1. Iraqi Resistance Report for Monday, 12 January 2004 through Wednesday, 14 January 2004. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board the Free Arab Voice.
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Monday, 12 January 2004.
Monday witnessed a number of clashes between the Iraqi Resistance and
the occupation forces as well as demonstrations against the
occupation in several cities.
One American occupation soldier died and two others were wounded when
a bomb exploded near their convoy in Iraq on Monday, the US military
occupation has said.
The attack occurred in the center of the capital, Baghdad. In a
statement, the US army said the occupation soldiers were attached to
the 1st Armored Division. "One 1st Armored Division soldier was
killed and two were wounded when their convoy was attacked by an IED
(Improvised Explosive Device) at 1000 (0700GMT) Monday in central
Baghdad," a US military occupation spokesman said.
Large explosions rocked central Baghdad later in the day, but
occupation officials reported no casualties. In those Resistance
attacks later on Monday blasts, US occupation and Iraqi puppet
security officials said at least two mortar shells exploded near the
Baghdad Hotel in the center of the occupied capital. At least one
round exploded in the Tigris River and the other exploded on the
riverbank, US aggressor troops claimed. There were no casualties, the
Americans maintained.
In ar-Ramadi Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a roadside bomb and
then attacked a joint American occupation and puppet so-called civil
defense corps patrol with machine guns and rocket-propelled
grenades. In response, American aggressors opened fire
indiscriminately at houses and the neighborhood generally, killing
one Iraqi and wounding six others. Local residents said two Iraqis
were killed when the Americans opened fire indiscriminately after the
attack.
'Umar Muhammad 'Ali who was at the scene told Agence France Presse
(AFP) that an explosive device went off as the occupation patrol
passed through the center of ar-Ramadi, damaging an occupation
vehicle. 'Ali added that when eight vehicles belonging to the
occupation forces and the puppet reservist so-called civil defense
force arrived on the scene, the Resistance fighters opened fire on
them with automatic weapons and RPGs. During the exchange of fire
that lasted about 15 minutes, one Iraqi passerby was killed and six
others were wounded. The American occupation forces captured three
or four persons, among them one of the attackers, 'Ali said.
A puppet policeman said that the American occupation soldiers
attacked them, violently kicking them and then binding their hands in
spite of the fact that they were the Americans' own puppet policemen
and firemen.
Witnesses said that an Iraqi farmer was seriously wounded in the
explosion of a land mine that had been planted by the side of a road
leading to his farm.
Six Iraqi Resistance fighters were martyred by occupation gunfire
near Samarra' in an attack that the US occupation forces claimed was
an attempt by what they described as "an armed gang" trying "to steal
oil from a pipeline" south of Samarra', 60 miles north of Baghdad.
According to the military occupation account provided by spokesman
Master Sergeant Robert Cargie, aggressor troops led to the scene by
an informant late Sunday found 40 men armed with AK-47 assault rifles
in 10 to 15 vehicles at the pipeline. Armed with M-16 rifles and
125mm cannons mounted on Bradley fighting vehicles, the US aggressor
troops shot and killed seven of the men in a gunfight. The remaining
people escaped. Three fuel trucks and one transport truck were
destroyed during the clash, Cargie added. No further details were
available. In the past, US occupation spokesmen have tried to
present Resistance attacks as simple criminal attempts to rob banks
and the like.
Eyewitnesses told AFP that American aggressor forces on Monday
arrested the wife of an Iraqi suspected of involvement in the
Resistance in al-Fallujah. The arrest came when occupation forces
raided the suspected Resistance fighter's home. The man himself,
Saber Turki, 35, was not home, so the aggressors took his wife
instead.
'Abd an-Naser Mahmud, a resident of al-Jawlan neighborhood, told AFP
that the occupation forces surrounded the house with 13 military
jeeps and then raided the building. Mahmud said that the American
occupation forces told the residents of the neighborhood that they
were taking Saber Turki's wife and that Saber Turki himself had to
turn himself in if he wants to get his wife freed. Mahmud said that
the unfortunate thing was that Turki had only been married to the
woman for five days.
In the Iraqi city of al-Kut, Ukrainian occupation troops serving the
United States fired into the air Monday to disperse hundreds of
Iraqis in a violent demonstration for jobs and food as a second
southern Shiite Muslim city was rocked by unrest — a barometer of
rising frustration with the US occupation in a region of Iraq that
the occupation liked to consider "friendly" to the Americans.
Unrest started in al-Kut, 95 miles southeast of Baghdad, when about
400 protesters marched for a third straight day on a government
building to demand jobs. According to Iraqi puppet police reports,
someone in the crowd threw a grenade at police and Ukrainian
occupation soldiers guarding the building, injuring four Iraqi puppet
policemen and one Ukrainian. According to puppet police Lieutenant
Zafer Wedad the Ukrainian occupation troops then fired in the air to
disperse the crowd, injuring one protester. He said the demonstrators
hurled bricks at the building and trashed a post office in the city.
Al-Jazeera reported from al-Kut that two Ukrainian occupation
soldiers were wounded along with five Iraqis, including four puppet
policemen, in clashes between Ukrainian forces and their puppet
police stooges on one side, and the Iraqi demonstrators demanding
jobs on the other. Al-Jazeera quoted the deputy commander of the
Ukrainian occupation forces in al-Kut as saying that his forces
opened fire after two hand grenades were tossed in the direction of
his troops who were guarding the building of the governorate.
Al-Jazeera's correspondent pointed out that the Ukrainian occupation
forces captured an al-Jazeera cameraman in the city and confiscated
his camera and all the video cassettes he had with him. The
cameraman is now being investigated in spite of the fact that he has
been covering events in al-Kut for some time.
For the fifth straight day al-'Amarah witnessed demonstrations of
unemployed demanding work. They assembled outside the governorate
building around which the British occupation forces had beefed up
their guard. British armored vehicles were drawn up around the now
largely vacant building. All the puppet officials and puppet
policemen had already quit the building, however, out of fear of the
daily confrontations that have so far claimed six Iraqi lives and
left eight other persons injured by occupation and puppet police
gunfire.
On Monday, however, there were no reported clashes, though the
demonstrations were forcibly broken up. British occupation forces
closed a bridge near the governorate building, and increased their
patrols of the area. British occupation helicopters buzzed the scene
over head constantly beginning at dawn, and sharpshooters took up
positions on a bridge under construction on the Tigris River near the
governorate.
Demonstrators claimed that three relatives of al-Muhammadawi, a
member of the puppet so-called Interim Governing Council, including
the provincial governor Riyad al-Muhammadawi, were directly involved
in the shootings of the past days.
Demonstrators broke up to reassemble elsewhere to form a march to the
headquarters of the anti-disturbance forces, but they were again
broken up again by puppet police forces who fired into the air and
arrested two of the protesters.
In Baghdad, dozens of employees of the Iraqi national airways
demonstrated demanding the resumption of airline services on the
usual routes and demanding also that the occupation forces leave
Saddam International Airport. Airline employees of various
specializations - pilots, technicians, engineers - gathered in front
of the headquarters of the occupation authority, which has occupied
the former Palace of Congresses in the center of Baghdad. The
airline employees demanded to be sent back to work and chanted "No to
foreign airlines!", "Long live Iraqi Airlines!"
Captain 'Ala' ad-Din 'Abd al-Hamid told the AFP "we have suffered a
lot, and we have already presented proposals for the future of Iraqi
Airlines but nothing has come of it. We want to take back the
airport to finish the work there, to prepare ourselves, and to serve
our country. The company is our national carrier and we must have our
presence." 'Abd al-Hamid asked "why are they making agreements with
foreign airlines to carry Iraqi pilgrims to Mecca? Why can't we
perform this task which we always used to do perfectly? Why are they
ignoring us?"
Another man said: "they claim that there's no security for the
resumption of airline service, but if that is true, how come their
planes take off from the airport? All the foreign planes are flying,
just not Iraqi ones!"
Pilot 'Abd al-Khaliq Karim said that the Iraqi Airline Company's
cadre of about 2,400 people - pilots, engineers, and other employees -
are all unemployed at the present time.
Danish and British occupation forces captured an official in the Arab
Baath Socialist Party who they claim was part of a Resistance cell in
the south of the occupied country, according to a statement made by a
Danish occupation spokesman.
Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Tuesday 13
January 2004.a
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Tuesday, 13 January 2004.
Iraqi Resistance forces shot down an American occupation Apache
attack helicopter Tuesday, the third downed in less than two weeks,
but US aggressor sources claimed that the crew escaped unharmed. An
American AH-64 helicopter gunship was shot down near the town of al-
Habbaniyah, in a western region near where a medevac helicopter was
downed a week earlier, killing all nine soldiers on board. A Kiowa
Warrior helicopter was shot down in the area on Jan. 2, killing the
pilot. This time the US aggressors claimed that the AH-64's two-
person crew was unhurt. US military occupation forces secured the
area, military spokesman Colonel William Darley said. "It was
apparently downed by enemy fire," he said.
Al-Jazeera's correspondent on the scene reported that eyewitnesses
said they saw two occupation helicopters hovering in the area and
that a rocket flew up from the area and struck one of the
helicopters. The aircraft caught fire and crashed. Witnesses said
they did not see anyone aboard the craft and that the American
reinforcements that showed up an hour after the crash did not bring
ambulances or carry away wounded.
In Tikrit on Tuesday the correspondent of al-Jazeera TV reported that
an American military patrol was attacked by the Iraqi Resistance who
detonated a roadside bomb on the expressway south of the city. The
explosion crippled one US military vehicle. There have been no
reports regarding possible losses in dead or wounded occupation
troops.
Near Samarra' on Tuesday, Iraqi Resistance fighters opened fire on US
aggressor troops. The US military occupation claimed its soldiers
killed eight Iraqis after their patrol came under fire outside
Samarra' on Tuesday. The Resistance attack occurred while the
invaders were on a vehicle patrol. Eight cars driving past the convoy
opened fire on the occupation soldiers, who returned fire, killing
eight Iraqis, said spokeswoman Major Josslyn Aberle in occupied
Tikrit. She said one Resistance fighter was wounded and two vehicles
were destroyed. The remaining six cars were seized and their 26
occupants arrested, she said.
An American occupation soldier from the 101st Airborne Division died
late Tuesday in what the aggressor spokesmen claimed Wednesday was
a "non-hostile incident" in northern Iraq.
In ar-Ramadi, Iraqi Resistance fighters in a car fired at a puppet
police, killing a puppet policeman and a civilian bystander,
according to puppet police major 'Adel 'Abd al-Karim.
Medical sources in al-Fallujah Hospital reported that at least three
Iraqis were killed and five others wounded seriously when US
occupation forces opened fire on them.
American occupation sources in the area said that they were fired
upon by the Iraqi Resistance as they observed a demonstration of
several hundred local peoplecalled by religious leaders in the city
who were protesting the behavior of the American occupation forces
and the increasing number of arrests of citizens, including women.
The demonstrators accused the American military occupation of
carrying out armed attacks upon women. Demonstrators chanted "Bush,
you coward!" after US aggressor troops detained a young 17-year old
woman while searching for a patriot, Saber Turki. The woman, who
relatives acknowledged was handled only by female occupation
soldiers, was released after several hours questioning.
The protesters dispersed by noon. American aggressor reports
indicated that the demonstration dispersed peacefully and without
incident, but the three dead and five wounded Iraqis indicate that
the Americans were lying.
Maher Turki, brother of the arrested woman's husband, said the
aggressor troops were looking for another of his brothers in the hope
that he would inform on Khamis Sirhan, reported leader of the Arab
Baath Socialist Party in al-Fallujah. Saber Turki was not at home
when the American aggressors raided his house, so the invader forces
took his wife instead and demanded that Turki turn himself in if he
wanted her released. But rising public protests pressured the
aggressor troops to release the woman.
US occupation sources said that they surrounded the demonstration
after they came under fire. The demonstrators chanted condemnation of
the American actions and demanded the release of arrested people.
Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a roadside bomb against US
occupation forces in Baghdad on Monday. After the attack, US
aggressor forces opened fire in revenge on a random car and killed
the driver and a 10-year old boy, according to relatives. The
roadside bomb went off near the checkpoint, hitting a US occupation
Humvee and killing a soldier. Soliders in another Humvee started
shooting, hitting a car carrying the civilian family, said
Wijdan 'Abd al-Wahhab, aunt of the slain boy.
The boy, 10-year-old Mustafa Jamal Shaikhli, and the family driver,
identified only as Haydar, were killed, 'Abdal-Wahhab said. Mustafa's
30-year-old mother and another aunt were seriously wounded, she said.
Also in the car were the slain boy's 8-year-old son and 6-year-old
daughter, who suffered minor cuts. "The Americans have ruined an
innocent family, children and women," 'Abd al-Wahhab said, distraught
and weeping at the hospital. "They didn't even bother to look back at
them after shooting them."
She said the family is fed up with the situation and wants to "leave
Iraq because of the Americans and the (U.S.-installed) Governing
Council." The US military occupation as usual did not confirm any of
the civilian casualties. The Associated Press noted that the
shooting at the checkpoint was "the latest in a growing number of
cases of civilians being shot by U.S. soldiers nearing the end of
their tour before a massive rotation begins next month."
Clashes resumed Tuesday in al-Kut between protesters and Ukrainian
occupation troops, with sporadic gunfire heard at the western edge of
the city, a day after the Ukrainian aggressors fired bullets in the
air to control a rebellion by hundreds of people demanding food and
jobs. Demonstrators threw percussion bombs at the building that
houses the governorate of al-Kut and broke through several of the
barricades that the Ukrainian aggressor forces had erected around
it. The Ukrainian occupation forces then opened fire into the air to
try to disperse the protesters.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, two hand grenades were hurled inside
a meeting of Arab tribal leaders and American military occupation
administrators. There were no injuries in the blast, but US
occupation troops fired at the assailants, wounding three people,
police Major Turhan 'Abd ar-Rahman Yusuf said.
Also in Kirkuk, an operation of the US occupation troops, who brought
along their Iraqi puppet stooges, captured 26 people, whom they
claimed to be members of the Iraqi government, Iraqi puppet police
Colonel Sarhad Qader reported.
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Wednesday, 14 January 2004.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded in front of a puppet police
station in Baaqoubah, 60km north of Baghdad. Puppet police said three
people, including the driver, were killed. A later report in the
Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm for Thursday said that the car, a
green Toyota, was detonated by remote control.
The US military occupation put the death toll at five. About 50
people were injured. All the victims were Iraqis. Puppet police
Colonel Salam 'Umar, who is chief of the local police directorate,
said the explosives-laden car tried to enter the walled compound of a
one-story puppet police station at about 8:20 a.m., and exploded when
guards opened fire on it. The blast martyred the bomber and killed
two bystanders, besides damaging the wall and shattering windows at
the station and shops across the street, he said. A doctor in
Baaqubah General Hospital said that at least 15 of 31injured were
puppet police.
Witnesses said that a number of vehicles and police cars were
destroyed in the blast and that the façade of the police station was
destroyed. A spokesman for the Iraqi puppet police said that the
puppet police guards had failed to prevent the car penetrating into a
secure area, allowing the driver to reach the entrance to the police
directorate.
Salam 'Umar said that the car used in the bomb attack was registered
in Baghdad and was owned by a woman who lives in al-Karradah district
in the Iraqi capital. He did not say whether the car had been
reported stolen.
US occupation forces showed up at the scene of the attack after the
blast and cordoned off the area.
Three truck drivers were killed when Iraqi Resistance fighters
attacked their trucks on the road between Tikrit and Samarra', as
they were bringing goods and supplies to the American occupation
forces. Iraqi puppet police sources said that the dead drivers were
two Pakistani citizens and one Turk. The bodies of the dead aliens
were taken to Tikrit General Hospital, according to Lieutenant
Colonel Makki Muhammad Mustafa of the Samarra' puppet police.
Mustafa said "the three trucks were bringing supplies to the American
forces concentrated in the environs of the city."
American occupation forces were injured in the attack on a convoy
that was bringing in military materiel.
In ar-Ramadi, west of Baghdad, US occupation troops captured Khamis
Sirhan al-Muhammad, a former regional Baath Party chairman and
militia commander who was No. 54 on the list of 55 most-wanted
figures on the American imperialist hit list, the military occupation
said Wednesday. Al-Muhammad was arrested Sunday, Brigadier General
Mark Kimmitt said. He called Al-Muhammad "an enabler" for many
attacks against the aggressors, but refused to discuss details of the
arrest. The US occupation's search for Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad had
supposedly been the reason for a controversial search and arrest of a
17-year old bride in al-Fallujah on Monday, though now the Americans
claim that al-Muhammad was already in their hands by that time.
US invader forces carried out a pre-dawn raid against family members
of the Vice-Chairman of the Iraqi Revolution Command Council 'Abd al-
'Aziz ad-Duri, reportedly capturing four of the Vice-Chairman's
nephews. Forty aggressor soldiers from the 720th Military Police
Battalion based in Fort Hood, Texas, USA, raided two houses in a
dimly lit neighborhood of Samarra' after a tip. In one house, they
claimed that they captured one of the targeted nephews and his two
brothers. The second nephew was seized at a nearby home, they said.
The two "main targets" are believed to be in close touch with their
uncle the Vice President and finding safe houses for him, US
occupation Lieutenant Colonel David J. Poirier said. "They have
information they can provide to us . . . that would be extremely
important," he said. All four were taken to a concentration camp in
Tikrit at the 4th Infantry Division based inside an occupied Iraqi
state palace. The Vice-Chairman's wife and daughter were arrested by
invader troops on 26 November 2003 and remain imprisoned.
A joint force of American occupation forces and collaborationist
Iraqi puppet police arrested six persons, including one woman, who
were reportedly preparing an explosive device in Mosul. The
occupation forces said the six Resistance fighters were arrested in
the al-Ghabat district when some of them were planting the bomb while
others kept lookout on the main road frequented by US occupation
forces but also used by the Iraqi public.
US occupation forces arrested seven members of their own Iraqi puppet
police in the city of Kirkuk on the suspicion that they were carrying
information to the Iraqi Resistance, helping the Resistance to carry
out operations against the occupation and its stooges in the local
puppet police. All those puppet policemen arrested are of Arab
nationality. They were taken to the local airport where the US
occupation forces have their headquarters and will be interrogated
there, according to Major General Turhan Yusuf of the local puppet
police.
Muhammad TaHa al-Husayni, a spokesman for the Shiite religious leader
AyatAllah 'Ali as-Sistani told a group of students in al-Kufah that
his leader as-Sistani wants the resistance in Iraq to be only of a
non-violent type. "As-Sayyid as-Sistani believes that the resistance
should be peaceful," he told the group of engineering students at the
local college. He said that as-Sistani opposes armed resistance to
the occupation because, as he claimed, that would "harm the interests
of the people."
Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Thursday, 15
January 2004.
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2.Iraqi Resistance Data Report Updates
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Iraqi Resistance Data Report for Sunday, 4 January 2004 through
Saturday, 10 January 2004.
The following report brings together data from two opposite sources.
The first is the Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah (Harvest of the Iraqi
Resistance) issued by the Iraqi Resistance. The second is the Iraqi
Resistance Log, compiled by the Free Palestine Information Agency,
which uses media sources as well as the Summary of Security
Incidents, an internal security document issued by the American
occupation authorities.
Although these accounts are not mutually consistent, we hope, by
publicizing them, to help overcome the information blackout imposed
by the American occupation and the imperialist-Zionist media at their
disposal. We also hope to show that regardless of what sources are
used for information on the Iraqi Resistance, that Resistance is
clearly continuing unabated and forging ahead as it inflicts mounting
casualties on the invaders.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial
board of the Free Arab Voice. Iraqi Resistance Log compiled by Free
Palestine Information Agency.
Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah.
Saturday, 3 January 2004.
Not available.
Iraqi Resistance Log
Saturday, 3 January 2004.
12 AM: So-called Operation Iron Grip continued near the Ad-Durah
District on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. It continued until
1:20 AM.
1 AM: Small arms attack on a US unit near Ad-Duwar. The Resistance
fighters escaped into Munayshifah in a vehicle.
6 AM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base near the Green Zone in
Baghdad.
6 AM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in the Karikur Afandi
District in southeast Baghdad.
8:30 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US Military Police convoy in al-
Khadra' District of Baghdad.
9 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US Military Police convoy 8 miles
west of Baghdad near az-Zarkan.
9 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy 24 miles north of Baghdad
near Mushahidah.
10:30 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US Military Police patrol
escorting a US convoy in Abu Ghurayb.
AM: 4 Iraqis were killed and 1 was wounded when their car attempted
to pass a US convoy on a road in Tikrit. Troops opened up on the car
with 27 bullets, apparently just because it was passing them.
AM: Another bomb found in Baaqubah.
AM: Yet another bomb discovered north of Baaqubah.
12 PM: Small arms attack on a US convoy in central Mosul.
12:30 PM: Violent demonstration in front of the home of the governor
of al-Muthanna Province in As-Samawah. Crowd threw stones and
threatened to plunder the governor's mansion before the governor's
guards fired shots to disperse them.
2 PM: Small arms attack on the Governor of ad-Diwaniyah Province and
his entourage near al-Hamza, south of ad-Diwaniyah.
3 PM: Rocket attack on a US occupation base east of al-Fallujah.
3:30 PM: Small arms attack on a truck in a US contractor convoy near
as-Samawah. The contractor driver has gone missing after the attack.
Investigation continuing.
6:30 PM: RPG attack on a US checkpoint in the Tayaran District of
Baghdad.
7 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on Iraqi Puppet Police in ar-Ramadi.
Resistance fighters escaped in the vehicle.
7 PM: Simultaneous RPG attack on several US helicopters near Muhammad
Sulayman, 15 miles northwest of Balad and close to Samarra'.
7 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base southwest of Baaqubah.
8 PM: RPG attack on a US patrol in western al-Husaybah.
9:30 PM: Small arms attack on US occupation troops while troops
conducted a raid in western Mosul.
10:30 PM: Drunken Irbil Ministry of Energy guards staged a small-arms
attack on their fellow puppets, the Peshmergah guards at the Irbil
puppet so-called Civil Military Operation Center (CMOC) Office.
11 PM: Small arms attack on a puppet so-called civil defense force
unit in the Tayaran District of Baghdad.
11:30 PM: RPG and small arms attack on a US patrol in Baaqubah.
11:30 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on guards at a US occupation base
in the Kazim Mullah Muhammad District of Baghdad.
11:40 PM: Another RPG and small arms attack on the same US patrol in
Baaqubah.
11:55 PM: Yet another RPG and small arms attack on the same US patrol
in Baaqubah.
3 Resistance fighters - 2 Iraqis and 1 Jordanian fighter - were
killed when their car exploded in Mosul. It was filled with
explosives.
Attack on US occupation troops near an Iraqi Puppet Police Station in
Baaqubah. 5 puppet police wounded.
Bomb found by Iraqi Puppet Police in Baaqubah.
Bomb found in Ad-Duwar. Bomb was cinderblock with PE4, a battery and
a receiver for remote detonation.
Bomb found 39 miles south of Mosul on Highway 1 near Hatra. Bomb was
PE4 with fuse wells and detonation cord.
Bomb found in Tall Afar. Bomb was 120mm mortar round packed with PE4
and a blasting cap.
Several bombs were found on the highway 6 miles north of ar-Ramadi
near 'Abed al-Khalat. Bombs were 130mm rounds buried in mounds with
wires protruding and remote detonation capability. This area has seen
many attacks recently.
Bomb found in Baghdadi, near Asad Airbase.
Bomb found along the highway 1 mile north of Mahawil. Bomb was
multiple 130mm shells.
Bomb found in the az-Zafaraniyah District on the southeastern
outskirts of Baghdad.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency
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Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah.
Sunday 4 January 2004.
1) A formation of the Army of Jerusalem took credit for an attack on
a military convoy on the outskirts of the city of Baaqubah. Four
occupation soldiers were killed, five others wounded, a tank and
three various other vehicles were destroyed. The communiqué issued
by the Resistance and Liberation says that among those killed was an
officer with the rank of colonel whose name was unknown.
2) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath on the same day attacked
an American military patrol that had gathered in front of the puppet
police station in Baaqubah. The attack, according to the communiqué
issued by the Resistance Forces, left one American soldier dead and
one puppet policeman. Five others were wounded and a Humvee and a
police vehicle were destroyed.
3) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen made a lightning strike on an
American convoy on the road between Bayji and Tikrit. According to
the communiqué issued by the Command of the Resistance and
Liberation, two American soldiers were killed, six others wounded,
and one tank, one troop transport vehicle, and a truck were destroyed.
4) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen ambushed in a planned way an
American military patrol in Tikrit, killing five occupation soldiers,
wounding two others and destroying two Humvees.
5) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath killed six American
soldiers and wounded one other in addition to destroying one Humvee
in an attack on Palestine Street in the center of Baghdad. In the
attack the Resistance fighters used hand grenades and automatic
weapons. According to the communiqué issued by the Command of the
Resistance, the citizens who happened to be on the scene of the
attack helped the fighters to disappear and carried away one of the
wounded Resistance fighters and hid him far from the occupation
forces who hurried to the scene of the operation and closed off and
searched Palestine Street and adjacent streets looking for the
fighters.
6) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath took credit for an attack
on an American patrol on the main street in Karradat Maryam in
Baghdad. According to the communiqué issued by the Resistance one
American soldier was killed and two others wounded and a Humvee was
set ablaze.
7) A formation of the Republican Guard took responsibility for an
attack on an American military convoy in the region of Balad.
According to the communiqué issued by the Resistance, the attack left
three occupation soldiers dead, four others injured, and destroyed
two vehicles.
8) A formation of the Forces of al-Faruq took responsibility for a
daring attack on an American military patrol in the city of Kirkuk
that left two American soldiers dead and one other wounded and
destroyed a Humvee.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log
4 January 2004
1 AM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base near ash-Sharqat.
10 AM: US Imperialist Central Command (Centcom) issued an alert for 4
different vehicles in Baghdad that are suspected of being rigged with
explosives as car bombs.
11 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy northwest of al-Fallujah.
12 PM: An armed man reportedly tried to steal gas from a gas station
in Karbala'.
12 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on an FPS unit in al-Mahmudiyah. The
Resistance fighters were also armed with a large bomb.
1 PM: Small arms ambush attack on US foot patrol in Tikrit wounded 1
soldier. Troops fired back and all 3 Resistance fighters were
reported killed.
1:30 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy escorting US contractors
in Bayji wounded 3 soldiers. Bomb was a 155mm round.
1:30 PM: RPG attack on a US convoy near Sadqah, 2 miles northeast of
Hit. The Resistance fighter fired down on the convoy from a hilltop
overlooking the highway.
2:30 PM: Bomb attack on a train near al-Lutfiyah. The bomb was
detonated right under the train engine. A crowd then attacked the
train and tried to plunder it. A number of members of the crowd were
arrested.
5 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy in Tikrit wounded 1 Iraqi
collaborator translator. A Resistance fighter was arrested after this
attack.
5 PM: Freshly dug holes were observed along the highway 13 miles west
of Iskandariyah near Muhammad Shaykh Qasim. These holes were probably
for bombs.
5 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a Military Police patrol in the
Ghazaliya District of Baghdad.
6 PM: Several Resistance fighters arrested with bomb-making materials
near al-Asad Air Base.
10 PM: RPG attack on a US occupation base in as-Suwayrah.
11 PM: Small arms attack on a US patrol in Tall Afar.
11:30 PM: Small arms attack on a US patrol in Khalidiyah.
Late: Small arms attack on the main US occupation base in Tikrit.
Resistance fighters fired from across the Tigris. No casualties.
Late: Attack on so-called Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
collaborationist offices in Kirkuk wounded one puppet guard.
Night: Mortar attack on Occupation Headquarters in an-Nasiriyah. 2
shells landed around the Headquarters. No damage or casualties
reported.
Night: So-called Operation Iron Grip continued.
Small arms attack on US occupation troops in al-Hashisha, 45 miles
south of Kirkuk. 1 Iraqi civilian was killed when troops returned
fire.
US occupation troops killed a Resistance fighter in Maftul Beg, 60
miles east of Tikrit. Several other Resistance fighters were
arrested.
US occupation troops responding to a report of a roadside bomb in ar-
Ramadi heard 2 large explosions.
Resistance fighters attacked an Iraqi subcontractor truck convoy in
Baghdad. Attacking in 2 vehicles, the attackers fired small arms at
the convoy and hijacked 5 trucks.
Bomb found in ar-Ramadi.
Bomb found in the highway median 2 miles north of Khalidiyah. Bomb
was 152mm round with wires protruding.
Bomb found in Kirkuk. Bomb was several 107mm rounds daisy-chained
together.
Bomb found east of Bani Sa'd. Bomb was a series of RPG rounds daisy-
chained together and wired for command detonation.
Bomb found in central Mosul. Bomb was 155mm round packed with
explosives.
Bomb found in Balad. Bomb was 155mm round buried 4 ft off the highway
with red wires protruding and running off to a nearby overlooking
ridge.
Rocket launchers armed and ready to fire were discovered near the US
occupation base at the Kirkuk Airport.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency.
Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah
Monday, 5 january 2004.
1) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen took responsibility for a rocket
and artillery attack on a train carrying American troops, supplies,
and materiel west of Baghdad. The attack destroyed four railroad
cars and set fire to the remaining train cars. According to the
communiqué issued by the Command of the Resistance, enemy losses were
great, and included six dead and 35 wounded, most of them seriously.
In addition the occupation forces lost a large quantity of supplies
and equipment.
2) An American military patrol was attacked south of the city of
Kirkuk, killing one American soldier and wounding four others. A
Humvee and a military Jeep were destroyed.
3) The Iraqi Army of Jerusalem took responsibility for an attack with
missiles and artillery - the second in 12 hours - on the so-called
Green Zone (really the Republican Palace and its environs),
headquarters for residence and work of the American occupation civil
authority and its military command in the center of the Iraqi capital
Baghdad. Tongues of flame and clouds of smoke could be seen rising
from more than one spot inside the compound. American helicopters
hovered overhead as ambulances and fire trucks hurried to the site of
the damage. According to the communiqué issued by the Command of the
Forces of the Resistance, the barrage was very concentrated and
struck its targets compeletely.
4) In a communiqué, forces of the Iraqi Army announced their
responsibility for a rocket and artillery barrage on the headquarters
of the American forces in Kirkuk tha tkilled six occupation soldiers
and wounded eight others. More than four military vehicles were
destroyed and a number of military sites were set ablaze.
5) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath killed a British soldier
near the Baghdad Hotel in Baghdad in a successful sniper operation
according to a communiqué issued by the Resistance. A spokesman for
the British forces acknowledged the incident.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log
Monday, 5 January 2004.
Occupation forces suffered 5 killed and 7 wounded today. 1 US
soldier, 2 French contractors, 1 US contractor and 1 Iraqi Puppet
Policeman were all killed. 4 US occupation troops, 1 French
contractor, 1 Iraqi puppet policeman and one Iraqi collaborator were
wounded today. 4 Iraqi civilians were killed and 7 were wounded. The
US imperialist Central Command (Centcom) reported 4 US soldiers
wounded. The media reported no wounded. There were 59 security
incidents today. The media reported only 22 of these incidents.
12 AM: Rocket attack on a US occupation base in Mosul.
6 AM: Rocket attack on an Iraqi Puppet Police Station in Kirkuk
wounded 1 puppet.
7:30 AM: A roadside bomb went off in Kirkuk, killing 1 Iraqi civilian
and wounding 3 more.
8:30 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US Kellog, Brown & Root (KBR)
contractor convoy west of the Mazra' District of Baghdad. Bomb was a
155mm round. KBR is a major subsidiary of the Halliburton company, a
firm closely tied to US Vice President Dick Cheney.
8:45 AM: Another roadside bomb attack on another US convoy, this time
a military convoy, in the same area west of the Mazra' District as
the attack on the contractor above at around the same time.
11 AM: Resistance fighters on an overpass along the highway in the al-
Muthanna District of Baghdad attacked a US convoy with small arms.
11 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy 5 miles southwest of
Mahmudiyah.
AM: An Iraqi lawyer working for the occupation authority was shot and
critically wounded in Mosul. His son was also shot but his condition
was not life threatening.
1 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in Balad.
1 PM: RPG attack on a US armored convoy ½ mile east of ar-Ramadi.
1 PM: Firefight between US occupation troops and Resistance fighters
8 miles northeast of al-Asad.
1 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy along Highway 1 near
Iskandariyah.
1 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy along the highway 10 miles
west of Mahmudiyah near Yusufiyah.
1:30 PM: Small arms attack on French contractors 3 miles north of al-
Fallujah along Highway 10 killed 2 contractors and wounded 1 more.
The contractors were part of a 2-car convoy of French nationals
working for a US contractor. One SUV broke down and the occupants got
out to try to fix the car by the side of the road. They were then
attacked by Resistance fighters in 2 different vehicles.
1:30 PM: At least 2 Resistance fighters concealed on a rooftop
attacked a US convoy near Balad. A firefight resulted.
2 PM: Shooting attack on an Iraqi puppet policeman in Kirkuk killed 1
puppet. A Resistance fighter fired at group of puppet police outside
the station. The Resistance fighter was then martyred.
2 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a patrol 5 miles west of al-Fallujah.
2:30 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy along Highway 1 near
Shajira, 20 miles north of Bayji.
3 PM: Landmine attack on a US armored patrol north of Samarra'. A
vehicle hit the mine.
5 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on Iraqi puppet border guards near
Khanaqin. The Khanaqin border area has seen almost zero action in the
Resistance fighter war and in the past few days there have suddenly
been some incidents.
5 PM: Resistance fighters launched a mortar attack on Baghdad Airport
where the US reported an operation was held to blow up seized
ordnance.
Afternoon: Specialist Luke P. Frist died in a Texas military hospital
after being seriously wounded in the attack on the US convoy in 'Abed
al-Khalat on January 2. He was airlifted to Brook Army Hospital in
San Antonio January 4 after being treated in Germany.
6 PM: RPG and small arms attack on a US contractor convoy 8 miles
southwest of Mahmudiyah killed 1 US contractor and 5 Iraqis.
6 PM: A series of loud blasts shook Baghdad after sunset.
6:30 PM: Mortar attack on a US checkpoint in al-Husaybah.
7 PM: Small arms attack on a puppet so-called civil defense
checkpoint near al-Mansuriyah.
7 PM: Firefight between a US armored patrol and a lone Resistance
fighter near Baaqubah.
7 PM: RPG attack on a US checkpoint in al-Husaybah.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in the Ahmad Ghajar
District of Baghdad.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base north of Khalidiyah.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in ar-Ramadi.
8:30 PM: An Italian patrol arrested someone whom they accused of
stealing fuel from the pipeline west of an-Nasiriyah.
9 PM: A train was hijacked and plundered north of Bayji.
9 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy along the highway in al-
Fallujah.
10:30 PM: Small arms attack on puppet so-called civil defense forces
at the Abu Ghurayb Hospital in the Mazra' District of Baghdad.
11 PM: A US patrol observed several Resistance fighters attempting to
plant a roadside bomb near Hadid. The attempt was thwarted when
troops engaged the Resistance fighters in a firefight. Bomb was a
155mm round.
Evening: 2 men returning from a coffee house in Baaqubah were shot
dead by US occupation troops.
Night: So-called Operation Iron Grip continued during the night.
An angry crowd of stone-throwing ex-Iraqi soldiers rioted in al-
Basrah, demanding back pay and stipends. They tried to storm a branch
of ar-Rafidayn Bank. Iraqi puppet police fired on them, killing 1 and
wounding 3 more.
Bomb found near Taji. Bomb was several 155mm rounds.
Bomb found in the puppet so-called Civil Military Operation Center
parking lot in Qayyarah. Bomb was 10 pounds of C4 cased in a ball
with a beeper to detonate it.
Bomb found north of Tikrit.
Bomb found 5 miles south of Baaqubah near al-Bawadish. Bomb was 155mm
round with an electrical apparatus and batteries attached for remote
detonation.
Bomb found near as-Sumar Iraqi puppet police station in southeast
Mosul. Bomb was 82mm round with C4 and rigged for remote detonation.
Bomb found by a US convoy ½ mile west of Mosul. Bomb was a burlap bag
with TNT covered with plastic wrap inside the bag.
Bomb found 2 miles north of ar-Ramadi near the Highway 1 bridge over
the Euphrates.
Bomb found 4 miles northeast of al-Habbaniyah near assSaqlawiyah.
Bomb was 122mm artillery round with wires protruding, hidden inside a
tire.
Bomb found on the north side of the highway in Karbala'.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency
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Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah
Tuesday, 6 January 2004.
1) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen took responsibility for the
ambush on an American spy convoy made up of five vehicles that took
place outside the city of al-Fallujah. The attack left four
foreigners dead and five others wounded. It was said afterwards that
those killed were Frenchmen who were working for an American
company. According to the communiqué issued by the Resistance, the
convoy belonged to the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
had been followed since it left the Baghdad hotel in the Iraqi
capital.
2) In Karbala' a Polish soldier was killed and four others wounded in
an attack carried out by a formation of the Forces of al-Husayn in
the district of al-Hindiyah. Three various vehicles were also
destroyed.
3) Baghdad was shaken by powerful explosions and witnessed fire
lighting up the sky coming from various areas in the so-called Green
Zone, Abu Nuwas Street, Karradat Maryam, and a part of al-Hadithah.
This festival was the result of a rocket and artillery barrage
carried out by a formation of the Iraqi Army on the headquarters of
the American civil governor and the command of the American forces.
According to the communiqué issued by the Command of the Resistance
and Liberation, this was the third barrage on this location in just
48 hours, a fact that demonstrates the Resistance's authority in the
area on the ground and its control of the situation, while the
Resistance fighters demonstrate thereby also their great
determination not to let the invaders get any sleep while they occupy
our pure land. The night is one.
4) A formation of the Army of Jerusalem took responsibility for an
attack on an American military patrol at the northern entrance to the
city of Kirkuk. According to the communiqué of the Resistance, one
American soldier was killed, one other wounded, and a Humvee was
destroyed.
5) In al-Anbar, a formation of the Republican Guard took
responsibility for an attack on an American convoy on the expressway.
According to the communiqué of the Resistance, the attack left two
American soldiers dead and wounded six others. A tank and a troop
transport vehicle were destroyed.
6) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen took responsibility for an attack
on an American military patrol east of the city of Tikrit. The
attack left one American soldier dead and three others wounded and
destroyed two vehicles.
7) A formation of the Iraqi Army took responsibility for an attack on
an American military convoy north of al-Hayatayn Lake. According to a
communiqué of the Resistance, the attack left three American thugs
dead and wounded two others. One tank and four various vehicles were
destroyed.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log
6 January 2004.
Occupation forces suffered 3 killed and 8 wounded today. 1 Polish
soldier and 2 Iraqi puppet forces were killed. 5 US soldiers and 2
puppet forces were wounded. 2 Iraqi civilians were killed and 4 were
wounded. The US imperialist Central Command (Centcom) reported 5 US
soldiers wounded today. The media reported only 1 US soldier wounded.
There were 39 security incidents today. The media reported only 9 of
these incidents.
1 AM: Resistance fighters hiding in a building fired small arms at US
Military Policemen in the ad-Dabbagh Khanah District of Baghdad.
2 AM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base south of Bayji.
9 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a KBR convoy 6½ miles west of Baghdad
near az-Zarkan.
9:30 AM: RPG attack on a US convoy in Mosul.
9:30 AM: 2-pronged RPG and small arms attack on an Iraqi puppet
police station in northeast Mosul. Resistance fighters concealed on a
rooftop fired the RPG while other Resistance fighters simultaneously
staged a drive-by shooting from a vehicle.
10 AM: Small arms attack on a US convoy near the US Air Base in
Balad.
11:30 AM: Small arms and grenade attack on a US Military Police
patrol west of the Mazra' District of Baghdad.
1 PM: Bomb found on the highway northwest of Hit. Bomb consisted of
several artillery rounds.
6 PM: US occupation troops observed several Iraqis who seemed to be
repairing their car by the side of the road along Highway 1 near
Taji. Further observation revealed them to be Resistance fighters who
were planting a roadside bomb by the road using the ruse of repairing
their vehicle. Occupation troops captured the Resistance fighters.
Bomb was a 155mm round with remote detonation.
6 PM: Small arms attack on a US Military Police patrol in northern ar-
Ramadi.
7 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in Mosul.
7 PM: A roadside bomb blew up in the median strip along Highway 10
near ar-Ramadi.
7 PM: Rocket attack on the Jordanian hospital north of Haswah.
7:30 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base near al-Habbaniyah.
7:30 PM: A US demolition expert was attempting to disarm a bomb found
in front of an Iraqi interpreter-collaborator's home in Baaqubah when
a Resistance fighter remote detonated the bomb.
7:45 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy on the east side of so-
called Freedom Bridge in Mosul.
8 PM: RPG and small arms attack on a US patrol in south Bayji.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base at Hamid Kanna, 2 miles
southwest of al-Fallujah.
8 PM: Bomb attack on a train near Mahmudiyah. The bomb went off on
the tracks right in front of a train engine.
8:30 PM: US occupation troops fired mortars at Resistance fighters
trying to plant a bomb 10 miles southeast of al-Fallujah.
9 PM: US occupation troops received fire from Resistance fighters in
al-Fallujah. Troops returned fire with small arms and a grenade
launcher. Troops claimed Resistance fighters fled into a building.
Troops fired a tank shell into the building, which was a residential
home, destroying it and killing an Iraqi couple who were watching TV
in their living room. No Resistance fighters or weapons were found in
the home.
10 PM: US occupation troops arrested raiders whom they called looters
at an ammo depot near Tikrit in possession of an 80mm round.
10 PM: Rocket attack on a US occupation base south of Baghdad.
Night: RPG attack on an Iraqi Puppet Police vehicle in Kirkuk. 1
puppet was killed and 2 were wounded, 1 seriously.
Night: Grenade attack on an office of the Kurdistan Socialist Party
in Kirkuk. The building was damaged and 1 Iraqi was wounded.
Shooting attack on an Iraqi Puppet Policeman on his way to work in
Baaqubah killed 1 Iraqi puppet policeman.
Angry funeral for 2 Iraqis shot dead while returning from a coffee
shop in Baaqubah. Mourners shouted anti-US slogans.
Two loud explosions rocked Baghdad within seconds of each other.
Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy in Abu Ghurayb hit the convoy's
supply truck and wounded 1 soldier, the driver of the truck.
Automatic weapons attack on a US patrol in Tikrit. No casualties
reported.
1 Polish soldier from the Karbala' garrison found dead in al-
Hindiyah.
Bomb found in Kirkuk. Bomb was an anti-personnel mine.
Bomb found in Kirkuk. Bomb was a 120mm round.
Bomb found near Samarra'. Bomb was a propane tank filled with
explosives buried in the dirt with an antenna exposed.
Bomb found in the al-Mulla 'Alwan District of Baghdad. Bomb was 120mm
round in a concrete cinder block with wires protruding.
Iraqis observed unloading a boat west of ar-Ramadi. After they left,
troops investigated and discovered that the men were Resistance
fighters and they had planted a bomb at the location. Bomb was 130mm
round under a dirt mound.
Bomb found 3 miles west of ar-Ramadi near Arab 'Abed al-Khalat. Bomb
was a 120mm round.
Bomb found 1 mile east of ar-Ramadi near Ajal as-Salim. Bomb was
several 122mm rounds wired into a barrel.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency
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Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah
Wednesday, 7 January 2004.
1) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath took responsibility for
an attack in Baaqubah on an American military patrol. According to a
communiqué of the Resistance, one American soldier was killed and one
other wounded. A military Jeep was destroyed.
2) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen took responsibility for an attack
on an American military patrol on the main street in the city of al-
Fallujah. The attack, in which automatic weapons and RPGs were used,
left two American soldiers dead and wounded one other. A Humvee was
destroyed.
3) A formation of the Iraqi Army took responsibility for an attack on
an American military convoy in the area of al-Huwayjah. According to
a communiqué of the Resistance, the attack left three Americans dead
and wounded four. One tank and four various vehicles were destroyed.
4) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath took responsibility for
an attack on an American military patrol in the Saddam City in the
center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The attack left one American
soldier dead and wounded another.
5) A formation of the Forces of al-Husayn took responsibility for an
attack on the command center of the British forces in which rockets
and artillery shells were used. Fire was seen rising from inside the
center. A tank and two vehicles that were in front of the
headquarters were destroyed.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log
Wednesday, 7 January 2004.
6:30 AM: Mortar or RPG attack on a US occupation base east of Baghdad
Airport.
7 AM: Small arms attack on a US patrol 5 miles south of Samarra'.
7:10 AM: Automatic weapons attack on an Iraqi Puppet Police
checkpoint on the road between Bayji and al-Hawijah. 1 puppet and 1
Iraqi civilian were killed. The Resistance fighters escaped.
9 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US Military Police patrol 4 ½ miles
north of al-Habbaniyah near Malahamiyah.
11 AM: Rocket attack on a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Qayyarah.
1:30 PM: Resistance fighters removed the railroad ties on the
railroad tracks near az-Zubayr, causing a train to derail.
4:30 PM: An Iraqi tried to steal a can of gas from a gas station in
the al-Harithyah District of Baghdad but was shot dead by the puppet
so-called civil defense soldier on guard. The dead man's family came
back in a car and tried to run over the puppet.
6:45 PM: Mortar attack on US Logistical Base Seitz 250 yards north of
Baghdad Airport killed 1 soldier, Private First Class Jesse D.
Mizener, and wounded 32 others. 6 mortar rounds landed inside the
base.
7 PM: Drive-by shooting with small arms by Resistance fighters using
several vehicles. They attacked a US unit north of Baghdad, and then
fled south into Baghdad.
7 PM: Mortar attack on the so-called Civil Military Information
Center (CMIC) Puppet Office in Bayji.
7 PM: RPG and small arms attack on a US unit in Mosul.
7:30 PM: Mortar attack on base near Balad.
8:30 PM: Small arms attack on a US unit in the al-Waziriyah District
of Baghdad.
9:30 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base near ar-Ramadi.
9:30 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in the Ad-Dabbagh
Khanah District of Baghdad.
10 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base near ar-Ramadi.
Shooting attack on a Northern Oil Company guards on patrol east of
Kirkuk. 1 guard was killed and 3 were wounded.
US occupation troops engaged Resistance fighters in a house in
Khalidiyah. Troops raided the house afterwards and captured 3
Resistance fighters.
Oil pipeline attacked near Hassiba, 75 miles west of Kirkuk.
US military torturers report: An Iraqi man from Kirkuk, Sadiq Zoman
Abrahim, 56, was arrested in Kirkuk in August on suspicion of being a
Resistance fighter. US occupation troops dropped him off at the
hospital 2 days later in a coma with word he had suffered a heart
attack. Doctors found he had suffered massive head trauma, had been
beaten on the arms, and had been electrocuted on the bottoms of his
feet. He had been in US custody the whole time. He has been in a coma
ever since. The story is just now coming to light.
Several anti-personnel mines were found east of the so-called Freedom
Bridge in Mosul.
Bomb found near Baaqubah. Bomb was tire filled with sandbags and an
antenna.
Bomb found near Baaqubah. Bomb was 155mm round, partly buried in the
ground.
Several decoy bombs found in Baaqubah. Bombs were dummy rounds.
Several bombs were found in ad-Dulu'iyah. Bombs were 155mm rounds
with remote detonation inside of burlap bags lying on the highway.
Bomb found ¾ mile west of ar-Ramadi. Bomb was ammo can with wires
protruding.
Bomb found 4 miles west of al-Fallujah near Muhammad al-'Abbas. Bomb
was a fire extinguisher with wires protruding, buried in the ground.
Man arrested for possessing bomb-making components 1 mile west of ar-
Ramadi.
Bomb found south of al-Habbaniyah. Bomb was a propane tank with a
blasting cap buried in the ground.
Bomb found north of Baaqubah. Bomb was a plastic bag with TNT and a
red blinking light.
Bomb found 2 ½ miles south of Ghalibiyah on Highway 2 near Duk-hela.
Bomb was 120mm round.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency.
Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah
Thursday, 8 January 2004.
1) A formation of the Iraqi Army shot down a Black Hawk helicopter in
the village of Zawi', near the city of al-Fallujah. Aboard the craft
were 12 officers and men who all died. Among those killed was the
crew made up of four officers. According to the communiqué issued by
the Command of the Resistance and Liberation, among the dead was an
officer with the rank of colonel. The helicopter was on an review
and inspection mission of the invader forces deployed in the area.
2) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen took responsibility for an attack
on an American military column on the main road west of the city of
Hit. According to the communiqué of the Resistance and Liberation,
the attack left two American soldiers dead and three others wounded
and destroyed one tank and two various vehicles.
3) A formation of the Army of Jerusalem took responsibility for an
attack on an American military column near the 'Annah city junction,
in which rockets and artillery were used. According to the communiqué
of the Resistance, that attack left four occupation soldiers dead and
three injured and destroyed one tank, one troop transport vehicle and
a truck.
4) A formation of the Iraqi Army took responsibility for an attack on
the American Seitz base for equipment and supply west of the city of
Baghdad. This is a fundamental logistics base for the American
occupation forces in the center. The attack was broad and fierce.
According to the communiqué issued by the Command of the Resistance
and Liberation, the attack left 15 American officers and men dead and
wounded more than 35 others. Three tanks that were at the gate of
the base were destroyed, in addition to two troop transport vehicles,
two Humvees, and a fuel tanker. The contenst of an ammunition dump
inside the base continued to explode for more than one whole hour.
According to the communiqué issued by the Command of the Resistance
and Liberation, this strike was the biggest and most painful blow to
the invaders in a week. The valiant holy warriors of the Iraqi Army
by this attack lived up to the high regard and deep faith put in them
by the people of their country.
5) A formation of the Army of Jerusalem took responsibility for an
attack on the Oil Company of Iraq east of the city of Kikuk.
According to the communiqué of the Resistance, the attack left one
American soldier and two of Jalal Talibani's Kurdish chauvinist
Peshmergah gunmen dead. The façade of the Oil Company building was
destroyed and six other persons were wounded in varying degrees of
severity.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log.
Thursday, 8 January 2004.
7 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy west of Baghdad. Bomb was
followed by small arms attack.
8 AM: SAM attack on a US military C-5 Galaxy cargo plane with 63
passengers aboard. The plane was hit after takeoff at Baghdad Airport
but managed to return to the airport and land. No casualties
reported.
8:30 AM: Resistance fighters were stopped while trying to set up a
rocket launcher to fire at the Baghdad Police Headquarters and
Juvenile Detention Center in the Sulaymaniyah District of Central
Baghdad.
9:30 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US patrol west of Baghdad Airport.
10 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy along Highway 1 in Taji.
Bomb was a 130mm round, laid on the surface and remotely detonated.
10 AM: A series of bombs was found on the highway 5 miles northeast
of Iskandariyah.
10:30 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US armored vehicle near Samarra'.
The bomb made a direct hit on the vehicle.
10:30 AM: RPG and small arms attack on an Iraqi puppet police patrol
24 northwest of al-Hadithah near 'Anah.
11 AM: RPG and small arms attack on a US patrol at the exact same
location near 'Anah as the 10:30 AM attack above. 1 soldier was
wounded.
11:30 AM: Small arms attack on a US convoy in south Tikrit.
Resistance fighters fled in a vehicle.
11:30 AM: Antitank mines were found in the median of the highway
north of al-Hillah.
2 PM: Small arms attack on a US convoy on Highway 1 near Balad.
2 PM: Resistance fighters driving a flatbed truck and disguised as
workers attempted to sneak onto a US occupation base in Tikrit in
order to set off bombs or a car bomb inside. Bomb-sniffing dogs found
bombs in the Resistance fighters' vehicle and the Resistance fighters
were captured.
2:20 PM: SAM attack on a US military jet near the Baghdad Airport.
SAM was fired from south of the airport.
2:30 PM: SAM attack on a US Medevac Blackhawk helicopter Nu'amiyah, 4
miles southeast of al-Fallujah. 2 Medevac helicopters were over the
area when 1 was hit with a SAM on the tail. The helicopter exploded
in 2 in the air and crashed. All 9 troops aboard died, including
Specialist Michael A. Diraimondo, Sergeant Jeffrey C. Walker,
Sergeant 1st Class Gregory B. Hicks, Specialist Nathaniel H. Johnson,
Staff Sergeant Craig Davis, Chief Warrant Officer Philip A. Johnson,
Jr., Chief Warrant Officer Ian D. Manuel, Chief Warrant Officer Aaron
A. Weaver, and Specialist Christopher A. Golby.
Pic: http://tinyurl.com/2yrll
http://islam-online.net/English/News/2004-01/08/images/pic03a.jpg
4 PM: Shooting attack on a convoy along Highway 1 southwest of Balad
north of Baghdad killed 1 Occupation contractor-driver and wounded 2
more drivers. No nationality for the killed and wounded contractors
was given. Resistance fighters fled in 2 vehicles.
4 PM: A bomb went off in the al-Mulla 'Alwan District of Baghdad.
4 PM: Small arms attack on a US patrol in the Sab'ah Nisan District
of Baghdad.
4:30 PM: RPG attack on a US patrol in southwest Samarra'. Resistance
fighters used 5 vehicles. Troops returned fire, martyring 2
Resistance fighters and wounding 1 more.
5 PM: RPG attack on a train as-Saqlawiyah, between al-Fallujah and al-
Habbaniyah.
7 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on an Iraqi puppet so-called civil
defense soldier at a gas station in al-Qadisiyah near Tikrit killed 1
puppet. Resistance fighters escaped in a vehicle.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in the ad-Dabbagh Khanah
District of Baghdad.
8:30 PM: Rocket attack on the Balad Iraqi puppet police station in a
district of southern Baghdad reported as Tall Ihz hayat. Rockets were
fired remotely from a pushcart using a washing machine timer to fire.
Resistance fighters fled in a vehicle.
8:30 PM: RPG attack on a US patrol in Husaybah.
9 PM: Small arms attack on Iraqi ICDC puppet guards at a base in
the 'Abd al-wahid District of Baghdad.
9 PM: RPG attack on a US patrol in the Shaykh Hamid District of
Baghdad.
9 PM: Rocket attack on a US patrol in al-Husaybah. The rocket was
Chinese-made and fired from an improvised tube.
9 PM: RPG attack on Karbala' puppet police station. The RPG punched a
hole in the wall but there were no casualties.
9:45 PM: Small arms attack on an Iraqi puppet police convoy in
Musayyib.
10 PM: A drunken PUK collaborationist stooge attacked an Iraqi civil
defense puppet force base in Jalula' with small arms.
11:30 PM: Small arms attack on US occupation troops during a raid in
Abu Saida, northeast of Baaqubah.
Resistance fighters carrying burlap bag spotted approaching US St.
Mere Base near al-Fallujah. Troops opened fire on him, wounding him.
US occupation troops spotted 2 Resistance fighters planting a bomb.
They opened fire, martyring 1 and wounding another.
Rocket attack on main Baghdad Puppet Police Station foiled by Iraqi
puppet cops.
US occupation troops and their Iraqi so-called civil defense forces
were conducting a raid in al-Fallujah when a Resistance fighter
opened fire on the stooges with an RPG, wounding 1 puppet.
Bomb found along the highway in Jashm al-Hamdi, 9 miles northwest of
Taji.
Bomb found in Had Maksar, north of Baaqubah. Bomb was a jar filled
with C4, rocks and a timed fuse.
Bomb found 4 miles east of Riyadh on the Bayji-Kirkuk Highway. Bomb
had an SA-2 warhead. An SA-2 is a very large and extremely powerful
Russian Surface to Air missile. The warhead alone weighs 88 pounds!
It has a kill radius of 195 feet and a severe damage radius of 325
feet.
Pic: http://www.aeronautics.ru/img002/sa2-iraq.jpg
Bomb found near a bridge in the Mazra' District of Baghdad. Bomb was
155mm round filled with C4 and rigged for command detonation.
Rocket launcher found rigged to fire at the US ar-Rashid Airbase in
Baghdad. The launcher was rigged to fire 57mm Russian rockets and had
a photo cell device to fire as soon as it got dark.
Bomb found 15 ½ miles south of Khalidiyah on the highway below Lake
al-Habbaniyah. Bomb was made of a 105mm and 120mm round.
A series of bombs daisy-chained together were found on the highway
west of Baghdad Airport.
A series of bombs was found along the highway 8 ½ miles northwest of
Hit near Sahiliyah.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency.
Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah
Friday, 9 January 2004.
1) An American transport plane carrying 63 persons of unknown rank
aboard was hit by a surface-to-air rocket during its attempt to land
at Saddam International Airport. The attack damaged the starboard
side of the aircraft directly, blowing up two of the plane's four
engines. The plane was observed crashing in flames to the earth
inside the airport which was sealed off. A spokesman for the invader
forces acknowledged the operation but said "the plane was forced to
land with two engines on fire" but said nothing about losses suffered
as a result of the attack.
2) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath took responsibility for
an attack targeting the Hayat Tower Hotel in the center of Baghdad.
The attack killed one American who was a military guard at the
building. More than 12 other persons staying in the hotel were
injured. The hotel is reserved for American and Zionist businessmen
exclusively. Some members of the American Council of Ill-conception
(the so-called Interim Governing Council) such as ar-Rabi'i are also
allowed to stay at the hotel. Parts of the hotel façade were
destroyed in the attack.
3) In line with preventing the invader forces from stealing and
exploiting Iraq's oil resources to strengthen their occupation, a
formation of the Brigades of the Baath blew up the main oil pipeline
west of Kikuk, supplying oil over Iraqi territory to Turkey. The
attack put the pipeline out of commission for more than three months.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log.
Friday, 9 January 2004.
8:30 AM: Resistance fighters in a vehicle fired several RPG's at the
Burj al-Hayat Hotel in the Karrada District of Baghdad, hitting the
1st and 4th floor of the hotel and causing some damage but no
casualties. The hotel is used mainly by contractors, foreign
businessmen and other such parasites and pirates.
6 AM: RPG attack on a US patrol in Miqdadiyah.
8:30 AM: RPG attack on a US convoy near Imam Ways, northeast of
Baaqubah.
9 AM: RPG and small arms attack on a US patrol near as-Saqlawiyah,
between al-Fallujah and al-Habbaniyah.
9:17 AM: Resistance fighters launched 5 RPG's and fired small arms at
a US unit northeast of al-Habbaniyah. US forces counterattacked and
captured 12 Resistance fighters.
9:30 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy along Highway 1 near
Taji.
9:45 AM: Roadside bomb found by the same US convoy above a little
ways down the road. They were inspecting it when they were hit with
small arms fire.
10:30 AM: A crowd of ex-Iraqi soldiers demonstrated outside the ar-
Rafidayn Bank in al-Basrah for their back paychecks.
11:45 AM: RPG, automatic weapons, and heavy machine gun attack on a
force of US occupation troops, including tanks, along with a
contingent of ICDC puppet troops in al-Fallujah.
12:30 PM: Small arms attack on US occupation troops sweeping a main
al-Fallujah street for explosives.
1 PM: Ambush on a US convoy southwest of ar-Ramadi. Resistance
fighters first set off several roadside bombs at once when the convoy
passed by, and then fired small arms at the convoy. 1 Resistance
fighter was arrested.
1:10 PM: Suicide bicycle bomb outside Shi'a mosque in Baaqubah blew
up during evening prayers, killing 5 Iraqis and wounding 38 more.
Bomb was a propane tank.
Pic: http://tinyurl.com/yv69p
http://tinyurl.com/2cpo9
2 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US patrol northeast of Baaqubah.
2 PM: While continuing to sweep the same main al-Fallujah street for
explosives, the same unit that was attacked at 12:30 was attacked
again.
2:30 PM: Car bomb found and disarmed outside 2nd Shi'a mosque in
Baaqubah.
2:30 PM: Several Resistance fighters arrested while trying to dig
holes for bombs in north Baaqubah.
3 PM: Bomb attack on a US/Iraqi police stooge military checkpoint in
al-Fallujah.
4 PM: RPG attack on US occupation troops and Iraqi police stooges
carrying out house raids in al-Fallujah. 1 stooge was wounded.
4:30 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on a US patrol northeast of
Baghdad.
Afternoon: Bomb found in al-Fallujah.
6 PM: RPG attack on a US foot patrol northwest of Khalidiyah near
Fadil.
6:30 PM: A US helicopter spotted Resistance fighters planting a bomb
in east Mosul. The helicopter swooped down at the Resistance
fighters. The Resistance fighters fired automatic weapons at the
copter and escaped.
8 PM: Mortar or RPG attack on an Iraqi so-called civil defense force
base near Miqdadiyah.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base near 'Ali an-Nu'man, east
of ar-Ramadi.
8:30 PM: US occupation troops shot dead 2 more Iraqi puppet police,
this time in Kirkuk. Police car was stopped in a Kirkuk intersection.
Troops responding to reports of heavy gunfire shot dead the 2 puppets
in error.
8:30 PM: Small arms attack on a US armored unit securing the site of
the Black Hawk crash southeast of al-Fallujah.
9 PM: Mortar and small arms attack on a US airbase near Kirkuk.
9 PM: Several Iraqi Resistance fighters posed as collaborators and
offered to show US occupation troops where a weapons cache was
hidden. They took the soldiers to the site but it was actually a
place where several bombs were hidden. The Resistance fighters then
moved back away from the troops and tried to detonate the bombs with
a detonator cord but troops stopped them. Soldiers then discovered
the bombs, realized they had been tricked, and arrested the
Resistance fighters.
10 PM: RPG and small arms attack on a US armored convoy 2 miles
southeast of Khalidiyah.
Night: A mortar shell landed in the yard of a home near Baaqubah,
killing 2 Iraqis. It is not known who fired the shell.
US soldiers kill 2 Iraqi puppet police in Tikrit. Troops responded to
a call about men firing on a house. Troops arrived and saw 2 Iraqis
firing on a home. The men tried to run away when they saw the troops.
Troops shot them both dead. It turned out they were involved in a
family dispute.
Troops raided Tikrit and detained 16 Resistance fighters. One had
infiltrated the Tikrit Iraqi puppet police force and was spying for
the Resistance fighters.
RPG attack on US occupation troops near Samarra'. Troops returned
fire and martyred 2 Resistance fighters.
A Resistance fighter fired a rocket at a Karbala' puppet police
checkpoint. Puppets spotted him and opened fire, wounding him. The
Resistance fighter escaped and the rocket missed the checkpoint.
Resistance fighters in the Shaykh Hamid District of Baghdad observed
2 vehicles driving SUV's similar to the type the occupation forces
drive. The Resistance fighters detonated a roadside bomb to hit the
SUV's but missed, hitting a civilian van right behind them instead.
The driver of the van was wounded.
Mine attack on a US armored vehicle north of al-Husaybah near the
Syrian border. The mine made a direct hit on the vehicle.
Bomb found in Kanan, southeast of Baaqubah. Bomb was a crate with
yellow wires protruding.
Decoy bomb found near Ad-Duwar. It was black with yellow wires
protruding.
Bomb found near Samarra'. Bomb was a 130mm round with an antenna for
remote detonation.
Bomb found in the back of an Iraqi puppet policeman's truck in the al-
Qadawi District of Baghdad. Bomb was made of 1 pound of C4. When
puppets came to clear the bomb away, Resistance fighters attacked
them with small arms.
Bomb found in the al-Hurriyah District of Baghdad. Bomb was a 122mm
round with a blasting cap and firing device.
Bomb found 5 miles northeast of ar-Ramadi near 'Ali an-Nu'man. Bomb
was a US 155mm high-explosive M107 round packed with C4 and a
blasting cap.
Several bombs found along the highway north of Hit. The bombs were US
155mm M107 artillery rounds with a detonation cord rigged to be
command detonated from ½ mile away.
Several bombs found along the highway west of Baghdad.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency.
Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah
Saturday, 10 January 2004.
1) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath took responsibility for
an attack on an American military patrol in ar-Ramadi. The attack
left one American soldier dead and wounded one other in addition to
destroying a Humvee.
2) A formation of Saddam's Fedayeen took responsibility for an attack
on an American convoy near the city of al-Qa'im. According to the
communiqué of the Resistance, the attack left three occupation
soldiers dead and two others wounded and destroyed one tank and three
various vehicles.
3) A formation of the Brigades of the Baath prepared an ambush for an
American patrol in the area of ad-Durah in the center of the capital
Baghdad. According to the communiqué issued by the Command of the
Resistance, the attack left two soldiers dead and wounded one other
and destroyed a Humvee.
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_10012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log
Saturday, 10 January 2004.
4:30 AM: Mortar attack on US occupation base east of Baaqubah.
6:30 AM: Small arms attack on a US unit guarding a bank in Baaqubah.
7:30 AM: Mortar attack on the US Qastal Mihl Airbase just north of
Baghdad Airport.
7:45 AM: 107mm rocket attack on the US airbase in Balad.
9:30 AM: An Iraqi collaborator, an interpreter for a US contractor,
was found shot dead in the al-Mulla 'Alwan District of Baghdad.
9:45 AM: A fuel truck in a US convoy flipped over and caught fire in
an incident on the highway northwest of Mosul.
10:30 AM: Bomb attack on a US checkpoint in Baaqubah. The bomb was
hidden in a dead dog.
10:30 AM: Grenade attack on Estonian patrol in the Mazra' District of
Baghdad. 2 Estonian soldiers wounded.
10:45 AM: A riot in 'Amarah in the Marsh Arab region of southern Iraq
killed 4 Iraqis and wounded more. A crowd rallied outside the local
puppet so-called Civil Military Information Center office to protest
the provincial governor and the lack of jobs. They threw stones and
homemade bombs at Iraqi puppet police, who opened fire on them in
response, killing 4 Iraqis. British soldiers then moved. One Iraqi
tossed 2 grenades at soldiers and was getting ready to toss another
one when troops shot him dead. Another Iraqi armed with grenades was
wounded. A total of 8 homemade bombs were thrown at security forces.
The mayor' s office and a clinic behind it were both reportedly
plundered. There were no casualties amongst the Occupation forces. In
the whole fracas, 6 Iraqis were killed and 11 wounded. No police or
military casualties were reported.
11 AM: A large explosion was heard in Baaqubah and a vehicle was in
flames. Apparent car bomb. Target unknown.
12 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US convoy at an intersection in
Iskandariyah.
1 PM: Iraqis demonstrated in front of an Iraqi puppet police station
in ash-Shatrah, north of an-Nasiriyah demanding jobs. The traitor
police fired shots into the crowd.
4 PM: Danish troops found old, useless, corroded mortar shells with
blister agent in them buried underground in al-Qurnah and somehow
this became a significant news event.
4 PM: SAM attack on a US military cargo jet near Baghdad Airport.
Missile was fired from south of the airport.
7 PM: Mortar attack on a US unit near Munayshifah, north of Samarra'.
8 PM: Grenade attack on a US patrol in the Sulaymaniyah District of
central Baghdad.
8 PM: Mortar attack on a US occupation base in the al-Hurriyah
District of Baghdad.
8:30 PM: Small arms attack on Iraqi so-called civil defense guards
near the Mosul Airbase. 4 Resistance fighters were later arrested. No
puppet casualties reported.
8:30 PM: Mortar attack on the Abu Ghurayb Prison.
8:30 PM: Roadside bomb attack on a US patrol along the highway in the
Ahmad Ghajar District of Baghdad.
9:45 PM: RPG attack on a US checkpoint near Miqdadiyah.
11:30 PM: Small arms attack on a joint US/Iraqi puppet security
forces checkpoint southwest of Wajihiyah near Qaryat ash-Shishan.
Resistance fighters fled on a motorcycle. Wajihiyah is now starting
to see some attacks for the first time.
11:51 PM: Small arms attack on a US occupation base in the
Sulaymaniyah District of central Baghdad.
Night: A female Resistance fighter attacked US soldiers with a
grenade as they were raiding her home during Resistance fighter raids
in Baaqubah. No casualties reported. 7 Resistance fighters were
arrested.
Canadian teacher killed in either an ambush or a mine attack
somewhere in Iraq this past week. No further details. He was in a car
with 4 Iraqis at the time.
An American citizen, Majeed Hanoun, an Iraqi-born US resident working
with the occupation, was shot dead in Basra along with another man
not reportedl working for the occupation.
US occupation troops interrupted Resistance fighters planting
roadside bombs in Ata, in the west of Anbar Province. Resistance
fighters fired on the troops with machine guns. 1 soldier was
wounded.
Bomb found in Baaqubah.
Bomb found 5 miles east of Iskandariyah near Jufr as-Saqr. Bomb was
several 155mm rounds encased in concrete.
Source: Free Palestine Information Agency
3.***Solidarity with the Formation of the Iraqwar News Network***
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/INNSolidarity.html
We at the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network would like to Bring to the attention of our readers the excellant accomplishment of the SDAJ In Munich which has created the Iraqwar News Network, to counter the Anglo-Zionist Imperialist Press and its stupid Fascist Lies. We support this effort, and call for solidarity. The Website can be found at
http://iraq-news.net.tf/
4.***NDFSK News Report:Briefs on the anti-US anti-war struggles in south Korea***
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/NDFSKagainstthewar.html
Briefs on the anti-US anti-war struggles in south Korea
Article apeared in the National Democratic Front of South Korea January 2004 News Report
12.12-The permanent chairman Yang Un-sik of the US regional Headquarters of Beomminryon, rendered support to the hunger strike to check the troop dispatch to Iraq, staged by the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon.
-The chairmen of the General Student Councils of universities in Seoul called a press conference to oppose the authorities' moves to send additional troops to Iraq.
-The Busan People's Solidarity issued a statement titled "We actively support the indefinite hunger strike of the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon" against the troop dispatch to Iraq.
12.13- The South Headquarters of Beomminryon issued the struggle directive to all its members in regard to the anti-US patriotic hunger strike of the presidium members to check the troop dispatch.
-The Gwangju Jeonnam Area Federation of University Student Councils held a rally for anti-US anti-war peace and death-defying check of the troop dispatch to Iraq.
-The Gwangju Jeonnam Area Student Measure Committee against the Troop Dispatch to Iraq issued a statement against the plots to pass the "motion on the troop dispatch" in the National Assembly.
12.14-The People's Action against the Troop Dispatch issued an urgent statement against the government authorities and the representatives of the parties who agreed on the execution of additional 3,000 troop dispatch to Iraq.
The statement deplored that they showed on their own accord by the agreement that this land was reduced into one of the US states, deprived of the sovereignty, and stressed that it would exert every effort to revoke the decision on the troop dispatch.
-The People's Action against the Troop Dispatch held a press conference in front of Cheong Wa Dae (Presidential office) to denounce the authorities' move to send additional troops to Iraq.
12.15-The Reunification Solidarity issued a statement titled "Let us check the decision of the troop dispatch by the people's efforts".
-Hanchongryon issued a statement against the pass of the decision of the troop dispatch at the parliament.
-The chairman of the Reunification Committee of Hanchongryon issued a statement to call for a struggle against the authorities' decision on the additional troop dispatch to Iraq.
12.16-Members of the civic organizations and students under Seochongryon held a rally in Youido, Seoul, to support the anti-US patriotic hunger strike of the presidium members of Beomminryon to check the troop dispatch.
-The People's Action for the Revision of the South Korea-US SOFA, Those Opening Peace and Reunification and the Movement Headquarters to Return the US Yongsan Garrison held the 51st anti-US solidarity rally in front of the US Embassy.
-The students of Seochongryon held an one-man demo in front of the office of the president of the Grand National Party(GNP), against the pass of the motion of the troop dispatch in the parliament.
12.17-The South Headquarters of Beomminryon held in front of the Gate Gwanghwa, a cultural festival for the anti-US patriotic hunger strikers.
12.18-Several organizations staged the struggle against the decision on the additional troop dispatch to Iraq.
The People's Action against the Troop Dispatch, together with the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon who were on hunger strike, held a rally in front of the Gukmin Bank.
They declared that the people together with the peace-loving peoples of the world strongly demand the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq and will never tolerate the dispatch of the south Korean troops to Iraq.
-Several organizations involving the Reunification Solidarity and the Reunification Plaza joined in the hunger strike of the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon to check the troop dispatch to Iraq.
-Newly elected chairmen of the General Student Councils of 12 universities in Gwangju Jeonnam Area, held a joint press conference against the troop dispatch to Iraq calling for the revocation of the authorities' decision on the troop dispatch and the struggle to check the pass of the motion of troop dispatch at the parliament.
-Those Opening Peace and Reunification, the Lawyers for Democratic Society and the Study Commission of the US Troops Problem held a seminar under the theme "What is the problem in the negotiation for the transfer of the US Yongsan Garrison?".
-The Busan Citizens' Peace Action against the Troop Dispatch to Iraq paid protest visits to the offices of the parliamentary members of the GNP who were actively supporting the troop dispatch to Iraq.
12.19-Those Opening Peace and Reunification, the Green Korea United, the Movement Headquarters for Eradicating the GIs' Crimes and the Conference for Independence and Reunification called a press conference in front of the Seoul District Court to demand the punishment of the GI criminals who discharged the toxic materials into the Han river.
-A street cultural festival to check the troop dispatch to Iraq, was observed in front of the Gate Gwanghwa with the participation of the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon who were on the hunger strike for 9 consecutive days and members of civic organizations and students.
12.20-A function to check authorities' move to dispatch troops to Iraq was observed in front of the Gate Gwanghwa under the auspices of the People's Action against the Troop Dispatch.
Present there were the members of 351 civic organizations, students and the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon, who were on an indefinite hunger strike.
They staged a human-chaining event towards the Government Building chanting slogans such as "Dissolve the plant-like parliament", "No troop dispatch" and "No war".
-Hanchongryon held at the Jongmyo Park an emergency student rally on the situation to check the troop dispatch to Iraq.
12.21-The chairman of the Seoul Coalition of Beomminryon issued an appeal to the students in the Seoul area.
The appeal, rejecting the decision on the troop dispatch, called on the students to eliminate the GNP and other pro-US conservatives and conduct the dynamic struggle to safeguard the national independence and achieve the reunification through the firm unity under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.
12.23-The Catholic Coalition for Iraqi Peace grouping 19 religious organizations including the Practice Coalition for the Church Reform, observed in front of the Sejong Cultural Hall near the Gate Gwanghwa, a prayer meeting to demand the repeal of the decision on the troop dispatch to Iraq.
-Student councils and colleagues' groups of Gyeonggi, Yunse, Seogang, Hanggong Universities, the Methodist Theology University, Myongji, Ehwa Womsn's Universities, and the Student Commission of the Democratic Labor Party formed a preparatory committee for the joint action of the students in the western region to oppose the troop dispatch to Iraq and realize peace on the Korean Peninsula.
They published a joint resolution titled "The students in the western region, rise up actively to check the humiliating troop dispatch to Iraq".
-Different social segments strongly protested against the vote for the troop dispatch.
In this regard, the People's Action against the Troop Dispatch issued a commentary, and the vice-chairman of the Busan National Democratic Youth Association, the chairman of General Student Council of Korea Uni. and the head of the policy affaires of the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, expressed their opposition to the troop dispatch.
-Participants in a resolution rally of the youth and students in the Gwangju Jeonnam area published an article calling for a more energetic struggle to implement the June 15 joint declaration and safeguard peace against the US and war.
12.24-The Reunification Solidarity issued a statement titled "We denounce the government that betrayed the people's mind and revealed its status as a henchman of the aggressive war".
-The "Hanchongryon Death-defying Squad to Check the Pass of the Decision of the Troop Dispatch to Iraq at the Parliament" called a press conference in front of the Gate Gwanghwa.
-The South Headquarters of Beomminryon issued a statement to denounce the government's decision of the troop dispatch to Iraq.
12.25-Some 40 religious organizations involving the "Catholic Coalition for Anti-war Peace" observed a joint prayer meeting for peace near the US Embassy in Seoul.
12.26-The 6th Friday rally for anti-US anti-war peace (a rally to denounce the US which deployed the modern weapons in the demilitarized zone to launch a war on the Korean Peninsula) was held in front of the US Embassy in Seoul.
-The Paengsong Town Measure Committee against the Expansion of the US Military Bases, declared in front of the Pyongtaek US military base, a "tent-strike to defend our land from the expansion of the US military bases".
12.29-The hunger strikers of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon held in front of the National Assembly Building in Youido, Seoul, an anti-US patriotic cultural festival on the occasion of their 19th day of hunger strike.
12.31-3,000-odd people of the civic organizations involving the People's Action against the Troop Dispatch, the International Democratic Solidarity and the All People Measure Committee for the Schoolgirls Killed by the GIs, held at the Sejongro in Seoul a function against the US and the troop dispatch.
5.***National Democratic Front of South Korea:Never to be the bullet shield for the US***
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/NDFSKNevertobebulletforUS.html
January 2004 Statement of the National Democratic Front of South Korea Mission in Pyongyang
Never to be the bullet shield for the US
The cabinet council meeting held in Chong Wa Dae on Dec. 23 last year voted for a troop dispatch to Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil region, in a scale of 3,000 strong troops next April.
Notwithstanding the resistance of our people to the troop dispatch to Iraq was so vehement in the teeth of the grim of the cold, the authorities meekly yielded to the US masters' instructions, clamoring about the "national interests", causing queasy sentiment among the people.
Moreover, the high-handed arrogance of the Bush group which lets the south Korean authorities obsequiously fall on its knees, looks more disgusting.
In case our sons and daughters are dispatched to Iraq, it is obvious that they would be a main target of the Iraqis' denunciation and cursing and pay the cost of their blood.
The Iraqi resistance forces have already killed our civilians 2 months ago and horribly warned that "the south Korean troops, if dispatched, would be targeted at any case in disregard of their mission".
A Chinese news agency reported that "even after Saddam's capture, the security of Iraq under the US occupation is getting worse".
The Bush group which drives our youngsters to danger-prevailed Iraq as the bullet shield for the GIs, is really a sworn enemy deserving of the curse of our people.
A professor at Busan National University outrightly opposed the troop dispatch to Iraq claiming that helping Bush by sending troops to Iraq is as same as helping Hitler.
And the long-term national interests lay on the assistance to the Iraqi people, not the assistance to the Bush scoundrels, the wolves, who hinder our nation's reunification and seek another Korean War.
The hunger strike of the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon was continued despite the severe cold amidst the fervent support of the patriotic people from different social segments, and the shouts "No troop dispatch" and "No war" spread everywhere in Seoul, Gwangju, Busan, etc.
The south Korean people, together with the peace-loving peoples of the world, are strongly demanding the pullout of the US troops from Iraq and don't tolerate the troop dispatch to Iraq as the bullet shield for the GIs.
Never to be the bullet shield for the US.
6.* "Victory to Iraq, Down with Imperialism!"- Essay by Arthur Henson (PDF)***
link to www.geocities.com
Victory to Iraq! Down with Imperialism!
The Social and Historical Content of the United States—Iraq War
By Arthur Henson
The occupation of Iraq by U.S. and British imperialism has only intensified the underlying social and historical issues of the war. The main and fundamental thing in the war is the conflict of the internal forces of social development of Iraq against the forces of imperialist domination. However, this all-important question is very little understood among the people's forces outside Iraq.
The highest question of war is the justice or injustice of any given cause. An unjust cause is one that seeks to move society backward. The injustice of the imperialist cause in Iraq has become clear to vast numbers of people.
Iraq's cause is that of sovereignty and independent social development. It is just because it seeks to move society forward. Iraq's cause has been just at every stage from the outbreak of the U.S.-Iraq war in 1990 until the present. However, to date few grasp the justice of Iraq's cause. The war cannot be understood on one side only.
The unjust imperialist cause cannot effectively be opposed if the justice of Iraq's cause is not understood. It is a factual matter, it is a conceptual matter, but most of all, it is a practical matter.
T
he war started in 1990 because Iraq challenged U.S.-Israeli domination of the Middle East. However, the 1991 aggression failed in its objective to crush Iraqi sovereignty. The 1991 failure showed that the people of Iraq are the more powerful than the imperialists, for all their weaponry. Moreover, because of that failure the invasion of 2003 was undertaken not out of the strength but out of the decay of the imperialist grip. The people of Iraq, in their determination to have their sovereignty and independence, are the most important factor in the war.
The second important factor in the war is the worldwide people's movement against the imperialist aggression. To date, however, the people's forces have been greatly hampered by insufficiencies in their understanding of the war. Let us take a look at the record.
During the early 1990s children in Iraq died in the hundreds of thousands due to the attack of 1991 and the economic sanctions imposed by the so-called "United Nations," a tool of imperialism. As early as 1991 competent medical observers in the United States had predicted this catastrophe. Still the people's forces in the United States, with certain honorable exceptions, did almost nothing until 1996 to oppose the genocidal crime of "UN" sanctions. The reason was that, even among progressive people, a good understanding of the war was rare.
The latest phase has seen the emergence of a much better grasp of the imperialist aggression. However, a sufficiently good understanding of the revolutionary and anti-imperialist content of modern Iraqi history is also needed. Here the people's forces still need to do a lot of work. Let us take another look at the record.
During the period preceding the invasion the overwhelmingly dominant line in the antiwar movement could be summed up as "neither Bush nor Saddam." This line equates the aggressor with the victim. It hopelessly muddles the anti-imperialist character of Iraq's struggle. It is as if to say of the American Revolution, "Neither George III nor Washington," on grounds that Washington was a slaveholder. Such views are utterly unhistorical and wrong.
The root problem is the failure to understand the most important aspect of the war, the determinative aspect, which is Iraq's drive to become a developed and modern country. The imperialists have demonized Saddam Hussein precisely to prevent the growth of awareness on this question. It is a strategy that has served them well.
Yes, Washington was a slaveholder, but the victory of the American Revolution set in motion the forces that three generations later overthrew the slavocracy. Yes, Saddam Hussein is the leader of the Iraqi national bourgeoisie, but his country cannot develop without the expulsion of imperialism from the Middle East.
The people of Iraq are fighting a great, world-historic war against imperialism. It is linked to the Palestinian struggle for national rights and to the people's struggles against imperialism throughout the Middle East and the world.
The people of Iraq will never submit to the conquerors. They are more powerful than imperialism. In the end they will win. Their victory will be a smashing blow to the entire imperialist world-system. Until the people's forces everywhere grasp these historical aspects of the war they will remain to a very great extent hampered by imperialist ideology.
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aving said all these outrageous things let me present in schematic form my view of modern Iraqi history.
Prior to 1958 Iraq was a semi-feudal, semi-colonial society. That is, its economy was mainly agrarian. The dominant class was that of the hereditary large landowners. The government was a British-dominated monarchy. In 1958 the king was overthrown and assassinated in a national-democratic revolution. The revolution was based on the modern classes—the nascent bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, and working class. It was a powerful blow of the Iraqi people against imperialism.
Ten years of political turmoil followed as Iraq struggled to create a new social order. Army officers held power at some times, the Iraqi Ba'ath [Rebirth] Socialist Party, based mainly on the petty bourgeoisie, held power at other times. The Iraqi Communist Party was part of the government at times. The ICP claims the Ba'thists killed and tortured thousands of Communists in this period. The Ba'athists claim that the ICP killed and tortured thousands of them. At this remove it is difficult to resolve the question of why these parties were so much in conflict.
There are claims that the CIA was involved in a 1963 coup that brought the Ba'ath to power. However, Iraq broke off diplomatic relations with the United States in 1967 when the Ba'ath was out of power. The Ba'ath finally formed a stable government in 1968 but relations with the United States were not re-established until 1984. Whatever the CIA's part, it didn't have much effect.
In 1972-1975 a second development of basic importance occurred. Iraq expropriated its oil resources from the British and U.S. companies that previously held control. The key figure in this great victory of the Iraqi people was the head of internal security, a young man named Saddam Hussein. By 1979 Iraq's oil revenues were thirty times what they had been in 1972. Its economy was about eight times as large. The semi-feudal, semi-colonial social order was no more. It had been replaced by an emergent national-capitalist order. Iraq made great strides in education, health care and industrialization. It was a beacon of progress to the Arab world.
It should specifically be understood that capitalism in Iraq had not matured to the stage of imperialism, as it long since had in the United States. Industrialization was only partially completed. Iraq had no part in the imperialist division of the world. Capital was not exported but was absorbed by internal markets. These are among the essential features of capitalist imperialism and none of them applied to Iraq.
During this period Iraq's key international relations were with the Soviet Union and France. These relations amounted to a posture of non-alignment in the U.S-Soviet confrontation. The United States punished Iraq for its independence by supporting a Kurdish warlord, Mullah Mustafa Barzani, in an insurgency against Baghdad that cost 15,000 lives. The U.S. intermediaries in this dirty business were Israel, which supplied weapons, and the Shah of Iran. Saddam Hussein made some vital concessions to the Shah in 1975, and the Shah cut off aid to Mullah Barzani. His insurgency collapsed immediately, which proves it was not popularly based. The Kurdish Barzani and Talabani warlord clans remain tools of imperialism to this day.
In 1979 another great blow was struck against imperialism in the Persian Gulf: the Shah was overthrown in a people's revolution. Unfortunately, Iran and Iraq proved unable to unite in the common cause against imperialism. Despite Iraqi initiatives Iran refused to settle the issues and tensions between the two countries left over from the Shah. Matters went from bad to worse, and in September of 1980 Iraq invaded Iran.
The Iran-Iraq war was a great tragedy. It never should have happened. However, the two countries went to war for their own reasons, and Iran shares with Iraq the blame for its outbreak. As for U.S. imperialism, its policy was that "both sides should lose." It allied at some times with Iraq against Iran, with Iran at other times against Iraq, and even at times with each against the other. The notion that it was a proxy war of U.S. imperialism against Iran is nonsense. Neither should progressive people take one side against the other. Such ideas have to be discarded because they make it almost impossible to understand the outbreak in 1990 of the ongoing U.S.-Iraq War.
In 1988 Iraq won its war with Iran. It came out the strongest power of the Persian Gulf, on a par with Israel in conventional militarily force. A pillar of U.S. policy in the Middle East is that Israel must be maintained at a level of military power greater than all Arab countries combined. Iraq's victory made confrontation inevitable.
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he U.S.-Iraq war started because in the spring of 1990 Saddam Hussein conducted a political-diplomatic campaign for Arab unity against the domination of the United States and Israel. At the Amman Summit in February and at the meeting of the Arab League in May he called for withdrawal of U.S. military forces from the Gulf, Arab unity against Israel, and common programs of economic and cultural development. It was a challenge that U.S. imperialism could not tolerate.
Iraq's modern development and U.S. domination had become impossible to mediate by any means other than war. Had Iraq remained at the semi-feudal stage, none of this would have happened. What stands out clearly is that the basic problem for imperialism in the Persian Gulf is, as strange as it may seem, the development of capitalism. *
The war did not start because of the Kuwait crisis of 1990. The crisis was a setup, rigged by the rulers of the U.S. and Kuwait as a pretext for war. The "United Nations" played a most despicable part. It abdicated all responsibility for peace and covered U.S. imperialism with Security Council Resolution 678, which authorized aggression not by the "UN" itself but by "member states."
At first George H.W. Bush, Sr. used the "liberation of Kuwait" to promote his war. The story aroused little enthusiasm. Senior then invented an Iraqi threat to Saudi Arabia. That didn't fly either. Bush, Sr. then invented the perennial lie of the "threat" of Iraq's non-existent "nuclear weapons." He would have his war, no matter what.
The 1991 attack was an attempt to solve a political problem by exclusively military means. The imperialists needed to put a regime in Baghdad that would follow their orders. They could think of nothing more to do than kill tens of thousands of people and destroy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of economic assets. The great contradiction of the 1991 aggression is that at the same time U.S. imperialism could make no political gain in Iraq or the Persian Gulf whatsoever. Indeed, it lost politically, because the masses justly came to hate it more than ever.
For years the people of Iraq bore the "UN"-imposed genocide of sanctions. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright even had the brass to tell CBS television in 1996 that the deaths of half a million children were "worth it." From the standpoint of imperialism, she was telling the truth.
U.S. imperialism committed more and more aggressions against Iraq: the "UN" spy operation called "weapons inspections" was kept up long after any so-called "weapons of mass destruction" were eliminated; air transport was banned by imposition of the "no-fly zones;" in 1998 Clinton massively bombed Iraq in Operation Desert Fox, appropriately named for a Nazi general; bombings were kept up almost daily after that. A number of lessons can be drawn from this phase of the war.
The first is that there really is no "rule of law" under imperialism except for the domination of the strongest, the law of the jungle. The only way the people of the world can ever have the true rule of law is to overthrow, destroy, and eliminate this rotten, backward social system. They must replace it with the new, better society of socialism. On the time scale of history the people will do this soon.
The second lesson is that under the appearance of armed "strength" lay the decay of the imperialist grip. The rest of the world grew impatient with Washington's endless vendetta. Iraq made a return to world oil markets, although with many restrictions, and made some economic recovery toward the end of the 1990s. (It was probably Clinton's failure to crush Iraq that was the real motive behind the fascist attempt to remove him in the Lewinsky affair.)
The sanctions regime was gradually breaking down. Had Iraq emerged from the sanctions with Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath in power, it would have been a great victory for Iraq. Imperialism would soon have lost of its domination of the Persian Gulf. The disastrous predicament of imperialism today derives from this circumstance. The imperialists have done what they had to, not what they wanted to, regardless of all dangers and limitations.
The third lesson is the uselessness to the masses of the "neither Clinton/Bush nor Saddam" line. Firstly, it derives from the demonization of Saddam Hussein by the imperialists for having defied them. Secondly, it wrongly equates the aggressor with the victim of aggression. Thirdly, it wrongly distinguishes the Iraqi state authority of the time from the masses in the struggle against imperialism. At no time has this line done anything but confuse the masses. The correct line is "Victory to Iraq, down with imperialism."
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y the middle of the 1990s it was admitted by U.S. policymakers that the 1991 attack on Iraq had failed. For all the destruction and death, for all the genocidal sanctions, Washington had failed to install a client regime in Baghdad.
It had become clear that one of two things would happen: either Iraq would pursue a course of independent development, or U.S. imperialism would maintain its domination of the Persian Gulf. There was, and is, no middle way out. Indeed, the war had broken out in 1990 because U.S. policymakers could no longer reconcile this conflict by any other means.
Nonetheless a U.S. invasion of Iraq was considered unthinkable. The risks were too many, the costs of failure too great. The question is what drove U.S. policymakers to change their minds. The only good answer is that in 2000 Saddam Hussein had begun to sell oil for euros. He broke the dollar monopoly on international oil sales.
By the year 2000 the U.S. sanctions policy against Iraq was in danger of collapse. Trade with Jordan and Saudi Arabia was returning to normal. Iraq had returned to the international oil markets, although with many restrictions, and a pipeline through Syria had been reopened. Business and cultural delegations to Iraq had become common. Iraq was breaking down its diplomatic isolation.
Then came Iraq's crowning blow against Washington: in 2000 the United Nations accepted a resolution that allowed Iraq to change the denomination of its bank accounts from dollars to euros. It also began to sell oil to French and German companies for euros.
This called into question the ability of the United States to maintain its enormous balance of accounts deficits without negative consequences. The United States can import huge quantities more of goods every year than it exports—cars, shoes, toys, oil, etc.—and make the deficit up with paper marked as hundreds of billions of dollars. The sale of oil for dollars is one of the main supports of this bonanza.
For decades international oil sales have been denominated exclusively in U.S. dollars. Hence a country like Japan, which runs a huge trade surplus with the United States, can use a large part of its extra dollars to buy oil. Oil exporting countries can use dollars in the United States. Countries like Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, major oil suppliers to Japan, put dollars back into the United States through purchases, bank accounts, investment, bribery of high officials, and so forth. Indeed, they have little recourse. It comes to trillions.
More trillions of dollar exports are absorbed as reserve currencies. Many countries use dollars as a reserve. That is, they use dollars much like gold to back their own currencies. The dollar has an unrivaled position as an international reserve currency in large part because dollars can always be used to buy oil.
Iraq threatened all that. When the euro strengthened against the dollar in 1991 it brought Iraq a 15% windfall in the value of its accounts. The advantages to oil exporters of optional currency denomination became obvious. By 1992 Iran and Venezuela had started to consider sale of oil for euros.
Washington could not tolerate this. If the euro were to achieve parity with the dollar in oil sales and as a reserve currency, the ability of the United States to maintain its deficits would decrease. European countries would get a share of the benefits.
France and Germany together have about half the economic activity of the United States. Roughly speaking, parity of currencies would mean that France and Germany would between them also share about one third of the benefits now monopolized by the United States. If the United States can now manage a half-trillion annual balance of payments deficit, it would lose the ability to handle about one hundred and sixty-seven billion dollars. Other trade and investment methods of handling the deficit would also be affected. The difference would have to be made up by a fall in the value of the dollar against other currencies. It could amount to a drop of 20% or more.
It was to forestall this possibility that Bush launched his aggression against Iraq. Of course there are other objectives of U.S. policy, mainly control of oil and land. These motives were the same from 1990 forward, however. They do not explain the immensely consequential change from sanctions to conquest.
When Bush talked about Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction," he lied about his motives for war. Even if Iraq had turned out to have weapons of the kind, Bush would still have been lying because that was never his motive for war. Bush wanted to keep the dollar supreme; he wanted to grab control of oil and strategically located territory; he never told the people. These actions more than justify the impeachment and removal from office of Bush, Cheney, and their entire administration: they demand it.
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ar is decided not by weapons but by social conditions. The lessons of the 1960s in Southeast Asia are fully applicable to Iraq today because the basic social conditions are the same.
Imperialism is weak because it is a social system in decay. It is isolated from the people. The people of Iraq overwhelmingly hate U.S. imperialism and will never allow it to rule their country. The war is also an abuse of the people of the United States. No matter how long and how much the media and the state apparatus of the United States lie to the people, eventually they will discover that the war is completely against their interests. They will turn against it, just as they turned against the wars in Southeast Asia.
It comes down to saying that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have brought U.S. imperialism to the stage of strategic defeat. Every attempt at the formation of a puppet government to manage the occupation has met failure. There is no indigenous force to provide the invaders with any protection.
The imperialists brought in "UN" commissioner Xavier Vieira de Mello to help with the problem. De Mello set up the puppet "Iraqi Governing Council" and won it some diplomatic recognition—things Bush could not have done for himself. However, the Aug. 19 bombing of the "UN" Mission in Baghdad put an end to de Mello's usefulness.
Meanwhile the people's armed resistance grows stronger every day, mounting more attacks and becoming more skilled. The powerful U.S. military hardware is now largely useless. Attacks on U.S. troops are steadily bleeding any support the aggression may still have.
The imperialists may yet decide to "solve" their problems by attempting to kill everyone in Iraq. However, their experience with that policy in Southeast Asia in the 1960s cannot be very encouraging. Their attempts at wholesale genocide intensified the people's resistance, destabilized the region, and exposed U.S. imperialism to condemnation worldwide.
T
he great question of the U.S.-Iraq War is not who will win. The people are more powerful than imperialism. They will win. The great question of the war is whether or not the defeat of imperialism will entail a third world war. There is no certainty on this question at all.
The big imperialist powers have long had the world divided between them. A world war is a war between big imperialist powers for the re-division of the world. Germany went to war with Britain and France in 1914 to re-divide the colonial pie in its favor. In Europe, World War II started the same way. In Asia, the United States fought Japan mainly due to the struggle between the two for domination over China.
Rivalry is inevitable among big imperialist powers. The division of the world is never even with respect to strength. The United States is the strongest imperialist country. The other big imperialists are France, Germany, Britain, and Japan. The U.S. share of the plunder is far out of proportion to its economic strength in comparison to the other imperialist countries. In the past the imperialists have had no other way to re-divide the world but force. They never will. As long as imperialism exists there will be the danger of world war.
In this respect illusions about the "United Nations" are pernicious. The "United Nations" has no effect on the imperialist social system itself. It can never remove the danger of world war. Instead the "United Nations" reveals the object of contention at any given time. The "United Nations" is significant in this circumstance alone.
U.S. imperialism, as argued above, has invaded Iraq compelled by the need to exclude European imperialism from the Persian Gulf. The furious confrontation in the "UN" Security Council prior to invasion showed the rivalry. Consider what kind of response the U.S. imperialists would have made had France and Germany put together an expedition to invade and occupy Iraq.
There is a great danger that the war will spread beyond Iraq. U.S. imperialism spread its war against Vietnam to Laos and Cambodia in futile attempts to get off the defensive. Something similar could happen with Syria or even Iran. The occupation of Iraq has further intensified Saudi Arabia's internal tensions, which were already very great. In the event of the overthrow of the Saud dynasty there would be a great danger that United States would use its base in Iraq for the seizure of the Arabian oil fields. A development of this kind would further aggravate inter-imperialist tensions in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways.
As contradictory as it may seem, the people's armed resistance in Iraq is a great bulwark of world peace. Washington's arrogant presumption that the whole world would now have to bow down before it is already, in the face of the Iraqi quagmire, a thing of the past. It has met a great obstacle to its ability to wage further aggressions and endangerments to world peace.
Forces of resistance on all levels worldwide are encouraged to unite and struggle. The poorer countries had success in defense of their agriculture at the World Trade Organization conference in Cancun. The Bush program of domestic repression in the United States is meeting great opposition from a wide range of popular forces. Developments like these are greatly assisted by the Iraqi resistance.
The situation of the people of Iraq is completely different from that of imperialism. Their problem is to forge a unified resistance of all means, armed and unarmed, against the invader. This will take time and testing. Only those who genuinely serve the struggle against imperialism will be able to unite and lead the masses. Nor does it behoove progressive people elsewhere to pick and choose among the patriotic forces of Iraq for those that are "acceptable."
Had Iraq reached a more developed level of bourgeois democracy prior to the invasion the task of unity would be simpler. It is true that there was a repressive situation in Iraq during the period 1991-2003. However, much anti-war opinion, suffering from the limitations of the "neither Bush not Saddam" line, fails to observe that repression was inevitable in a small country facing the total and unrelenting hostility of an imperialist superpower.
Saddam Hussein is only one man. It is possible the imperialists will capture or kill him. This will not end the resistance he has organized. It will not end the efforts of any patriotic Iraqi force to drive out the invader. Neither would the personal elimination of Saddam in any way resolve the problems with the "neither Bush nor Saddam" line. It is not a question of the attitude toward an individual. It is a matter of how one understands the war.
Away with all confusion! The war must be understood for what it is, what it has been from the start: a great, world-historic struggle of the people of Iraq against imperialism. Their victory will be an immense victory for the people everywhere.
Victory to Iraq!
Down with Imperialism!
7***Open letter from Arab-American & Muslim community to U.S. anti-war movement***
link to www.geocities.com
Today, forty-one Arab American and Muslim organizations
issued an open letter that both supports the March 20 Call
to Action and challenges the anti-war movement in the U.S.
to take a principled stand in defense of
self-determination and in opposition to all U.S. plans for
colonial occupation. This important letter can be read in
full below.
On Saturday, January 10, a large, broad coalition met to
map out plans for March 20 demonstration activities. The
organizations that met included those that initiated and
endorsed the March 20 Call to Action: A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act
Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition, Al-Awda - the
Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Arab Muslim American
Federation, Free Palestine Alliance, Muslim American
Society Freedom Foundation, Muslim Student Association of
the U.S. and Canada and National Lawyers Guild. Other
groups that are mobilizing for March 20 were also invited
to attend. New York City Labor Against the War, the Campus
Anti-War Network and the International Socialist
Organization participated in the meeting. United for Peace
and Justice sent a message declining to attend.
The demands and political program of the coalition are
focused around the Call to Action issued on January 2. To
read that call, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m20/index.html
The principles of unity of the coalition include "Bring
the troops home now!", "End colonial occupation from Iraq
to Palestine and everywhere!", "Stop the attacks on civil
liberties!", and "Money for jobs, education, healthcare
and housing - Not war!" The coalition is also taking an
explicit position opposing internationalizing the
occupation of Iraq, instead insisting on the Iraqi
people's unconditional right to exercise
self-determination.
* * * * *
To ENDORSE the January 2 Call to Action, fill out the
easy-to-use form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m20/index.html#endorsement
Begin planning now to hold a demonstration in your city on
March 20, 2004. Hundreds of cities around the world are
issuing, circulating and joining this call. For more
information, contact the A.N.S.W.E.R. National Office at
202-544-3389.
- In New York City, the demonstration is planned to
assemble at 12 noon at Times Square with a march to the
United Nations. Call 202-544-3389 or 212-633-6646 for
details about upcoming city-wide planning meetings and for
more information.
- In San Francisco, the demonstration is planned to gather
at 11 am at Dolores Park (18th St. and Dolores St.) with a
march to the Civic Center. Call 415-821-6545 for more
information.
- In Los Angeles, the demonstration is planned to assemble
at 12 noon at Hollywood and Vine. Call 213-487-2368 for
more information.
If you are holding an event in your city, fill out the
form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m20/index.html#event
Downloadable flyers and more information is available at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m20/index.html
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A large number of organizations from the Arab-American and
Muslim community have issued the following open letter
concerning mobilizing for the March 20 demonstration. This
is an important statement and we encourage everyone to
post and circulate it widely.
AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE ARAB-AMERICAN AND MUSLIM COMMUNITY TO THE US ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
[To join as an organizational signatory or to be listed in
solidarity, please write to:  rashmawi@sbcglobal.net]
Background: A call to mobilize against colonial
occupations on March 20th, 2004, was issued and endorsed
by a large nationwide coalition of organizations and
communities that included the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition;
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; the
National Lawyers Guild; the Arab Muslim American
Federation; the Free Palestine Alliance-USA; the Muslim
American Society Freedom Foundation; and the Muslim
Student Association of the U.S. and Canada. The National
Council of Arab Americans (NCAA) supported this call in
full.
The call to mobilize demanded ending "all colonial
occupations from Iraq to Palestine to everywhere". It
also called for "bringing the troops home NOW" without
delay, and for opposing giving an international cover to
the colonial occupation of Iraq.
Some sectors in the anti-war movement objected to and are
organizing against these demands, insisting that Palestine
be dropped from the call for March 20 (as these same
sectors have often demanded), and that internationalizing
the occupation of Iraq should remain a viable option.
As a result, and in the context of a long history of being
silenced and marginalized, the Arab-American and Muslim
community prepared this open letter to the movement.
AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE ARAB-AMERICAN AND MUSLIM COMMUNITY
TO THE US ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
Dear peace and justice organizations and activists,
On March 20, 2004, the world will mobilize against war and
colonial occupations. The significance of this historic
day is evident to all and requires no further elaboration.
The political clarity and character of this mobilization
in the US, however, remains illusive.
This is where our community stands:
In confronting war, the people of Palestine and Iraq have
paid dearly. They stand against the imperial project
shoulder to shoulder with communities of color and the
working class in the United States, along with great many
subjugated peoples around the globe - from Afghanistan to
Colombia, and from the Philippines to Vieques, and on.
Without a doubt, the Palestinian and Iraqi people are
both welded together in an inextricable unity at the
forefront of the global anti-war movement, transforming
themselves as a whole as its embodiment and paying in its
defense with the dearest of all - their very existence.
Yet, despite every home destroyed, child murdered, acre
confiscated and tree uprooted, town colonized and
ethnically cleansed, wall built, refugee remaining
nation-less, and incremental robbery of their
self-determination, they remain the very antithetical
formulation of empire and with a vision of justice for
all.
In the United States, we, Arab-Americans and Muslims, have
been maliciously targeted, stripped of our rights, and
positioned outside the constitutional framework of this
country. A new COINTELPRO has been unleashed against our
homes and living rooms, as our fathers, mothers, sons, and
daughters are plucked away and thrown into unknown prison
cells. Thus, in a continuum of history, we stand with
African Americans, Japanese Americans, Latinos, Native
Americans, and all others in the painful struggle for
justice. From them all, we take our cue, for they are
our predecessors and our partners in this long march.
Accordingly, we the undersigned hereby declare that:
1. We do not accept delinking the struggle of the
Palestinian people from the anti-war movement, and regard
the struggle in Palestine, as it is viewed worldwide, to
be central to any peace and justice mobilization.
2. We insist that the Palestinian right to return and to
self-determination are the key anchors of the Palestinian
struggle, and that organizations that attempt to diminish,
sidetrack, or abrogate these rights, regardless of any
other position they may take on Palestine, are acting
contrary to the will and aspiration of the Palestinian
people.
3. We view all attempts to relegate our collective
presence to the margin and to tokenize our participation
in the movement to be racist in character. In its attempt
to silence the Arab and Muslim voices for decades,
particularly that of the Palestinian people, the movement
in the US has stood alone in the global movement for
justice. We see ourselves as full partners in leading the
movement as signified in the heavy price we continue to
pay along the way, and reject any attempt to objectify our
presence.
4. We regard the positions that the "colonial occupation
of Iraq must be internationalized", or that ending the
occupation must be conducted over a period of time until
the "Iraqis are able to secure their democracy", as
implicitly colonial and racist. These are positions that
are rooted in the construct of "manifest destiny" and the
"white man's burden" to "civilize".
5. We call on our people everywhere to hold all
organizations accountable to the positions they take,
especially those that depict racist attitudes towards us,
implicitly or otherwise, particularly those that tokenize
and objectify our struggle. Any organization or movement
that finds it acceptable to minimize or disregard for
political expediency the struggle of any people should not
be allowed to function within the global justice movement.
Justice is neither selective, nor partial or conditional.
We are firm on these principles for the March 20th
mobilization and beyond as we call on all communities and
organizations to mobilize and stand in force under the
following unifying five slogans:
1. End all colonial occupations from Iraq to Palestine to
everywhere!
2. Bring the troops home NOW!
3. No to internationalizing colonial occupations!
4. Stop the attacks on civil liberties!
5. Money for jobs, education, and healthcare not for war!
As we salute and stand empowered with sectors of the
movement that have taken a principled stand on justice, we
seek to participate in the empowerment of all as we call
for a genuine global united front against war.
All out on March 20, 2004!
(List in alphabetical order. To be included, please write
to: rashmawi@sbcglobal.net)
1. Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
2. Al-Bireh Palestine Society, California Chapter
3. Al-Qalam Institute
4. American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ)
5. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Greater
Sacramento Area Chapter
6. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, New Jersey
Chapter
7. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Seattle
Chapter
8. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Los
Angeles/Orange County Chapter
9. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San
Francisco Bay Area Chapter
10. Arab Center of Washington - Seattle
11. Arab Muslim American Federation
12. Arab-American Community Center, Chicago
13. Arab-American Forum, New Hampshire
14. Arab-American Press Guild
15. San Francisco Bay Area Palestine Coalition
16. Canada-Palestine Association
17. Canada-Palestine Friendship Society
18. Canadian Arab Federation
19. Committee for Democratic Palestine - Canada
20. Committee for Justice - USA
21. Deir Yassin Society of New York
22. Free Palestine Alliance - USA (FPA)
23. Friends of Ghassan Kanafani, Toronto Chapter
24. Kana'an Review
25. Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation (MAS
Freedom Foundation)
26. Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada
(MSA-National)
27. Muslim Students Association, California State
University, Sacramento
28. Muslim Students Association, University of California,
Davis
29. National Council of Arab Americans (NCAA)
30. Palestine Children's Welfare Fund
31. Palestine House Educational and Cultural Center,
Canada
32. Palestine Right of Return Congress - USA
33. Palestine Solidarity Committee - Los Angeles
34. Palestine Solidarity Committee - Seattle
35. Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago
36. Palestinian American Women's Association (PAWA)
37. Sacred Roots
38. Students for Justice in Palestine, California State
University, Sacramento
39. Students for Justice in Palestine, University of
California, Davis
40. The Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)
41. The United Muslim Association of High Schools Club
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8***Mumbai: All out in support of the Iraqi resistance!***
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Mumbai: All out in support of the Iraqi resistance!
Appeal by the Anti-imperialist Camp to the anti-war and
anti-globalisation movement
Mid January the different forces of the international anti-war and
anti-globalisation movement will meet in Mumbai, India. But this time
the World Social Forum (WSF) does not go unchallenged. In parallel
there will take place Mumbai Resistance 2004 (MR2004), a gathering
called for mainly by Indian revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces.
Why those forces felt constrained to organise their separate meeting?
The leaders of the WSF are quick to pronounce a generic accusation of
sectarianism while in India itself they even physically attacked
MR2004. However, there are more then serious reasons for a separate
anti-imperialist pole:
The WSF remains under the leadership of the so-called French-Brazilian
axis of moderate forces who want to humanize capitalist globalisation.
In the last WSF meetings in Brazil they excluded all those
anti-imperialist forces who see themselves forced to resort to the
means of arms to defend the popular interests. While the no global
leaders oppose the US preventive war, they substantially affirm the US
justification, namely the equation of armed resistance with terrorism.
The WSF leaders are not ready to take side with the resistance
struggle of the wretched of the world against the imperialist
onslaught neither in Yugoslavia, nor in Palestine or Iraq. They cannot
accept the people's right to self-determination against imperialism
including the choice of the means of struggle. They claim to counter
the US attempt to impose their empire by brute military force with a
neutralist pacifism only appropriate for the well-off middle classes
called "civil society". They downplay the deadly threat of the
American empire to humanity. According to them the preventive war
should be opposed by an utopian version of Clintonianism. Behind all
this stands the question whether to preserve or to attack the
imperialist-capitalist world system led by the US.
Eventually the Workers' Party of Brazil (PT), having taken
governmental office, is showing the world that humanizing capitalist
globalisation is impossible. No significant social reform is about to
be implemented. The reason why imperialism consented to the PT's
access to power was that only the PT could avert severe unrest and
rebellion in South America's biggest nation. Devastated by decades of
ultra-liberalism the US feared the repetition of the Argentinean
collapse on a much vaster scale possibly adding a new focus of
resistance to the US empire.
In India the record of some of the forces supporting the WSF is even
worse. In the states of West Bengal and Kerala the mainstream
communists have been holding senior governmental offices for decades
with only slight ameliorations for the popular masses. Since the early
90s they also embarked on neo-liberal programmes. As they have been
all through the post-colonial period in a more or less open block with
the Congress bourgeoisie, they did not tackle the burning questions of
the vast popular masses: the land reform which is inextricably linked
to the caste system. They even helped in crushing the agrarian
insurgencies of the Naxalite movement building a tradition of
counter-insurgency which today expresses itself in the "Prevention of
Terrorism Act" (POTA) implementing draconian measures against any
antagonist force. The bourgeoisie's counter-attack after the fall of
the USSR took the form of the fascist-like Hindu chauvinist Hindutva
movement. The elite castes succeeded in building a mass movement based
also on Hindu lower classes and castes against the Muslims and Dalit
(the lowest caste of untouchables) fighting for their rights. The
settled communists as well as a wide range of NGOs close to the WSF
failed to take a clear stance on the side of Muslims and Dalits
against the fascist-like communalist frenzy that saw its preliminary
climaxes in the destruction of the destruction of the Babri mosque in
Ayodhya in 1992 and in the Gujarat massacre of 2002.
However, MR2004 did not set out to frontally attack the WSF. Its idea
is to provide a forum for the anti-imperialist forces to get together
in order to open up dialogue with the left wing of the WSF. Within the
WSF that proved to be impossible as the "anti-authoritarian
network-like" character of the WSF provided for a dictatorship of the
French-Brazilian elite having exclusive access to the imperialist
media machine. As a formalized system of democratic representation and
decision is refused as hierarchical, all power to decide rests
exclusively with the moderate elite close to the French institutional
left endowed with unmatchable financial resources. Therefore a
democratic anti-imperialist alternative forum is necessary also to
take international decisions to common action.
Some might say that the "European Social Forum" (ESF) which recently
took place in Paris did call for an international day of action
against the occupation of Iraq on March 20th, the first anniversary of
the US aggression on Iraq. Indeed, we regard this decision as an
important step forward as the left wing could counter and beat the
pressure of the right wing to equate the resistance with terrorism.
However, this is not enough. We will only be able to stop and
eventually defeat the US war, their empire and imperialism all
together if we do not forge a steadfast alliance between the
anti-imperialist popular movement of the oppressed nations and the
antagonist opposition in the West. That means the anti-war and
anti-globalisation movement has to take side, has to openly support
the resistance movement of which Iraq and Palestine are the highest
points.
Therefore we propose to MR2004 as well as to the anti-imperialist
forces within the WSF a global alliance on following rough platform:
1) Imperialism must be fought in all its forms, but especially US
imperialism which represents the pillar of the world capitalist system
and therefore the main enemy of all oppressed people, of all
revolutionary and democratic forces.
2) The decisive battle against imperialism is carried out today in
Iraq. The possible victory of the Iraqi resistance would have
catastrophic consequences for the US and for their imperial doctrine
of preventive war.
3) The anti-imperialists must therefore focus in this period all their
efforts on the support to the resistance until its complete victory:
to drive out the invaders.
4) The support to the resistance must be total, regardless of its
current political composition, regardless of the leading groups. It is
obvious that as anti-imperialists we will help first of all those
tendencies which beyond being anti-imperialist and patriotic are also
socialist.
5) The occupation of Iraqi is inextricable linked to the Zionist one
of Palestine. The only solution is to smash Zionism and to build a
democratic anti-imperialist state in entire Palestine.
6) The US preventive war is led against any opposition to the their
intended American empire and especially as a crusade against the
Muslim resistance. We therefore have to defend the elementary
democratic rights of the popular masses such as to national
self-determination, free political _expression and organisation and
free exercise of religion. Resistance including armed one against the
US empire is not terrorism but a democratic right.
As for the concrete action which should be taken:
1) Fund raising campaign for the incipient Iraqi resistance front
2) Solidarity delegation to the incipient Iraqi resistance front
3) International conference of all forces in support of the Iraqi
resistance
On this basis the anti-imperialist alliance must participate in the
international day of action scheduled for March 20.
Anti-imperialist Camp
Rome-Vienna-Cologne, January 2004
9***Iraqi Resistance Front and Democratic Constituent Assembly***
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/IraqFrontConstituentAssembly.html
Iraqi Resistance Front and Democratic Constituent Assembly (DCA): Statement of the Anti-imperialist Camp
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/AIComMumbai.html
The Democratic Constituent Assembly has been the driving slogan of so
many anti-imperialist revolutions before. A democratic government, as
declared aim of the many resistance forces, is good but it leaves the
question open who is going to decide upon the composition of the
government. Also the US claim to install a democratic government in Iraq.
Democracy as such in today's world, where imperialism claims to be the
guarantor of democracy, means nothing. The only democracy worth this name is
that the people is the sovereign, the people decides upon the faith of
the nation, the people exerts its unalienable right to
self-determination. The DCA is the best form by which the people can exert its power.
This is why imperialism were always opposed to it trying to cope with
liberation struggles.
If the resistance consolidates itself politically, sooner or later
imperialism and its henchmen will come up with compromises trying to offer
the weakest forces of the resistance some concessions in exchange for
the reaction of a puppet regime being disguised as "democratic" by a
fraction of the former resistance.
Furthermore there is the problem of the Shiite clerical forces who
point at the masses claiming to have their backing. But actually they have
nothing else in mind as Vilayet-e Fakih like in Iran - the rule of the
clerics. In Iraq this will not be possible in the same way as in Iran
but if the resistance becomes too powerful the US might be ready for a
compromise with them. And the clerics are already ready for it. It is
only a matter of the price.
The DCA is a powerful instrument against both dangers. The popular
masses are the only possible guarantor for a really independent,
anti-imperialist and democratic Iraq.
Full article:
www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1073426856&keyword=+
10***Anti-Imperialist Camp:Unify the anti-imperialists around the Iraqi resistance Proposals with regard to the "World Social Forum" and "Mumbai Resistance 2004" in India
Unify the anti-imperialists around the Iraqi resistance
Proposals with regard to the "World Social Forum" and "Mumbai Resistance 2004" in India
The Anti-imperialist Camp has been supporting the idea of building an
independent anti-imperialist pole in order to unify the anti-imperialist
forces but to reach out at the same time for dialogue to the amorphous
anti globalisation movement which - at least in the Western world - is
the main opposition to imperialism though not a consequent one. By
constituting ourselves on a common political line and common actions we
will be able to enter into dialogue. The opportunist argument that we
"should be inside" does not count. Only a subject independent from the
World Social Forum we will be able to dialogue. The main question is which
is the unifying point of the world anti-imperialist movement? We
believe there is a clear answer:
The decisive question is the Iraqi resistance against US occupation
which decides whether the US designs to erect a world empire will be
smashed or not. In Iraq the US imperialists have committed a strategic error
due to the delirium of omnipotence they are affected of. It will not be
easy to deliver a scattering blow to the US but it is definitely
possible. A defeat would not only weaken the US global predominance but the
imperialist system all together of which they are the main pillar. The
revolutionary liberation movements would be pushed to overcome their
defensive situation and a period similar to that opened by the victory in
Vietnam might be in front of us.
Three concrete proposals:
a) Fund raising campaign for the incipient Iraqi resistance front
b) Solidarity delegation to the incipient Iraqi resistance front
c) International conference of all forces in support of the Iraqi
resistance
We submit these proposals in order to pave the way for a co-operation
of the anti-imperialist forces. This is the way to overcame the
pacifist, reformist and "civilist" stance of the anti-globalisation movement
which until now guards a certain hegemony.
Full article:
www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1072994378&keyword=+
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Antiimperialist Camp
PF 23, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
camp@antiimperialista.org
www.antiimperialista.org/en
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11.***Zionist Enemy Arrest of Al-Manar Journalist: Solidarity Needed***
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Campaign to release Dheeb Hourani!!!
Message endorsed By the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network
English text follows.
السلام عليكم
من قضلك وزعها فى كل مكان
حملة التضامن مع الزميل الصحفي الاسير ذيب حوراني مستمرة ..
( ننتظر المزيد من التواقيع للتضامن مع الزميل الأسير ونأمل منكم تعميم
الحملة )
أقدمت سلطات الاحتلال الاسرائيلي ليل الأربعاء (07/01/2004) على اعتقال
الصحفي ذيب حوراني مراسل قناة المنار الفضائية في الضفة الغربية ومدينة
جنين، وتأتي عملية الاعتقال ضمن سياسة محاربة الاعلام الذي قام بفضح
ممارسات الاحتلال الاجرامية في فلسطين المحتلة، وقد لعب الزميل ذيب حوراني
دورا هاما و فعالا في كشف وفضح جرائم الاحتلال في فلسطين المحتلة، مما
جعله هدفا لسلطات الاحتلال.
ومعروف أن الزميل ذيب حوراني اسير سابق وقد وضعته سلطات الاحتلال منذ فجر
انتفاضة الأقصى والاستقلال على قائمة المطلوبين، ورغم ذلك بقي يواصل عمله
مراسلا لفضائية المنار، معرضا حياته للخطر، لكن الواجب المهني والوطني
والحس الانساني والاخلاقي جعلوه يتابع طريق المقاومة بالكلمة والصورة.
ندعوكم للتضامن مع الزميل الصحافي ذيب حوراني و للمساهمة في حملة
التضامن الدولية معه وحماية حياته بعدما اصبحت مهددة بسبب اعتقاله
هذا الصباح في غارة على مخيم جنين، ان تضامننا مع ذيب حوراني سيكون
عاملا حاسما في حمايته من القتل أو الشطب تحت التعذيب، وبنفس الوقت
حماية للصحافة والاعلام والكلمة الحرّة، خاصة ان سلطات الاحتلال تحارب الشجر
والحجر والخبر في فلسطين،كما أنها تتهم الزميل ذيب حوراني بالعمل في
صفوف المقاومة الفلسطينية وكانت تلاحقه منذ اندلاع الانتفاضة الفلسطينية
الثانية، والزميل ذيب حوراني أسير فلسطيني سابق أمضى سنوات عدة في سجون
الاحتلال الاسرائيلي، وهو أبن لشهيد فلسطيني، ومناضل أممي لا يعرف الكلل أو
الملل. نناشد المنظمات والجمعيات الفلسطينية والعربية والدولية العمل
من أجل سلامة وحماية الصحفي المعتقل ذيب حوراني.
ترسل التواقيع على العنوان التالي :
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Urgernt Action Needed
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Campaign to release Dheeb Hourani
Comrades and Friends
The Israeli occupying forces arrested Dheeb Hourani, a Palestinian
Journalist. He is the reporter for Al-Manar Satellite Television in
the West Bank and Jenin. His detention is part of the campaign to
suppress the media that exposes the Israeli terror in occupied
Palestine and for this reason Mr. Hourani was targeted.
Mr. Hourani was an-ex prisoner but soon after his release he was put
in the most wanted list. Intimidation did not deter him, he
continued doing his work motivated by his nationalist and
humanitarian belief to defend the oppressed under occupation.
His life is in danger; he needs your solidarity and support. We hope
that you join our campaign to help his immediate release.
Your solidarity is needed in order to protect him and save him from
a possible death under torture.
By protecting the young journalist you will protect Freedom of
Speech and Free Press.
We call upon all National and International, progressive and
humanitarian organizations to stand by Mr. Hourani and demand for
his immediate release. He needs your help and support
http://www.alhaqaeq.net
www.arabs48.com
http://www.falasteen.com/article.php3?id_article=1160
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