Did Dahlan talk about slaughtering Arafat?

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Did Dahlan talk about slaughtering Arafat?

Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News

July 10, 2007, 00:15

Damascus: Mohammad Dahlan, former Palestinian security minister, allegedly talked about killing former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

It is said to have been found in a hand-written letter dated July 13, 2003, addressed to Shaul Mofaz, the then-Israeli minister of defence in Ariel Sharon’s cabinet.

Documents like these were discovered at the security offices of Fatah, which were abandoned three weeks ago after the Hamas takeover of Gaza. Since then a war of words – and documents – has been waged between the two Palestinian groups.

Esmail Heya, Hamas Minister of Interior in Gaza, spoke of video cassettes recorded by Dahlan showing senior members of Fatah involved in illegal sexual activity. Dahlan reportedly kept them to blackmail members of his own Fatah movement.

The Lebanese weekly Al Kifah Al Arabi claims Hamas sent copies of these documents – which it describes as a “treasure” to both Jordan and Syria, justifying its position towards Fatah.

The most outrageous document of all is the Dahlan-Mofaz correspondence, which hints at Arafat’s assassination and accuses Hamas of being “mafia gangs” without naming it.

It reads: “You must know that we operate according to conviction rather than orders from anyone. We believe that our peoples’ interest requires that we completely eradicate mafia gangs that spread chaos between us, along with fear and hatred between. Be sure that we will not let those who are strangers amongst us remain within us.”

Dahlan promises to eliminate these mafia gangs “and their thought so that the only ones who remain within us are those who are willing to co-exist with you.”

He adds, “Be sure that Mr. Yasser Arafat is now counting his final days but let us slaughter him our way – not yours.”

- Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst

source:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/07/10/10138256.html

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‘Israel behind secret land grab’

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By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem

Last Updated: 2:04am BST 10/07/2007

Israel has been accused of orchestrating a deliberate land grab in the West Bank by allocating 11 times as much land to Jewish settlements as is needed.

It has also been accused of doing nothing to stop settlers from spilling out of allocated areas and stealing even more land from their Palestinian neighbours.

The twin strands of Israel’s land policy in the occupied West Bank is described by Peace Now, a respected Israeli land rights group, as a “deliberate and underhand” policy of expansion.

According to a Peace Now report, the Israeli government has allocated 128,500 acres to settlements, even though only 11,120 acres are currently being used.

The government argues that the allocation takes into consideration the future growth of settlements, although it is unclear where the extra settlers will come from.

Under international law all settlement activity is illegal as the Geneva Convention forbids the development of land by an occupying power.

“There is a pattern of failure to enforce the law on the settlers,” said Dror Etkes, one of the report’s authors.

“This isn’t an accident. It became another tool to achieve the military goals of the occupation, which is to allocate the land and hold it.”

The report gathered data on 164 Jewish settlements where a total of 260,000 people currently live, including a number of “wildcat” sites that are illegal under Israeli law.

Even though the settlements have a large surplus of land within their allocated boundaries, the report found that about a third of the building by settlers goes on outside these licensed areas.

“The importance of these spillovers, 70 per cent of which affect private Palestinian holdings, is to demonstrate that there is a deliberate policy of expansion, underhandedly encouraged by the authorities,” Mr Etkes said.

The settlement is justified by Right-wing Jews on the grounds that all land west of the Jordan belonged historically to Israel.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/09/wisrael109.xml

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Neocons, theocons, Demcons, excons, and future cons

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Neocons, theocons, Demcons, excons, and future cons

By William Blum

07/10/07 “ICH” — – Who do you think said this on June 20? a)Rudy Giuliani; b)Hillary Clinton; c)George Bush; d)Mitt Romney;
or e)Barack Obama?

“The American military has done its job. Look what they accomplished. They got rid of Saddam Hussein. They gave the Iraqis a chance for free and fair elections. They gave the Iraqi government the chance to begin to demonstrate that it understood its responsibilities to make the hard political decisions necessary to give the people of Iraq a better future. So the American military has succeeded. It is the Iraqi government which has failed to make the tough decisions which are important for their own people.”[1]

Right, it was the woman who wants to be president because … because she wants to be president … because she thinks it would be nice to be president … no other reason, no burning cause, no heartfelt desire for basic change in American society or to make a better world … she just thinks it would be nice, even great, to be president. And keep the American Empire in business, its routine generating of horror and misery being no problem; she wouldn’t want to be known as the president that hastened the decline of the empire.

And she spoke the above words at the “Take Back America” conference; she was speaking to liberals, committed liberal Democrats. She didn’t have to cater to them with any flag-waving pro-war rhetoric; they wanted to hear anti-war rhetoric (and she of course gave them a bit of that as well out of the other side of her mouth), so we can assume that this is how she really feels, if indeed the woman feels anything.

Think of why you are opposed to the war. Is it not largely because of all the unspeakable suffering brought down upon the heads and souls of the poor people of Iraq by the American military? Hillary Clinton couldn’t care less about that, literally. She thinks the American military has “succeeded”. Has she ever unequivocally labeled the war “illegal” or “immoral”? I used to think that Tony Blair was a member of the right wing or conservative wing of the British Labour Party. I finally realized one day that that was an incorrect description of his ideology. Blair is a conservative, a bloody Tory. How he wound up in the Labour Party is a matter I haven’t studied. Hillary Clinton, however, I’ve long known is a conservative; going back to at least the 1980s, while the wife of the Arkansas governor, she strongly supported the death squad torturers known as the Contras, who were the empire’s proxy army in Nicaragua.[2]

Now we hear from America’s venerable conservative magazine, William Buckley’s “National Review”, an editorial by Bruce Bartlett, policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan; treasury official under President George H.W. Bush; a fellow at two of the leading conservative think-tanks, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute; you get the picture. Bartlett tells his readers that it’s almost certain that the Democrats will win the White House in 2008. So what to do? Support the most conservative Democrat. He writes: “To right-wingers willing to look beneath what probably sounds to them like the same identical views of the Democratic candidates, it is pretty clear that Hillary Clinton is the most conservative.”[3]

We also hear from America’s premier magazine for the corporate wealthy, “Fortune”, whose recent cover features a picture of Clinton and the headline: “Business Loves Hillary”.[4]

Do those in love with the idea of a woman president care about such things? Have they never heard of Margaret Thatcher, who tried her best to cripple the UK’s marvelous National Health Service, amongst a hundred other reactionary policies? Most of Clinton’s supporters would love to see the end of the Iraqi daily horror and so they presumably will also ignore Ted Koppel, the newsman of impeccable establishment credentials, who reported recently that he was told by someone who had held a senior position at the Pentagon and occasionally briefs Hillary Clinton on Gulf area matters, that she expects US troops to still be in Iraq at the end of her first term and even at the end of her second term.[5]

NOTES
[1] Speaking at the “Take Back America” conference, organized by the Campaign for America’s Future, June 20, 2007, Washington, DC; this excerpt can be heard at democracynow.org/ – June 21.

[2] Roger Morris, former member of the National Security Council, “Partners in Power” (1996), p.415

[3] National Review Online, May 1, 2007

[4] Fortune magazine, July 9, 2007

[5] National Public Radio, “All Things Considered”, June 11, 2007

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Powell tried to talk Bush out of war : War Criminal Washes Blood From Hands

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Powell tried to talk Bush out of war

 

War Criminal Washes Blood From Hands

By Sarah Baxter

07/10/07 “The Sunday Times” –07/08/07 – Washington — THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.

“I tried to avoid this war,” Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.”

Powell has become increasingly outspoken about the level of violence in Iraq, which he believes is in a state of civil war. “The civil war will ultimately be resolved by a test of arms,” he said. “It’s not going to be pretty to watch, but I don’t know any way to avoid it. It is happening now.”

He added: “It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States.” All the military could do, Powell suggested, was put “a heavier lid on this pot of boiling sectarian stew”.

The signs are that the views of Powell and other critics of the war are finally being heard in the Pentagon, if not yet in the White House. Robert Gates, the defence secretary, is drawing up plans to reduce troop levels in Iraq in anticipation that General David Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, will not be able to deliver an upbeat progress report in September on the American troop surge.

“It should come as no secret to anyone that there are discussions about what is a postsurge strategy,” said Tony Fratto, deputy White House press secretary, last week.

The surge’s lack of demonstrable success is creating fissures in the Republican party as well as putting enormous pressure on the Democratic presidential candidates to favour a rapid pull-out, which Gates fears could leave Iraq in chaos.

New Mexico senator Pete Domenici became the third Republican senator in recent weeks to break ranks openly with Bush on the war. “We cannot continue asking our troops to sacrifice indefinitely while the Iraqi government is not making measurable progress,” he said. “I am calling for a new strategy that will move our troops out of combat operations and on the path home.”

Speculation is growing that Gates will demonstrate his commitment to withdrawing US forces by moving a combat brigade of up to 3,000 troops out of Iraq as early as October and continuing to reduce their numbers month by month from their current strength of 160,000 to presurge levels of around 130,000 by the summer of 2008.

Gates believes American troop withdrawals are essential to building a cross-party consensus for retaining a presence in Iraq after Bush’s term in office expires. As a former director of the CIA who saw out the cold war in the early 1990s, he hopes to win the same bipartisan support for Iraq that President Harry Truman secured against the Soviet Union after the second world war.

The policy is likely to appeal to Gordon Brown, the prime minister, who hopes to begin withdrawing more British troops from southern Iraq by the end of August.

A senior defence source said it would be possible to reduce the number of American forces to roughly 50,000-70,000 by election day in November 2008. “You are going to have to have some people left behind to provide stability and security for the country and take on the terrorists,” the source said.

The figures are similar to those floated by aides to Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, although she has been upping the rhetoric against remaining in Iraq in an effort to capture the support of party activists.

According to Powell, the US cannot “blow a whistle one morning” and have all American forces just leave. The former secretary of state has twice met Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, to advise him on foreign policy. Despite his antiwar stance, Obama supports a phased withdrawal that could leave a “significantly reduced force” in Iraq for “an extended period”.

Defence experts believe it will be impossible to maintain the surge’s high troop levels beyond February at the latest, given the need to rotate and refresh troops. Powell, who served as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the early 1990s, said in Aspen that America’s volunteer army was already overstretched. He predicted that Bush would be forced to “face the situation on the ground” and alter course by the end of this year.

Supporters of the surge believe this could send a disastrous signal to the Iraqis. “If we pull out, if we stop this operation now, we will hand Al-Qaeda a terrific victory,” said Frederick Kagan, a military historian at the American Enterprise Institute and an early advocate of the policy.

“The Iraqi government, right now, is a terrific ally in the war on terror. There have been more Iraqis killed fighting Al-Qaeda than in any other nation of the world. The question is, are we going to stand by them?”

The same political fault line runs through the White House between Vice-President Dick Cheney’s office and the State Department ? now run by Condoleezza Rice, Powell’s successor ? as it did at the start of the Iraq war. Bush has not yet thrown his weight definitively behind one side or the other, but the key difference this time is that the defence secretary is one of the “realists”.

According to Powell: “We have to face the reality of the situation that is on the ground and not what we would want it to be.” He believes that, even if the military surge has been a partial success in areas such as Anbar province, where Sunni tribes have turned on Al-Qaeda, it has not been accompanied by the vital political and economic “surge” and reconciliation process promised by the Iraqi government.

Al-Qaeda, Powell asserted, was only 10% of the problem in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, its prime minister, lacked the political will to establish an effective government. After a promising start to the surge at the beginning of the year, 453 unidentified corpses were found on the streets of Baghdad last month, 41% more than the 321 bodies found in January, according to unofficial Iraqi health ministry statistics.

The military gains could prove as fleeting in Anbar as Baghdad. American officers in Iraq believe Al-Qaeda strengthened its hold on the Sunni-dominated region in 2005, when responsibility for security was shifted prematurely to Iraqi forces that were led by Shi’ites and proved incapable of providing protection.

Powell believes that a reduction in US forces will have to be accompanied by talks with Syria and Iran. “You have to talk to the people you dislike most in this dangerous world.”

The general and former joint chiefs of staff added: “Shi’ites will ultimately prevail because they are 60% of the population and their militias can be pretty violent. They will prevail also because they are determined not to be ruled again by the Sunnis.

“The Sunnis are struggling for power and survival and it’s going to be resolved by a test of arms. It’s going to be very ugly.

source:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2042072.ece

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Only 133 Iraqi refugees allowed in US so far this year

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AFP/File Photo: A displaced Iraqi fills a jerry can with drinking water from a broken pipe next…

Mon Jul 9, 7:13 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Only 133 Iraqi refugees have been allowed into the United States since October, well short of the 7,000 the US has vowed to welcome in this fiscal year, a State Department spokesman said Monday.

“I think we’re up around 133 thus far that have entered the United States,” since October 1, the start of fiscal 2007, Sean McCormack told a press briefing.

“We have more work to do,” he added after recalling that at the beginning of the year US authorities vowed to take in at least 7,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of fiscal 2007, and even more in fiscal 2008.

He attributed the slow pace to rigorous security measures: “They have to go through and have to do a vetting procedure, which everybody understands the need to do.

“While we want to meet our humanitarian obligations here, we also want to make sure we do so in such a way that our borders and the American people are protected,” he said.

“We’re working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security on this,” he added.

Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky last month said the United States had a “moral obligation” to accept more Iraqi refugees.

Since the start of the US-led war in Iraq, 831 Iraqi refugees have been allowed into the United States, according to State Department figures.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on June 6 estimated that 2,4 million Iraqis have fled abroad, mostly to neighboring Syria and Iraq, since the war began, and another two million have been displaced inside Iraq.

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 9 July 2007

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 9 July 2007

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Monday, 9 July 2007.

• US troops gun down pedestrians to clear bridge for themselves. Three civilians reported dead, four more wounded in American Monday morning rush-hour assault.
• Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder spree continues: 29 more bodies found dumped around Baghdad.
• Iraqi Resistance leader says US troops are being defeated in Iraq.
• Resistance coalition denounces Saturday’s deadly bomb attack on Armili Market, saying it was “against the Qur’an and the Prophet’s practice.
• Nine puppet army troops killed in Resistance ambush near Balad midday Monday.

Baghdad.

US troops gun down pedestrians to clear bridge for themselves. Three civilians reported dead, four more wounded in American Monday morning rush-hour assault.

In a dispatch posted on its website Monday, Quds Press reported that US troops opened fire on Iraqi civilians crossing a bridge to the south of Baghdad on Monday morning.

A source in the Iraqi puppet police told Quds Press that an American patrol opened fire indiscriminately at Iraqi civilians who were crossing the Diyala Bridge that links Baghdad to the southern parts of the country. The Americans were trying to clear a path for themselves to cross the bridge. In the process the shot and killed three Iraqi civilians and wounded four more of them.

The source said that the victims had been trying to cross the bridge on foot due to the traffic tie up that most bridges in Baghdad suffer from every day early in the morning. The wounded victims were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. As of the time of reporting, the Americans had made no report on their action.

New wave of Palestinians resident in Iraq swells border camps following renewed rampages by US puppet troops, Shi‘i sectarian militias.

In a dispatch posted at 8:15pm Baghdad time Monday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that as a result of the latest rampages by Shi ‘ sectarian militiamen in Palestinian residential areas of Baghdad, the number of Palestinians refugees resident in Iraq who are now living in camps along the Syrian border has swollen to 1,124.

The AMSI reported that already there have been many waves of Palestinians fleeing Shi‘i sectarian death squads into neighboring Syria, and in recent days as attacks on Palestinians have again increased, the number of refugees has also risen.

AMSI reported that the Association for Palestinian Human Rights in Iraq had issued a statement on Saturday, 7 July that said that in addition to the 330 Palestinian refugees living along the border in the at-Tanaf camp on the Iraqi side of the border and in the al-Haskah camp inside Syria, there are now 1,124 Palestinians in the al-Walid camp near the Syrian frontier.

The Association stated that the number of Palestinians heading to the remote border camps was likely to increase in coming days after recent repression and attacks by Shi‘i sectarian militias and US-backed puppet regime security forces on Palestinians.

In recent days the sectarian militias have attacked the Palestinian residential complex in Baghdad’s al-Baladiyat section and there have been arrests and mortar barrages on the Palestinians living in Iraq as well.

The Association noted that the puppet regime had been arresting Palestinians, including Bashshar al-Hardan and Faris Muhammad al-Battah, whose only crime was being Palestinian in US-occupied Iraq.

The Association called on the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other humanitarian organizations to act to extend protection to the Palestinians still alive in Iraq.

Puppet security forces round up 60 people in sectarian raids in Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 7:11pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, the supreme Sunni Religious authority in the country had issued a statement announcing that puppet regime troops had arrested 60 people in sweeps through the areas of al-Jami‘ah and al-‘Adl in Baghdad.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported the AMSI statement as adding that the puppet regime forces also stole money and jewelry from houses they raided and punctuated their attacks on the civilian residents with sectarian curses. Most of the US-backed security forces are drawn from the Shi‘i sectarian militias and are engaged in a sectarian purge of vast parts of Iraq in keeping with US and Zionist plans to partition the country.

Resistance car bomber blasts puppet army checkpoint in ad-Durah midday Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 1:33pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a checkpoint manned by puppet army troops in the al-Mikanik neighborhood of the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah at midday Monday.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attack left one puppet soldier dead and three more of them wounded.

Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder spree continues: 29 more bodies found dumped around Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 12:12pm Baghdad time midday Monday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the puppet police had recovered the bodies of 29 murder victims that had been dumped in various parts of Baghdad in the previous 24 hours.

Earlier, in a dispatch posted on its website early Monday, Quds Press reported that the puppet police had recovered the remains of 19 more people who had been murdered and then dumped in various parts of Baghdad.

Sources in the puppet police told Quds Press that the bodies were recovered in various parts of Baghdad and that they had been bound and blindfolded and also tortured. Torture is a trademark of the Shi‘i sectarian militias and the puppet security forces that the US has created in Iraq, most of whose members are also members of the Shi‘i sectarian militias.

With the latest grizzly discoveries, the number of people whose bodies were found murdered and dumped around in Baghdad since the start of July has now reached 79 according to official puppet police statistics.

The abduction, torture, and murder of Sunnis by the Shi‘i sectarian militias is a part of their effort to press ahead with US and Zionist plans aimed at partitioning Iraq along sectarian and ethnic lines.

Iraqi Resistance leader says US troops are being defeated in Iraq.

In a dispatch posted at 10:25am Makkah time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri, the successor to Saddam Husayn as leader of the Arab Baath Socialist Party in Iraq, said in a recorded message that the American forces are being defeated in Iraq.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that ad-Duri emphasized that the Baath Party would continue the struggle until the departure of the last foreign soldier from Iraqi territory.

In the recording ad-Duri also attacked former Baath party member Muhammad Yunus al-Ahmad, describing him as a traitor.

The Baath Party declared that it had chosen ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri – who was Deputy Chairman of the Revolution Command Council in the Iraqi government prior to the US invasion – as the new General Secretary of the Baath, following the assassination of President Saddam Husayn by the US-installed puppet regime last December.

Ad-Duri disappeared from public view following the US invasion in 2003 and the American forces posted a US$10 million reward for anyone providing information leading to his capture or killing.

Bombs explode in al-Karradah.

In a dispatch posted on its website Monday, Quds Press reported that an explosives-packed car that had been parked near ‘Uqbah ibn Nafi‘ Square in al-Karradah blew up by a passing puppet police patrol, killing two and wounding five people. A source in the puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry” reported the bombing but rather than specifying how many of the casualties were puppet policemen, said only that “a number of puppet policemen were among the casualties.”

In a dispatch posted at 9:50pm Baghdad time Monday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a car bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol in the western Baghdad district of al-Harithiyah Monday afternoon.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as claiming that the blast took place on al-Kindi Street and killed one civilian and wounded three other people in addition to inflicting damage on nearby buildings.

The puppet police also announced that a car bomb that had been parked on al-Karradah Street in Baghdad blew up at noon on Monday, killing one civilian and wounding seven more. Earlier another bomb on al-Karradah Streek killed one civilian and wounded four others.

Bombs go off near bus station in Baghdad’s an-Nahdah district Monday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 9:39am Makkah time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that two bombs had exploded just minutes apart near the main bus station in the Baghdad district of an-Nahdah Monday morning.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported sources in the puppet police as saying that the blasts killed four people and wounded 21 more. One puppet policeman was among the dead.

Mafkarat al-Islam noted that an-Nahdah is an area that is generally crowded with travelers looking to board busses or taxicabs bound for cities in predominantly Shi‘i southern Iraq.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Tuz Khurmatu.

Resistance coalition denounces Saturday’s deadly bomb attack on Armili Market, saying it was “against the Qur’an and the Prophet’s practice.

In a dispatch posted at 9:20pm Baghdad time Monday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Front of Jihad and Reform – an umbrella organization in the ranks of which prominent Resistance groups such as the Islamic Army of Iraq and the Army of the Mujahideen and other Resistance groups have united – had published a statement on the Internet in which they condemned the deadly attack on the market in Armili, near Tuz Khurmatu, last Saturday in which some 150 people were killed.

The AMSI reported the Resistance organization as saying in the statement: “As we denounce these vain explosions and declare that we had nothing to do with them, we appeal to all the jihadi groups urging the necessity of returning to the fixed rules of the Shari‘ah, of the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Practice, in particular those that apply to the inviolability of innocent people’s lives, wealth, and honor.”

The Resistance front declared in its statement that jihadi activity “is targeted on the occupiers and their stooges; it does not target innocent people, assistance to whom and help in preparing an honorable life for whom are among the goals of the jihad.”

The statement noted, however, that such attacks on civilians “have become routine for the al-Maliki government and under the bayonets of the American merchants of death and exporters of disaster.”

Balad.

Nine puppet army troops killed in Resistance ambush near Balad midday Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:48pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by an Iraqi puppet army convoy near the town of Balad, 80km north of Baghdad, at midday Monday.

The AMSI reported Dr Qasim ‘Abbud, the Director of Balad General Hospital, as saying that the hospital had received the bodies of nine puppet troops after noon Monday. They had been killed in a Resistance attack that took place near the city and left another 21 puppet troops wounded, some of them severely.

A source in the Balad puppet security forces told AMSI that the attack on the convoy began to the west of the city when a bomb went off by the army vehicles. Then Resistance men opened fire on the puppet troops with light and medium machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. That source also said that nine puppet troops were killed in the ambush that left several vehicles destroyed and many other troops wounded.

Afterward, the source said, the puppet forces sealed off the main road from Baghdad to the north and then started to raid and search houses in the area where the attack took place.

Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.

Puppet soldier killed by Resistance marksman in al-Miqdadiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 12:12pm Baghdad time midday Monday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman shot and killed a puppet army soldier in al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the puppet soldier was in one of the puppet army headquarters in the city when the lethal shot was fired.

Puppet court “judge” gunned down on way to work in al-Miqdadiyah Monday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 12:12pm Baghdad time midday Monday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that armed men shot and killed Haqqi Isma‘il an investigative judge in the puppet court system in al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad on Monday morning.

The AMSI reported a source in the local security forces as saying that unknown armed men sprayed Isma‘il’s car with bullets as he drove to work in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood. The attack left him dead on the scene.

Ba‘qubah.

Puppet police forces attacked in Ba‘qubah Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:12pm Baghdad time midday Monday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that armed men attacked the al-Wajihiyah puppet police station to the east of Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Sunday night.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as saying that several puppet policemen were wounded in the ensuing gun battle.

Earlier, on Sunday, the same puppet police headquarters and also the puppet home of the puppet governor of al-Miqdadiyah had come under armed attack. Five puppet security troops were killed in those assaults.

Al-Mada’in.

Workers from Pepsi Cola plant kidnapped, killed by Shi‘i sectarian militia.

In a dispatch posted at 11:33am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the bodies of 10 workers at the Baghdad Pepsi Cola plant had been found in the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital in at-Tuwaythah in the area of al-Mada’in, 25km southeast of Baghdad on Sunday.

The AMSI reported that the workers’ bodies showed signs of torture following their abduction Sunday afternoon along with seven other people at a checkpoint set up thy Shi‘i sectarian militiamen in al-Mada’in.

The victims all worked at the Pepsi Cola plant in Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district. They were on their way to their evening jobs when they were kidnapped, tortured, and killed. Some of the workers managed to elude the Shi‘i sectarian militias at the time of the capture and they were later able to report that US-backed “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” were present at the time of the kidnapping.

In a dispatch posted at 11:33am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US artillery pounded the ad-Dir‘iyah area of al-Mada’in, inflicting heavy property destruction.

The AMSI reported that US forces have carried out attacks on the same area repeatedly during the last few days.

Jalawla’.

Two officers in pre-invasion Iraqi army kidnapped, murdered in Jalawla’.

In a dispatch posted at 11:01am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that armed gangs kidnapped two men who had served as high-ranking officers in the Army of the Republic of Iraq prior to the US invasion of the country in 2003.

Witnesses reported that gangs kidnapped Staff Colonel Isma‘il Khalaf Ibrahim and Colonel Mu’ayyad Munshid ar-Rabi‘i after they had said their sunset prayers in the town of Jalawla’, 120km northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, 7 July. Their bodies were found dumped in the middle of a road near their homes.

The AMSI noted that high-ranking officers in the pre-invasion Iraqi Army had been the target of a campaign of murders that began not long after the American occupation of the country. It is believed that Iranian agents are behind the murders because the officers most singled out for assassination have been those who took part in the Iraq-Iran war during the 1980s.

Al-Qadisiyah Province.
Ad-Diwaniyah.

US patrol in ad-Diwaniyah comes under mortar attack.

In a dispatch posted at 10:07am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a US patrol in ad-Diwaniyah, 180km south of Baghdad came under mortar attack.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that armed men fired a number of mortar rounds at a US force that had set up the area between the an-Nisr junction on the way to the as-Sadr neighborhood as their base of operations.

The witnesses said that the barrage killed or wounded a number of members of the US patrol, as helicopters were observed ferrying dead and wounded Americans away from the scene. The Americans responded to the attack by firing randomly until about 4am local time Monday morning.

Bombs near ad-Diwaniyah set two US vehicles ablaze.

In a dispatch posted at 10:07am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that two bombs exploded on the highway opposite the Sumar area, 20km east of the city of ad-Diwaniyah (which is 180km south of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that the explosions set two US Humvees ablaze. As of the time of reporting, the Americans had made no announcement regarding the bombings.

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