(this as a sequel to the report I put together yesterday morning here and elsewhere)The US-led occupation forces in Iraq continue their attacks on Iraq; some 200 more Iraqi martyrs are reported since my update yesterday morning and many more occupation forces reported killed.
The attempt by the invaders to "pacify" the resistance stronghold of al-Fallujah saw more neighborhoods bombed from the air and a mosque fired on. From this fighting 53 Iraqi martyrs are reported since last report, 25 from one single family. Many women and children were brutally murdered in the assault on the mosque, though propaganda organs of the invaders maintain that there were "insurgents" inside that they "wanted to kill" (leaving no room to later claim this as a mistake). The occupation and military officials are tightlipped about their own casualties today, though yesterday saw around a half dozen marines reported dead in the fighting around the resistance stronghold. The only working hospital in town was bombed and cut off from the rest of the city; the hundreds of Iraqis reported wounded from the aggressive moves of the occupyers are left with little medical treatment and bodies are still piling up in the streets of
Iraq's Lidice. Bill O'Reilly's "Final Solution" is coming to pass as the military brass appear to be asking themselves WWSD? ("what would Saddam do?") while planning their next atrocities.
Further west on the Euphrates, Iraqi resistance fighters battled the invaders in the city of Ramadi, with a dozen Marines eliminated (two dozen wounded) and many Iraqi martyrs. Demonstrators in Kirkuk protesting the ongoing massacres in Fallujah and Ramadi were fired on by US forces, 8 reported dead and 12 wounded out of 1500 in attendance.
While generally tightlipped on the subject quite suddenly, military authorities reported several deaths recently:--3 in the Baghdad suburb of Kazimiyah (where the Shia's Seventh Imam is buried) in street battles between US army and the Jaysh al-Mahdi and Sunni volunteers to their cause. One other US military death was reported from Baghdad, and another from an occupation convoy in Balad hit by resistance fire on Tuesday. Seven Iraqi martyrs are reported in Madinat al-Sadr suburb of Baghdad as the invaders continue to bomb the neighborhood (that is, 4 new deaths and 3 dying from injures suffered in the previous bombing). This makes 64 Iraqi martyrs reported dead in the suburb since fighting began there, including an unclaimed body of a 10yr old boy (perhaps his family was killed as well?), with hundreds more injured. Several Iranian pilgrims in Karbala were shot by occupation forces as Brigadier General Mark Kimmet vows to "destroy" the Jaysh al-Mahdi.
Sadr's Jaysh al-Mahdi and sympathizers continued to battle American forces and their international mercenaries all over Iraq. The cities of Najaf and Kut have been liberated as occupation forces retreated from the ongoing battles. Sunni communities of Baghdad continue to send volunteers to battle alongside Sadr's forces against the invaders in heavy fighting in many Baghdad neighborhoods as vocal support is mutually exchanged between the Shia-held liberated areas in the south and the so-called "Sunni Triangle"; it is apparant that the divisions between "Sunni" and "Shiite" are often overstated. Polish and Bulgarian forces in Karbala have come under attack as well, with 6 occupation forces wounded between them. A truce between the Italian mercenaries and pro-Sadr forces broke down into heavy fighting that remains in al-Nasiriyyah. Spanish forces in Diwaniyah continue to face resistance attacks, as do British invaders in Amara and al-Basrah. Dozens of Iraqi martyrs have been reported in these locations from the fighting since it began, with many of the invaders wounded and their positions made difficult to maintain as Iraqis move to liberate all of their lands from occupation.
Iraq's Shia religious establishment, represented by Ayatallah al-Uzma Sayyid Ali Husyani al-Sistani in Najaf and Ayatallah al-Uzma Sayyid Kazim al-Haeri in his place of exile in Qom, continued to tacitly (in Sayyid Sistani's case) or openly (in Sayyid Haeri's) back the unfolding revolution and once again condemned the atrocities carried out by the occupyers. In the southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon, Iraqi refugees flanked by members of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah's Hizbu'llah party demonstrated in support of Sadr as even the puppet Iraqi Governing Council rules that the arrest warrant against him is invalid. Sayyid Haeri, the top student of Sadr's martyred father, gives his people permission to fight the occupyers and condemns "these reckless actions" by the invaders and says that they are "making war on this community, dishonoring them, imprisoning their clerics and believers, killing their children, and striking at their ancient intellectual positions". Sayyid Sistani does not approve of the violence, though has harsher words for the actions of the invaders. Propaganda organs of the occupation authorities and their parrots back home maintain that there is nothing to see here, just a few freedom-hating terrorists. Go shopping.
The desperate plot twist has exposed an ugly face of the American establishment as the TV networks and press briefings are filled with demands for mass murder and further oppression. Calls for a "final solution", levelling entire cities, surround cities with barbed wire, mass round ups, even more aggressive actions and collective punishment.. further assaults on mosques if they feel like it.. "staying the course" of campaigns inevitably leading to continued massacres and mass graves filled with more Iraqi martyrs. That's what they call "liberation". Look and listen closely at the commentators and positions, and at the actions that play out:--is it not obvious that there is much to be swept away?
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sources and suggested further reading:--
In Pictures: the siege of FallujaOperation Iraqi Bloodbath: US prepares reprisals against uprisingStop the war on the Iraqi peopleThe Shi'ite voice that will be heardUS forces vow more Mosque strikesScores dead as Falluja resists US onslaughtThe Dead Keep Piling up in IraqAt Least 97 Iraqis Killed In Fallujah, 40 In RamadiU.S. Vows To Destroy Mahdi Army, Kills More ShiitesScores dead as Falluja resists US onslaughtShiites Join Sunni Fighters In Al-AzamiyaSupport grows for firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric in BaghdadFour Iranian pilgrims shot dead in Iraq by US forcesArrest Warrant For Sadr 'Illegal': Iraqi JudgesMuqtada: Proud to be an Outlaw; Al-Ha'iri: Americans are making War on the ShiitesBill O'Reilly:--"What Strategy Should Be Used in Fallujah?"ok, after a couple tries I cannot get the al-Bawaba link about the demonstration in Kirkuk to come out properly--I guess you'll just have to take my word on that.. :)
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