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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Resistance Against Occupation Unabated |
| 2003-04-17 |
| In a new indication that the Iraqi resistance against the Anglo-American occupation has not died with the sudden vanish of the Iraqi regime and regular army forces, U.S. and British forces came under attack in northern and southern Iraq Thursday, April 17. Admitting the new resistance attack, the U.S. Central Command said several Iraqi resistance fighters were killed and around 100 others captured. We can add them to our collection... U.S. forces engaged in a firefight north of Baghdad while British forces came under fire in the southern city of Basra, Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks said. "The arrival of the Fourth Infantry Division's land component operations in the area included a brief firefight in the vicinity of Taji airfield north of Baghdad," he said. "The engagement of the Fourth Infantry Division forces killed and wounded a portion of the enemy forces, destroyed some T-72 tanks and captured over 100 enemy fighters," the general said. "The enemy force also had unmanned artillery pieces, armored personnel carriers, loaded rocket launcher systems at a warehouse, and a number of computers. The site and the materials have been secured for further exploitation and examination. The coalition force declared the airfield clear of enemy force and continued its attack to the north, encountering sporadic small arms fire and snipers." Yep. Sounds like it was a firefight... "In the UK sector of southern Iraq, patrols were attacked by rocket propelled grenades near a bridge in Basra," reported the American military spokesman. And that was one, too. On Tuesday, April 15, Iraq’s Shiite authority Mohammad Mahdi al-Khalisi called on Iraqis to act in concert and declare Jihad against the American occupation forces. Okay. Lock him up. "Now that the idol (statue of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein) has been pulled down, the occupation troops should leave our country. Iraq had gone astray 40 years ago and it is high time it came home," Sheikh Khalisi said in a statement, a copy of which was sent to by IslamOnline.net. "In the name of all scholars and leaders of the Shiite Najafi revolution in Iraq, who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defending Iraq against the occupation of 1914 and 1920, I urge all Iraqis to stand shoulder to shoulder to prevent occupation troops and foil malicious plots weaved by Washington and London from looting the fruits of such sacrifices," Khalisi wrote. "Yeah. We throw Sammy and his killers out and then these Merkins and Brits come waltzin' in like they own the place, like they did somethin' to help us. Who the hell are they to expect gratitude from us?" Urging Iraqis to stroll together in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, the Shiite authority called for "rising above trivial matters and taking the initiative to set up "They ain't never gonna go if we don't get some kind of order in place..." Also on Tuesday Eyad al-Samra’i, leader of Iraq’s Islamic party, announced plans to forge a new front to liberate Iraq from the U.S. occupation. "The setting up of this nascent front comes in response to the U.S. attempts to form a new Iraqi regime of Iraqi exiles to achieve the U.S. goals," he told IslamOnline.net over the phone. Another one who did such a good job at throwing Sammy out. Toldja: there's no word for gratitude in Arabic... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Time to set the huntin' dogs lose,and track them down. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-04-18 09:20:23 |
| #2 Line from 'Gladiator'... "people should know when they're conquered" |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-04-17 20:02:18 |
| #1 At least the leaders of these outfits identified themselves for targetting. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-17 19:50:14 |