The Green Zone Follies for November 23rd 2007
Baghdad: “My God, I love to read the online New York Times! What unadulterated shit! They claim that all is becoming peaceful and quiet here with joyful Iraqis opening markets, holding weddings in the street to the sound of laughing children. Oh, and we are told that the death tolls have dropped dramatically! If you believe that official Pentagon shit, you’ll believe in the Second Coming, kids. The truth is that we send out fewer patrols so we have fewer casualties. The bad people are regularly shelling the Green Zone and killing people every day. The actual death tolls are as high as ever and I have some lovely pictures which I will send on for your readers. Believe me, all of this talk about the “pacification of Iraq” is lies and very simplistic and crude lies. The foreign press knows better as do the Iraqis but Bush-friendly papers like the Times are spewing stupid propaganda out like shit out of a goose. No wonder the American media is losing viewers and readers by the gross on a daily basis. I notice Curious George the ape didn’t come here this Thanksgiving with an army of bodyguards for his plastic turkey, photo ops and fast, fast trip back. We ought to strap the asshole to a truck and drive around Baghdad with a big sign proclaiming his presence on the front. Five will get you ten he would look like a Swiss cheese before they got a half a block. God Bless America and now send Cheney over for a similar show and tell!”
Mortars strike Baghdad's Green Zone
as Americans celebrate Thanksgiving
November 22nd 2007
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD: A series of mortars
struck the U.S.-protected Green Zone on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in an
apparent attack coinciding with the American celebration of Thanksgiving.
About 10 blasts were heard in central Baghdad just before 5 p.m., and a huge
plume of black smoke rose into the sky as the sun was setting. The U.S.
government public address system in the Green Zone also warned people to "duck
and cover" and to stay away from windows.
An Iraqi police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't
authorized to release the information, said the blasts were caused by mortars
that landed in the Green Zone. U.S. military and embassy officials did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
The heavily fortified area, which houses the U.S. Embassy and thousands of
American troops and contractors, along with the Iraqi government's headquarters,
has frequently been hit by rockets or mortars. But the attacks have tapered off
amid a lull of violence in the capital and surrounding areas.
Twenty missile shells land in Baghdad''s Green-Zone
November 22nd 2007
BAGHDAD, Nov 22 (KUNA) — The Iraqi capital witnessed a strong attack on
Thursday with 20 missile shells landing in different parts of the heavyily
fortified Green Zone area.
KUNA's correspondent said he heard at least 20 missile shells land in the
area and smoke was seen there, along with the sound of sirens heard as a result
of the attack.
The correspondent also added he could not locate the exact location of the
firing attack, nor was he able to determine human casualties or material damage.
US military choppers were seen flying over the area, which also coincided with
another attack by Al-Qaeda on tribesmen resulting in killing eight men and three
Iraqi soldiers, the correspondent added.
Last week, US military spokesman rear Admiral Gregory Smith warned of a surge in
attacks by Al-Qaeda on citizens in Baghdad, regardless of the decrease of
violence in recent weeks.
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 20 November 2007.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
· Two US troops killed
near al-Hadithah on Monday.
· Resistance blasts “Green Zone” with mortar shells Tuesday afternoon.
· US admits death of one more occupation soldier on 14 November.
· Resistance bomb disables US Humvee in Baghdad’s al-Baladiyat section midday
Tuesday.
· Resistance bomb destroys US vehicle near ad-Dulu‘iyah, killing American crew.
· Two US troops killed when Resistance shoots down American helicopter near
Salman Bak Tuesday.
US soldier wounded in bomb
attack south of an-Nasiriyah.
Al-Anbar Province:
Al-Hadithah.
Two US troops killed near al-Hadithah on Monday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:14pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association
of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb
exploded by a US patrol near the village of al-Haqlaniyah near al-Hadithah,
280km northwest of Baghdad.
The AMSI reported Lieutenant Colonel Khalaf al-Bayyati, the official spokesman
of the puppet police, as saying that the Resistance men also attacked the US
Humvee with medium and light machine guns on Monday, killing two American troops
and wounding two more.
Al-Fallujah:
Collaborator puppet policemen kidnapped near al-Fallujah Monday.
In a dispatch posted Tuesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that three members
of the collaborationist tribal puppet police known as the “al-Anbar Awakening”
police were kidnapped on the main road leading to al-Karmah, 7km east of al-Fallujah
(which is 60km west of Baghdad) on Monday.
Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that armed men in a late-model car pursued
and then intercepted the car in which the collaborators were riding. They forced
the “al-Anbar Awakening” members out of their car, bound them, and led them away
to an unknown destination.
One witness said that the collaborator policemen were from al-Karmah and were
coming home on routine leave when they were intercepted and abducted.
Baghdad.
Sectarian murder spree continues: six more bodies found dumped around Baghdad on
Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:51pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency
reported that the Iraqi puppet police recovered the bodies of six more victims
of sectarian murder that had been dumped around Baghdad on Tuesday.
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that four of the six
bodies were found in the Baghdad district of al-Karakh.
Resistance blasts “Green Zone” with
mortar shells Tuesday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 9:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency
reported that the Iraqi Resistance blasted the top-security area around the
Republican Palace in Baghdad – the area that the Americans have dubbed the
“Green Zone” with a two mortar rounds on Tuesday afternoon.
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that two mortar shell
blased in the “Green Zone.” The source said that the first had been fired from
the direction of the Baghdad neighborhood of al-Karradah and the second from the
neighborhood of al-Qadisiyah. No information on damage or casualties was
available and the Americans, as of the time of reporting, had made no statement
regarding the attack.
Chairman of the Geological Survey Department for puppet regime gunned down in
Baghdad Tuesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 3:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that armed men shot and killed the Chairman of the Geological
Survey Department in Baghdad as he rode his car down Hayfa Street in the middle
of the occupied Iraqi capital on Tuesday morning.
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police, who asked not to be identified, as
saying that armed men in an unmarked car opened fire on Dr. Musa Ja‘far,
Chairman of the Geological Survey Department for the puppet regime, as he drove
his private car down Hayfa Street. Dr. Ja‘far died on the spot, the source
added. Besides Ja‘far, a second individual who was in the car with the Chairman
was killed and a third wounded.
The source said that the attackers left the scene after the shooting and the
puppet police were unable to catch up with them.
Resistance bomb disables US Humvee in Baghdad’s al-Baladiyat section midday
Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 3:27pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the al-Baladiyat
area of eastern Baghdad after noon on Tuesday.
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as claiming that the blast disabled
a US Humvee and wounded three Iraqi civilians. The puppet police source said
that American forces closed off the area and prevented anyone from approaching,
making an accounting of US casualties impossible to obtain.
US admits death of one more occupation soldier on 14 November.
In a dispatch posted at 1:14pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association
of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US had admitted that a bomb
exploded near a US vehicle on 14 November, killing a 25-year-old American
soldier.
Car bomb explodes in western Baghdad Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted Tuesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb
went off amidst a crowd of civilians in the al-Bayya‘ suburb of western Baghdad
Tuesday morning.
Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the blast killed two
civilians and wounded seven more of them in addition to inflicting material
damage in the area. The victims were taken to al-Yarmuk Hospital for treatment.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji:
Bodies of two oil installation protection policemen found in Bayji.
In a dispatch posted at 6:57pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency
reported that the bodies of two puppet policemen of the oil protection forces
who were abducted by unknown parties a week ago had been found in the city of
Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported medical sources as saying that the remains showed signs of
torture and had been shot in various parts of their bodies. They were taken to
the morgue in Tikrit Teaching Hospital.
Ad-Dulu‘iyah:
Resistance bomb destroys US vehicle near ad-Dulu‘iyah, killing American crew.
In a dispatch posted at 6:20pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency
reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol to the east of
the city of ad-Dulu‘iyah, 97km north of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source as saying that the bomb exploded by a patrol of US
troops that was traveling around the area of Bayshkan near ad-Dulu‘iyah. The
blast sent parts of one of the American vehicles flying over a wide area and
left the Americans inside dead.
Diyala Province:
Salman Bak:
Two US troops killed when Resistance shoots down American helicopter near Salman
Bak Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 10:35pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi Resistance gunfire brought down a US helicopter to
the southeast of Baghdad, according to US admissions on Tuesday.
Yaqen reported a communiqué issued by the American occupation authorities as
saying that a US military helicopter crashed near Salman Bak, 45km southeast of
Baghdad. The American military admitted that two of its personnel were killed in
the attack and 12 more of them wounded.
Babil Province:
Al-Hillah.
Adviser to puppet “Iraqi Prime Minister” survives assassination attempt.
In a dispatch posted at 12:11pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association
of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an adviser to the US-appointed
puppet “Prime Minister” of Iraq, Nuri al-Maliki survived a bomb attack in Babil
Province, south of Baghdad.
The AMSI reported a source as saying that a bomb exploded by the motorcade of
Abu Ahmad al-Basri, an adviser to the puppet “Iraqi Prime Minister” on the
highway between al-Hillah and an-Najaf. The bomb, which was detonated by remote
control, caused no casualties or damage, the source claimed.
At-Ta’mim Province:
Kirkuk.
Resistance bomb kills puppet army soldier southwest of Kirkuk.
In a dispatch posted at 12:35am Makkah time just after midnight Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by an
Iraqi puppet army patrol near the village of as-Safrah, 60km southwest of Kirkuk
(which is 250km north of Baghdad) at midday Tuesday.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported an official with the puppet police in Kirkuk as
saying that the blast killed one Iraqi puppet army soldier and wounded five more
of them.
Dhi Qar Province:
An-Nasiriyah.
US soldier wounded in bomb attack south of an-Nasiriyah.
In a dispatch posted at 4:55pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that a bomb exploded by a US patrol on the highway in the Haql Sabbah
area south of an-Nasiriyah (which is 385km south of Baghdad).
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the blast destroyed an American Humvee and
wounded one US soldier.