US soldier reported killed in early morning Resistance attack in al-Qa’im.

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 24 July 2007. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. Tuesday, 24 July 2007. · US soldier reported killed in early morning Resistance attack in al-Qa’im. · Resistance unleashes heaviest mortar barrage in months on US ‘Ayn al-Asad Air Base near al-Baghdadi in western Iraq. · US, Iran announce agreement to join forces against Iraqi Resistance. · Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder spree continues: 24 more bodies found dumped aroung Baghdad Tuesday. · US admits death of four more American occupation troops. · Puppet official reports that 80 percent of Iraq’s health workers have left hospitals since US occupation. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im. US soldier reported killed in early morning Resistance attack in al-Qa’im. In a dispatch posted at 5:34pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an early morning Iraqi Resistance attack on American troops in a neighborhood of al-Qa’im near the Syrian border in western Iraq had heavily damaged a US military vehicle and left one American soldier dead and three more wounded. Mafkarat al-Islam reported a captain in the puppet police as saying that the attack took place in the ash-Shayshan popular neighborhood at the entrance to al-Qa’im early Tuesday morning. The puppet captain said that after the attack, the Americans surrounded the scene of the attack and imposed a curfew on the neighborhood. They also managed to disarm a second bomb that they found at the same location/ The US troops also arrested one local man and his daughter, taking them in for “interrogation.” Al-Baghdadi. Resistance unleashes heaviest mortar barrage in months on US ‘Ayn al-Asad Air Base near al-Baghdadi. In a dispatch posted at 5:26pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Iraqi Resistance blasted the US-occupied ‘Ayn al-Asad Air Base with a violent barrage of heavy 120mm mortar rounds at 2am local time Tuesday morning. Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that 11 heavy mortar shells slammed into the US-occupied base, the largest such US facility, located near al-Baghdadi, about 180km west of Baghdad. The witnesses said that the barrage ignited fires and set off secondary explosions as US materiel began exploding inside the base. Sirens wailed inside the American compound and US helicopters could be seen flying at low altitude over the area, one of them emblazoned with the red cross – implying that there had been casualties, though in keeping with the standard US policy of concealing facts regarding American losses in Iraq, no information on the nature or extent of casualties was made available. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that this was the first such attack on the US base since a number of tribes agreed to collaborate in the so-called “al-Anbar Salvation Council” with the US occupation authorities, ostensibly against al-Qa‘idah (although in practice against all the Iraqi Resistance). Baghdad. US, Iran announce agreement to join forces against Iraqi Resistance. In a dispatch posted at 7:45pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that representatives of Iran and the United States had concluded talks in Baghdad on Tuesday with an agreement to join forces to fight the Iraqi Resistance. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that talks between Iran and the United States, together with the puppet “Iraqi regime” ended in Baghdad on Tuesday with an agreement to form a tripartite committee on “Security” to coordinate the war against the Iraqi Resistance in the country. A spokesman for the American-installed puppet regime in Baghdad told the press that the three countries agreed to form a tripartite “Security Committee” with the aim of bolstering their common effort to “impose security” in the country and stamp out the Iraqi Reistance. A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting by the office of Nuri al-Maliki, the American-installed puppet “Prime Minister” of Iraq reported that the US and Iranian sides had agreed to support what they called “the political process in Iraq” – meaning the US sponsored puppet regime and its security organs, most of whose members have been drawn from Iranian-trained Shi‘i sectarian militias. US Ambassador Ryan Crocker announced that Iran and the United States had agreed to set up a committee to “improve security” in Iraq. Crocker said that the talks between the two hegemonic powers had taken place in a “positive and frank” atmosphere. The negotiations were conducted by Ryan Crocker, US Ambassador to occupied Iraq; and Hasan Kazimi Qummi, the Iranian Ambassador to occupied Iraq. The US installed Iraqi puppet regime was represented in the meetings by the puppet “Foreign Minister” Hushyar Zibari. Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder spree continues: 24 more bodies found dumped aroung Baghdad Tuesday. In a dispatch posted on its website Tuesday, Quds Press reported that the Iraqi puppet police had retrieved the bodies of 24 more victims of the Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder spree in various parts of Baghdad on Tuesday. Sources with the puppet police disclosed to Quds Press that most of the bodies were found in al-Karakh, an area where the Shi‘i sectarian militias are highly active. The bodies were bond and blindfolded and showed signs of intense torture – a trademark of the Shi‘i sectarian militias and the US-backed security forces most of whose members are drawn from those sectarian militias. Quds Press reported that according to the officially announced statistics of the US-installed puppet regime, the latest batch of murder victims brings the toll for the month of July to 425 people killed by the sectarian death squads. The Shi‘i sectarian militias are engaged in a massive campaign to drive Sunnis out of vast swaths of Baghdad and central and southern Iraq in preparation for the implementation of US and Zionist plans to partition Iraq on sectarian lines. Efforts to split Iraq along religious and ethnic lines are part of the plans that US and Zionist politicians have long been cultivating with a view to fragmenting the Arab region. The idea of “the dissolution of Iraq into a Shi‘ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” was voiced by veteran Zionist military correspondent Ze’ev Schiff in Ha'aretz on 2 June 1982 and was a part of the divide-and-rule strategy laid out by Zionist writer Oded Yinon in his “Strategy for Israel in the 1980s,” published in Kivunim (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism, published by the World Zionist Organization in occupied Jerusalem in February 1982. (It was translated by the late anti-Zionist writer and activist Israel Shahak and is widely available.) The idea of splitting the Shi‘ah in Iraq from the rest of the country was a cornerstone of the neo-Conservative strategy laid out in “A Clean Break” a paper drawn up by American Zionist government officials Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and Paul Wolfowitz in 1996 for the then Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then in 2000 the neo-Conservative Project for a New American Century wrote Rebuilding America’s Defenses on the basis of the “Clean Break.” The American version of the strategy for a partition of Iraq appeared in the article “The Three-State Solution” published in The New York Times on 25 November 2003 by Leslie Gelb (President Emeritus of the US Council on Foreign Relations). The same idea was reiterated, this time with “bi-partisan support” in the article by Gelb and US Democratic Senator Joseph Biden in “Unity through Autonomy in Iraq,” in The New York Times on 1 May 2006. Then on 8 October 2006 the London Sunday Times reported that the partition of Iraq along religious and ethnic lines was one of the suggestions that the Baker-Hamilton commission was advancing. Resistance bomb wound puppet troops Tuesday morning. In a dispatch posted at 3:19pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb went off by a patrol of the puppet “Iraqi Army” on Qahtan Square in Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk district. The AMSI reported that two puppet soldiers were wounded in the blast that also damaged one of the vehicles in the detail. Resistance bomb targets puppet police patrol Tuesday morning. In a dispatch posted at 3:19pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol in the Zuyunah district of Baghdad on Tuesday morning. The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as claiming that the blast wounded one of the patrolmen and one civilian in addition to damaging patrol cars. US admits death of four more American occupation troops. In a dispatch posted at 9:10am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US admitted that four more of its occupation troops had been killed in Iraq – one each in al-Anbar Province and the city of Samarra’, and two in Baghdad, on Saturday and Sunday. The AMSI reported that one American communiqué reported that one US soldier was killed on Saturday 21 July while on a mission somewhere in al-Anbar Province. A second American statement acknowledged that another American had been killed when an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military vehicle that was on a combat mission to the south of Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad, also on Saturday, 21 July. The third US communiqué announced that a bomb exploded in Baghdad on Sunday, 22 July, killing an American Marine. Another communiqué issued at dawn on Tuesday reported that yet one other American had died in Baghdad on Saturday. Puppet official reports that 80 percent of Iraq’s health workers have left hospitals since US occupation. In a dispatch posted at 4:08pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a deputy to the US-installed puppet “Iraqi Parliament” had delivered an official report on health and the environment in which he disclosed that 80 percent of Iraqi physicians had completely left work in the hospitals of the country. The AMSI reported the puppet official as appearing at a press conference with other members of the puppet “Parliament” on Tuesday where they announced that the figure of 80 percent applied to all health care professionals, including dentists, pharmacists, and other health workers. He added that “the main reason for that is the deterioration of security that Iraqis are living through.” The official said: “the reports issued by the [puppet] “Iraqi Ministry of Health” indicated that 132 medical personnel had been killed, in addition to 223 health workers, 186 non-nursing health workers, and 78 institutional guards.” Salah ad-Din Province. Samarra’. US imposes 24-hour curfew on Samarra’. In a dispatch posted at 3:53pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US forces imposed a 24-hour curfew on the city of Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad, at 12 noon Tuesday. The AMSI reported that the curfew was to remain in force until 12 noon Wednesday, but no explanation for the restrictive measure was provided. Diyala Province. Al-Mada’in. Resistance bomb kills three puppet policemen in al-Mada’in. In a dispatch posted at 3:53pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded near the al-Mada’in fuel station in al-Mada’in, 25km southeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday. The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb that had been planted near the fuel station went off as a puppet police patrol approached, killing three of the puppet policemen and wounding still more of them. US forces carry out mass arrests in al-Mada’in Tuesday. In a dispatch posted at 3:53pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US forces made raids and arrests in the al-Bawi area and the neighborhood of al-Wahdah of al-Mada’in, 25km southeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday. The AMSI reported that the number of people abducted by the Americans was unknown. Babil Province. Al-Hillah. Unexplained car bomb kills 22 in al-Hillah. In a dispatch posted at 3:19pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a car bomber blew up in the city of al-Hillah, 100km south of Baghdad on Tuesday. The AMSI reported the puppet police as announcing that the blast killed 22 people and wounded 66 more. AMSI noted that al-Hillah has been the scene of several bombings in recent days despite the heavy deployment of US and puppet regime troops in the city.