Posted by NEWS on 16/11/2004, 20:06:00 In a dispatch posted at 4:17pm Mecca time Monday, the Fallujah correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a noticeable quiet has descended over Fallujah, broken only by intermittent fire by one of the American snipers scattered on rooftops in places in the city. The calm prevails both in the city center and on the outskirts. US snipers are deployed on the main streets of the city in six or seven positions along ath-Tharthar Street, the main street leading to ar-Ramadi (ar-Ramadi Road), and buildings overlooking the Euphrates to the west of the city. Dozens of US snipers deployed on the main thoroughfares prevent the people in their areas from moving about normally and obtaining drinking water and food, though the citys residents move freely in the narrow side streets. The grip of the snipers themselves has also loosened to the extent that people sometimes can even manage to sprint across the main streets. Decomposing bodies still lie on some streets where the people cannot get to them to bury them. Some people have buried relatives in their homes for fear of risking snipers on the way to cemeteries. The Mujahideen has changed its positions within the city, distributing different districts to different units, allowing the groups to reinforce one another whenever fighting becomes fierce. The Mujahideen move about easily within their own areas. Mujahideen sharpshooters attempted to eliminate the American snipers by taking up positions on other high buildings to pick them off, but US Apache helicopters would unleash intense gunfire upon them whenever they made these attempts. 19 Americans Killed When Mujahideen Blows Up Building Sources in the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of Fallujah told Quds Press on Monday that Mujahideen blew up a building in Fallujah as American forces were entering it on Monday morning, killing 19 US troops. The building in the al-Bazarah neighborhood opposite the al-Wuthbah Secondary School in the city was blown up using a large amount of TNT just as the US troops were entering it. The US forces brought in bulldozers to dig out the remains of their dead. US troops who were still outside the building when it exploded were wounded. On Sunday the US military admitted that the Resistance in Fallujah had detonated a building killing three and wounding 13 other American troops. Resistance sources told Quds Press that the real number was 60 dead and 40 wounded in that blast. The building that blew up was the office of the Governor of Fallujah and more than 500kg of high explosive TNT was used to demolish that large structure over the Americans. Resistance Commander Scoffs At Claims US Controls Fallujah Iraqi Resistance commander Abu Muhammad, who leads fighters in the north of Fallujah scoffed at pictures broadcast by some television companies showing US soldiers resting on beds in Fallujah. Abu Muhammad observed that the Resistance was still looking for where those beds were so they could set them afire. Abu Muhammad said that the occupation forces were good at forging photos. He said that images of US troops strolling about streets of Fallujah looked like images from the storming of any Iraqi city. Although he had not himself seen the images, he said that those who had seen them maintained that no houses recognizable as being in Fallujah showed up in them. As to the claims that the US forces were in the city, Abu Muhammad said that they might have taken pictures on the day they did enter the city 26 Ramadan/ 9 November, but since then the situation had totally changed. Abu Muhammad offered the explanation that some of the pictures could be of places of no strategic importance that the Americans occupied. Abu Muhammad told Mafkarat al-Islam that unbiased observers had acknowledged that the city had never been in the hands of the US occupation and that the war in Fallujah was still on. Fighters In Amiriyat Al-Fallujah Shoot Down Two US Helicopters In a dispatch posted at 9:20pm Monday Mecca time, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Fallujah reported that Resistance forces had shot down two US Apache helicopters over Amiriyat al-Fallujah in the last couple days. The first of the two choppers was downed on Sunday; the second was shot down around sunset Monday. The correspondent noted that the Resistance brought both down with C5K rockets. Amiriyah al-Fallujah, a town to the south of Fallujah, appears to have acquired some special skill in shooting down American helicopters. Several days ago they brought down a helicopter that was carrying some 60 US troops. Mujahideen Attack US Positions Northeast Of Fallujah Mujahideen in Fallujah attacked US troops located in the agricultural area northeast of the city in an attempt to break up their camp. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that the Mujahideen struck the most important US position northeast of the agricultural area. Fighting spread to al-Jarmah northeast of the city and continued for more than four hours. US columns have moved up to the area where fighting has been underway in the agricultural area and the area of the city cemetery. The battle zone is now stretched over 35 to 40km. Mujahideen fired Grad rockets on the headquarters of the puppet so-called national guard in al-Jarmah, destroying an American force that was there. US Apache and Black Hawk helicopters attacked northern al-Jarmah in an attempt to divert the resistance so that they could retrieve their dead and wounded. Fallujah Doctors Issue Appeal Fallujahs doctors issued an appeal for assistance on Monday, noting the extent of the criminal activity of the US forces that had no qualms about blowing up hospitals and clinics with patients and doctors inside. The doctors denounced US-appointed puppet prime minister Iyyad Allawi and his so-called health minister Ala ad-Din al-Alwan. They noted that US forces attacked Fallujah General Hospital in the first hours of their attack and arrested doctors, nurses, and medical professionals. These people were beaten and humiliated on the grounds that they were terrorists. The doctors in their statement said that the puppet so-called Iraqi national guard who accompanied the Americans, drove nurses out of the delivery room as an Iraqi woman was giving birth, leaving the baby still attached to the mother. After that US troops bombarded the substituted hospitals that had been set up inside the city, and the blood of doctors and that of patients mixed under the ruins. After the bombardment, if they found anyone still alive in the rubble, they crushed him with their tanks. The doctors statement noted that US snipers killed more than 17 Iraqi doctors who had rushed to respond to an earlier appeal for help from Fallujahs medical personnel that went out over al-Jazeera satellite TV. The doctorss statement also pointed out that US forces prevented aid teams from getting into Fallujah, terrorizing and repressing the Iraqi Red Crescent teams and humanitarian and Islamic volunteers. The doctors in Fallujah denounced the puppet so-called health minister saying that he had threatened to cut off the salaries, take away their licenses, and imprison them if any of them talked about the outrages committed by the US and puppet forces in Fallujah. The doctors concluded their statement calling on all doctors to condemn these barbaric acts and to take the initiative to save all the people of Fallujah who can be saved. They also insisted on the need to expel those who cooperate with the occupation, including the so-called minister of health, from the Iraqi Federation of Physicians.
Mujahideen Moves Easily In Fallujah; 19 Americans Killed In Explosion
Nov 16, 2004
By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice; Edited By JUS
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