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Mujahideen
Strike US Rear Lines; Tape Shows Captured Allawi Forces
Nov 11, 2004 By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice In a report posted at 2:40am Thursday morning, local time (1:40am Mecca time) the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that Mujahideen continued to carry out attacks on the rear of US troops engaged in the offensive on al-Fallujah. At the time of the filing, the correspondent said rocket attacks on the American rear had been under way for about three hours. During that time more than 55 rockets of various types, not counting mortar rounds, had been pumped into the American troop concentrations. US forces had tried to keep resistance forces pinned down in al-Karmah and as-Saqlawiyah to prevent American rear lines being hit in support of their brothers in al-Fallujah but the Mujahideen fought back, forcing the Americans to retreat, and then unleashed their barrages on the US forces encircling al-Fallujah. During the middle of the night, then, US forces found themselves between two sides of an Iraqi Resistance pincer – those inside the city on the one side, and those attacking their rear lines to the north, on the other. Resistance Reasserts Control Over Al-Fallujah After Dark In a dispatch posted at 1:07am Thursday morning local time (12:07am Thursday Mecca time) the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Fallujah reported that Iraqi Resistance organizations had been able to crush US aggressor forces and compel them to retreat from al-Fallujah. The correspondent wrote that caught between Resistance attacks from inside the city and Resistance attacks on the American rear to the north outside the city, the Americans had pulled out of al-Fallujah with the exception of a few snipers still posted atop some rooftops. Fierce fighting, however, was under way to the north of the al-Jawlan, al-Jaghifi, and al-Mu‘allimin neighborhoods. In the southern part of the city, meanwhile, violent fighting continued in the industrial zone after major operations Wednesday morning yielded significant losses, and some captives taken when two Humvees and their crews fell into Resistance hands. Fighting completely ceased in the al-Jumhuriyah and ad-Dubbat neighborhoods. The correspondents reported that the scenes of American troops in al-Fallujah currently being broadcast internationally were filmed yesterday, but are still being broadcast to give the false impression that the Americans retain the initiative. The correspondents in al-Fallujah note, however, that the Resistance forces tend to dominate at nighttime, but are much less able to hold predominant positions during the daylight hours. The overall situation in the city, therefore, remains extremely complex, particularly inasmuch as the American aggressors’ habit is to begin their attacks with the first light of dawn. Meanwhile, a Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that an American Apache helicopter was shot down around 1pm Wednesday over the al-Jawlan neighborhood. Outside the city, US forces turned to fight Iraqi Resistance forces in the al-Karmah area after realizing that their rear supply lines were under a severe threat from that quarter by the Resistance. Al-Jazeera Broadcasts Video Tape Of Captured Allawi Forces Al-Jazeera satellite television broadcast a videotape Wednesday distributed by an Iraqi Resistance group referred to as “Mujahidi al-Fallujah” (i.e., “the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah”) that had captured 20 puppet so-called “Iraqi national guards” in al-Fallujah. Men wearing Iraqi uniforms were shown with their backs to the camera. A Resistance fighter, his face masked, read a statement on the tape, but al-Jazeera did not air the audio portion of the tape. The station said the Resistance group promised not to kill the prisoners shown on the tape but threatened to kill puppet “national guardsmen” captured in the future. On Monday Iraqi Resistance forces captured 36 Americans in the south of al-Fallujah and provided video tapes of the prisoners to al-Jazeera and al-‘Arabiyah TV, but both stations refused to air the footage out of fear of US reprisals for showing American troops. The broadcast on Wednesday would suggest that American censors are less sensitive about the broadcast of scenes of Iraqi puppet prisoners.
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