Resistance Holds
Majority Of Fallujah; “Intifada Growing Too Big To Control" Nov 17, 2004 By
Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice; Edited by JUS
A leader of one of the Resistance organizations in Fallujah confirmed to the
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city that many of the Resistance
organizations in the city have resolved to “disappear from view” in order to
wage a war of attrition against the US forces inside and outside the
city.
The Mujahideen leader described to the Mafkarat al-Islam
correspondent the tragic situation in the demolished city “which has become
unbearable due to the large number of dead Iraqi civilians in the streets whose
bodies are being eaten by dogs.”
He said that bodies of children shot
dead by American snipers yesterday or the day before as they tried to cross the
street, were being devoured by the dogs. Neither the families nor the fighters
are able to retrieve the remains of their mangled bodies because of the American
snipers are still perched atop high buildings. The Commander described whole
buildings that were totally burned with everyone inside.
“All such
things,” he said, “have compelled some of the Resistance organizations to
incline to taking up the method of war of attrition.”
The Commander said
that this decision was not unanimous among the Resistance organizations, some of
which have opted to reduce the pressure they exert from within the heart of
Fallujah, in view of the determination of the American forces to destroy the
city and commit a wholesale slaughter of the inhabitants. Other Resistance
organizations have resolved to continue fighting at the same pace as
before.
The Commander noted the contrast between the determination of the
American forces to kill children, women, doctors, nurses, and civilians and the
silence of the whole world in the face of such atrocities. No pressure has been
brought to bear to save the civilians suspended in the city despite the
unparalleled success that the Resistance has had in waging a street war against
the invaders.
Some of the Resistance organizations in Fallujah have
chosen what has been called “the option of our brothers in Samarra’” who sought
to reduce the pressure on their main support, after God, that is, the civilian
population, by withdrawing to the suburbs of the city where the ferocity of
their Resistance operations produced the first instance of mutiny and rejection
of orders within the ranks of the American troops in Iraq.
The Commander
repeated that this was not a unanimous decision, however, and he noted that
there were many Resistance organizations, “that I don’t know anything about,” as
he put it.
The Commander concluded by saying with a confident smile,
“Iraq will see what we are bringing about with our own hands . . . the victory
of all of Iraq; an intifada that has grown too big to control.”
The
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that there is a leadership of major
Mujahid organizations in Fallujah that is still pursuing the fight as before.
One of them is the group of Shaykh ‘Abdallah al-Janabi, the Chairman of the
Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of Fallujah. According to Quds Press,
Shaykh al-Janabi spoke Tuesday to a gathering of Resistance fighters defending
the city, saying “the Mujahideen control firmly and completely 60 percent of the
territory of Fallujah. The rest of the city is a battle zone where fighting is
going on in fits and starts between the American aggressor forces and the
Resistance that is defending Fallujah.”
Shaykh al-Janabi said that
Fallujah Mujahideen had used a captured American tank in their assault on US
military positions and the operation accomplished its goals completely. He said
that the Iraqi flag had been raise in official ceremonies over 12 positions
regarded as battle zones.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Fallujah
commented that these positions of the different Resistance organizations in the
city were not in fact contradictory or mutually exclusive. Past experience has
shown, he wrote, that every Resistance group helps out the others despite their
differences as to their ultimate aims. A proof of that can be seen in the
meeting held last Tuesday that took place under a unified leadership.
The
source of differences among the Fallujah Resistance organizations is the issue
of the unarmed civilian population and what to do regarding them. Some
organizations believe the best course is to continue to resist, particularly
since other fronts of struggle against the US forces have now been opened
elsewhere. But other groups believe that the civilians cannot bear the pressure
of the siege any longer. Another source of difference of opinion among the
Resistance groups is that some believe it is necessary to open another big front
to confront the aggressors on their rear lines, while other Resistance
organizations fear that this could result in the fall of the city.
Quds
Press reported that extremely fierce fighting was underway on Tuesday on the
edges of the al-Jawlan neighborhood of Fallujah. Powerful explosions shook the
area and could be heard throughout the city, though their exact cause was
difficult to determine. Since early Tuesday morning US military aircraft prowled
the skies over the city, strafing and rocketing what they regard as targets in
numerous neighborhoods throughout the city. US snipers are deployed on the roofs
of many tall buildings that over look the city, and they fire on anything that
moves in the streets below.
Resistance Pounds US Marines On Outskirts
Of Fallujah
Iraqi Resistance forces carried out an intense rocket
attack on concentrations of US Marines to the north, west, and south of
Fallujah. The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported that more
than 31 powerful Tariq and Grad rockets were fired at the American troop
concentrations in three areas outside the city.
The correspondent wrote
that the rockets fired into the American Marines to the north of the city were
launched from a branch of the Tigris River. The rockets that struck the US troop
concentrations to the west and south of the city were launched from the
direction of al-‘Amiriyah and some from mobile launchers mounted on
vehicles.
American Troops Use Women And Children As Human Shields
A field Commander for the Mujahideen disclosed to a correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam in Fallujah what he called the “tragedy of the street
fighting” in reference to the way that the invading American troops were using
Iraqi women and children as human shields.
The Commander said that the
tragedy began last Tuesday and that before that, he had never seen such things,
when the Americans used used women and children to shield their tanks. The
Commander commented: “this state is living through a type of savagery that
history has never known before.”
The field Commander said “we could hear
the cries of the children and the women’s calls for help from atop a column of
tanks that was driving along ath-Tharthar street last Tuesday. Some of our
fighters closed their eyes in pain and wept at the sight.”
Statement
>From The Iraqi Baath Party On The Battle Of Fallujah
The Department
for Political information and publication of the Iraqi branch of the Arab
Socialist Baath Party issued a statement on Tuesday in which it said that the
current Anglo-British offensive against Fallujah is a “premeditated criminal act
of revenge against the heroic Fallujah in which the official Arab regimes and
the Arab news media owned by the wardens of the oil fields of the occupation
forces are taking part in according to their distribution of roles that have
been imposed or agreed upon beforehand.”
Nevertheless, the heroic battle
at Fallujah, the Baath Party said, would be an “example to be followed in Iraq,
first, and then in Palestine.”
The Baath statement said that in the
Battle of Fallujah, fighters from of the Baath Party were participating in the
fighting with units of the Forces of Resistance and Liberation, under the banner
of Resistance and Jihad, and that in the military expertise of the Army of Iraq
and the Republican Guard were being used in “a continuous and on-going battle,
one that is not isolated.”
The US and the (Allawi) puppet regime in
Baghdad hoped in vain to get political mileage out of Fallujah in the up-coming
meeting of regional regimes with the United States in Sharm ash-Shaykh next week
however the continuous and comprehensive battle will lead instead to the
exhaustion of the aggressor and the downfall of the puppet regime. It exposes
the strategic disability of the occupation and will eventually be reflected
inside the US with respect to the mobilization of forces.
The battle will
compel the US to make difficult and harsh demands on Arab regimes, the Baath
Party statement predicted, for the future of the political game it is playing in
Iraq depends on the security of its puppet regime, and that regime has no
security.
As the assault on Fallujah is a crime, the Resistance to it has
national and human legitimacy that demands that the Resistance proceed
untrammeled and without restriction until the occupation has been routed out and
the puppet authority destroyed, the statement said.
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