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Iraqi
Resistance Carries Out First Martyrdom Operation
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U.S.
forces in Iraq come under daily attacks
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By
Hossam Ad-din Sayed, IOL Iraq Chief Correspondent
BAGHDAD,
July 9 (IslamOnline.net) - The Iraqi national resistance carried out the
first martyrdom operation that targeted U.S. troops stationed in Baghdad
airport, Iraqi sources told IslamOnlin.net.
A
statement obtained by IOL's office in the Iraqi capital said that a man
called Abu Abdullah, a truck driver, carried out the operation few days
ago, leaving between 10 to 15 U.S. soldiers killed and dozens others
wounded.
The
statement further said that three armored vehicles and one tank at least
were destroyed during the operation.
Eyewitnesses
told IOL that U.S. troops were demolishing parts of Baghdad airport to
build up a prison for Iraqi detainees, adding that they rented a number
of trucks to lift the debris.
"Abu
Abdullah was a driver of one of these trucks…He loaded the truck with
explosives and blow it up inside the airport field, causing deafening
sound heard by the inhabitants of the area and sending plumes of black
smokes skyward," they added.
U.S.
troops rent these trucks and hire laborers without checking the
identities of the drivers or workers, which provides an easy access to
under-construction sites.
U.S.
troops also are moving around in streets without adequate protection,
which made some Iraqi scholars issue a fatwa (religious edict) ruling
that "it is not permissible to carry out martyrdom operations for
the time being in Iraq because the enemy is an easy target and it is
difficult to spare the blood of innocent Iraqis."
A
spokesman for the U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq, however, declined
to comment, but admitted a number of anti-U.S. attacks had been carried
out in the airport area and its surrounding suburbs, blaming, in the
mean time, remnants of the deposed Baath party and loyalists to ousted
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein for such attacks.
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The
message also asserted that there was in no way any link between the
resistance operations and the latest audio tapes of Saddam, which were
broadcast on Arab satellite channels.
It
further dismissed the alleged audio tapes as an attempt to "steal
the limelight from the resistance and cast a fake glory on a
totalitarian regime that was the cause of the appalling conditions and
great suffering of the Iraqi people, not to mention the U.S.
occupation."
A
tape attributed to the toppled Iraqi president was
broadcast Tuesday, July 8, by Aljazeera, calling on the Iraqis to unite and throw
out the occupying U.S.-led forces from their country.
It
was the second broadcast message in four days to be attributed to
Saddam. The earlier one,
put out Friday, July 4, by Aljazeera and was deemed to be probably
authentic by experts of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Residents
from the airport area told IOL that the explosions and resistance
operations against the U.S. troops in the area always coincided with the
second Takbira (Allah is Greatest) of the dawn Adhan (call to prayer).
A
message e-mailed to IOL last month, attributed
to the Iraqi resistance, said its fighters had recently launched 14
al-Samoud 2 missiles at the a camp of the U.S. occupation soldiers in
the airport area, destroying 23 helicopters, killing more than 20
soldiers and officers and injuring 30 others.
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