The Day’s Headlines — As reported by pro-resistance sites Monday Feb 20th 2006

The list below is a summary of headlines.

  • Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier atop building west of ar-Ramadi.
  • More than 60 local residents arrested in az-Zaydan southeast of al-Fallujah as Americans stage savage house-to-house raids in locked-down city.
  • Two US soldiers, one Iraqi schoolboy reported killed in accidental clash between American troops and puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah.
  • Iraqi hospitals took in bodies of 821 Sunni Iraqis murdered by Badr Brigades, “Interior Ministry” in January alone. Ninety percent showed signs of torture prior to death.
  • US soldier reported killed in Resistance bombing in ad-Dawli‘i area northwest of Baghdad.
  • Four mercenary “security contractors” killed in Resistance bombing in eastern Baghdad.
  • Resistance bomb in southern al-Latifiyah leaves US soldier reported dead.
  • Zionist website reports secretive “Israeli” plane crashes near Iranian border in northern Iraq’s as-Sulaymaniyah Province.
  • Three US troops reported killed in bombing northwest of an-Najaf.

Al-Basrah.

Resistance assassinates pro-American Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigade commander in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 1:30pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters shot and killed a commander in the pro-American Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigades near the al-Kawwaz Mosque in al-Basrah on Sunday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that ‘Ali Jiyad was sitting in a food stall when a car in which were armed men came on the scene. The attackers took the Badr Brigade commander by surprise, and, using a pistol equipped with a silencer, pumped six bullets into him, killing him.


In latest sectarian killing: Sunni Waqf guard imprisoned by puppet authorities found murdered near al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 1:20pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported informed sources as saying that the body of ‘Adil ‘Abd ar-Razzaq Saqr, one of the guards of the Sunni Waqf (pious endowment trust) in the southern city of al-Basrah had been found dumped on the al-Basrah – az-Zubayr road one year after he was arrested by the puppet Interior Affairs department.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that ‘Adil ‘Abd ar-Razzaq was arrested about Abd ar-Razzaqone year ago by the puppet “Directorate of Interior Affairs” in al-Basrah, which in actuality is run by the pro-American Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigades.

The correspondent reported that an officer in the puppet police contacted ‘Abd ar-Razzaq’s family two days before his body was discovered to say that the investigating judge had ordered his release after his innocence of the charges leveled against him had been established. The puppet police representative said that ‘Abd ar-Razzaq would be set free on Monday (today). Instead, on Monday family members were shocked to learn that his body had been discovered, and had been taken to the Forensic Medicine Directorate in al-Basrah.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that ‘Abd ar-Razzaq died of three gunshot wounds. One bullet penetrated his eye, the other two were in other parts of his body. The family told the correspondent that they had been threatened by members of the Iraqi puppet “Interior Ministry” not to hold a public funeral for ‘Abd ar-Razzaq.

‘Abd ar-Razzaq, who was born in 1979, was a resident of the Abu al-Khasib area. He was married and had an infant daughter whom he never saw, as she was born one day after his arrest. Pictures of ‘Abd ar-Razzaq in life and of his mutilated corpse can be seen at [Arabic language link - opens in new window ]

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the killing comes in the context of a series of attacks on the Sunni Waqf (Pious Endowment) Board in the predominantly Shi‘i city of al-Basrah. Unknown gunmen attacked the house of the Director of the Sunni Waqf in al-Basrah in 2005, shooting at the director. In Ramadan 2005 (4 October – 2 November 2005) a mortar shell blasted into the Waqf office, killing one of the guards.

Several months ago, the correspondent reported, troops of the puppet “Interior Affairs Directorate” attempted to storm the Sunni Waqf Office on the pretext that it was a haven for “terrorists”. Numerous Sunni mosques were also raided and shot at on that occasion.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported informed sources who asked not to be identified as saying that Iranian Intelligence continued to dominate occupied Iraq’s security services under the US-installed Shi‘i sectarian puppet regime. The source said that a sharp struggle has erupted, recently, however, between some Iraqi members of the security service who do not wish to be subordinated to Iran, and others who belong to or are loyal to the Iranian secret services. The Iranians, the source said, have their own techniques in connection with killing their victims, one of them being to set them free and then kill them shortly afterward so as to be able to deny that they were killed in captivity.