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=== News Update ===
Translator turned martyrdom bomber
Translator turned martyrdom bomber blows up US soldiers� internet lounge on American base near ar-Ramadi. Forty US troops reported killed in massive explosion.
A powerful explosion shook the US base known as al-Warrar located west of ar-Ramadi on Tuesday morning when one of the translators who was working inside the American facility carried out a martyrdom bombing attack on the US occupation troops, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in ar-Ramadi reported that the martyrdom fighter entered the Net Shop in the al-Warrar base, the largest US base in al-Anbar Province and blew himself up. The Net Shop was an internet caf� and lounge for the American troops that was located in the southern part of the base. The powerful blast killed more than 40 American troops and wounded more than 20 more.
A new organization called the Squadrons of the Lions of the Arabian Peninsula announced its responsibility for the strike in a communiqu� entitled The Earthquake, a copy of which was received by Mafkarat al-Islam.
The correspondent reported that a commander of the Squadron of the Lions of the Arabian Peninsula told him, �one of the translators who announced his repentance before God a month ago smuggled out important intelligence information about the base and the positions in which the American troops are located inside. We were able to direct crushing blows at them in their sleeping and lounging quarters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds of them.�
The commander continued, �Afterwards Brother Abu Diya�, who used to work as a translator for the occupation, resolved to carry out a martyrdom operation, making use of his knowledge of the situation within the camp and the locations in which the occupation troops are to be found, in addition to the fact that he knew that he would not be subject to search by the guards. So after the sun of Jihad, self-sacrifice, and Islam entered his hearth, he decided to bring his consultation to its culmination with an operation that would gladden friends and exaspirate enemies. May God have mercy on him, he went into the base wearing an explosive belt and blew himself up in the midst of US occupation troops, tearing them to charred lacerated shreds.�
The commander said that the information available to them indicated that more than 40 American troops had been killed and another 20 wounded.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in ar-Ramadi reported that American helicopters were flying around the base in unusually high numbers for two whole hours beginning at 7:20am Tuesday and until exactly 10am, immediately evacuating a large number of American casualties from the facility.
The Americans also arrested all the Iraqi translators working in the base. In his dispatch, posted at 10:51am Mecca time Tuesday morning, the correspondent reported that they had not yet been released. At 9:30 local time, a large detachment of American troops swooped down on the home of the martyrdom fighter Abu Diya�, where they arrested his mother, who, according to the martyr�s 13-year old brother, is blind.
Released Indonesian journalists carry message to their colleagues.
Two Indonesian journalists who were captured and held prisoner by the Iraqi Resistance announced on Tuesday after their arrival in Amman, Jordan that the Resistance had given them a message to convey to their fellow journalists.
Television reporter Muti�ah Hafiz, 26, arrived in Amman together with her cameraman Budiyanto, 38 one day after their release by the Resistance. Muti�ah Hafiz told the press in the Jordanian capital, �The told us that we must inform journalists that they should not enter Iraq and that it is not safe for them. They also said that they are dissatisfied with some reports made by some journalists that discredited them.�
The two, who work for Indonesia�s Metro Television, said that three men abducted them after they stopped at a petrol station near ar-Ramadi as they were on their way back to Jordan from covering events in Iraq.
Reuters reported Muti�ah Hafiz as saying that the Resistance fighters who captured them repeatedly reassured and calmed them. She said, �they didn�t harm us in any way.�
She said, �we had breakfast, lunch and dinner every day and they did not take a cent from us. They were very attentive to our needs.�
Muti�ah Hafiz said, �somehow I believed them when they said �we have nothing against you . . . we are mujahideen fighting for Islam and we don�t want money�.�
A Resistance organization calling itself the Army of the Mujahideen publicized a video tape in which they demanded that the Indonesian government explain what the two journalists were doing in Iraq.
http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report204.htm
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