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=== News Update ===
Thursday, 7 April 2005.
Al-Anbar Province - Al-Qa�im.
Iraqi Resistance seizes control of city of al-Qa�im on the Syrian border.
The Iraqi Resistance issued several communiqu�s on Thursday morning announcing that the city of al-Qa�im on the Iraqi-Syrian border, had fallen militarily from the hands of the Americans and their Iraqi puppet �government� into the hands of the Iraqi Resistance after the deployment of dozens of Iraqi Resistance fighters throughout all neighborhoods of the city.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses in the city as saying that the Iraqi puppet army had withdrawn at dawn on Thursday after the Resistance appeared in great force in the city streets, armed with their usual light, medium, and heavy weaponry.
City residents said that they heard three calls of �Allahu akbar!� (�God is greatest!�) from various mosques in the city at dawn prayer times, a call that they believe was a signal to Resistance fighters to prepare for the expected battle.
In his dispatch posted at 12:35pm Thursday afternoon Mecca time, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as of the time he filed his report, the city of al-Qa�im remained free of all US and Iraqi puppet presence and completely in the control of the Iraqi Resistance.
Resistance shoots down US Cobra helicopter over al-Qa�im early Thursday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 1:38pm Thursday afternoon, Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Iraqi Resistance forces in al-Qa�im shot down a US Cobra helicopter over the city. Resistance ground fire struck the American aircraft and caused it to burst into flames on all four sides and crash in the area east of the city, witnesses said.
The correspondent at that point had no information regarding the fate of the American crew, but it was believed that they were killed when the craft caught fire in the air.
US attempt to break into al-Qa�im fails Thursday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 4:30pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US mechanized forces with helicopter air support had advanced on al-Qa�im and tried to break into the city about fifteen minutes earlier, but failed. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam�s correspondent in the city that the American forces were unable to overcome the stubborn defense put up by the Iraqi Resistance.
In an hour and a half of fighting Resistance repulses US attacks, forcing US to pull back as night falls.
In a dispatch posted at 6:25pm Mecca time Thursday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces attempted to storm into al-Qa�im late Thursday afternoon. A fierce battle raged for about an hour and a half as American troops struck at the eastern and southern approaches of the city.
Resistance forces beat back the American attackers, however, destroying four Humvees and shooting down one US helicopter. Several tanks and armored vehicles were also disabled or destroyed and a number of US troops killed or wounded.
Witnesses reported that after failing to break down the Resistance defenses, US forces pulled back from the outskirts of the city. At the time of reporting, the correspondent wrote, Resistance forces were in control of all parts of the city of al-Qa�im and remained in fortified positions on the city�s outskirts.
http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report246.htm
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