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----- Original Message ----- From: New Worker Online Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 3:53 PM Subject: [New-Worker-News] Iraqi resistance on the offensive http://www.newworker.org New Worker International news - 10/9/2004 Iraqi resistance on the offensive by our Arab Affairs Correspondent IRAQI PARTISANS resumed offensive action this week striking at American and lackey troops throughout the country. Mahdi Army militiamen are fighting in the streets of Baghdad's Sadr City neighbourhood, while the resistance pounds the "Green Zone" US military compound in the centre of the capital. Patriotic Iraqi forces in Fallujah have inflicted heavy losses on the US Marines, and fierce clashes are taking place on the outskirts of all the other liberated towns in central and southern Iraq. The imperialist response has been to step up their air attacks on supposed resistance strongholds in built-up areas, taking a terrible toll in civilian lives. Sophisticated Ambushes and bombings have been the order of the day for the guerrillas from the beginning of the liberation struggle. Now the resistance is using more sophisticated weapons drawn from the Iraqi army weapons stocks hidden when the Americans landed. Anti-aircraft guns and powerful GRAD missiles are now being regularly deployed in the battle. Many former Iraqi army officers and men have joined the resistance groups,using their skills to launch sophisticated attacks and their knowledge to train the new generation entering the struggle. Though US warplanes can only be challenged by anti-aircraft guns, American helicopter gunships and transports have proved easy to down. Chinooks are the most vulnerable as they are large and slow and easy to hit. That's why the Americans avoid using them except in "secure" areas or in dire necessity. Saddam International Airport in Baghdad is under daily resistance fire to try and disrupt US supplies to their troops in the capital. Even heavy US C-130 transport planes are not inviolable. Though they are now forced to drop heat rings in an attempt to thwart heat-seeking missiles the resistance maintains that "with great difficulty" C-130 and C-131's can be hit on landing or take-off using Strela or C5K rockets. In Fallujah the Americans got a taste of their own medicine last week when five of the 17 rockets they fired into the town failed to explode. The resistance, drawing on the expertise and skill of Iraqi army experts, reprogrammed and retargeted the American rockets and launched them at the US camp in the agricultural area outside Fallujah. The rockets, packed with shrapnel, all exploded inside the American positions. Convicted fraudster and long-time CIA agent Ahmad Chalabi had another lucky escape last week when his convoy was ambushed in Baghdad. Chalabi, who hoped to be chief stooge in the puppet government, fled on foot but two of his guards were injured. Chalabi was convicted of embezzling $30 million in Jordan and fell from US favour three months ago, following claims that he was passing information to Iranian intelligence. He is currently facing puppet regime charges of handling counterfeit money. A detachment of resistance fighters has announced in Tikrit that they had captured four members of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service on the road between Tikrit and the northern city of Mosul last week. The partisans, members of the Brigades of Fear, say they've executed three and were holding the fourth in the north of Baghdad. The Brigades say that the Mossad agent admitted to interviewing Iraqis held in US prison camps to try and recruit them as American informers. The resistance shot five Iraqi traitors in the main square of Fallujah last week for spying for the Americans. Suffered According to the Pentagon the US-led occupation army has suffered 1,135 deaths since the war began. Over 1,000 were Americans and over 7,000 have been wounded. Minions of puppet Iraqi regime boss Iyyad Alawi were bragging over the weekend that they had captured Baathist resistance leader Izzat Ibrahim al Duri, Saddam Hussein's Number Two, who has a $10 million price on his head. Now they admit that their police had picked up someone "who just looked like him". Alawi plans to meet Tony Blair in London in a few weeks' time but the way things are going he may be otherwise engaged. ============================================== New Communist Party of Britain Homepage http://www.newworker.org London District http://www.londoncommunists.org Or write to us at PO Box 73, London SW11 2PQ. A news service for the Working Class! 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