U.S. forces kill Sunni scholar in Iraq, clerics say

Appalling.

Number 1 rule in USMil-IGNORANCE is NO excuse

And a Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

IRR 122404

US troops murder religious figure on his doorstep in al-‘Amiriyah.

Al-Jazeera satellite TV reported Friday that US forces
stormed into the home of a member of the Board of
Muslim ‘Ulama’ Scholars in al-‘Amiriyah and shot the
religious leader. Al-Jazeera said that the American
occupation troops killed the shaykh, Muwaffaq ad-Duri, at
about midday Friday, just before he was to go to the Abu
Bakr as-Siddiq Mosque in ar-Ridwaniyah to deliver the
Friday sermon.

In a telephone interview, the Umm Ayman, the wife of
Shaykh ad-Duri, confirmed that her husband had been
killed. She said: “It was at 10am. Three occupation
troops knocked on the door. My husband went out to ask them
to wait a moment until his wife could get covered and ready.”
Her voice breaking, she went on, “but I heard nothing more
other than the sound of
gunshots.”

“After that,” she went on, “I don’t know what was happening in
my house.” She was locked in a bedroom. Then an
Iraqi translator came and told her that the occupation troops
had killed her husband. When Umm Ayman asked the
translator why they had killed him since he wasn’t
resisting them, he told her, “they say he was resisting
them.” Them the woman swore that her husband had
not resisted the occupation troops when they raided their
house.

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IRR122404

US troops stain their hands with the blood of children in
Saddam Hussein’s home town, after losing fierce battles
with Resistance
forces.

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked the US base that has been
set up in the Northern Palace of President Saddam Hussein
in Tikrit, located on the banks of the Euphrates River at
10am Friday. The Resistance bombardment left 17 US
troops and three Iraqi collaborator translators who worked in
the US base dead, according to two other translators who
took part in the burial of their three
henchmen.

After the attack, US forces sent out intensive patrols through
the streets of Tikrit. One patrol entered ‘Adnan Kharallah Street
in Old Tikrit, a lane too narrow for large patrol vehicles to
turn around or pass on. Fraternal Arab Resistance
fighters belonging to at-Tawhid wa-al-Jihad ambushed the
US patrol on that street, destroying four tanks and
three Humvees. A fourth Humvee remained unscathed, so
the Resistance fighters attacked it and killed all those aboard
the trapped vehicle. They seized their weapons and
ammunition and then set fire to the
vehicle.

Eyewitnesses reported that at least 25 US troops were killed
in the attack. The only survivors of the attack were two tanks
that were at the head of the column and were able to
flee.

Then one of the fighters took the flag of at-Tawhid wa-al-
Jihad – which is decorated with a yellow circle on which
is written “There is no god but God. The at-Tawhid wa-al-
Jihad Brigades” – and ran around the area. Another fighter
took the body of one of the dead Americans and hung it
upside down on the hooks of an election poster that read
“If you divide us you will never
prevail.”

Half an hour after the battle US forces got onto the street in
order to evacuate their dead and haul away the
demolished vehicles. They also took down the body of the
dead man hanging on the election poster and took him away
as well.

US forces then opened fire indiscriminately on passers by,
just as three little girls were leaving their school, the
Palestine Primary School, having been excused early that
day, as the principal later told Mafkarat al-
Islam.

Eyewitnesses reported that one of the American soldiers
on purpose pointed his machine gun at the three little
girls, despite their screams and cries. After his bullets had
cut them down, he went back and opened fire again at
close range, killing them for sure. He then emptied the
magazine of his machine gun into the head of one of the
little girls until it was reduced to little pieces, leaving the
girl’s body headless, according to the
eyewitnesses.

The three little girls murdered in Tikrit on Friday were:
Halimah Sa‘di (the one whose head was destroyed by
the American soldier’s gunfire), Shayma’ Sa‘di, and
Mariyah Sa‘di.

The principal of the school told Mafkarat al-Islam that the
little girls’ father had died nearly two weeks earlier of heart
failure in a local mosque. He was only 39 years old.
The mother’s anguish at losing her husband has now only
been compounded with the death of her three daughters.
The griefstricken mother now cries out in shock, “Where have
my daughters gone?”

After the killing of the little girls, the people of Tikrit were in a
state of grief. They came out to pay their last respects to the
girls in a funeral at the Tikrit Islamic cemetery, but US
forces prevented them from holding the funeral,
provoking clashes between the unarmed citizens and the
US forces who were, naturally, heavily armed. Thirteen
relatives of the little girls were killed in the clashes with
the American occupation
troops.

Resistance fighters then attacked rear of the American
column that blocked the funeral. The fighters set seven
US military vehicles – one tank and six Humvees –
ablaze.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam closed his report
by noting that the people of Tikrit are intensely angry at the
Arab media for their policy of ignoring big Resistance
operations in their city, the home town of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein.

Can you make this up?

It never ends.

But god help the Sunni's. Sistani is so full of shit. He continues to preach about peace and a united Iraq, but when a Sunni area gets hit, does he utter a single word in their defence? Don't hold your breath.
Anyone that has a clue knows, that the US Army is doing all the work for him to slide into his theocracy.

Headline in a few years: We tried our best! US leaves Iraq, but leaves theocracy behind.

"a US general was quoted as saying, "we gave them something but I don't know what it is, at least we are friends with Sistani."