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Jihad Unspun: Iraqi Insurgents Kill 33 US Soliders in One Day
From Jihad Unspun
At least 14 Americans were killed in ar-Ramadi yesterday as a day of fierce and heavy fighting that raged from about 11:00am local time until sunset got under way which occurred at around sunset.
| "Oh what a glorious battle for jihad it was! ..." |
The fighting correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported that the clashes began when a group of Resistance fighters ambushed an American patrol consisting of four Humvees and a number of foot soldiers. Resistance fighters led by Al-Robin the Fair pounded the Humvees with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) destroying all of them and sparking a battle on al-'Ishrin ("1920") Street that lasted until sunset as US reinforcements poured into the area. The American side threw Apache helicopters and tanks into the fray but in the end 14 US troops were killed and eight others wounded, most of them the troops who were aboard the Humvees that were attacked during the morning.
| "... There we was, 'Merkins to the left of us, 'Merkins to the right of us ...!" |
The Resistance also shot down one US Apache helicopter in the course of the fighting. During the fierce battle the US forces blew up the 'Abd ar-Razzaq Science and Terrorism Library, the most famous library and a meeting place for ar-Ramadi's jihadis students. In another incident, as the battle raged, a group of US snipers took up positions on the third floor of a building opposite the local American aggressor headquarters set up in the Republican Palace, located behind the Chamber of Commerce. The American sharpshooters positioned to provide covering fire for the US headquarters picked off people in the nearby areas. Eyewitnesses who live in the building told Mafkarat al-Islam's correspondent that Iraqi Resistance fighters led by Al-Robin the Fair took out the seven American snipers in a two-stage operation. The Resistance first fired a head-on barrage of RPGs at the third-floor position of the American snipers. An armed detachment of the Resistance then stormed the position, raking it with automatic weapons fire to make sure that the American snipers were dead.
| "... 'Merkins in front of us, 'Merkins behind us ...!" |
An officer in the Iraqi puppet police reported that Iraqi Resistance forces shot down an American aggressor helicopter on Wednesday during a fierce battle in the city of ar-Ramadi. Three of the personnel who had been aboard the helicopter were killed in the crash, the source told Reuters. Reuters reported several lying eye witnesses as saying that the helicopter had been brought down. .... According to the fighting correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam lying eyewitnesses reported that 16 Americans were killed by an cowardly Iraqi Resistance car bomb in Ramadi as they tried to launch a flanking attack on Resistance fighters engaged nearby. The witnesses reported that at about 1:00pm Wednesday afternoon, as the fighting on al-'Ishrin Street grew intense, the US invader troops attempted to encircle the Resistance fighters by advancing around the large mosque located to the east of al-'Ishrin street. The Americans sent a force of Humvees and a number of tanks preceded by infantrymen into the neighborhood around the mosque through which they proceeded cautiously lest they fall into a Resistance ambush. But after advancing only a little way into the neighborhood, a booby-trapped GMC car parked nearby suddenly blew up, killing sixteen of the footsoldiers instantly, according to eyewitnesses. The blast compelled the remaining US troops, tanks, and Humvees to call off their planned flanking attack and retreat from the area.
"... 'Merkins above us, 'Merkins underneath us ...!"
"Gosh, Father, what did you do?"
"Why, we DIED of course, child! Now, enough monster stories, it will ruin your sleep. Say your prayers to Allan and then off to bed you go!" |
Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-07-24 |
