Experience of the Resistance.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Al-Fallujah.



"US launches unprecedented wave of raids and mass arrests in al-Fallujah.



In a dispatch posted at 2:45pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before US forces had launched a new offensive on al-Fallujah, some 50km west of Baghdad. US forces encircled whole residential neighborhoods and then mounted house-to-house raids and searches in homes of local residents.



The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that the Americans, backed up by a small force of Iraqi puppet soldiers and with helicopters and fighter planes providing air cover, encircled nine residential neighborhoods of al-Fallujah shortly before he filed his report. The Americans then began unprecedented raids in the encircled areas, arresting large numbers of young men between the ages of 20 and 45.



A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that the US occupation forces were carrying out this operation, which they dubbed “The Pincer” with the aim of cracking down on Resistance fighters in the city. The Resistance has become particularly active in al-Fallujah in recent weeks, the source explained.



Resistance mounts deadly attacks on US forces during Monday-Tuesday night.



An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood of al-Fallujah at 9pm Monday night. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the blast destroyed one Humvee and killed four US troops who were aboard it.



Resistance forces fired two mortar rounds at a concentration of US occupation troops near the area where the old bridge on the road to ar-Ramadi is located in the west of al-Fallujah. The mortar barrage wounded three US Marines, one of them seriously, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.



The US military acknowledged that four of its troops had been killed in the attack. For its part the Ansar as-Sunnah Resistance organization issued a communiqué Tuesday morning in which it took responsibility for the attack."