Meanwhile,
a message e-mailed to IOL attributed to the Iraqi resistance said its fighters
had recently launched 14 al-Samoud 2 missiles at the a camp of the U.S.
occupation soldiers, destroying 23 helicopters, killing more than 20 soldiers
and officers and injuring 30 others.
"I
went to visit relatives of mine on the fringes of Baghdad. But I could not go
home that night and had to stay due to the U.S. curfew. It was sizzling there
and I went to the roof to catch some sleep. Suddenly, the sky was lightened by
more than ten consecutive explosions, which shook the backyard of the airport
area," Abu Faris, an Iraqi witness, told IOL.
"Shortly
afterwards, I saw dozens of helicopters and ambulances rushing to the nearby
U.S. military camp as pain cries and confused shouts mixed with the sirens
wails...People know that this camp houses scores of U.S. Apache helicopters and
tanks," he went on.
But
Abu Faris could not remember the specific day, asserting that it was almost
three or four days ago.
"All
days are alike under the occupation because the Americans have turned our lives
into permanent torture, so we are no longer capable of remembering dates,"
he lamented.
'Booby-Trapped
Dogs'
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An abandoned Russian-made SA-2 surface-to-air missile in a Al-Baladiat district in Baghdad
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to that, eyewitnesses in Dura, Abu Gharib and near Baghdad airport, also told
IOL they saw U.S. tanks suddenly going off without being hit by missiles,
leaving five tanks damaged, four U.S. soldiers killed and nine others injured
over the past three days.
But
a U.S. captain, who refused to put his name, said the U.S. military convoys and
personnel carriers have been ordered to steer clear of the right lane of the
streets after three dogs booby-trapped with anti-armor mines and dynamites had
went off and injured U.S. troops.
The
captain, however, declined to give further details.
No
Disarming
In
another development, a number of Imams and preachers in the southern suburb of
Baghdad have ruled it was prohibited to turn in weapons to the U.S. occupation
troops in the country.
"Resisting
the occupation is an individual duty on each Muslim in Iraq…Do not turn in
your weapons and fight off your enemy with them," the Imam of one of the
largest mosques in southern Baghdad said during Friday's sermon on June 20.
