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Iraqi
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BAGHDAD,
March 27 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Empowered by fatwas
(religious edicts) from the supreme Shiite authority in the country on
fighting the U.S. occupation forces and prohibiting any kind of
assistance to them, Iraqis came out in droves to the desert to combat
and deter the invaders.
The
Iraqi clans also intensified presence in the desert areas adjacent to
the southern Iraqi cities to An-Najaf, An-Nasiriyah and Karbala to
battle any U.S. advance.
"Hundreds
of Iraqi military and fedayeen made their way through the desert to face
the occupation forces," Al-Quds Press news agency reported
Thursday, March 27, quoting eyewitnesses.
Iraq's
current blinding sandstorms
and torrential rains helped Iraqi fighters push deep into the desert,
take the U.S. occupation troops by surprise and destroy a number of
their weaponry.
Responding
to the rallying call
by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Tuesday, March 25, to fight the U.S.
occupation troops, Iraqi clans divided themselves into small groups,
five to 10 persons each, and rolled into the desert to ambush the
Anglo-American invaders.
However,
the U.S. occupation troops are not stationing in one place but they keep
on moving everywhere to steer clear of the Iraqi fighters.
Most
of these troops are a number of reconnaissance patrols and it seems as
if they fear the rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) of the Iraqi fighters,
therefore, they trying not to engage directly with the Iraqi volunteers
and irregular troops, the agency said.
It
said the Iraqi fighters adopted new method of fighting as some batches
engage in light skirmishes with the enemies from one side, while other
batches swoop on them from the other.
The
Iraqis noticed that the U.S. occupation troops were keen on withdrawing
their dead from the battle as rapid as they could so that mass media
would miss the opportunity of photographing them, as it happened two
days ago when some broadcasts aired images of dead U.S. and British
soldiers, which lowered the morals of the American people and the
soldiers themselves.
The
Iraqis are really surprised at the confused news aired by the U.S. media
every now and then about the advance of occupation troops towards
Baghdad.
They
refuted U.S. claims that Iraqi military men were disguised in civvies
and that they were taking children and women as human shields.
The
one and only fact was that the stiff and remarkable resistance of the
Iraqi fighters, who dragged the Americans into ambushes around the
cities and the desert learnt by heart by the Iraqi people.
"Until
late Wednesday, March 26, the enemy sustained 1 tanks, 12 personnel
carriers, two vehicles, a helicopter and a number of dead and
injured," the Iraqi military spokesman said.
In
the meantime, the U.S. occupation forces, backed by B-52 bombers,
stepped up Cruise missile attacks on Baghdad and other Iraqi cities.
The
attacks targeted a number of civilian sites.
One
of the invaders’ most heinous crimes
was the attack on a densely-populated market in northern Baghdad
Wednesday, claiming the lives of 15 Iraqi civilians and injuring up to
40 others.
Claiming
responsibility for the crimes, U.S. military commanders alleged the
market was located adjacent to a military zone, which was categorically
denied by the locals.
The
denizens of the southern Iraqi city of Basra
still live without running water or electricity due to the barbaric
U.S.-led missile attack on the city.
A
team of Iraqi specialists and the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) are currently trying to patch up water-pumping stations in
the city.
In
An-Najaf, eyewitnesses said "thousands of visitors from all over
the country spring to An-Najaf and Karbala to visit the sacred
mausoleums…the people still lead a normal life right there and the
battles are raging in the desert away from the centers of the two
cities."
