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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.
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