ANTI-COALITION FORCES ATTACK IRAQI CIVILIANS (Mosul, 4/25)

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April 26, 2004
Release Number: 04-04-22

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ANTI-COALITION FORCES ATTACK IRAQI CIVILIANS

MOSUL, Iraq - Anti-Coalition forces conducted a series of attacks in Mosul against civilian targets killing and injuring Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police April 25.

At 9:25 a.m., a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Iraqi Police station in northern Mosul. There were no reported injuries in this attack.

At 9:30 a.m., Iraqi Police reported the Shiddiq Rashan mosque in northeast Mosul, was attacked by mortars or rockets. There were no injuries or damage reported.

At 9:30 a.m. an explosion at the Al Razy Hospital in southeastern Mosul killed two Iraqi civilians, and wounded 10 Iraqi civilians. The exact type of munitions used in this attack is not known at this time.

At 9:45 a.m. two other attacks occurred. A mortar round landed in the parking lot of the Ashour Hotel in central Mosul, killing two Iraqi civilians and injuring three Iraqi civilians.

In the second 9:45 a.m. attack, two 122mm rockets exploded near a police station in southern Mosul. Two Iraqi police were wounded in this attack and were transported to a local hospital. Coalition forces found and destroyed an unexploded third rocket.

There have been unconfirmed reports of several other attacks around Mosul. Coalition forces are working with the Iraqi Police to determine the validity of these reports.

Coalition forces did not conduct any of these attacks in Mosul. These were cowardly acts directed against Iraqi people by terrorists and criminals.

I didn't find anything about Mosul on the Iraqi Blogs.
BUT I did find this.

Iraq at a glance
http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 26, 2004
The People and Media
Regarding the attack that took place in Al-Sadr city a few days ago, a labor said that he saw one of the residents entered his house once the American troops came near their neighborhood, then he got out carrying RPG! And fired at them, then the American troops replied at the same place the rocket fired from..I told him “so they are firing only when they are facing an attack, right?” he replied “yes”..
(I wish someone meet this guy on TV..).
The labor ( was working in the maintenance works at our house) said: “ I bet those who are in Falluja are always the attackers and they are always breaking the truce”..
Another one said: “ I hate those who are fighting in Falluja and those who call them ‘resistance’..they are fighting to serve their aims and never care of their country, most of them were the officers in the republican guards or special forces who had destroyed the Iraqi people in the uprising of 1991, I hated the Iraqi army since that time, Saddam was picking the officers from Al-Anbar and Mosul provinces, in addition to Tikrit of course, I want them seen humiliated and destroyed, I want to see the B52 bombing all the city” !! I told him : “ and the innocent people? What about the children?” he replied “ I don’t care” !! However, I finished the conversation with him cause he began to get upset and angry..
A friend of mine says “ those fighters in Falluja are the heros, they never accept those Americans inside their city” ( my friend is one of Saddam’s relatives!!!)..

Our neighbor says: “ the people in Falluja, Ramadi and other cities in Al-Anbar, had never seen a war, a real war, in Iraq-Iran war they were far away from all the battles, in 1991 and 2003 also, so they dared to fight and behave foolishly like a coddled and spoiled boy, they were the best for Saddam and now they’ve been defeated”..

I wish all the ATTACKERS will be killed, and never hear about accidents and victims, actually they are so mean to hide inside the city, fire from the houses and hide their ammo and weapons in Mosques ( then when the American forces bomb the Mosque, the disgusting cleric is shown on Al-Jazeera crying ‘LOOK AT THE MOSQUE, THEY DESTROYED IT, THEY ARE ATTACKING MUSLIMS, THEY HATE ISLAM, THEY....’)

and when Mark Kimmitt appears on the TV, he speaks very briefly about it, I wish there are reporters and cameramen in the battle zone who can take video clips showing the insurgents hiding in houses and Mosques, and help Kimmitt to use them as an evidence to convince the audience.

In fact, there should be a spokesman of the coalition who has the ability to talk well and convince the audience, those who are seen in interviews (talking Arabic so badly) are inefficient and should be replaced, I remember that interview on Al-Jazeera ( or Al-Arabia, I forgot which one, however they are the same!) They met an American superior who can hardly talk in Arabic, he was repeating useless words over and over, and answering things that never been asked because he wasn’t even understand what the questions were, this channel exploited this weak point to meet an American from Washington and an anti-American Arabic politician, the American man was obviously trying to say something important, but he couldn’t because of the language ( I prefer that he talked in English and let someone interpret, it’d be better), the fraud channel succeeded in showing the weak and unconvincing American opinions, of course when the Arabs watch that, they feel that the united states doesn’t have valid causes for her policy..
God, I’ve got sick from those channels...

# posted by ays @ 12:03 PM

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