November 13, 2004 - Resistance counter attacks across Iraq stretched American agressor forces well past their limits yesterday when rebels appeared to be in control of at least two cities, and the operation in Fallujah entered its most dangerous phase for the Americans.

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November 14, 2004

For Al Fallujah to be any use at all to the American aggressors it had to be an all out win, a total destruction of the will and power of The Iraqi Resistance. The Americans need to entrap large numbers of Iraqi Resistance and make a real show.

In this America has now officially failed in Iraq.

We have seen that in war, one well trained Iraqi Resistance sniper is worth 150 US aggressor forces.

Not only has The Iraqi Resistance grown and flourished through the Zionist percussion, civilian murders and wilful destruction but the highly trained Iraqi Resistance are now retaking entire cities where before the aggressor forces had almost controlled.

The rally of support for The Iraqi Resistance by local Iraqi people is gathering momentum throughout the entire nation of Iraq and this is a very dangerous outcome for the American aggressor forces and all those assisting them.

Iraqi Resistance have extended their reach over large swaths of the country, including large sections of the capital, making it unlikely that the United States can establish the stability needed for credible elections in January even if its forces succeed in Fallouja, military and political analysts say.

U.S. officials who alledge planning for the election face another challenge, a law and order vacuum in many Sunni Muslim areas where there are no American or puppet Iraqi forces and Resistance control.

The battle for Fallouja has already caused leading Sunni clerics to urge a boycott of the poll and seems likely to further stiffen a broader Sunni resistance to voting.

"There are large areas of countryside that are controlled 24 hours a day by the mujahedin, where people do not see U.S. forces," said Charles Heyman, a senior defense analyst for the London-based Jane's Defence Weekly.

Iraqi Resistance patrol these places, assassinating US puppet government officials.

With voting in the American Iraq scheduled to take place in less than three months, there has been no let-up in Iraqi Resistance in fact it's now well outside American control nor any sign that the American puppet government can curb them.

Iraqi Resistance continue to carry out attacks on aggressor forces and those assisting them. In recent action, Resistance have assassinated puppet police officers and left their bodies in the road; they have hung the empty uniforms of slain Iraqi national guardsmen like scarecrows to warn off anyone thinking of joining the puppet security forces; have set up checkpoints to control and replace American dis-order with Iraqi order.

The current chairman of the city council, Khaled Hussein, who has the approval of the insurgents spoke about a weekend attack on two police stations in the towns, in which 22 puppet police officers were killed. Some were handcuffed, then executed.

In southern Baghdad, the situation is similar. A mortar attack this week on a half-finished municipal building, which housed a American puppet police outpost, drove away the small force camped there. Residents say there is not even a checkpoint. At night, the only patrols are by Resistance.

"Baghdad is the real battlefield right now," Alani said. "It's the largest city, it's impossible for the U.S. troops to control. They cannot really occupy Baghdad; they are spread too thin."

The capital has become a prime site for one of the guerrillas' most effective tactics: assassination. Often unrecorded in the daily violence is the frequency of attacks on low- and mid-level government workers. Allawi's accountant and his son were shot to death two weeks ago; so was one of his secretaries. A deputy director general of the Oil Ministry was killed a week ago, along with a defense official.

Government workers are scrambling to apply for housing in the capital's U.S.-controlled Green Zone to escape gunmen in their neighborhoods.

Experts said they expected the insurgents to melt away when U.S. troops mass forces - such as the contingent now in Fallouja - and reemerge when the Americans draw down their numbers.

"The Resistance have read the manual: You allow the heavily armed, well trained soldiers in; you let them set up their positions, sort themselves out; and then you close in around them and kill them,"...

They have staged mortar and rocket attacks and vanished down back alleys and country roads. They are increasingly demonstrating an ability to shut down American aggressor forces whereever they are.

In the north, Mosul, once trumpeted by the U.S. military as a model of stability, is now totally controlled by Iraqi Resistance.

In one neighborhood, Resistance boasted that they had killed an Iraqi national guardsman, and showed reporters the body of a lieutenant, his identification on his chest and his head riddled with bullets.

One fighter said: "This is a traitor who worked with the (Iraqi national guard), and he helped the Americans in killing his brother Iraqis!" Another fighter, who refused to identify himself, said: "What is happening in Mosul is retaliation for our brothers in Fallouja. There is nothing that can stop us."

The holy city of Najaf became the seventh city to be placed under a night-time curfew with insurgents across the Sunni Triangle, the country's most volatile region, united in their determination to use the battle for Fallujah as a rallying call to terror.

US Marines fighting with Resistance in the Iraqi city of Fallujah Despite air strikes on Iraq's main northern city, Mosul, on Thursday night and claims by US forces that the city was calm, masked Iraqi Resistance openly controlled its streets yesterday with eyewitnesses reporting that neither police nor cowardly US forces were to be seen.

Resistance remained in charge of at least one of the nine police stations which they had retaken earlier while some police were reported to have thrown off their uniforms to join the Resistance. A contingent of US troops was detached from guarding the perimeter of Fallujah, where the American toll rose by hundreds yesterday, and moved to Mosul in an attempt to retake the city. They have failed to do so at the time of this post.

The city of Ramadi, 35 miles west of Fallujah, also appeared under the control of well armed Resistance who patrol the streets.

The US puppet government have other towns under curfew amid growing unrest included Baghdad, Tikrit, Samarra and Baquba, however what is the purpose of a curfew if you don't control the city?

A US Black Hawk helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad. Four US helicopters were hit in two separate attacks near the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah, the US military said Saturday.

Two Kiowa oh-58 helicopters were hit in a coordinated ambush in Karma area, some 10 km northeast of Fallujah.

Two Apache helicopters were hit late Friday by small arms fire as they were flying over the marsh areas southeast of Fallujah.

US military spokesmen denied that they had lost control of security in any Iraqi cities although they admitted that while the battle for Fallujah remained the immediate priority it allowed insurgents to launch brief and intense assaults elsewhere.

American aggressor troops in Fallujah entered the most difficult phase of their operation last night as they engaged Resistance in the southern corner of the city.

Some of the toughest street fighting encountered so far erupted during the day as resistance re-emerged in areas already secured by US marines in the north of the city.

Well armed resistance resumed positions on the roofs of mosques which had earlier been cleared, effectively drawing troops away from the main advance southwards.

Journalists with the troops speak of a city that is gradually being devastated. Scarcely a single house does not bear some form of weapons scar and many have been rendered uninhabitable.

Tactics handed down from years of urban warfare in Israel mean that troops sometimes search rows of buildings by punching holes through walls with high velocity bullets rather than moving from house to house through doors, thus reducing the risk of booby traps and increasing the element of surprise.

The consequences are that homes are being badly damaged on a routine basis.

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