Iraqi Resistance Report: 16 August 2006

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

• Two Iraqi Resistance bombs and Resistance fighter with explosive belt kill 15 Shi‘i sectarian militia gunmen in Baghdad’s al-Bab ash-Sharqi district Wednesday afternoon.
• Resistance fighter detonates explosive belt among gathering of US troops in al-Miqdadiyah. Eight Americans and their Lebanese translator reported dead Wednesday afternoon.
• Iraqi Resistance liberates the western part of the city of al-Mawsil – Iraq’s third largest city – after a day of heavy fighting.
• Shi‘i tribesmen attack puppet government building in al-Basrah.

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