July 9, 2006

I cited US figures a while back showing that the vast bulk of resistance attacks had been directed against US troops and not civilians. The effectiveness of these can be judged by the fact that there are huge areas of Iraq that the occupiers can't even walk into much less control, and that the attacks have created tens of thousands of injuries and thousands of dead soldiers going home in flag-draped coffins. Someone correctly pointed out that these figures went as far as December 2005, but didn't include more recent months. I am therefore glad to be able to bring you a Le Figaro article (posted on Marxmail) which picks up the story:

1,300 Iraqi Resistance attacks in greater Baghdad alone in June. Secret American report shows US minimizing Resistance attacks, focusing attention on al-Qa'idah car bombings to divert attention from highly effective "complex attacks" by hard core Iraqi Army Resistance fighters.

A secret American report has confirmed that the US occupation forces in Iraq are trying to hide the real strength of the Iraqi Resistance. The report, information from which has been acquired and published by the French newspaper le Figaro, discloses that there were 1,300 Resistance attacks in greater Baghdad alone in the single month of June 2006.

Georges Malbrurot in his le Figaro article published on 8 July refuted claims made by the American-installed puppet "Iraqi ministries of defense, the interior, and health," which indicated that in the month of May only 26 car bombing, 65 bomb explosions, two martyrdom operations, and 60 attacks with rocket-propelled grenades took place - i.e., an average of five violent attacks per day.

In fact, Malbrunet wrote, the truth was much more deadly. According to the data contained in the secret American report, a copy of which he had obtained, the number of homemade bomb explosions in May was 260, the number of rocket-propelled grenade attacks was 120 - ten times the official count.

The secret report noted that since February 2006, the Resistance carried out one complex operation in Baghdad every day, in which some 50 men and 10 vehicles took part. Most of the operations, the report said, were being carried out by soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Iraq (the Iraqi army from the period of President Saddam Husayn's rule).

Malbrunot wrote that according to the secret report, the US occupation forces "have been trying to hide the facts about those complex attacks, which reflect the effectiveness of the hard core of the guerrilla movement, preferring to report on the 'suicide attacks' carried out by 'foreign' jihadi fighters" of al-Qa'idah - the American nemesis so highly touted by the US media.