Occupied Baghdad, February 9, 2007

The Haq agency managed to get hold of a series of photos related to the ongoing battle that is taking place in Haifa Street.

A battle waged on the one hand by :
- The American occupying forces
-The Shia Iraqi governmental guards.
-The Shia militias of Jaysh al Mahdi and the Badr Brigades and
- the small militias of Jaysh Jalal also known as "Baratha".
and on the other hand by :
- the Ahl al Sunna i.e.the sunnis inhabitants of Haifa Street and the neighboring areas who were also trying to protect themselves from the above assault.

Some of the documented stories of the massacres undertaken by the American forces and the Iraqi guards and militias are shown in the pictures below.

1) The shelling and bombing that the inhabitants were subjected to.
2) the corpses of sunni youths tortured to death by the Iraqi army and the militias. Tortured by the following methods :
- pouncing , kicking and beating to death
-burning alive
-plucking eyes out
-crashing /smashing skulls and having armed vehicles (tanks) run over them.
3) added to the above, there is also the picture of a child who was deliberately targeted by a sniper whilst someone was trying to save him/her.

The reporter from Haq agency confirmed that these images taken represent only a tiny part of the reality of what is happening there.
There are many more stories emerging from Haifa street and neighboring areas.
Stories of torture, butchery, killings and rapes of sunnis by the American army and their followers : the Iraqi Guards and the militias.

The imposed siege and the ongoing battle has not made it possible for our reporter to send more pictures and we have managed to show only a small portion of the crimes that are occuring there.

Below are some of the pictures taken from the film and they shall be forwarded to other agencies and we will be showing the whole film on this site in the following days , God willing















Shortly a full film of the crimes of Haifa street will be shown on al Haq site , crimes committed by the American Army , the Iraqi governmental guards and the militias.

Many thanks to Layla Anwar for the English translation