US Tank Disabled, Personnel Carrier Destroyed in Iraq

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column on Monday, August 28, on the main road near al-Bu ‘Ubayd, east of ar-Ramadi, which is located about 110km west of Baghdad. The  bomb that had beep planted by the eastern entrance to the city went off by a passing US column, disabling and setting fire to an American tank.  Four US troops aboard it were seriously wounded.

Also on Monday, Resistance sharpshooter killed US soldier in Hit, Resistance bomb left three US troops dead in al-Haqlaniyah, near al-Hadithah in western Iraq and Resistance bomb killed four US troops in al-Hillah Monday morning, Resistance car bomber blasted  US checkpoint in Rawah, completely destroying  two US military vehicles, killing or wounding at least nine American soldiers who were manning the checkpoint.

A highly-placed source in the Iraqi puppet army's Fourth Division has disclosed that America has lost 17 soldiers to Resistance attacks in various places on Monday, not nine as the US Army officially claimed.

A brigadier general in the puppet army, as making the statement while in Baghdad's al-A‘zamiyah district where the US and Iraqi puppet army have been carrying out intensive raids and searches.  The general said that the 17 American soldiers were killed in various bomb and rocket attacks on US bases in al-Anbar and in the so-called "triangle of death" south of Baghdad and in the areas of at-Tarimiyah and Samarra' in Salah ad-Din Province and in al-Mawsil to the north

On Tuesday, August 29, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked an Ameican armored vehicle as it passed by the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah Mosque in southwestern Baghdad. fFrst a bomb exploded by the US vehicle and then the Resistance men attacked the vehicle with medium machine guns, destroying the vehicle and killing or wounded the US troops aboard it Afterwards, US troops surrounded the entire area and posted snipers atop the walls of the mosque so that they would haul the vehicle away and evacuate their casualties.

Also on Tuesday,   Resistance land mine near Hit leaves five US troops reported killed Tuesday afternoon, a bomb that had been planted on the main road in the area blew up by a column of several US Bradley armored vehicles and Humvees, destroying a Humvee, killing or wounding the five US troops aboard, an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column on the highway in western Baghdad, destroying a Humvee, killing or wounding the four US soldiers aboard.