Al-Hakim calls for resisting occupation by negotiations
Iraq-Iran, Military, 6/28/2003

The chairman of the "Higher Council For the Islamic Revolution in Iraq" Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim yesterday expressed his rejection to what he called acts of violence against the US-led coalition forces. He said he prefers peaceful means to put an end to occupation.

News reports said that by this announcement, al-Hakim has decided the position of the higher council to resort to political resistance. Al-Hakim was quoted saying that those who stand behind these operations which target the occupation forces are the remains of the Baath Part by which they want to bring back the former regime.

The council is one of the main political groups chosen by the American civilian administration in Iraq to discuss the future of Iraq. The Shiite leader returned back to Iraq in mid May following 23 years he spent in Iran.

Meantime, the headquarters of the US forces in al-Falouja city, to the west of Baghdad, was exposed to an attack by RPJ shells, by unidentified persons on Thursday late evening.

Witnesses said the attackers fired anti-tank RPJ shells at the building of the police center where the American soldiers are positioned. The same source added that the soldiers returned fire.

This is, however, the second attack by RPJ over the shoulder anti-tank weapons within three days against the coalition forces in al-Falouja, 50 Km to the west of Baghdad.

In Baghdad, witnesses said that one American soldier is in critical health condition as he was hit in the head while shopping in Baghdad.

In Deyali province to the Northern East of Baghdad, one Iraqi gunman threw a mortar at a group of American soldiers in the province and the soldiers opened fire on him, and he was wounded. In al-Najaf, one US army officer said that one soldier was killed in the attack which targeted on Thursday evening an American patrol in al-Koufa near al-Najaf, 130 Km to the south of Baghdad.

On the other hand, the American forces said it feared the use od a kidnapped armored vehicles of two kidnapped American soldiers in a "terrorist" act. An American army officer said yesterday that the American military intelligence believes that the militias of the Iraqi Fedayeen kidnapped the two American soldiers and a light armored vehicle in the surrounding of Balad city ( North Baghdad) to be used in attacks against American forces in Iraq.

In London, press news sad that British army ordered the suspension of search operations in southern Iraq following the killing of 6 British military policemen this week.

The British Independent daily said that the British army agreed to stop inspection operations for two months in al-Majar al-Kabeer town to the south of Iraq which is controlled by the British.

The six British soldiers who were killed last Tuesday were the first British killed in an attack in Iraq since President George W. Bush announced the end of major operations in the war against Iraq on May 1st.

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