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Raisethefist.com: U.S. Conducts Iraq Arms Raids, Seizures
U.S. Conducts Iraq Arms Raids, Seizures
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U.S. Conducts Iraq Arms Raids, Seizures
FALLUJAH, Iraq - With a deadline passed for Iraqis to hand in heavy weapons, U.S. forces fanned out across Iraq (news - web sites) on Sunday to seize arms and put down potential foes — and tried to soothe the sting with deliveries of food, fuel, medical supplies and even teddy bears.
Hundreds of troops supported by helicopters and tanks swooped on Fallujah and several other Iraqi towns in the dead of night. They handcuffed and forced men to lie face down on floors and rousted women from their beds while searching for illegal arms, in a swift and coordinated action that residents of the raided homes complained were heavy handed.
After a three-hour operation in Fallujah, eight suspected leaders of the anti-American resistance were taken into custody.
Iraqis Angered by U.S. Security Sweep
FALLUJAH, Iraq - Jassim Mohammed and his family were sleeping out on the front yard — an escape from the summer's stifling heat — when U.S. soldiers stormed in at 3 a.m., kicking the gate open and rushing past them into the house.
Outside, U.S. tanks and fighting vehicles kicked up dust as they rumbled on the dirt roads. Overhead, helicopters flew low. Frightened by the noise and the sight of the soldiers, Mohammed's younger children screamed.
An hour later, the 60-year-old security guard said, the soldiers left with two of his sons — Salah, 25, and Mohammed, 26 — in handcuffs and with books and a stack of family documents.
"Americans have no manners or morals," said 27-year-old Omar Saadoun, a neighbor.
The raids were part of a U.S. military operation Sunday, involving hundreds of infantrymen backed by tanks and helicopters that aimed to seize illegal weapons and root out resistance. Fallujah, a restive town west of Baghdad, is suspected of harboring hard-core Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists and members of his Baath party.
U.S. troops said they met no resistance in the operation and suffered no injuries. Residents who spoke to The Associated Press in Fallujah also reported no injuries, though they were angered by the aggressive behavior of American soldiers.
"We got rid of one problem and now we have a bigger one," said Mohammed, turning his face away to wipe away tears. "Even Saddam never did this to us."
Yazi Mohammed, one of Mohammed's two wives, took a visitor on a tour of the concrete-floored and sparsely furnished house. Signs of a search were still visible in one room.
"Look, does this please God almighty?" she asked, pointing to children's clothes and tools scattered on the floor.
At a nearby house, Widad Ismail said her husband, Firas Abbas, his brothers, Ahmed and Osama, and cousin, Hani Hashem, were handcuffed and taken away by American soldiers, also around 3 a.m. All three brothers are in their 20s. Hashem is 19.
Like most areas to the north and west of Baghdad, Fallujah is a conservative bastion of Arabs subscribing to the mainstream Sunni sect of Islam. Iraq (news - web sites)'s minority Sunni Arabs have traditionally provided the backbone of Iraq's military and professional classes, enjoying a near monopoly over political power and sidelining the Shiite Muslim majority and other ethnic groups.
Saddam, himself a Sunni, was their patron, but now that he is gone, their future looks uncertain.
Realizing the magnitude of anti-U.S. sentiments in Fallujah, the U.S. military is carrying out its security sweeps in tandem with a charm offensive designed to persuade the city's 200,000 residents that Americans are in Iraq to help.
Not far from Mohammed's house, U.S. soldiers were installing 16 new blackboards and 18 ceiling fans at a girls' primary school. Next door, two U.S. bulldozers were clearing up garbage from a dusty field. An Arabic-language message blaring from a loudspeaker in a U.S. military vehicle invited residents to apply for security jobs and told residents that the raids earlier on the day were meant to "make Fallujah a safer place."
Speaking at the school's gate, U.S. Col. John Peabody, commander of an engineering brigade from the 3rd Infantry Division, said Fallujah residents were slowly coming to terms with the American presence in their city, but acknowledged that there were still incidents when locals threw stones at U.S. troops or spat on them.
"We are trying to make a positive difference for the people of Fallujah. We are trying to win minds and hearts here," said Peabody, a 45-year-old native of Norwalk, Ohio.
The goodwill gestures got a lukewarm response.
Jameela Kareem, a 40-year-old teacher, complained that the presence of U.S. soldiers at the school prompted some parents to keep their children at home.
"The children are scared of the soldiers," she said.
Hana'a Hamad, the headmistress, reacted angrily when an Iraqi translator working with the U.S. military handed her 5-year-old daughter, Woroud, a sweet from an American soldier.
"You must first ask me whether I want my daughter to take it from you," she said.
U.S. Troops Ambushed in Iraq as New Raids Launched
NEAR BALAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas ambushed a U.S. convoy in the hostile region north of Baghdad Sunday, wounding several soldiers, as a new U.S. mission was launched to hunt for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists blamed for recent attacks.
A crippled U.S. truck smoldered on the highway south of the restive town of Balad after the ambush, its tires and canopy ablaze. Apache helicopters buzzed overhead, searching for the attackers. Tanks and armored vehicles surrounded the truck. Troops trained their guns at the fields around the road.
Soldiers said several casualties had been evacuated.
They said the convoy had been traveling from Baghdad to Balad, about 90 km (60 miles) to the north. It was attacked about 20 km south of Balad.
The ambush came as the U.S. military launched a new mission, Operation Desert Scorpion, to root out Saddam loyalists after a spate of attacks that have killed about 40 U.S. soldiers since major combat was declared over on May 1.
The new U.S. military sweep followed last week's Operation Peninsula Strike -- the biggest such U.S. maneuver in Iraq (news - web sites) since May 1 -- when a series of raids were mounted in the fertile plains around Balad near the Tigris river.
The army said in a statement Friday that it had killed 27 Iraqis who ambushed a tank patrol near Balad, but a military spokesman later said he could not confirm the death toll. Locals said five civilians had been killed in the incident.
The U.S. military has said that some 400 Iraqis were detained in the operation around Balad, which began last Monday and was winding down by the weekend. It said about 60 were still in custody, and four U.S. soldiers were wounded during the operation, along with two Iraqi "hostile civilians."
Angry locals said U.S. troops had ransacked houses and assaulted residents. They said the operation would only serve to fuel hostility toward the U.S. occupiers of Iraq.
DESERT SCORPION
The U.S. military said its Operation Desert Scorpion aimed to win hearts and minds as well as hunt guerrillas. A Central Command statement said it was "designed to identify and defeat selected Baath party loyalists, terrorist organizations and criminal elements while delivering humanitarian aid simultaneously." In the Sunni town of Falluja, 45 miles west of Baghdad, troops searched some houses overnight, but by morning they were distributing food and supplies. Hostility to the Americans is widespread in Falluja after a series of clashes, but the town was quiet Sunday with a low-key army presence.
The attacks have been concentrated in Baghdad and two nearby areas -- to the west around Ramadi and Falluja, and to the north around Balad, Baquba and Tikrit, Saddam's home town.
Many locals in the troubled areas say they have no love for Saddam but that anger is mounting toward U.S. soldiers.
"We were oppressed under Saddam and now we are oppressed under the Americans," a trader in Falluja said.
U.S. General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a television interview that Saddam was probably still alive and several groups were behind recent attacks.
"I think, probably the majority opinion is that he is alive and it's something that has to be dealt with," Myers told the U.S. Fox News Channel Saturday.
Sunday marked the end of a two-week amnesty for Iraqis to hand in heavy weapons without punishment. Iraqis caught with banned weapons without a permit will now face a fine and a jail term of up to a year.
Many Iraqis have complained that they dare not give up their guns until security is restored following the anarchy that ensued after Saddam's overthrow on April 9.
The U.S. army said that during the amnesty Iraqis handed in 123 pistols, 76 semi-automatic rifles, 435 automatic rifles, 46 machineguns, 11 anti-aircraft weapons and 381 grenades and bombs -- a drop in Iraq's ocean of weaponry.
Nearly three months of searching have turned up no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, whose alleged existence was the main justification for going to war.
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