Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Internet Dispatches from the Battle for Baghdad - 11/26/06 - Reports Translated from Arabic

Nov 27, 2006

By Dunvegan
secured@pacbell.net


What you will find below is a snapshot, a captured moment in a terrible time. And like so many terrible photographs we've seen from the war in Iraq, it is the human element crying out from the frame that is arresting to the imagination and the heart.

The following briefs are a collected sampling of news tickers, headline stories, and (most importantly and disturbingly) forum posts by civilian individuals currently in Baghdad regarding the present situation in the "Battle for the Capitol." Regular people suspended in an extraordinary nightmare. A nightmare which is literally staging for ethnic cleansing just around the corner of their street, or just outside the door to their home. A personal and domestic terror, frozen forever in time.

You might characterize this as a Baghdadi "netroots" effort to inform each other of dangers, and horrors, and how to protect their families...which was written originally to other Iraqis...but also, because of the Internet, it is inevitably a cry diaried to the world.

The headlines, news tickers, and forum posts are Sunni-centric in viewpoint.
All forum posts are represented by the website to be from individuals. Some are posting from Baghdad, others (not in the selection below) are expressions of support from posters around the world.

All of the communications are sourced from the Arabic language forum at the website of the Iraqi League: iraqirabita.org.

The Iraqi League purports, in its "About Us" section, that the group formed for the purpose of organizing and communicating with diaspora Iraqis in the UK and elsewhere.
You will find an English language version of their site here.

To reference the locations mentioned below you may wish to refer to this neighborhood map of Baghdad (Warning: large format.)

All forum chatter transcribed is from the evening of November 26th, 2006.
Times indicated are all Baghdad Time.

As I am not an Arabic speaker, translation is via the sakhr.com translation engine. I would therefore offer the caveat that the reports below are in machine translation form, and therefore are not as in-depth as a human translation would have afforded the material.
Internet Dispatches from the Battle for Baghdad - 11/26/06

Site Announcement:

Protect Yourself!

The massacre is coming ..They defended yourselves, used this section for writing what takes place in your regions and for launching the call for help calls.

Forum Post: [From] The Ameri Region

We hear the sound of Mortar Shell fall and preparations for the Al Dgal army for the attack on the Ameri region now.

Forum Post: Al-Ghazalia - 6:00 evening - 26 / 11

Al-Ghazalia is exposed now to a strong attack...We hope that you rush to our aid!
Forum Post: [From] Anonymous

Groups of the Al Mahdi Army has gathered near the tournament police station with the target of the attack on Dora Region with the assistance of center - we hope [for] attention.
Headline Story: A Warning - 2006.11.26

A warning: A difference from the black crows/ravens. They gather in the workers region in preparation for the launch of attack on the Sunnis in New Baghdad and the nursery, Zayouna, and the municipalities.

A notification of Baghdad peoples ..We gather in a different place from the black crows/ravens in the workers role region in preparation for the launch of attack on the Sunnis in New Baghdad and the nursery, Zayouna, and the municipalities in the company of elements from Al Basdaran are the gathering place ( a feeling...) Therefore we notify you of taking caution and caution this night and tomorrow morning with the knowledge of the forces of the Interior Ministry.
News Ticker:

A breaking news : The Iraqi resistance snipes two American soldiers this day, Sunday, in Al Ramadi.

Forum Post: [From] The University District, 26/11/2006, at eight [in the] evening
Urgent and urgent : To the brothers fighting, the university district and Al Khzra district information came reliable, that groups of the Interior Ministry braves cars are with cooperation Al Nfata Walataka's army, they gather now behind Bskoulata laboratory near Al Sfara district near the Embassies District in the police tunnel region, is my brothers ( the wakefulness and the caution this night ) very.

Forum Post: [From] The Municipalities Warning : Another one of the notifications of the Al Dgal army is the killing of any Sunni and on the identity card [be] cautious.

Forum Post: [From] Al Rashid, Baghdad at 9 [in the] evening Baghdad time, 11/26

Urgent and urgent and urgent : it been confirmed that the criminal Safawi militias plan for carrying out of a massacre to us and through reliable and well-informed sources and from Green Zone are that the criminal Safawi militias plan for carrying out of a great massacre by the Sunnis right after lifting the ban therefore that we ask for our Sunni brothers taking caution and the commitment of a Mnazhlm until the end of situation and from the guidance Allah...
News Ticker:

In a dangerous development : the treachery militias destroy a girl from the Sunnis in front of the people in Basra after their kidnapping from their house.

Forum Post: The resistan[ance in] Al-Ghazalia 26 / 11 / 2006, the hour [is] 9:30
He has made sure for us and from reliable sources that the attackers on Al-Ghazalia are a mixture from the Al Dgal army and elements from the revolutionary army support them, the Iranians.

News Ticker:

Overtook : a mosque the Thul-Noorayn and the Interior Ministry are exposed now (at 10:50 in the evening) to an attack from the elements of the fallen army
Forum Post: Overtook : The clashes between peoples of the [University District] and the ravens/crows now take place near Bskoulata Laboratory
Have took place and with God's Help the resistance to the attack rose. The one that carried out is its total from the ravens in the region that the declaration of it took place from citizens from the brave Al Khdraan [that] co-operates with Al Nfata Walataka's army and clashes with lions now take place that you protect the district of the university and the green one then we ask you the invitation by the victory.

And we request from our brothers aid in the notification about Tgmaathm and their rotten dens and that the clashes up till now were still taking place so that the citizens take all precaution to be safe. Now [they] run so that the citizens take caution and by the guiding of Allah ..Oh Allah aim their aim and distract the enemy and support us against them, O Allah.

News Ticker:

Uncertain news about a killing ( Galaluddin Al-Sagheer ) - the top of the sectarian evil and the spite militias leader - and hope the confirmation of news as quick as possible.
Forum Post: Baghdad / Al-Ghazalia

The brave region sons and the auspicious heroes have faced with each courage the unfair attack that [we were] exposed to and we will crush them whenever they tried the killing of our family cursing the that damned Allah all the one(s) who one of the Sunnis kills a creature who is and Allah is the greatest....

Banner:

At 6 in the evening : Al-Ghazalia and Al-Adl district are exposed to a strong attack now from the treachery of militias by the mortars and all of the weapons. The people of these regions seek help!

News Ticker:

The retaliatory actions toll is 65 victims, burning 12 mosques in Baghdad yesterday.
Forum Post: [From the Ameri District]

Ameri faces an unsuccessful attack from the Al Mahdi Army.
Headline Story:

A call for help : Many injured in the Al-Buraq mosque and Om Al-Qura in Al-Ghazalia in need of medical aid

The injured are in abundance in the Al-Buraq owner mosque and Om Al-Qura mosque and are needy of blood donations, any medicines and bandages. The non-sending to the hospitals was because of the presence of militias there, and the one that controls all of the hospitals and the ambulances.

News Ticker:

At 10:30 in the evening the Ameri District was exposed to an unsuccessful attack from the treachery of militia elements, due to the Al Gihad authority ignoring the situation....
News Ticker:

Digging a new interior : the Foreign Minister of the Syrian regime (the teacher) in Baghdad for securing a rescue operation honorable to the US occupation forces.

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