Refugees from the city told Mafkarat al-Islam that on Saturday afternoon, they had watched as leading commanders of the Iraqi Resistance in the city hoisted the corpses of four dead American soldiers to the top of electric poles in the city.

Al-Hajj Mahdi al-‘Ani told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Hadithah that he personally saw the bodies of four Americans in their well-known uniforms tied at the legs and hanging by legs from electric poles in the center of al-Qa’im.

Other families leaving war-ravaged city recounted how they passed dozens of wrecked US vehicles littering the streets as they left the city. They could see the bodies of the dead Americans who had been killed on Friday night and already had been gnawed apart by wild dogs.

Mafkarat al-Islam noted that US forces had cut off all ground communications with al-Qa’im and were jamming portable and cellular telephone signals, making it impossible for the Mafkarat al-Islam office in Baghdad to make contact with its correspondents in al-Qa’im to confirm the reports.