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Savage fighting continued Saturday in al-Qa’im sending dozens of refugees
streaming out of the city on the Iraq-Syrian border as American forces continued
to batter the city in what they call Operation Spear.
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.
