·US launches savage bombing assault on al-Qa’im Saturday afternoon, striking city water supply, electricity grid and communication networks. US bombs destroy two schools, two hotels, one mosque. Heavy use of anti-personnel cluster bombs reported, at least 31 civilians dead, 44 wounded.
·Al-Qa’im Resistance joins together under single command to meet impending massive American onslaught. American F-16s, F-18s blast city indiscriminately with cluster bombs, guided missiles, then US troops storm into three neighborhoods Saturday night; Resistance fortifies itself in eastern al-Qa’im.
·Urgent Appeal from People of al-Qa’im for immediate intervention to save city from savage American bombing.
·US-installed “Iraqi Defense Minister” explicitly threatens to kill women and children if their houses harbor or aid Resistance fighters. Ad-Dulaymi: women and children in homes where Resistance fighters receive medical help or protection “will not be considered civilians.”

Resistance keeps up pressure throughout occupied Iraq.

·Resistance bomb blasts American convoy near ad-Dujayl north of Baghdad, killing one US soldier.
·One American soldier reported killed in early morning bombing near ash-Sharaqat.