Local residents cooperated in the fighting which liberated Islamabad. About 400 of the enemy's loyalist forces, who were holed up in various centers and opened fire on the residents and the combatants, were killed. All of the enemy's equipment, arms and vehicles, including vehicles mounted with rocket launchers, 106mm recoilless rifles and a number of 155mm howitzers, as well as the Guards Air Corps' large radar dish, were destroyed. 100 enemy vehicles were also destroyed and the rest confiscated.
Prior to the attack the enemy had been on alert for several hours. To prevent NLA contact with the local residents, the regime's radio and loudspeakers at the mosques blared repeated warnings that Iraqi forces were going to attack. Residents were ordered to evacuate the town. Some had actually done so. But when the people learned that the Mojahedin and the National Liberation Army had come, or saw them coming, they turned back.
Within Islamabad, after loudspeakers announced the NLA's arrival, there was a fervent outpouring of joy. Some cried, hugged, and kissed the combatants. The younger residents joined the NLA and were armed. Some prayed and encouraged the Army to march on to Tehran. Some clapped and danced. The column of NLA vehicles were stopped at several points by residents asking how they could help the combatants or for pictures of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Some of the people went looking for the criminal mullahs, especially the Friday prayer leader, but they had already fled. A commander of Islamabad's Guards Corps, Azadi, was killed.
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