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(回答先: 3月31日米軍によるチェックポイントでのイラク市民射殺の真相 [ガーディアン] 投稿者 F 日時 2003 年 4 月 02 日 02:36:41)
アメリカ軍中央司令部はこの殺戮を
サダムのせいだ、としている。
負傷した家族や死体の写真が
アラブ系の衛星TVを通じてモスレム世界に報道され、
反戦争や怒りの抗議行動が起きている。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,927378,00.html
Staff and agencies
Tuesday April 1, 2003
US backs checkpoint killings soldiers
A spokesman for US central command today backed soldiers who shot seven women and children at a checkpoint and blamed the Iraqi regime for the killings.
Navy Captain Frank Thorp said initial reports indicated the soldiers from the US 3rd Infantry Division had acted properly in firing on a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint in the southern Iraqi desert near Najaf last night.
According to the US military, the soldiers motioned for the car to stop and fired warning shot when their commands were ignored. When those shots were ignored the soldiers fired shots into the car engine but it continued to drive towards the checkpoint.
The soldiers then fired into the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
Today, the 13th day of the conflict, US marines shot dead another unarmed driver and badly wounded his passenger at a roadblock in the southern town of Shatra, south of Baghdad. He was shot at after his pickup truck was driven at speed towards a checkpoint. "I thought it was a suicide bomb," one of the soldiers who fired on the vehicle told Reuters.
Troops have been nervous, and have been ordered to be more cautious, after the suicide car bomb attack on Saturday which killed four US soldiers at a checkpoint, near Najaf which is close to the scene of last night's killings.
Capt Throp said the blood of from the incident was "on the regime of Saddam Hussein" because of guerrilla tactics and the strategy of challenging coalition troops at checkpoints.
However a different picture was provided by the Washington Post which quoted the US captain at the intersection as saying his forward platoon had failed to give the van ample notice that it would be shelled. "You just [expletive] killed a family because you didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!" it quoted Captain Ronny Johnson telling his platoon leader.
The newspaper also claimed ten people were killed by US gunfire.
British army spokesman Colonel Chris Vernon said that the killings undermined attempts to win over the local population, but told the BBC: "We must allow our junior commanders who are doing the business on the ground to make these split-second decisions as they think best."
Pictures of injured and dead civilians, broadcast across the Muslim world by Arabic satellite channels, have fuelled opposition to the war and sparked angry protests.
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