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(回答先: サダム・フセイン国際空港はイラク側の管理下 BBCオマー記者 [BBCニュース] 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2003 年 4 月 04 日 01:55:29)
米軍は砂漠の中の別の空港のことを言ってるんだろうとairport managerのJaburiは冗談をとばしてるそうです。
以下本文
Saddam Airport Under Iraqi Control
An Iraqi police officer walks at Saddam Hussein International Airport outside of Baghdad Thursday
Baghdad's Saddam International Airport was Thursday afternoon still under the full control of the Iraqi authorities, an AFP correspondent reported.
No bombing or fighting were visible at the airport, which lies 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the center of Baghdad.
"The airport is safe," airport manager Muafiq Abdullah al-Jaburi told journalists escorted there by the Iraqi Information Ministry.
Although airplanes have neither landed nor taken off at the airport since March 19, a day before the launch of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, Jaburi said that employees were "continuing to go about their work normally, according to set rotas."
"Maybe the Americans occupied another airport in the desert," joked Jaburi.
The airport's radar system and other installations "were hit in the first days of the war but the airport is currently safe," he said.
Al-Jazeera TV channel aired live broadcast from inside the airport showing the situation there was very calm and activity was as normal.
People were seen moving about and an aircraft on the runway, with no sign of Anglo-American troops as earlier alleged by the Americans.
"I can confirm they're outside the airport," claimed Major Randi Steffy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Central Command in Qatar.
Sahhaf asserted that Iraqi fighters south of Karbala shot down on Wednesday, April 2, an F-18 aircraft, an Apache combat helicopter and a Chinook troop carrying helicopter.
Saddam Fedayeen had also destroyed three tanks and a personnel carrier south of Karbala and another Apache in the southern Muthana province, he said, adding that the same unit destroyed another tank in Muthana.
A U.S. commander claimed Thursday U.S. forces were within 15 kilometers (nine miles) of Baghdad center near its main airport and controlled the southern approaches to the capital.
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