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3・28バグダード市場爆撃 続報
先週3月28日金曜日、バクダットの市場での爆発は63人の市民の命を巻き添えにしたが、
この爆発の原因をめぐって、英国の政府とメディアが対立している。
米・英政府はいずれもこの爆発は、イラクの地対空ミサイルによるものであると断定しているが、
英国インデペンデント氏の記者、ロバート・フィスクが現場において爆発物の金属片を発見。
金属片には認識コードがかかれており、製造会社にたどり着くことが可能だった。
それによれば、その認識コードは米軍の対レーダー高速ミサイルを示すものであることが判明。
これまでの経緯詳細は以下を参照。
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60人の命を巻き添えにしたバクダットの市場の爆発、ネット検索でその大元を特定。
http://www.asyura.com/0304/war29/msg/952.html
ミサイルを特定証明か＜62人の犠牲者を出したバグダード市場への爆撃＞
http://www.asyura.com/0304/war30/msg/198.html
Re: ミサイルを特定証明か＜62人の犠牲者を出したバグダード市場への爆撃＞
http://www.asyura.com/0304/war30/msg/208.html
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英国政府はこうした一連の報道内容を一方的に否定、
英国防衛相フーンは「金属片はサダムが渡したものだ」という発言。
Hoon: 'No proof that Allied bombs hit marketplace'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=393745
これに対してガーディアン紙、インディペンデント紙はフィスク記者を擁護する記事を掲載。
以下がその記事。
ガーディアン
http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,929526,00.html
Fisk 'has not been duped by Saddam'
Jason Deans
Friday April 4, 2003
The Independent has mounted a staunch defence of its veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, after defence minister Geoff Hoon effectively accused him of being duped by Saddam Hussein's regime.
In a front page leader comment, the paper dismissed Mr Hoon's "innuendo" as a "miserable attempt to brush aside unwelcome truths" about the Iraqi conflict.
The Independent was responding to comments Mr Hoon made yesterday in the Commons, when he questioned the accuracy of Fisk's reporting on civilian deaths in two Baghdad marketplace bombings.
Mr Hoon said there was not a "shred of corroborating evidence" other than that "supplied by Saddam Hussein's regime", that US forces were responsible for the two marketplace tragedies.
"The allegation is that because a piece of cruise missile was handed to the journalist it somehow proved it was caused by coalition forces.
"We have very clear evidence immediately after those two explosions there were representatives of the regime clearing up in and around the marketplace. Now why they should be doing that other than to perhaps disguise their own responsibility for what took place is an interesting question," Mr Hoon said.
The Independent hit back today, saying the defence secretary's handling of Iraq war news "has been characterised by exaggeration, half truth and backtracking".
"It was Mr Hoon who claimed on BBC Radio that local people had 'certainly' risen up in Basra. When asked how he knew, he blustered. It does not seem to have been wholly true," the paper said.
"Last night, the MoD was forced to concede that an estimate of PoW numbers given only hours earlier by Mr Hoon was wildly inaccurate.
"Yesterday's innuendo against this newspaper and our correspondent was a miserable attempt to brush aside unwelcome news. This is no way to reassure a doubtful British public that the government genuinely wants to minimise civilian casualties, rather than simply the reporting of them."
The Independent also defended Fisk's "proud record of reporting what he sees" in the Middle East.
"He has travelled to dangerous places and described unflinchingly what is happening. He prefers to speak to the people caught up in conflicts rather than report what the generals, politicians and spokesmen are saying," the paper said.
"Any careful reader of his reports from Iraq would know that he holds no brief for the Saddam regime. Indeed, he was among the first journalists to report Saddam's use of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war."
Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the region for 25 years, reporting for the Times before moving to the Independent.
インディペンデント
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=393737
Geoff Hoon, Robert Fisk and reporting the truth
04 April 2003
Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, is a smooth politician who relies on nuance to do his dirty work. He did not say, in plain terms, that he disbelieves The Independent's accounts of civilian casualties sustained in Iraq. He did not say that Robert Fisk, our award-winning reporter, is a willing dupe of Saddam Hussein's regime. He simply allowed those suggestions to hang, unspoken, in the House of Commons chamber yesterday.
"A piece of a cruise missile was handed to the journalist," he said, to explain how we were able to publish the serial number of the missile likely to have been responsible for the second Baghdad marketplace explosion last Friday, which killed about 62 civilians.
Robert Fisk has a proud record of reporting what he sees. He has travelled to dangerous places and described unflinchingly what is happening. He prefers to speak to the people caught up in conflicts rather than report what the generals, politicians and spokesmen are saying.
Any careful reader of his reports from Iraq would know that he holds no brief for the Saddam regime. Indeed, he was among the first journalists to report Saddam's use of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war. Anyone who read his reporting of the Kosovo war will remember that, when Nato headquarters denied that its aircraft had hit civilian convoys, he went to the spot on the ground where the missiles fell and found the markings on casings of US munitions. Nato spokesmen later admitted responsibility.
Mr Hoon's handling of the news from this war has been characterised by exaggeration, half-truth and backtracking. It was Mr Hoon who claimed on BBC Radio that local people had "certainly" risen up in Basra. When asked how he knew, he blustered. It does not seem to have been wholly true. It was Mr Hoon who claimed that chemical suits found by advancing coalition troops showed "categorically" that Saddam was preparing to use chemical weapons, to be contradicted by Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, Chief of the Defence Staff, who warned against jumping to conclusions. Last night, the MoD was forced to concede that an estimate of PoW numbers given only hours earlier by Mr Hoon was wildly inaccurate.
Yesterday's innuendo against this newspaper and our correspondent was a miserable attempt to brush aside unwelcome truths. This is no way to reassure a doubtful British public that the Government genuinely wants to minimise civilian casualties, rather than simply the reporting of them.
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