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米軍はイラクの治安回復で対応に苦慮、国立博物館も襲撃される（ロイター）
http://newsflash.nifty.com/news/ta/ta__reuters_JAPAN-111096.htm
［バグダッド １２日 ロイター］ 米軍は、バグダッドなどイラク主
要都市の治安回復で対応に苦慮しており、国立博物館から貴重な展示品が
略奪されるなど、大きな失態も演じた。
米軍による治安の回復には一定の前進もみられるが、国立博物館には、
略奪者が押し入り、メソポタミア文明までさかのぼる貴重な展示品が奪わ
れた。
博物館のナブハル・アミン副館長は、「１７万点の展示品が盗難もしく
は破壊された。数十億ドルの価値があった」と述べた。
米軍は、バグダッドの治安維持のため、一部の地域で、２４時間の警備
体制を敷いている。また、略奪行為や患者急増で頭を悩ませている医療機
関を支援するため、約２０トンの医療物資が、米軍のＣ１３０輸送機でバ
グダッドに運び込まれた。
しかし、無政府状態は、クルド人勢力がほぼ無抵抗で制圧した北部の都
市モスルやキルクークでも続いている。
キルクークに住む少数民族トルクメン系の住民は、「米国がわれわれを
解放しているなら、治安を回復してほしい。これではサダム（フセイン政
権）時代と同じだ」と語った。
[ロイター：2003年04月13日 13時35分]
以下、ロイターの元ニュース。国立博物館も襲撃される（ロイター）につ
いては中ほどの「MUSEUM LOOTED 」以下。
U.S. Battles Anarchy in Iraq, Warns Syria
Sun April 13, 2003 12:23 AM ET
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops struggled to restore law and order in Baghdad
and northern Iraq on Sunday as Washington stoked a war of words with Syria for
allegedly aiding Saddam Hussein's crumbling regime and other "terrorists."
"Now that the regime has gone in Baghdad, we hope that Syria will understand
there is an opportunity for a better way for them, if they would stop supporting
terrorist activities, and we hope the Syrians will respond accordingly,"
Secretary of State Colin Powell told BBC television.
In a potential coup for the U.S.-led drive to oust Saddam and rid Iraq of
alleged weapons of mass destruction, Saddam's top scientific adviser surrendered
to U.S. forces on Saturday.
U.S. intelligence officials believe General Amer Hammoudi al-Saadi could be the
key to unlocking secrets about Iraq's weapons programs. Saadi turned himself in
to U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, but told Germany's ZDF television Iraq had no
chemical or biological weapons.
"Hopefully he'll be more forthcoming now he's surrendered. He is crucial to our
understanding of what has been going on with their WMD (weapons of mass
destruction) program for years," a U.S. intelligence official in Washington told
Reuters.
Despite offering a reward for news that could lead to Saddam's capture, the U.S.
military said it still had no idea where the Iraqi leader was, though rumors
persist he was killed or badly wounded in earlier bombing raids on Baghdad.
Other theories suggest he may be hiding in his home town of Tikrit, where loyal
fighters could be preparing a last stand.
U.S. planes continued to bomb the town, 110 miles north of the capital, and
President Bush, in his weekly radio address, warned of "hard fighting" to come.
U.S. commanders have sent in army reinforcements from Kuwait, but also plan to
cut their naval presence in the Gulf.
MUSEUM LOOTED
Bush, however, made no mention of the chaos that has raged across Iraq as mobs,
freed from decades of iron rule, ransacked offices, shops and the homes of the
wealthy.
In Baghdad, looters made off with a priceless collection of irreplaceable
antiquities from the National Museum on Saturday, stripping the building of
treasures dating back to the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia.
"They have looted or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands
of years...They were worth billions of dollars," said deputy director Nabhal
Amin, weeping. The head of the fledgling U.S.-led civil administration of Iraq,
retired Lieutenant-General Jay Garner, told Sky television on Saturday that the
widespread looting would die down.
"This will come under control," he said. "You have to quit the war before you
can handle that (looting). It will subside."
In Washington, the Pentagon raised the U.S. death toll in 25 days of war to 113.
Six others are missing and seven are held as prisoners. There are no reliable
figures for Iraq's dead.
The latest U.S. casualty was a Marine, killed by a gunman while guarding a
hospital in Baghdad on Saturday. U.S. Central Command said the gunman, who was
shot dead by Marines, was carrying a Syrian identification card.
On the west bank of the Tigris river in central Baghdad, U.S. troops said they
killed 15 to 20 fighters they described as Arab "mujahideen" on Saturday and
seized one of the last strongholds of Arab fighters in the capital.
U.S. troops set up round-the-clock patrols in some quarters to check the
lawlessness, and some 20 tons of medical supplies arrived in Baghdad on U.S. C-
130 transport planes to help replenish supplies at looted and overburdened
hospitals.
Ramiro Lopes da Silva, the U.N.'s humanitarian aid chief for Iraq, said in Amman
that 13 international staff would return to northern Iraq on Monday and the U.N.
would expand its presence in the south.
But he warned that security remained a problem, with revenge attacks and looting
hampering the delivery of much-needed aid and health care. He urged U.S. and
British troops to move quickly and assume a strong policing role.
The military, however, says its first job is to fight and policing must take a
back seat, though it is now moving to restore order and quell anarchy that has
spread across Iraq.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said U.S. soldiers were guarding a
main Baghdad water plant and a hospital. "Medical City Hospital seems for the
most part secured," ICRC spokeswoman Antonella Notari said from Geneva.
SYRIA REJECTS ACCUSATIONS
In the BBC interview, Powell warned Damascus not to become "a haven for all
these people who should be brought to justice who are trying to get out of
Baghdad."
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara said U.S. accusations that Damascus had
helped Saddam's government and provided military assistance to Baghdad were
baseless.
Syria has warned that Washington could push the conflict beyond Iraq's borders,
sowing chaos in the region.
Looking ahead, U.S. officials laid plans for a series of meetings of Iraqi
opposition leaders from inside and outside the country to pave the way for an
interim government. The first is set for Tuesday in the southern city of
Nassiriya.
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak warned of the possibility of civil war in Iraq
involving rival Muslim Sunnis and Shi'ites, as well as Kurds, who were long
oppressed under Saddam.
"There is a chance they will attack each other... I hope there will not be a
division of Iraq because then there would be danger, with many small states
which would attack each other," Mubarak said in remarks broadcast on Egyptian
television.
Shi'ites make up 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million population but have been
persecuted for decades by Saddam's secular Sunni-dominated Baath party.
In the north, Kurdish fighters tried to impose some order in the oil hub of
Kirkuk, which they took on Thursday amid scenes of jubilation. They checked cars
entering and leaving the city in search of suspected looters and their bounty.
But Arabs and Turkmens said the Kurds were guilty of abuses -- a dangerous
development in an area of ethnic tension.
Meeting in Washington, the Group of Seven industrial nations -- which unites
America with staunchly anti-war France and Germany as well as Japan, Italy,
Canada and Britain -- called for multinational involvement in rebuilding Iraq.
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