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(回答先: 武器摘発など大規模掃討を開始 米軍[毎日新聞」 投稿者 どさんこ 日時 2003 年 6 月 16 日 06:20:01)
↑日経も「抵抗はなく」だが、米報道、当のアメリカのニューヨークタイムズ、ワシントンポストでは「待ち伏せ」に遭いトラック炎上、負傷者数名となる。米軍発表そのままの奇怪報道なり。
イラク人のアメリカへの敵意は燃え上がるばかりのロイター配信記事を、日本の大手メディアは、受けているはずだ。国会のイラク法審議を意識した萎縮報道と判断、糾弾する。
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UPDATED SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 20036:42 PM ET
U.S. Convoy Is Ambushed in Iraq, Wounding Several Soldiers
By REUTERS3:41 PM ET
The ambush came as the U.S. military launched a new mission to root out Hussein loyalists after a spate of attacks that have killed about 40 U.S. soldiers since May 1.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60287-2003Jun14.html?nav=hptop_tb
Sunday, June 15, 2003; 2:30 PM
NEAR BALAD, Iraq, June 15 - Guerrillas ambushed a U.S. convoy in the hostile region north of Baghdad on Sunday, wounding several soldiers, as a new U.S. mission was launched to hunt for Saddam Hussein loyalists blamed for recent attacks.
A crippled U.S. truck smouldered on the highway south of the restive town of Balad after the ambush, its tires and canopy ablaze. Apache helicopters buzzed overhead, searching for the attackers. Tanks and armored vehicles surrounded the truck. Troops trained their guns at the fields around the road.
Soldiers said several casualties had been evacuated.
They said the convoy had been travelling from Baghdad to Balad, about 90 km (60 miles) to the north. It was attacked about 20 km south of Balad.
The ambush came as the U.S. military launched a new mission, Operation Desert Scorpion, to root out Saddam Hussein loyalists after a spate of attacks that have killed about 40 U.S. soldiers since major combat was declared over on May 1.
The new U.S. military sweep followed last week's Operation Peninsula Strike -- the biggest such U.S. maneuver in Iraq since May 1 -- when a series of raids were mounted in the fertile plains around Balad near the Tigris river.
On Friday morning, seven Iraqis died in an attack by U.S. troops after an American tank patrol was ambushed. That number had been previously reported as 27, but the Army later revised that figure.
The U.S. military has said that some 400 Iraqis were detained in the operation around Balad, which began last Monday and was winding down by the weekend. It said about 60 were still in custody, and four U.S. soldiers were wounded during the operation, along with two Iraqi "hostile civilians."
Angry locals said U.S. troops had ransacked houses and assaulted residents. They said the operation would only serve to fuel hostility towards the U.S. occupiers of Iraq.
The U.S. military said its Operation Desert Scorpion aimed to win hearts and minds as well as hunt guerrillas. A Central Command statement said it was "designed to identify and defeat selected Baath party loyalists, terrorist organisations and criminal elements while delivering humanitarian aid simultaneously."
In the Sunni town of Falluja, 45 miles west of Baghdad, troops searched some houses overnight, but by morning they were distributing food and supplies. Hostility to the Americans is widespread in Falluja after a series of clashes, but the town was quiet on Sunday with a low-key army presence.
The attacks have been concentrated in Baghdad and two nearby areas -- to the west around Ramadi and Falluja, and to the north around Balad, Baquba and Tikrit, Saddam's home town.
Many locals in the troubled areas say they have no love for Saddam but that anger is mounting towards U.S. soldiers.
"We were oppressed under Saddam and now we are oppressed under the Americans," a trader in Falluja said.
U.S. General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a television interview that Saddam was probably still alive and several groups were behind recent attacks.
"I think, probably the majority opinion is that he is alive and it's something that has to be dealt with," Myers told the U.S. Fox News Channel on Saturday.
Sunday marked the end of a two-week amnesty for Iraqis to hand in heavy weapons without punishment. Iraqis caught with banned weapons without a permit will now face a fine and a jail term of up to a year.
Many Iraqis have complained that they dare not give up their guns until security is restored following the anarchy that ensued after Saddam's overthrow on April 9.
The U.S. army said that during the amnesty Iraqis handed in 123 pistols, 76 semi-automatic rifles, 435 automatic rifles, 46 machineguns, 11 anti-aircraft weapons and 381 grenades and bombs -- a drop in Iraq's ocean of weaponry.
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