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米軍用車へのロケット手榴弾攻撃など米軍「恐怖」の実情。
米御用のイラク人起用策の失敗など、朝日「薄味報道」の誤魔化しが明白になる。アメリカの大手メディアよりも酷いのが、戦前からの似非紳士、戦犯、朝日の報道なのである。
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56075-2003Jul1.html?nav=hptop_tb
washingtonpost.com
U.S. Vehicles Attacked; Explosion Kills 5 in Fallujah
Courtyard Building in Mosque Destroyed, Witnesses Say
By Jim Krane
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 1, 2003; 7:25 AM
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Rocket-propelled grenades slammed into U.S. military vehicles in two attacks in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, and a massive explosion at a mosque in the town of Fallujah killed at least five Iraqis and injured four others.
Iraqi civilians said the explosion late Monday in Fallujah was caused by a missile or bomb strike, but American soldiers at the scene disputed that account, saying it was likely caused when explosives hidden at the site went off.
On Tuesday, assailants traveling in a vehicle in the Mustansiryah neighborhood of central Baghdad fired a rocket propelled-grenade at a U.S. military vehicle, destroying it and likely causing casualties, Iraqi witnesses said.
One witness, 19-year-old Ali Ibrahim Shakir, said he saw two U.S. soldiers being evacuated onto stretchers. He said he could not tell if the soldiers had been hurt or killed.
A Mercedes traveling alongside the U.S. vehicle was also hit, wounding the Iraqi civilian who was driving it, said witness Mohammed Abdullah. After the attack, three U.S. helicopters hovered over the site. Military spokesmen in Baghdad said they had no immediate information.
Also Tuesday, witnesses said another rocket-propelled grenade slammed into a U.S. truck on a road 12 miles south of Baghdad. The witnesses said that attack caused four casualties but there was no immediate confirmation from the military.
A huge explosion over the weekend at an ammunitions depot killed at least 15 people and injured at least four near Hadithah, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad, officials said Tuesday.
Metal scavengers dismantled enormous 155 mm artillery rounds and spread gun powder on the ground at the depot, which housed old Iraqi artillery. A spark there on Saturday set off massive explosions, police, the mayor and local hospital officials said.
Estimates of the dead ranged from 15 to 25.
Hadithah policeman Lt. Saad Aziz said there was a large pile of TNT explosives at the depot, and people were smoking there.
"This kind of TNT is very sensitive to heat. A small spark could set the whole thing off," he said.
Abdul Aziz Thalaj, 55, said he and two of his nephews went to the depot to get scrap metal to sell.
"I was amazed. I found live artillery ammunition. I felt this kind of work is very dangerous,ﾓ he said from his hospital bed in Hadithah, both his feet covered in gauze and a huge yellow scab covering his badly burned shoulder and upper arm.
One of the other scavengers shouted ﾒRun! There is a spark! Me and my nephews tried to run away but the flame was very fast."
Mohammed Nayil Assaf, Hadithah's mayor, put the death toll at 25 and the injured toll at 6. He said there was a large amount of ammunition stored in the area and insisted U.S. troops had been guarding it only sporadically.
"It was a tragic day for Hadithah,ﾓ he told the AP outside the town hall, where a 3-foot-high pile of shell casings stood -- seized from looters after Saturday's explosion.
In Fallujah, witnesses said the blast took place just before 11 p.m. Monday in a small cinderblock building in the courtyard of the al-Hassan mosque. The explosion blew out the walls and took down the roof of the structure.
Hours after the explosion, dozens of people gathered around the destroyed mosque shouting anti-American slogans amid the rubble.
"There is no God but Allah, America is the enemy of God," they chanted, as a crane lifted large pieces of concrete from the site. An eyewitness said that after the evening prayer, he heard aircraft hovering overhead and then heard the sound of the explosion.
On Tuesday morning about a dozen Iraqis remained, sifting through the rubble for pieces of metal they said proved the damage was caused by an American attack.
"These are pieces of a missile," said Aqeel Ibrahim Ali, 26, who was standing on a concrete slab overlooking the destruction, holding out a box filled with metal shards. "An airplane shot a missile."
But Sgt. Thomas McMurtry, a reservist with the 346th Tactical Psychological Operations Company, said there was no evidence the explosion was caused by a U.S. attack.
"They did it to themselves. Clearly, the physical evidence does not support that (a missile strike) in any way," he told The Associated Press. "Whatever blew up was just sitting inside there. There is no evidence that it was anything else but a ground based explosive.
McMurtry, a schoolteacher based in Dayton, Ohio who said he is a former special forces engineer with munitions training, said that if the explosion had been caused by a bomb or missile, there would be evidence of shrapnel. He said U.S. army ordnance disposal personnel had scanned the wreckage and saw no sign of a missile strike.
The U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad said it had no information on the incident.
It was unclear who the Iraqi victims were, or what they were doing at the mosque late Monday.
Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad, has been a hotbed of anti-American activity and scene of several confrontations between U.S. troops and insurgents. U.S. soldiers shot and killed 20 protesters in April, provoking widespread resentment.
On Tuesday, a U.S. sweep to snuff out remaining pockets of anti-occupation resistance in the so-called "Sunni triangle" north and east of Baghdad, entered its third day. Troops detained a colonel from Saddam's Baath Party along with five other individuals, a military statement said Monday, without providing details. The statement said at least 319 Iraqis have been detained in several operations, though none of Iraq's most wanted fugitives are believed to be among them.
U.S. troops have been increasingly targeted in recent weeks, raising fears that their mission will become mired by a guerrilla-style insurgency. At least 20 American and six British troops have been killed by hostile fire since President Bush declared the end of major combat in Iraq on May 1. There have been no reports of U.S. casualties since the sweep began, the military said.
In other news, American troops moved in force to arrest the U.S.-appointed mayor of the southern town of Najaf, 110 miles southwest of Baghdad, removing him on kidnapping and corruption charges and detaining 62 of his aides -- a step likely to please Najaf's Shiite residents.
The arrest came less than three months after the mayor, Abu Haydar Abdul Mun'im, was installed by American troops after they entered the town in April. The former Iraqi army colonel was unpopular from the start with the local population because of his background in Saddam Hussein's military.
Abdul Mun'im was replaced by Haydar Mahdi Mattar al Mayali, a former deputy in the mayor's office.
2003 The Associated Press
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