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テヘランタイムズ：米関与否定にもかかわらずモスク爆発はイラク人は憤激し報復を誓う。
Mosque Blast Angers Iraqis Despite U.S. Denial/America is the enemy of God!/Avenge the killings!/tehrantimes/7/2
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=7/2/03&Cat=2&Num=024
Mosque Blast Angers Iraqis Despite U.S. Denial
FALLUJA , Iraq - Thousands of Iraqis chanted anti-American slogans on Tuesday as they buried victims of an overnight blast that damaged a mosque -- despite U.S. insistence that its forces had nothing to do with the explosion.
Local people in the already restive town of Falluja, a hotbed of Sunni Muslim anti-U.S. sentiment since the fall of Saddam Hussein, said the blast killed eight people, including clerics, and was the result of an American air attack.
Some swore revenge against Americans.
But the commander of U.S. forces in the town, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, flatly denied the accusation.
"There was no U.S. warplane involved. There was no artillery from U.S. troops. It was simply an explosion inside a building adjacent to the mosque," Colonel Joseph Disalvo said.
Mourners marched from the damaged mosque to bury five of the dead, firing automatic rifles in the air and waving Iraqi flags. "America is the enemy of God!" they chanted. "Avenge the killings!"
There was no sign of U.S. troops along the route of the procession. Falluja residents said they would bury three more people later in the day. Four other people had been wounded.
"The blood of those who were martyred in the mosque will be avenged," said one local man, Mohamed Shesab.
Disalvo did not say what he thought caused the blast. Local residents said the U.S. may have believed the mosque compound was used to store explosives for militants but insisted it had only been used for religious purposes.
Residents said the blast late on Monday had destroyed the room of the imam, the prayer-leader, in the mosque compound as well as damaging the mosque itself. They said religious scholars had been attending lessons.
U.S. forces have faced some of the strongest resistance to their occupation of Iraq in towns including Falluja north and west of Baghdad, mainly Sunni Muslim areas which were bastions of support for Saddam. Even before Saddam, the Sunni minority had long held political sway over the majority Shiites.
The military said no soldiers were nearby when the blast went off but a rapid reaction team arrived soon afterwards.
"They found minimal damage to the mosque but significant damage to the building next to the mosque," a U.S. spokesman said.
Local people searched rubble after the blast to recover the wounded and pull out bodies and body parts.
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