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毎日、毎日、２４・５回前後の攻撃を受けたら、１人や２人の戦死者が出ても当然だ。以下、攻撃を受ける中、ファルージャから米軍撤退の記事。【小泉ポチ犬は自衛隊を本当に送れるんですかね、、、。】
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-07/11/article01.shtml
U.S. Troops Withdraw From Fallujah As Attacks Continue
Fallujah, July 11 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) ? U.S. soldiers withdrew
Friday, July 11, from the western Iraqi town of Fallujah, as U.S. troops
stationed in Ramadi clashed with unknown assailants and a U.S. patrol in
southwest Baghdad came under rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack.
The Withdrawal from downtown Fallujah and its police station came after Iraqi
officers complained that the American presence put them at risk, Qatar-based al-
Jazeera TV Channel reported, citing Iraqi police sources.
Several dozen Iraqi police marched on the mayor's office Thursday, July 10, in
Fallujah saying they would quit their posts if the American soldiers continued
to use their station as a base.
Meanwhile, U.S. troops stationed in the flashpoint town of Ramadi west of
Baghdad clashed overnight with unknown assailants, Al-Jazeera said early Friday.
"Armed clashes between American soldiers and assailants occurred during the
night in two places in the town," Al-Jazeera's correspondent said, specifying
the clashes continued until dawn.
U.S. Tank Fires Round For First Time Since Invasion
A U.S. tank fired a shell for the first time since the end of the US war on Iraq
in clashes overnight with guerrilla fighters in the flashpoint town of Ramadi
100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, a military spokesman said Friday.
"A U.S. tank fired off a round for the first time since the end of the war,"
said Staff Sergeant Anthony Joseph from the public affairs office of the Third
Armoured Division's Second Brigade based in Fallujah.
The troops returned fire after a mortar attack, but there were no US casualties,
added Sergeant Amy Abbott in Baghdad.
Witnesses said the mortars targeted U.S. troops stationed in a presidential
palace at Ramadi and immediately went on the hunt for the attackers.
On Thursday, July 10, night, U.S. troops stationed in a presidential palace at
Ramadi, 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Baghdad came under mortar fire. They
immediately went on a hunt for the attackers, witnesses said.
The correspondent said explosions were again heard overnight around the palace,
which also came under fire.
He added that U.S. forces had sent helicopter gunships, which fired rockets at
the attackers.
Attacks on U.S. troops occur daily in the central Iraq region, to the west and
north of Baghdad.
RPG Attack
Meanwhile, a U.S. patrol in southwest Baghdad came under rocket propelled
grenade (RPG) attack late Thursday, July 10, a U.S. military spokeswoman said
Friday, adding that two Iraqi citizens, including a young Iraqi girl, were
wounded in the crossfire.
The attack occurred at around 8:20pm (1620 GMT) between the city center and the
capital's international airport, Specialist Nicole Thompson told Agence France-
Presse (AFP).
"A civilian vehicle was caught in the crossfire," she said, adding that two
injured passengers had been evacuated to hospital. She did not say if they were
shot by U.S. troops and declined to comment on their condition.
There were no U.S. casualties, she added.
U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday admitted his government had security
problems in Iraq, as two more American soldiers were reported killed overnight
in separate attacks in the war-ravaged country.
Also Thursday, a young Iraqi girl sustained shrapnel wounds during a night-time
firefight near the city of Balad, 55 miles north of the capital, the military
said. The girl was in stable condition and being treated at an Army hospital on
the massive Sustainer air base near Balad.
An American soldier was shot and killed near the city of Mahmudiyah, 15 miles
south of Baghdad, on Wednesday night.
Another soldier was killed and one wounded Wednesday in a rocket-propelled
grenade assault on a five-vehicle convoy near Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of
Baghdad.
Fallujah has seen several deadly attacks on American and Iraqi forces since U.S.
troops killed 20 protesters in late April.
Two rocket-propelled grenades were fired at American troops in the city
Wednesday, causing no casualties. And an explosion Saturday at a police
graduation ceremony in Ramadi, 28 miles west of Fallujah, killed seven U.S.-
trained recruits.
On June 24, protesters in the southern city of Majar al-Kabir stormed a police
station after British troops fired on protesters. Six British soldiers died in
the attack on the station, and two others were killed in a clash near the
mayor's office.
Daily Attacks
Meanwhile, the recently-retired head of U.S. Central Command told a
congressional panel Thursday that U.S. forces in Iraq are targeted by as many as
two dozen attacks each day.
"On a given day there will be somewhere between 10 and 25 violent incidents,"
General Tommy Franks told a hearing of the House of Representatives Armed
Service Committee.
He said the number of U.S. casualties in the region was not unexpected.
"I had hoped that we would see the total collapse of all resistance and that
there would be no fractious behavior -- but I had never believed that that hope
could be a reality," Franks hold the panel.
To date, 31 U.S. soldiers have been killed in hostile action since May 1, when
the United States declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq.
"Part of the reason for that is that we go out looking for it," Franks said.
"We have our people every day not sitting in base camps, but rather out looking
to find the ‘Baathists’, looking to find the ‘jihadists’, looking to find
these people who cross the border from Syria and are hell-bent on creating
difficulty."
He said he was not expecting the threat to diminish in the short-run.
U.S. Is There To Stay For Years
Yet, Franks made clear that U.S. troops could stay in Iraq as long as four years,
quashing hopes for a quick U.S. exit from the Gulf state.
"I anticipate we'll be involved in Iraq in the future," Franks said. "Whether
that means two years or four years, I don't know."
He said it would be unwise to raise expectation that "difficulties" faced by
coalition forces in the country "will go away in one month or two months or
three months."
Franks also expressed confidence in the “reliability” of U.S. intelligence,
and insisted weapons of mass destruction would be found.
When asked whether the White House had overstated the risk posed by the ousted
Iraqi president, Franks answered: "I do not believe that at all."
Military officials donned protective gear on numerous occasions during the war,
and ordered troops to do the same, after US intelligence strongly indicated that
a chemical attack was imminent, Franks said.
Franks' vote of confidence in U.S. security did little to check calls by
opposition Democrats for a full-scale investigation into US intelligence lapses
leading up to the war.
One leading Democrat and presidential candidate, Massachusetts Senator John
Kerry, on Thursday lent his voice to the growing chorus of lawmakers calling for
a thorough congressional probe.
"This is a national security issue for our country," he said at a press
conference.
"The quality of our intelligence is critical, not just to the judgments that
Congress makes but to our credibility in the world and to the capacity of the
president to reach out to other countries and build the kind of coalitions we
need to win the war on terror."
"I believe we need an open, thorough, complete and absolutely believable
investigation into the quality of American intelligence so that going forward
from now the national security interests of our country will be properly
protected," said the senator, who is one of nine Democrats vying for the party's
presidential nomination next year.
Democrats' calls for more muscular congressional investigations into U.S.
intelligence followed White House revelations earlier this week that it relied
on bogus information in making earlier claims that Iraq had tried to obtain
nuclear materials from Africa.
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