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(回答先: ウダイ氏とクサイ氏の死亡確認…米軍(読売新聞)【これで何回目の死亡？】 投稿者 クエスチョン 日時 2003 年 7 月 23 日 06:32:17)
↑【合計１５３人：湾岸戦争時米軍戦死者１４８人を＋５人オーバー】と多分連動。あせってる模様。
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=NEVOXT5DZ4JOKCRBAEKSFFA?type
=topNews&storyID=3137092
Saddam's Sons Killed in U.S. Raid, Iraqis Rejoice
Tue July 22, 2003 05:35 PM ET
By Miral Fahmy
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a
six-hour gun battle with U.S. troops at a villa in the northern Iraqi city of
Mosul Tuesday after a tip-off from an Iraqi, the U.S. military said.
"We're certain that Uday and Qusay were killed," Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez,
commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told a hasty news conference in Baghdad after
four charred bodies taken from the Mosul villa were flown to the capital.
"They died in a fierce gun battle," he said, adding they had barricaded
themselves inside the house and fired small arms at U.S. soldiers. Two other
bodies removed from the villa were still being identified.
As word spread of the deaths of the feared and ruthless brothers, celebratory
gunfire crackled across night-time Baghdad.
Uday, 39, Saddam's eldest son, was notorious throughout Iraq for his cruelty and
playboy lifestyle. Qusay, born in 1966, was one of his father's most trusted
lieutenants and widely seen as his heir apparent.
"An Iraqi source informed the 101st airborne division today that several
suspects including Qusay and Uday ... were hiding at the residence," said
Sanchez, adding that special forces had been called in for the operation.
The informant stands to claim at least part of the two $15 million rewards
Washington placed on the heads of Uday and Qusay.
U.S. soldiers at the battered hulk of the once imposing concrete villa told
Reuters a barrage of rocket and machine-gun fire had been aimed at the residence.
Four U.S. troops were wounded.
U.S. officials said one of the two unidentified bodies might be that of Qusay's
14-year-old son.
Mosul residents said shots were fired from the house as the troops took up
positions and approached it in the morning sun.
SADDAM STILL ELUSIVE
There was no sign of Saddam himself. He is still thought to be on the run in
Iraq three months after he was ousted by U.S.-led forces.
But the deaths of his sons will be a boost to President Bush and may help
convince Iraqis that the threat of the old ruling family returning is now at an
end.
Bush has been under pressure over a mounting death toll among U.S. soldiers in
guerrilla-style attacks that they blame on die-hard supporters of the former
Iraqi leader.
A new ambush Tuesday claimed the life of a sixth soldier in five days. A Sri
Lankan Red Cross technician was killed in another incident, highlighting general
lawlessness.
Ordinary Iraqis have been grumbling ever more loudly about the failure of the
occupying U.S. and British forces to restore basic services and hand power back
to Iraqis.
"(The deaths of Uday and Qusay) certainly is good news for the Iraqi people and
it's good news for our forces," said Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led
administration in Iraq.
There was delight among people in Baghdad as news from Mosul filtered through to
the capital, although many said they could not relax until they had proof the
brothers were dead.
Sanchez said he would address the issue of proof on Wednesday, but that "
multiple" sources had identified Saddam's sons.
A least one Baghdad man reflected widespread hatred in Iraq against Uday, who
ran much of Iraq's media and sport.
"I don't want him dead. I want to torture him first," said Alaa Hamed, who was a
producer at Uday's television channel.
He said Uday had personally beaten him with electrical cables when he made
mistakes.
U.S. forces have announced the capture of 34 of the 55 Iraqis on a most-wanted
list of members of Saddam's regime. Uday and Qusay were numbers two and three
and the aces of hearts and clubs respectively on a deck of cards given to U.S.
troops.
U.S. FORCES UNDER PRESSURE
The death Tuesday of the 39th U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire since
Bush declared major combat over on May 1 highlighted the pressure his forces are
under. Bush said Monday he would welcome military help from abroad.
But countries such as France, Germany and Russia, which opposed the U.S. and
British invasion of Iraq, want a clearer U.N. mandate before getting involved in
a messy situation which they had warned Washington could be the result from a
war.
The U.N. Security Council Tuesday met three delegates from Baghdad's new Iraqi
Governing Council presenting a case for recognition. They were the first Baghdad
delegates to go to the United Nations since Saddam was toppled.
But diplomats at the United Nations, scene of so much sharp diplomatic
skirmishing over Iraq before U.S. bombs began falling on March 20, said the
Governing Council would not be allowed to take up Baghdad's seat in New York for
now.
The 25-member Governing Council was appointed by U.S. authorities in Baghdad
nine days ago.
Adnan Pachachi, spokesman for the Iraqi delegation, told the Security Council: "
The state intelligence services and mandatory arrests and random executions are
done for once and for all.
"The people of Iraq have ... tasted a sense of freedom that has been denied to
them for so many decades."
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