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電線盗と銃撃戦、デンマーク兵が死亡 イラク・バスラ【自衛隊にも必ずや戦死者が出るのだろうね。】
http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0817/006.html
ロイター通信によると、イラク南部バスラで１６日夜、パトロール中のデンマーク軍部隊が、送電線を盗もうとしていたイラク人と銃撃戦となり、デンマーク軍兵士１人とイラク人２人が死亡した。ほかにイラク人６人を拘束した。同軍の死者は初めて。バスラ近郊に４００人が駐留している。
(08/17 20:34)
Danish Soldier Killed in Battle with Iraqi Looters
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YSGSR3HIOSWNECRBAELCFFA?type=worldNews&storyID=3290166
Sun August 17, 2003 09:38 AM ET
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A Danish soldier and two Iraqis were killed in southern
Iraq in a gun battle between troops and a group of looters stealing power cables,
a British army spokesman said on Sunday.
Major Ian Poole said a routine Danish patrol west of Basra on Saturday evening
had tried to arrest eight people he said had been looting copper cables. Shots
were fired and in the ensuing gun battle one soldier and two of the Iraqis were
killed.
The six other Iraqis were detained, Poole said.
A Danish spokesman, quoting Danes from the patrol who had been questioned by a
Danish investigator, said Lance Corporal Preben Pedersen, 34, might have been
killed accidentally by one of his comrades.
"Soldiers involved in the shooting said that it could have been an accidental
shot," Kim Gruenberger, press officer at Denmark's Army Operational Command,
told Reuters.
The Danish death was the first fatality of a coalition soldier from a country
other than the United States or Britain since the start of the U.S.-led war that
toppled Saddam Hussein.
Denmark supported the U.S.-led war -- a decision that split both politicians and
the people -- and provided a submarine and a ship and now has 420 Danish troops
stationed in southern Iraq, part of a multinational force in the area.
The Danish forces include a light infantry unit, medical staff and a mine
clearance unit. British soldiers are responsible for policing Basra and
surrounding towns.
Defense Minister Svend Aage Jensby told Danish television Pedersen's death would
not prompt Denmark to bring its troops home, recalling no troops were brought
home after three Danish soldiers died in Afghanistan in March last year.
Urging the United Nations to take a more central role in Iraq from now on, he
said he expected the need for military presence in Iraq to remain.
"For a long time ahead there will be the need for considerable military
engagement in the country," he said.
Most attacks on occupying troops in Iraq have been concentrated in Baghdad and
Sunni Muslim areas north and west of the Iraqi capital, but this month violence
has also erupted in parts of mainly Shi'ite southern Iraq.
A British soldier was killed and two were wounded on Thursday when explosives
concealed in a Basra lamppost were detonated as a military ambulance drove past.
Rampant looting of copper cables in southern Iraq is one of the causes of a
power crisis in the region that sparked violent protests in Basra last weekend.
(Additional reporting by Elinor Schang in Copenhagen)
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