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イラク現地本部爆弾テロ事件と猿ブッシュ。【久しぶりのSteve Bell の漫画です。】
21.08.03: Steve Bell on the attack on UN headquarters in Iraq
この漫画は、下記リンクと対で見るとよく分かります。
>「そうそう、国連の役目があったよね。（糞掃除・片づけが）」
>http://www.asyura.com/0304/war31/msg/986.html
>投稿者 クエスチョン 日時 2003 年 4 月 13 日 12:43:21:WmYnAkBebEg4M
Bush in talks to bolster UN role
Security advisers discuss plan for Baghdad force
Julian Borger in Washington, Sarah Hall and Jamie Wilson in Baghdad
Thursday August 21, 2003
The Guardian
President George Bush's top national security advisers yesterday held an urgent
debate over whether to seek a new UN resolution backing an international
stabilisation force, in the wake of Tuesday's devastating truck bomb attack on
the UN headquarters in Iraq.
The Blair government is attempting to persuade a reluctant White House to give
the international community a greater say in running Iraq in return for a UN
endorsement of foreign troop contributions.
The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who is due to fly to the UN today, insisted
that Britain and the US remained "open-minded" about the UN moving beyond its
current humanitarian role. "I started talking to [US] secretary of state Colin
Powell last night about this," he added. "Obviously now, given this appalling
tragedy ... the UN's role, its practical role and its mandate, will be top of my
agenda in New York," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The talks on how to prevent Iraq slipping into chaos started as the UN ordered a
"partial evacuation" of its Baghdad staff to Jordan. The number of victims of
the bombing seemed certain to rise well above 20, as it emerged that up to 10
bodies could still be in the debris.
US troops yesterday used heavy lifting gear to remove large pieces of the
building as the hunt for survivors was replaced by a more methodical and sombre
search for the bodies. At one point troops stopped for what looked like a
moment's silence before removing a body.
The soldiers mingled with FBI agents hunting clues to whoever set off the bomb
that left a 6ft crater.
Human remains found in the area of the crater suggested a suicide bombing, said
FBI special agent Thomas Fuentes, but laboratory tests were needed to confirm
this.
He said the attackers packed a Soviet-made lorry with more than 1,000lb of old
Iraqi army munitions, including a single 500lb bomb.
As the investigation continued, the administration's national security
"principals", including Mr Powell, Condoleezza Rice, the national security
adviser, and Dick Cheney, the vice-president, were due to discuss the UN's role
last night in a video-conference with Mr Bush at his Texas ranch. The defence
secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was in Central America.
An official familiar with the conference agenda said it was unlikely the hawks
were ready to compromise over the administration negotiating US command and
control of the occupation force and the unquestioned authority of Paul Bremer's
coalition provisional authority.
Instead, the administration hawks hope that Tuesday's attack will shock the
international community into making a greater military and economic contribution
to Iraqi stability. "They are grasping this attack as an opportunity to get
more people aboard," the official said.
The official added that the new draft resolution under discussion would "call
for more troops, more money, more recognition, especially from the Arab states.
It will frame the argument that it is not just the US, but the whole
international community who loses if Iraq goes wrong."
It could also include a security council instruction to Syria and Iran to make
more effort to secure their borders against the infiltration of Islamic
militants.
Until now, almost all potential troop contributors have told Washington they
will not send soldiers without a security council mandate.
Mr Bremer yesterday denied that the situation in Iraq was unravelling, arguing
that security was improving across much of the country. However, the UN
secretary general, Kofi Annan, offered a radically different assessment of the
situation. "We had hoped that by now, the coalition forces would have secured
the environment for us to be able to carry on ... economic reconstruction and
institution-building," he said. "That has not happened."
While saying nothing could justify the current violence in Iraq, he noted: "Some
mistakes may have been made, some wrong assumptions."
Baghdad bombing, page 4 Jonathan Steele, page 26 Robert Gildea, page 26' Leader
comment, page 27 guardian.co.uk/usa
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国連、イラクでの活動縮小を検討 米英、継続を要請
http://www.asahi.com/special/iraq_explo/TKY200308210363.html
国連に対する史上最悪のテロとなったバグダッドでの現地本部爆弾テロ
事件で、国連がイラクでの活動規模を大幅に縮小することや、退去して活
動の拠点を近隣国に移すことを検討している。現在のイラクの治安状況で
は人道援助や復興支援を安全に行えないという判断からだ。どう対応する
か、早い段階での決定を迫られており、近く現地に使節団を送り状況の把
握に当たる予定だ。アナン国連事務総長はまだ態度を明確にしておらず、
その判断がカギになりそうだ。
米英は事件直後から、国連に対し退去せずこれまで通り活動を続けるよ
う繰り返し要請しており、２１日の両国外相とアナン国連事務総長の会談
もこの要請が主眼とみられる。
事件では国連関係者に２０人前後の犠牲者が出たうえ、国連本部による
とけが人約１２０人のうち約３０人が重傷だった。死者は今後さらに増え
る可能性がある。現地のイラク人を除く要員約３００人の半数近くが死傷
したことになる。
こうした事態を受け、国連内では米英の占領軍が治安を完全に維持する
のは難しいという判断が強まり、規模縮小または退去という判断に傾いた。
とりわけ治安悪化の影響を受けやすい難民高等弁務官事務所（ＵＮＨＣＲ）
や世界食糧計画（ＷＦＰ）、ユニセフといった「現場機関」に、こうした
声が強かったようだ。
縮小の場合、国連の活動は最低限の人道援助に限られる可能性が強い。
退去の場合はイラク戦争中に退避していたヨルダンやキプロスに本部を移
し、随時要員をイラクに送って最低限の活動を維持することになりそうだ。
米政府内ではいま、単独行動主義を擁護し「国連無用論」を掲げる勢力
が力を持っている。このため、戦後イラクの再建でも新憲法、新政府づく
りや石油収入の分配権は米英が握り、国連は人道援助を中心とした分野で
の「手足」として都合よく使おうとしている。
ただ、「手足」なしでは再建が立ちゆかないうえ、国連が縮小ないし退
去となれば、治安や再建をになってきた米英の暫定占領当局（ＣＰＡ）が
機能していないと見限られたことになってしまう。このため、米国にとっ
て国連要員の縮小・退去は容認できないものだ。
英国の場合は、もともと安保理決議を経ない攻撃に批判的な世論を抱え
ており、国連を中心にすえたイラク再建を米国に進言してもいた。それだ
けに、国連が引くとなれば政府が一層苦しい立場に追い込まれるのは避け
られない。
アナン氏は「国連は活動をやめない」と繰り返し明言しているが、米国
寄りの姿勢が目立つだけに、国連の現場の声と米国の板ばさみになってい
る観がある。今後、米英やほかの安保理主要理事国の意向を勘案したうえ
で、最終的な判断を下すものとみられる。 (08/22 05:59)
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