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NYT：アフガニスタンでCIA工作員2名死亡し911以後で4名死亡など
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/29/international/asia/29INTE.html?th
October 29, 2003
Two C.I.A. Operatives Killed in an Ambush in Afghanistan
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Two Central Intelligence Agency operatives were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan over the weekend, the agency said Tuesday, bringing to four the number of C.I.A. operatives acknowledged to have been killed in the line of duty since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The two men were described by the agency as veterans of military Special Operations units who were killed while tracking terrorists in the region of Shkin, a village in southeastern Afghanistan. A statement released by the agency said they were working as contractors for the agency's Directorate of Operations, which conducts clandestine intelligence gathering and other covert activities.
The two were identified as William Carlson, 43, of Southern Pines, N.C., and Christopher Glenn Mueller, 32, of San Diego. The C.I.A. does not normally identify its covert employees, but the agency said in the statement that it had decided to release their names after consulting with the men's families and determining that the information would not jeopardize continuing operations.
The C.I.A. statement quoted George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, as paying tribute to Mr. Carlson and Mr. Mueller as men "who were defined by dedication and courage." As contractors, they were not staff employees of the C.I.A., and agency officials declined to comment on the nature of their employment.
But other intelligence officials said that they understood that the two men were members of the Special Operations Group, which can conduct commando-style paramilitary operations.
The agency said that Mr. Carlson had been a veteran of Army Special Operations and that Mr. Mueller had experience in Navy Special Operations. "These two men were no strangers to the hardships of service to country," Mr. Tenet said in the statement. "They had been counted among the best of America's military."
The other C.I.A. operatives acknowledged by the agency to have been killed since the Sept. 11 attacks are Johnny Micheal Spann, a paramilitary officer who was killed during an uprising of Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners in northern Afghanistan in November 2001, and Helge Boes, who died in a training accident in eastern Afghanistan last February.
The region where Mr. Carlson and Mr. Mueller were operating is near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, a stronghold for members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other anti-American fighters.
The agency did not provide details about the military operation in which the two men were killed.
18 Rebels Die in Firefight
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 28 (AP) -- American-led troops and Afghan militiamen killed 18 rebels during a six-hour firefight near the Pakistan border, calling in airstrikes to help repel the attackers, the United States military said Tuesday.
Six Afghan militiamen were wounded in the fighting, which began Saturday morning, the allied leadership said in a statement. There were no allied casualties.
The American-backed Afghan militiamen were patrolling in Paktika Province when they ran into as many as 25 rebel fighters early Saturday, the military said.
Muhammad Ali Jalali, the governor of Paktika, said Tuesday that a separate battle on Saturday in the Gomal District left 10 rebels dead.
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