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ジュウヨーク時報：イラク黒鷹鉄蜻蛉2機衝突最低17死亡5負傷1不明
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日本は、この際、大声で、国連、平和維持、とか言えば良いのだが、田中真紀子を追放した阿呆な「ネコ・ライオン」こと、婦女暴行逮捕歴ボンボンには、それができないだろう。かといって、小沢っちゅうわけにもいかんし、困ったことである。こちらも、二重、三重の衝突ぐらいすると、少しは目が覚めるかもしれないが。
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/international/middleeast/16COPT.html?hp
November 16, 2003
At Least 17 Dead as 2 U.S. Copters Collide Over Iraq
By DEXTER FILKINS
AGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 15 -- Two American Black Hawk helicopters collided in midair and crashed Saturday evening in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 17 of the American soldiers aboard and injuring 5 others, officials said. One other soldier was reported missing.
American officials said the collision occurred when one of the helicopters came under hostile fire from the ground and swerved upward to avoid it, driving its rotor into the second helicopter.
The Black Hawks, traveling after sunset, went down in a residential neighborhood on the western side of the city. It was unclear Saturday evening if there were any casualties among Iraqis living in the neighborhood where the crash occurred.
If initial estimates prove correct, the two Black Hawks that crashed Saturday would be the fourth and the fifth to be brought down as a result of hostile fire in the past three weeks.
With guerrilla war raging in the north, Iraq's civilian leaders promised in Baghdad to take full control of the country from their American occupiers in less than eight months and lay the foundations for a democratic state.
Jalal Talabani, the president of Iraqi's interim government, publicly affirmed Saturday the outlines of a deal struck Friday night between Iraq's interim leaders and the American civilian leadership here to transfer the powers of government, now in the hands of the Americans, to the Iraqi people.
Under the plan, town-hall style meetings in each of Iraq's 18 provinces would select a national assembly, which would then select the members of the transitional government. That new government, Mr. Talabani said, would probably contain an American-style separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers, as well as a guarantee of equality for all of Iraq's religious and ethnic groups.
The new Iraqi government would take over from the occupying forces by the end of June.
With Iraq's sovereignty restored, Mr. Talabani said, American soldiers would probably still remain in Iraqi but as invited guests, not as occupiers.
The keystones of a democratic Iraq ﾑ a new constitution and nationwide democratic elections ﾑ could be completed by the end of 2006, he said.
In a statement on Saturday, President Bush saluted the deal, calling it "an important step toward realizing the vision of Iraq as a democratic, pluralistic country." Reveling in the moment, Mr. Talabani said the agreement struck Friday would begin the revival of Iraqi political life after a quarter century of brutal and autocratic rule at the hands of Saddam Hussein.
"I am very happy and proud," Mr. Talabani said, his words broadcast across the Arab world. "The dream of the Iraqi people has been achieved today."
The deal affirmed Saturday was driven by a growing Iraqi impatience with the American occupation, and by an American recognition that its continuing hold on political power was becoming increasingly unpopular among ordinary Iraqis.
The growing number of American combat deaths here lent a sense of urgency to the negotiations. With anti-American feelings growing here, American officials are eager to dispel any notion that they intend to rule the place.
The helicopter crashes in Mosul lengthened the already grim roster of recent American deaths. The crashes on Saturday pushed the number of Americans killed in combat this month to more than 60.
In another incident on Saturday, one soldier from the First Armored Division was killed and two were wounded in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.
The attacks on American helicopters have been particularly damaging. Earlier this month, a Chinook helicopter ferrying soldiers bound for vacations was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, leaving 16 soldiers dead. On Nov. 7, a second helicopter, a Black Hawk, was shot down over Tikrit, presumably by a rocket-propelled grenade, as it approached its landing site. Six soldiers died in that attack.
In late October, another Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Tikrit by a rocket-propelled grenade. No one was killed, but five soldiers were wounded.
After the recent downings, military officials said American helicopter pilots had been instructed to take additional measures to protect themselves from hostile fire.
It is not clear whether the Black Hawk that apparently came under fire on Saturday night was engaging in one of those maneuvers when it crashed into the second helicopter.
In the skies over Baghdad, the Black Hawks and Chinooks that used to lumber overhead and approach their landing sites at an easy pace now appear to move around at much higher speeds. They do not hover in one spot for very long. Both of the helicopters that went down on Saturday belonged to the 101st Airborne Division, an elite unit that specializes in assaulting enemy positions by ferrying in large number of troops through the air. American helicopters flying over Iraq typically fly in pairs, in part to protect one another.
Until recently, the area around Mosul, with its large ethnic Kurdish population, had been mostly peaceful. But in the past two months, American soldiers based in the city have been the targets of numerous attacks, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries. In November alone, at least 3 American soldiers have been killed there and more than 14 wounded.
Most of the attacks have been against targets based on the ground.
There have been widespread suspicions that the recent attacks in Mosul have been the work of foreign fighters, although as yet no firm conclusions have been reached.
Last month, American forces detained Asou Hawlairi, believed to be the third-highest ranking figure in Ansar al-Islam, a militant Islamist group with links to Al Qaeda.
During the reign of Mr. Hussein, the city also supplied a number of high-ranking members to the regime. In the months since the fall of Mr. Hussein's government, several senior members of the former government have been killed or captured there.
Mr. Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed during a ferocious gun battle there in July. Taha Yassin Ramadan, a vice president, was captured there in August.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45959-2003Nov15.html
washingtonpost.com
U.S. Copters Collide In Iraq, Killing 17
Pilot Tried to Evade Groundfire, Officials Say
By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 16, 2003; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Nov. 15 -- Two U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collided in midair Saturday and crashed into a residential neighborhood in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 17 soldiers and injuring five others, the U.S. military said.
Military officials said one other soldier was unaccounted for. All of those on board were members of the 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Ky. The officials said the aircraft collided when one, attempting to dodge groundfire, climbed swiftly and hit the other.
Several witnesses contacted in Mosul also said the helicopters had collided, but one witness said at least one of the Black Hawks was hit by groundfire. The Reuters news agency quoted a U.S. officer at the scene as saying that a rocket-propelled grenade hit one of the helicopters. The crashes took place at about 6:15 p.m., when darkness had already fallen.
It was the deadliest single incident involving U.S. forces since the March 20 invasion of Iraq, surpassing the toll of a helicopter crash on Nov. 2. In that incident, a Chinook transport helicopter was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, killing 16 troops.
A U.S. military statement said that one helicopter was carrying members of a quick-reaction force and the other was transporting soldiers on a mission to northern Iraq. The cause of the incident is under investigation, the statement said.
U.S. troops and Iraqi police sealed off the crash scene in Mosul, 215 miles north of the capital. The helicopters reportedly went down near a major bridge crossing the Tigris River. Black Hawks are used as utility craft and can carry as many as 11 soldiers in addition to crew.
Helicopters are in wide use in Iraq both for transport and to carry out raids on suspected guerrilla hide-outs. Attack helicopters have come into even more frequent use recently during stepped-up assaults on resistance forces in Baghdad and elsewhere in central Iraq.
Three other U.S. helicopters have been shot down in the past three weeks. On Nov. 2, guerrillas in central Iraq fired a surface-to-air missile and shot down a Chinook transport helicopter, killing 16 U.S. troops; on Nov. 7, a rocket-propelled grenade struck a Black Hawk, killing six; and on Oct. 25, an RPG hit another Black Hawk, but there were no fatalities.
Mounting casualties in Iraq have added to pressures for the Bush administration to speed up plans to turn over authority to Iraqi leaders and technically end the occupation by next July. The White House hopes to reduce the U.S. troop presence in Iraq by next summer, but there are no proposals for U.S. troops to completely abandon Iraq, even when an Iraqi provisional government is in place.
Anti-U.S. violence has been on the rise in Mosul, a city that had been relatively peaceful in the months after the fall of Baghdad in April. At least four U.S. troops have been killed either in ambushes or when their vehicles struck roadside bombs this month in the city.
Iraqi civilians who support the occupation have also been targeted for assassination. On Saturday, gunmen shot and killed two people, an interpreter for the city government and his son.
By mid-evening in Mosul, there were no reports of casualties among Iraqi civilians where the U.S. helicopters went down. Ambulances and municipal firetrucks rushed to the scene, witnesses said.
"The Americans have closed off everything near the crash," said Bashar Darwish, a hotel employee in Mosul. Darwish said he saw one low-flying helicopter in flames before it hit the other. He said that there had been exchanges of fire between the choppers and someone on the ground, and that the Black Hawk on fire had erupted in flames after being hit.
He said the crash took place in the Sheik Fethi district on the city's west side. Another witness, Mohammed Badran, said one of the helicopters ascended abruptly and hit the second aircraft. Yezen Juburi, a businessman in Mosul, said that the helicopters simply collided.
The helicopters were attached to the 101st Airborne Division, which occupies Mosul. A spokesman for the unit declined to provide details about the crashes. A military official in Baghdad said that one of the Black Hawks was trying to avoid groundfire.
Elsewhere in Iraq on Saturday, a U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad, the victim of a roadside bombing against one of two vehicles on patrol. Guerrillas have been using a variety of weapons to attack, including explosives, artillery shells, mortar shells and mines. The devices are sometimes set off when vehicles roll over them; sometimes they are detonated by remote control.
An Italian wounded in a car bombing last week in the southern city of Nasiriyah died Saturday in a Kuwaiti hospital; the Italian toll in the incident is now 19. The soldier's family gave medical personnel permission to take him off life support systems after he was declared brain dead.
The targets of car bombings in Iraq have included embassies, the U.N. headquarters in Iraq, offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, police stations, and hotels. The Nasariyah attack was one of two in the relatively pacified southern part of the country. In late summer, a blast in the Shiite Muslim town of Najaf killed a religious leader and dozens of civilians.
Meanwhile, a kidnapped Portuguese journalist was freed unharmed Saturday in the vicinity of Basra, 36 hours after he was abducted. The journalist, Carlos Raleiras, told a Lisbon radio station that he was seized by nine gunmen, and was moved in the trunk of a car to several different houses during his ordeal.
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