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Middle East - AP
イラクで待ち伏せに会い殺害された２名の日本人外交官
本文より＞外務大臣は，米国務長官コリン･パウエルから（殺害された外交官たちへの）
同情を表明する電話があったと話した．川口外相は国務長官に日本はテロリストに対す
る軍事行動とイラク復興の責任を果たす上で，決してぐらついたりしないワと告げた．
さらに彼女は，アメリカは日本の役人たち【兵士を含む】の安全を守ってネとお願いした．
大臣は声明の中でパウエルが彼女に，イラクにいるスタッフには日本に十分協力するよ
う命じておこうと言ってくれた【頼もしー！】，と述べている．【】内は筆者
※※ このニュースはAPが配信したものであるが，この記事の中で見過ごすことができ
ないのは，"in its commitment to the campaign against terrorism"とある部分である．
"campain" はこのような文脈の中では大規模な＜軍事行動＞と理解されるべき用語
であり，"commitment"はそれに加担することを意味する．ラブラブどころの話ではない！
クエスチョンさん：写真はお任せします．(^^♪
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/japan_iraq_attack_13
2 Japanese Diplomats Killed in Iraq Ambush
Sun Nov 30,10:23 AM ET
By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer
TOKYO - Gunmen in Iraq (news - web sites) killed two Japanese diplomats in an ambush on their vehicle Saturday, an attack that came with Japan moving closer to sending noncombat troops to the Mideast nation.
AP Photo
Japanese officials said the deaths — the first Japanese killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion — would not change the government plan to use its soldiers to aid in the country's reconstruction.
"Japan has a responsibility to provide humanitarian and reconstruction aid in Iraq," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters. "There is no change to our policy of not giving into terrorism."
Details of the attack were still sketchy, but Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said that the vehicle was ambushed near the city of Tikrit, where the envoys were to attend an aid conference.
"The two were working day and night for the reconstruction of Iraq," Kawaguchi said at a news conference. "Their deaths are extremely regrettable. I am at a loss for words."
Their driver, whose nationality was not immediately known, was seriously injured, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiro Okuyama.
Katsuhiko Oku, 45, headed the cultural affairs section of Japan's embassy in London and had been on assignment in Iraq. Masamori Inoue, 30, was a second secretary at the Baghdad mission.
Kawaguchi said she would dispatch a top aide to Iraq Sunday to investigate the killings.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) telephoned Kawaguchi to express his sympathy, the Foreign Ministry said. Kawaguchi told him Japan would not waver in its commitment to the campaign against terrorism and the reconstruction of Iraq. She also asked for U.S. help in securing the safety of Japanese officials.
Powell told her he instructed staff in Iraq to fully cooperate with Japan, the ministry said in a statement.
Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that a recent fact-finding team indicated conditions are "rather stable" in southern Iraq, where the Japanese government will dispatch the troops.
Koizumi has been a firm supporter of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and has emphasized Japan has a responsibility to help rebuild the country. But he has hesitated to put troops on the group as near-daily attacks on coalition forces have shaken public support for the mission.
His defense chief's comments suggested the government may be satisfied with security conditions in a sector near the southern city of Samawah that Japan has been considering for a deployment that will reportedly involve more than 1,000 soldiers from the nation's Ground Self-Defense Force.
Japanese national media reported that Koizumi's Cabinet may give its approval as early as the coming week for an operation in which ground troops would arrive in Iraq early next year.
Parliament approved the deployment of ground troops in July but only on condition that they serve in "non-combat areas," which Koizumi's opponents argue don't exist in Iraq.
Japanese troops have not set foot in a country at war since World War II, and none has died in fighting while on a peacekeeping mission. Its only overseas casualties were two Japanese civilians who were slain while supervising elections in Cambodia in 1993.
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