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(回答先: イラクで邦人２人殺害か [asahi.com] 【イラク北部ティクリート近く・在イラク日本大使館の館用車・大使館員か？】 投稿者 ひろ 日時 2003 年 11 月 30 日 06:50:49)
とりあえず、まる投げ。Reuters.comの記事。
スペイン人の記事とひとくくりだけど。
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=P42AO3VIVRPDOCRBAEOCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3910752
Seven Spaniards, Two Japanese Die in Iraqi Attacks
Sat November 29, 2003 05:08 PM ET
(Page 1 of 3)
By Luke Baker
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed on Saturday in an attack on their unmarked vehicles south of Baghdad, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo said, the latest assault on a close American ally.
He said in a nationally televised address that another agent was slightly hurt in the attack by guerrillas using rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
In Japan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said two Japanese who may have been diplomats were killed in an apparent ambush near Tikrit, hometown of Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein 110 miles north of Baghdad.
"There is a good possibility they are Japanese diplomats," spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said.
Reports of the attacks came hours after the top military commander in Iraq said attacks against U.S. forces had fallen sharply in recent weeks, despite figures showing November to be the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the war began in March.
U.S. Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez said anti-American insurgents had struck fewer times in the past seven days than in the previous week and put the reduction down to more aggressive tactics by U.S. forces.
A Reuters television crew at the scene of the attack on the Spaniards about 45 km (28 miles) from Baghdad filmed a burned-out vehicle surrounded with spent shell casings and scattered bits of flesh.
The attacks on both the Spaniards and on Japanese are likely to embarrass their respective governments.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar defied public opinion at home to send around 1,300 peacekeepers to Iraq after strongly endorsing the U.S. and British decision to invade the country on March 20.
COMPLICATE TOKYO'S PLANS
The ambush on the Japanese, in which a non-Japanese driver was wounded, is likely to complicate efforts by Tokyo, Washington's closest Asian ally, to decide whether to send non-combat troops to help rebuild Iraq. Voters are increasingly nervous about the dangers involved.
A cameraman from Britain's Sky News television said in Baghdad after he and Sky reporter David Bowden had stumbled across the ambush on the Spaniards near Hilla:
"There were three bodies on the side of the road and one in the grass island between the two sides of the highway. The lead vehicle was very burned and the second vehicle was burned...
"People said they were CIA. Maybe they did not know they were Spanish...Two Iraqi policemen on motorcycles drove by and did not stop at all at the scene."
Bowden said: "I got the impression it was an IED attack (improvised explosive device). It just seemed like they just waited for a...convoy to drive by and they attacked.
"There was a lot of traffic. There was one Iraqi youth standing with his foot on one of the bodies and then a child of about nine started to pretend he was kicking it.
"Some of the men were wearing checkered Arab scarves across their faces. People around the bodies were chanting 'We sacrifice our souls and blood for you Saddam (Hussein)'."
The Spanish force is part of a Polish-led multinational contingent responsible for security in the south-central part of the country.
Aznar stood shoulder-to-shoulder with President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a meeting on the eve of the invasion.
"NO TO WAR" IN SPAIN
Mariano Rajoy, Aznar's hand-picked successor to run as the center-right ruling party candidate in March, said "This will not stop us...from our commitments to the Iraqi people."
The Socialist opposition, which consistently opposed the U.S.-led invasion, expressed solidarity with the armed forces, and a minute of silence was held at the start of several televised Spanish soccer league matches.
But shouts of "No to war!" could be heard at one stadium in Madrid when the tribute ended.
Spain had earlier lost two other military men: an intelligence officer attached to the Spanish embassy gunned down in the street, and a Spanish naval officer who was among 22 people killed in a suicide bomb attack on the U.N. mission.
Just over two weeks ago, 19 Italians were killed in an attack on a military police barracks in southern Iraq, the worst military disaster for Italy since World War two.
Britain has lost 20 soldiers in military action. A Polish army officer has also died.
Since Washington declared major combat over on May 1, 185 U.S. soldiers have been killed in action, bringing the total U.S. military deaths -- combat and non-combat -- since the start of the war to 436, according to the Pentagon.
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