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イスラム経由AFP他：サマラの血の海で米軍殺害の54人のほとんどは民間人
米軍戦車は、あらゆる方角を射撃、機関銃の連射。
イランの旅券所持者もいた。
米軍は末期症状なり。
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-12/01/article01.shtml
U.S. Troops Kill 54 People In Iraq Bloodbath
Two Iraqi men mourn following the U.S. army attack in Samaraa (AFP)
BAGHDAD, December 1 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) -- The U.S. army confirmed Monday, December 1, that U.S. soldiers killed 54 people on Sunday, November 30, in the Iraqi town of Samarra as witnesses asserting that the bloodbath had claimed only eight lives of innocent people.
"The death toll is now 54 dead," said a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division which patrols restive north-central Iraq, without specifying whether they were resistance fighters or civilians and without volunteering his name.
Earlier, Lieutenant Colonel Bill MacDonald put at 46 the number of the dead and 18 the injured, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
But several witnesses in the Iraqi town asserted to Al-Jazeera correspondent that the dead were not "attackers but innocent people, including Iranians who were en route to visit the mausoleum of a Shiite authority", adding that some of them were killed during their prayers.
They further said that the number of the dead has been "greatly exaggerated" by the U.S. spokesman, noting that it did not go beyond "eight killed and 55 injured".
Furthermore, workers at a nearby state-owned pharmaceutical plant contested the American version saying at least two colleagues were killed and many wounded as they walked out of the factory gates at the end of their shift and a U.S. tank started firing in all directions, according to AFP.
An AFP correspondent saw blood spattered on the ground and bullet holes in a sentry box near the factory gates.
As staff at the State Enterprise for the Manufacture of Drugs and Medical Equipment finished their shift, a second tank arrived and opened up with machine guns, Al-Jazeera quoted Reuters news agency as having said.
'Largest Attack'
A man holds two Iranian passports belonging to victims who died in a charred passenger bus during the attack (AFP)
Earlier in the day, the U.S. spokesman said that a U.S. military convoy came under multiple ambush attempts, describing the attacks as the "largest" on the division in Iraq to date.
"The attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the convoy from rooftops of buildings and from the alleyways," MacDonald said, adding that mortars and improvised bombs also were used against the U.S. soldiers.
"One attack occurred on the east side of the city and one in the west. Soldiers fought the attackers in numerous locations in both ambushes.
"At each location, soldiers from the 1st Battalion 66th Armor and military police returned fire with small arms, 120 millimeter tank rounds and 25 millimeter canon fired from Bradley vehicles," the spokesman said, pointing out that five U.S. soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the fighting.
He continued: "The attackers attempted to block one of the convoys' way with a makeshift barricade. The barricade was immediately breached," he said.
In a third attack, he added, another U.S. military convoy came under small arms fire attack from four men traveling in a car.
"We're sending a clear message that anyone who attempts to attack our convoys will pay the price," said MacDonald, speaking to journalists at the division's headquarters in Tikrit.
The events capped the worst weekend in seven months of occupation which saw the deaths of seven Spaniards, two Koreans, two Japanese, two U.S. soldiers and a Colombian.
Ninety-nine occupation troops were said to have died in Iraq during November, according to a BBC count. They included 82 U.S. troops, and 17 Italian soldiers.
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