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(回答先: イラクの待ち伏せ攻撃は「新イラク紙幣を狙った強盗だった」と米軍スポークスマン発表 [BBC News] 投稿者 ひろ 日時 2003 年 12 月 01 日 22:56:30)
聞いてみたいな、BBCの記事(参照 http://www.asyura2.com/0311/war43/msg/929.html )に載っているFredrick Rudesheim大佐の“...”の間！
> "It was a co-ordinated attack... on a convoy... delivering a significant amount of Iraqi currency," US Colonel Fredrick Rudesheim told reporters.
言外に『今話作ってます』って読めるんですけど。
で、ＣＮＮでは、襲撃事件としてのネタ固めをしてます。
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/01/sprj.irq.main/index.html
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U.S.: New Iraqi currency a lure for attacks
Central Command: GI killed Monday west of Baghdad
Monday, December 1, 2003 Posted: 9:37 AM EST (1437 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraqi insurgents are targeting U.S.-led coalition convoys carrying new Iraqi currency, Pentagon officials said Monday, a day after two such convoys were ambushed.
The convoys came under attack Sunday in Samarra, about 120 km (75 miles) north of Baghdad, while delivering new Iraqi dinars to two banks in the area under armed military escort. Earlier reports had been that as many as 54 insurgents had been killed, a figure later revised by the military to "about 46."
U.S. officials have suggested that the old, easily counterfeited dinars and U.S. dollars have been used by insurgents to pay bounties for attacks on coalition troops.
Replacing the old dinars -- which feature images of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein -- is crucial to establishing economic stability in Iraq, U.S. officials have said.
No U.S. troops were killed in the Samarra fights, while five soldiers and one civilian were wounded, a 4th Infantry Division spokesman said. One of the soldiers was critically wounded and was being transported to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany for treatment.
"There was -- at least for this period of time -- a concerted effort by the enemy to deliver a significant blow to coalition forces," U.S. Army Col. Frederick Rudesheim said during a news conference in Samarra with other soldiers involved in the operation.
Earlier, coalition spokesman Lt. Col. George Krivo in Baghdad had said the number of wounded was 18.
The foiled ambushes followed a deadly weekend for the United States and its coalition partners in Iraq: Attacks killed seven Spanish intelligence agents; two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver; two South Korean electrical contractors; a Colombian working for a U.S. company; and two U.S. soldiers. (Gallery: Two bad days; Coalition partners remain defiant; Special report: Coalition fatalities)
Those deaths were in addition to the loss of 100 coalition troops earlier in the month of November, most of them Americans and 17 of them Italians -- more than were killed during any month of major conflict. (Deaths by month; Breaking the news to families)
Capt. Andy Deponai, who led the dinar exchange operation, said ambush points were set up along the convoys' routes into and out of the city and that some of the attackers "were dressed in Fedayeen-style garb" -- black clothing with their faces concealed -- of the feared paramilitary Fedayeen Saddam.
"We believe they split their force as well," he said. "They had a well-planned attack at each bank site, maybe 30 or 40 people at each site, and they had broken themselves down into squad- and team-sized units."
The attackers first fired from rooftops, and then from taxis, BMWs and pickup trucks Deponai said.
Staff Sgt. Bruce Jones was among U.S. troops fighting off the attackers.
"During the course of the firefight we started receiving not only small arms, we had incoming and direct fire from mortars, we also had RPGs [rocket propelled grenades] coming through here, just hitting us all around," Jones said. "As far as my thoughts during that, it was an extremely scary time."
Iraqi police disputed the U.S. casualty information about the attackers, saying that only eight bodies were in the morgue, including two elderly Iranian pilgrims, and that none wore Fedayeen clothing. Police said 50 people were wounded.
"These attacks, in our view, are attacks against freedom-loving Iraqis ... by those who want to drag them back to something similar to the previous regime," he said.
Rudesheim said his soldiers worked very closely with Iraqis and made every effort to let them know that "we're working to turn Samarra over to legitimate local forces such as the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps."
Lt. Col. Ryan Gonsalves dismissed accusations by Iraqis that soldiers were firing indiscriminately and hitting innocent civilians.
"When my forces go into town and we engage the terrorists that are engaging us, we take proper aim and fire at those who are firing at us," Gonsalves said. "We don't indiscriminately engage people. We engage people who are shooting at us."
U.S. soldier killed west of Baghdad
A U.S. soldier was killed early Monday west of Baghdad near Habbaniya, when a Task Force All American patrol was ambushed, U.S. Central Command said.
The soldier survived long enough to be evacuated by air to a forward operating base, but later died there of his wounds, according to Central Command.
Three Iraqis were captured in connection with the attack and were being questioned, command said.
Black Hawk collision report
The U.S. military said Sunday that the November 15 collision of two Black Hawk helicopters that killed 17 American troops in Mosul, was probably the result of a rocket-propelled grenade that hit one of the aircraft. (Full story)
CNN's Paul Coursen, Nic Robertson, Alphonso Van Marsh, Walter Rodgers, Rebecca MacKinnon, Sohn Jie-Ae and Al Goodman contributed to this report.
Copyright 2003 CNN. All rights reserved.
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