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年YT：ウクライナ軍クート撤退ブルガリア軍増援要求で米准将曰く彼らは成功する
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/international/middleeast/07CND-IRAQ.html?hp
April 7, 2004
U.S. Vows to Crush Shiite Militia; Ukranians Pull Out of Kut
By KIRK SEMPLE
Fierce fighting between American-led coalition troops and Iraqi rebels continued today across central and southern Iraq, as American officials vowed to wipe out a Shiite militia led by the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who has exhorted his followers to drive foreign troops from the country.
In Kut, south of Baghdad, staunch Shiite resistance forced Ukraninan troops to withdraw from the city, the defense ministry in Kiev reported, according to news agencies. The pullout effectively ceded control of the city to Mr. Sadr's supporters.
And in a further indication of widening opposition to the coalition's presence, Bulgaria has asked the United States to send troops to reinforce a 450-strong Bulgarian battalion in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, where the Shiite uprising has spread.
Still, the American command was adamant that it would prevail. "We will attack to destroy the al-Mahdi Army," a military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, told reporters today, referring to Mr. Sadr's armed loyalists. "Those attacks will be deliberate, precise and they will succeed."
General Kimmitt urged Mr. Sadr to surrender "to calm the situation."
American military spokespeople said they had no reports of new American or coalition casualties today. Reuters reported that one American soldier was killed and another wounded during a clash in the town of Balad, west of Baghdad, and The Associated Press reported that an American military helicopter crashed today in Baqouba, where Shiite militiamen and American troops were battling. There was no immediate word on what caused the crash or whether there were any casualties. As many as 12 marines were killed on Tuesday in Ramadi, near Baghdad, during an assault by Shiite militants on an American base.
Coalition troops are facing a tough and bloody test of their resolve to implement an American-backed blueprint for political transition in Iraqi, highlighted by the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government on June 30.
For several days they have been battling seemingly unconnected yet ferocious uprisings on two fronts, one driven by Sunni militants and the other by the Shiite rebels.
This week, American and Iraqi security forces encircled Falluja, a bastion of the Sunni resistance west of Baghdad, and on Tuesday began to push inward in search of rebels and suspects connected to the killing of four American military contractors last week.
American and coalition troops have also been responding to uprisings in Baghdad and southern Iraq by Shiite insurgents inspired by the fiery exhortations of Mr. Sadr.
Fighting today appeared to be heaviest in Falluja, where overnight clashes killed 60 Iraqis and wounded more than 130, hospital officials told The Associated Press today. Mosque loudspeakers broadcast calls called for a holy war as mosques called for holy war against Americans.
Hatem Samir, head of the clinic at Fallujah Hospital, said that among the dead were 26 people, including 16 children and as many as eight women, all killed when American warplanes struck four houses late on Tuesday, The A.P. reported.
The Ukrainian defense ministry said its contingent withdrew from Kut, south of Baghdad, early today under pressure from Shiite militia. "At the request of the Americans, and to preserve the life of our military, the commander of the Ukrainian contingent decided to evacuate the civil administration staff and Ukrainian troops from Kut," the ministry said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse.
The ministry said that fighting between its troops and militia soldiers lasted for about 24 hours and killed several dozen Iraqis dead and one Ukrainian soldier, the first combat death among Ukrainian troops, the agency reported. Ukraine has about 1,650 troops in Iraq that are part of a 9,000-strong Polish-led force deployed south of Baghdad.
The Bulgarians have also come under heavy attack by Shiite militia members in Karbala, compelling the foreign ministry to request backup from other nations, Reuters reported. Bulgarian chief of staff Nikola Kolev said the Bulgarian military base had come under sustained machine gun fire on Tuesday night but there were no casualties, the news agency said.
"Bulgaria has demanded additional U.S. support for our contingent in Kerbala," Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Petkov told reporters in Sofia. "I firmly reassert our decision to continue our engagement in Iraq and fight the terror."
A Bulgarian civilian truck driver was killed on Tuesday south of Nassiriya when attackers fired on a convoy of six trucks belonging to a Bulgarian company involved in Iraq's reconstruction.
Also in Kerbala, Reuters reported that Polish troops killed an aide to Mr. Sadr during fighting there. The aide, Murtada al-Mussawi, ran Mr. Sadr's Kerbala office, an Iraqi police spokesman told the news agency.
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