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燦T：ラマディとファルージャで1ダースで合計18米兵イラクで最近死亡
戦闘ヘリは市民から銃撃されて撤退、爆撃機出動、子供も女性も殺されている。
明らかに各種米紙報道は食い違い混乱の極み。
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20040407-124246-2884r.htm
April 07, 2004
18 U.S. troops die during Iraqi battles
By Willis Witter
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BAGHDAD -- U.S. Marines battled insurgents yesterday in the Sunni cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, suffering as many as a dozen dead, while radical Shi'ites continued their uprising with attacks on coalition forces in at least seven cities and towns.
Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Shi'ite "Mahdi's Army" was behind the attacks in the south, brushed off an Iraqi arrest warrant as his heavily armed forces pledged to fight to the death to defend him.
The worst American casualties were suffered in Ramadi, about 60 miles west of Baghdad, where insurgents overran government buildings and engaged in a fierce battle with U.S. forces. Marines were reported to be counterattacking last night.
"There may have been as many as a dozen Marine deaths" in Ramadi, a government official told Reuters news agency in Washington, adding that "a significant number" of Iraqis were killed. Details of the battle were not immediately available.
The casualties come on top of 19 combat deaths suffered by U.S. forces in Iraq since Sunday.
Also yesterday, the Marines began their anticipated assault on Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, seeking the insurgents who ambushed and killed four American contractors last week.
Residents of the city cowered indoors amid the roar of American warplanes and the steady crackle of small-arms fire late into the night.
"In the day, helicopters flew above the city, and people with their guns tried to shoot at them. The helicopters shot back," said Eman Mahmood, a housewife.
"Now there are no helicopters but warplanes, high in the sky, and they have begun dropping bombs," she said by telephone last night.
Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite news channel, also reported the presence of U.S. warplanes.
Mrs. Mahmood said that American soldiers entered her neighborhood in Fallujah shortly before midnight but that she had been on the telephone all day with friends and relatives.
"In the morning, the resistance would fire on American soldiers and then run away. The same thing is still happening tonight," she said.
American officials said several Iraqis had been detained.
The city was sealed off from the outside, but Mrs. Mahmood -- whose family moved to Fallujah for safety after having to pay ransom for her kidnapped husband -- said she would try to leave today for Baghdad.
The Associated Press said one Marine was killed, and at least eight Iraqis died in street battles in Fallujah. It quoted a doctor as saying 26 additional Iraqis, including women and children, were killed and 30 were wounded during airstrikes that destroyed four houses later last night.
The AP said four Marines also were killed yesterday on the western outskirts of Baghdad. Four U.S. soldiers died in attacks in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Mosul on Monday, and one was killed in Baghdad yesterday. Eight Americans were killed in Sadr City on Sunday.
Coalition forces took only light casualties in the south, where more than 30 Iraqis were killed as followers of Sheik al-Sadr battled with Italian troops in Nasiriyah, British troops in Amarah, and other coalition forces in Kut and northern Baghdad.
The uprising by radical Shi'ites, a small proportion of the nation's generally peaceable Shi'ite majority, began after the U.S.-led coalition moved against Sheik al-Sadr by closing his weekly newspaper and arresting his deputy in connection with the killing of a rival cleric last year.
Coalition chief L. Paul Bremer on Monday labeled the sheik "an outlaw" and announced that he also was wanted for arrest in connection with the killing.
Sheik al-Sadr yesterday left a mosque in the city of Kufa, south of Baghdad, where he had been holed up for days, his aides said. Reports said he moved to a compound in Najaf, near the city's holiest shrine.
Sheik al-Sadr said in a statement that he was ready to die to get rid of the Americans, and he urged his followers to resist coalition forces.
"America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit," the statement said.
Italian forces came under fire from Sheik al-Sadr's followers in Nasiriyah, killing 15 attackers and wounding 35, the Italian news agency Apcom reported quoting a coalition spokeswoman. Eleven soldiers were lightly wounded.
The spokeswoman said that the attackers used civilians as human shields and that a woman and two children had been killed.
British troops, for a second day, battled Shi'ite militants in Amarah, killing 15 and wounding eight, said a coalition spokesman.
In Kut, militiamen attacked an armored personnel carrier carrying Ukrainian soldiers, killing one and wounding five, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said. Two militiamen were killed in the fight.
State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said Sheik al-Sadr and his followers were not representative of a religious cause but of "political gangsterism."
"They're not acting in the name of religion, they're acting in the name of arrogating for themselves political power and influence through violence, because they can't get it through peaceful persuasion," he said.
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