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(回答先: 停戦の仲介をしてきた宗教組織や政党は、米軍の攻撃を「停戦破り」と厳しく非難している 投稿者 木田貴常 日時 2004 年 4 月 29 日 11:20:47)
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=745702&PageNum=0
26.04.2004, 15.15
AL-KUWAIT, April 26 (Itar-Tass) - U.S. marines are storming the northern districts of Falluja, which is situated 50 kilometers away from Baghdad. Despite the truce concluded on Sunday, fierce fighting was started on Monday in two districts of Falluja simultaneously.
According to the information of witnesses, the marines were fired at from grenade launchers, when they tried to enter the Shuhada and El-Julan Districts, which are the main stronghold of the defenders of the city. After meeting strong resistance, the U.S. troops opened fire from artillery pieces and large-caliber machine-guns installed on the roofs of military cross-country cars. The fighting has been going on for about two hours. Shell explosions are rocking the city. According to Al-Jazeera TV channel of Qatar, the U.S. marines asked helicopters to help them, which started firing missiles at the positions of the defenders of the city.
Fierce clashes between Iraqi armed groups and the U.S. troops began in Falluja after the outraged crowd tore to pieces four American contract soldiers there on March 31. The U.S. military command decided to stage a retribution operation there. Fatal casualties of the U.S. troops amounted to some 100 marines since April 4, when a Sunni rebellion was started in Falluja. The U.S. troops tried to suppress by force the resistance of the militants, whom they described as “Ba’ath supporters.”
Another hotbed of tension appeared on the map of Iraq on Monday. It is the northern part of Baghdad, where a U.S. military patrol struck a mine in the morning. Witnesses say that at least five U.S. men were killed or wounded. U.S. military ambulances urgently evacuated them. The explosion destroyed four U.S. military cross- country cars, which patrolled the Bab al-Muazzam District. It was so strong, that a nearby house collapsed, killing an Iraqi family, including two children.
A crowd gathered at the scene of the incident, and U.S. soldiers had to fire in the air, in order to disperse the on-lookers. The area was encircled. The U.S. command refuses to make any comments on the incident.
Al-Jazeera has just reported that another U.S. military patrol struck a mine in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Monday. No details of the incident were given.
In this situation Iraqi Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulyum announced the opening of Al-Basra oil terminal for the export of oil. The port of Basra interrupted its work on Saturday night, after suicide bombers on three boats tried to stage an attack in the zone, where two largest oil terminals of Iraq ? Al-Basra and Hur al-Amaya ? are situated. “The oil terminals were practically not damaged by the explosions, with the exception of several electric generators. They were replaced by new ones, and oil export was resumed in the same amount,” said Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulyum.
The Hur al-Amaya terminal, whose capacity is smaller, resumed oil shipments on Sunday morning, but Al-Basra, whose daily capacity is one million barrels, stood idle for 27 hours.
The oil pipeline connecting the city of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, with the port of Ceyhan, Turkey, is working at a small capacity because of incessant attacks of militants and acts of sabotage. Although it officially resumed its work early in March, Turkish oil transporters say that at present its daily capacity is only 300,000 barrels. Oil is being delivered with frequent interruptions. Until Saturday night, Basra remained the only terminal, from where Iraq could safely deliver oil to the world market ? some 1.6 million barrels a day.
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