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(回答先: イラク抵抗勢力、サマーラでヘリ６機撃墜、米イラク合同軍１４７人殺害 ［ＭＬ アラブの声］ 投稿者 white 日時 2004 年 10 月 02 日 19:58:59)
□補足 英文記事です
・上の記事と同じ内容の英文記事が『イラク・レジスタンス・レポート』の
中にありましたので転載しておきます。
http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0110/iraqiresistancereport_011004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 1 October 2004. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice.
The Battle of Samarra’
In a dispatch posted at 11:54pm Friday night Mecca time (12:55am Saturday morning local time) the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Samarra’ provided this account of the day of savagery.
At about 4pm local time Friday afternoon US forces assisted by their Iraqi stooge troops advanced into the city from the north, south, and west to try to evict the Resistance that has controlled the city for nearly three months.
After US troops had closed their ring around the city, they were themselves surprised to find that there was yet another ring around their own forces to their rear. The Resistance had counter-encircled them, using their control of the countryside to their advantage, as well as their strength in the areas of Balad, ad-Dulu‘iyah, and ath-Tharthar.
Resistance forces not only encircled the attacking Americans but pounded them with powerful Tariq rockets (that have a 33km range) and Grad rockets (whose range is 24km) as well as Katyusha missiles (the large one with a range of 11.3km, the small ones with a range of 8.3km). The Resistance struck the Americans with 120mm mortar rounds (range: 9.2km) and 120mm cannon with a range of 7.2km. The Resistance also advance towards Samarra’, closing its ring as it pounded the American attackers.
The US troops sought to get helicopter gunships to carry out strikes on the Resistance positions. But the helicopters themselves fell into a trap, as their appearance made them easy targets for Resistance ground fire, particularly since the region is an agricultural one, enabling the Resistance fighters to observe the aircraft from close range without exposing themselves.
At 7:25pm a Black Hawk helicopter was downed, the first of what was to be a spectacular series. It was followed by a Cobra, then another Cobra.
US forces attempted to accelerate their own advance into the city by arranging for helicopters to land troops to the west of the city. Chinook helicopters undertook the task but they too were targeted by the Resistance. Each helicopter had an estimated 10 men aboard. Two Apache helicopters were also shot down north of the city with Strela and C5K rockets and the four-barreled 14.5mm Dimitrov.
Resistance forces destroyed four Abrams tanks, seven Humvees, and two armored vehicles. The local correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reports that in all more than 82 Iraqi puppet soldiers and 65 US troops were killed in the battle.
Afterwards, the US withdrew its helicopters from the area and called in F16s and F14s instead to bomb the city.
The bombing lasted for eight continuous hours, during which time 13 large container bombs were dropped, each one containing 3,000 anti-personnel cluster bombs (a total of 39,000 cluster bombs in all). Six containers of napalm, medium to large in size, (i.e., a total of 18,000 napalm bombs), as well as tons of guided bombs, and heat seeking guided bombs.
In those circumstances, the Resistance began its withdrawal from the city out of fear lest the civilian population be massacred by the US firepower. In response, the US advanced “swallowing the land,” i.e., seizing every piece of land and stationing on it a contingent of forces.
The Resistance pulled back to the area of ad-Dulu‘iyah and al-Makishifiyah. But then after the US forces and their puppet troops entered the city, the Resistance began to surround them, forcing the Americans and their stooges virtually to withdraw to the edges of the city.
In sum, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Samarra’ reported in a dispatch posted at 11:55pm Mecca time Friday night (12:55am Saturday morning local time) that the Resistance holds some 70 percent of the city, while the US and its stooges hold about 30 percent. Clashes were still underway at that hour, and US forces were still preventing food and medicine from getting into the surrounded city.
The correspondent wrote that as of that time, 115 civilian residents of the city had died martyrs in the US assault, but that that figure was likely to rise since there were still many houses that had been blown up over their occupants. More than 154 men, women, and children have been wounded. The Resistance has lost between 23 to 25 men martyred, in addition to those who were wounded.
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