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米海兵隊がファルージャとラマディ襲撃の用意を整えた。
日本人人質殺害は誤報？の影で着々と進んでいるこの事実を忘れずに。
これから起きる大虐殺に対し、報道に大人しくさせておくためかもね。
おりしもランセットがイラク侵略戦争での民間人の犠牲者が１０万人を超えると発表されたばかり
その数には４月のファルージャは含まれていない。それを含めると２０万を超えるだろうと言われていた。
Reuters.com
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6663479
U.S. Marines Poised to Storm Falluja and Ramadi
Fri Oct 29, 2004 02:34 PM ET
By Michael Georgy
NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. marines prepared on Friday to storm the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi to crush Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab fighters.
"We are gearing up for a major operation," Brigadier General Denis Hajlik told reporters at a base near Falluja. "If we do so, it will be decisive and we will whack them."
Hajlik, deputy commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said the expected assault would involve Iraqi forces.
Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government has vowed to pacify the whole country before nationwide elections due in January.
U.S. planes have launched almost daily air strikes on what the military says are safe houses used by a network of Iraqi and foreign fighters led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The latest air raid on Friday killed three Iraqi men and wounded three more civilians, hospital officials said.
A full-scale U.S.-led offensive could be as devastating as a marine attack in April that Washington called off after a world outcry over civilian casualties in Falluja. Local doctors reported more than 600 dead in the fighting.
Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi urged the people of Falluja on Thursday to hand over Zarqawi-led militants and seize a "last chance" for peace, but set no deadline.
Falluja leaders say they know nothing of Zarqawi's network. In on-off talks with the government, they have said Iraqi security forces can return to the city, but not U.S. troops.
TALKS 'A RUSE'
Marine Colonel Michael Shupp dismissed the sputtering dialogue as a sham. "The negotiations are a ruse. They are just stalling for time," he told reporters near Falluja.
U.S.-led troops would have to support Iraqi forces inside Falluja after rebels were dislodged, he said. He ruled out any repeat of a peace deal in May which handed the city to a "Falluja Brigade" led by former Baathist army officers.
"The insurgents probably were the Falluja Brigade," he said.
A Japanese hostage taken in Iraq has been killed, Kyodo news agency said, citing information obtained by the Japanese government.
Zarqawi's militant group said in an Internet video on Wednesday it would behead 24-year-old Shosei Koda within 48 hours if Japan did not withdraw its 550 non-combat troops from Iraq. Japan rejected the demand.
Zarqawi's network has beheaded several foreigners and claimed responsibility for many suicide bombings and attacks, including last week's killing of 49 unarmed Iraqi army cadets.
Marine intelligence officer Major James West said guerrilla violence could continue even if the Jordanian was eliminated.
"Even if we get Zarqawi, that doesn't necessarily mean it's over," he told reporters.
West said Falluja's population had dropped to 50,000 or 60,000 from 350,000 because many families had fled for safety.
A British soldier died in a road accident as the Black Watch regiment rebased to "the triangle of death" southwest of Baghdad to free up U.S. units for the Falluja offensive.
Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, and Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) from the capital, have been cauldrons of anti-U.S. insurgency since last year's war toppled Saddam Hussein.
A previously unknown Islamist group said on Thursday it had kidnapped a Polish-Iraqi woman and demanded Poland take its troops out of Iraq. Warsaw said its contingent would stay.
Kidnappers in Iraq also hold a British-Iraqi woman, two French journalists and a score of other foreigners from a dozen countries. Some may be held for ransom, others as part of a campaign to drive foreign troops and workers from Iraq.
Gunmen killed the driver of a Turkish truck in the northern city of Mosul on Friday and set it ablaze, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear if the driver was a Turk, but the truck, carrying bottled water, had Turkish plates and markings.
A car bomb blew up near a U.S. convoy in southern Mosul, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding three, hospital staff said. The U.S. military said two soldiers were slightly hurt.
Another civilian was shot dead at a U.S. checkpoint near Baquba, north of Baghdad, hospital officials said.
Three American soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb blast hit their Humvee vehicle on a highway between Mosul and Tel Afar 60 km (37 miles) to the west, the military said.
Assassins killed Aqil Hamed al-Adeli, deputy governor of Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, police said.
And gunmen shot dead two policemen in Latifiya, just south of Baghdad, as they were driving from Baghdad to their posts in the Shi'ite city of Kerbala, police in Kerbala said.
(Additional reporting by Maher al-Thanoon in Mosul, Faris al- Mahdawi in Baquba and Sami al-Jumaili in Kerbala and Linda Sieg in Tokyo)
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