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NYT：攻撃は遅れ、停止、しかし、ファルージャの半分を米兵は押さえた。
どこぞのアメリカの植民地の最も下品なナベツネ鷹派新聞は、「モスク空爆、米・イラク軍がファルージャ完全制圧へ」などと、大東亜戦争当時と同じような好戦的、煽動的な見出しを打っておるが、本国の新聞では、苦戦、半分だけじゃ。
空軍も総動員の軍事超大国、アメリカに、歩兵だけの数千のイラク抵抗勢力が、対等の戦いを展開しておるのである。
武闘には反対するが、公平な報道を求める。
その内、もしかすると、イランに預けたイラクの戦闘機、何処かに隠した戦車までが、決戦を挑みに出れ来るのかもしれないのである。いっときも目を離せなくなっている。
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/international/middleeast/11falluja.html?th=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=
November 11, 2004
THE OVERVIEW
Assault Slows, but G.I.'s Take Half of Falluja
By ROBERT F. WORTH and EDWARD WONG
ALLUJA, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 11 - Advances in Falluja slowed considerably on Wednesday after American-led troops took control of about half of the city.
On Tuesday night, insurgents kidnapped three relatives of the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, from their home in Baghdad. A militant group calling itself Ansar al-Jihad posted an Internet message saying it was holding the three hostages and would behead them in 48 hours unless Dr. Allawi called off the siege of Falluja and ordered the release of all prisoners.
Some of the military units operating in the invasion came under heavy sniper fire where the advance has slowed or stopped along a major boulevard that bisects Falluja, but military officials asserted that the force was simply regrouping and would soon continue to push ahead.
"They have made good progress through the city, and they're now about halfway through," said Maj. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, commander of the First Marine Division.
Maj. Gen. Abdul Qader Muhammad Jassem Mohan, commander of Iraqi forces, agreed that troops had swept through about half of Falluja. While searching a northern section of the city, he said, Iraqi soldiers found what he called "hostage slaughterhouses." He gave no evidence that jihadists had actually killed hostages in those places but said soldiers had found black clothing worn by jihadists, hundreds of CD's and "whole records with names of hostages."
A wave of bloody assaults continued across Iraq, believed to be part of a loosely coordinated counteroffensive by the guerrillas. Insurgents attacked American troops in Baghdad, Balad and Mosul, and two soldiers died. A car bomb killed at least 10 people in Baghdad and attacks by insurgents in Karbala and Bayji left at least six people dead. The battles in Mosul and Bayji prompted the Iraqi government to declare nighttime curfews in both places, as it had done in Baghdad.
A C.I.A. spokeswoman said Wednesday that a convoy of sport utility vehicles carrying Charles A. Duelfer, the chief American weapons inspector in Iraq, had been attacked by a suicide car bomb on Monday morning but it was not known if he had been injured. The convoy was traveling along the highway to the Baghdad airport, and the explosion killed two Western security guards. It was unclear whether Mr. Duelfer was a specific target in the attack.
The three kidnapped relatives of the prime minister were Ghazi Majeed Allawi, a 75-year-old first cousin of the prime minister, the cousin's wife and their daughter-in-law, the prime minister's office said.
"This action is another crime by terrorists and it will not sway the government's determination to fight terror and destroy its dens to realize peace and settlement in a free, democratic Iraq," said Thaier al-Naqib, a spokesman for Dr. Allawi.
Mr. Naqib said the cousin had "nothing to do with politics" and was not working in the government. The abduction took place in the Yarmouk neighborhood, west of the Tigris River and in an area where insurgents' attacks are becoming increasingly common. Several kidnappings of foreigners have taken place in the nearby neighborhood of Mansour, and a powerful car bomb exploded on Monday night outside Yarmouk Hospital, killing six people.
In his public appearances, Dr. Allawi has tried hard to cast himself as the person ultimately responsible for the attack on Falluja. He has said he gave the order to the American-led forces to invade only after he believed all avenues of negotiation had been exhausted. How much independence Dr. Allawi actually has from the American government is not clear.
Falluja, held by rebels, has been a center of Sunni insurgency, and securing it has become a chief goal of American and Iraqi government forces who believe that freeing it from rebel control is necessary to prepare for the national elections planned for January.
The fighting there has been the most intense since the fall of Baghdad.
The advance of the American-led forces has largely stopped, at least temporarily, along a boulevard called Highway 10 that runs from east to west and roughly cuts Falluja in half. Well-trained snipers pinned down troops at several points along the route on Wednesday, and American bombers and heavy artillery attacked several mosques and other buildings that were sheltering the snipers and hampering the advance.
"We just hit a wall," said Gunnery Sgt. Eduardo Ramos, who was with a company positioned just to the west of the town's center.
But a military official said the plan from the start had been to reach Highway 10 and regroup before making another surge southward. On Wednesday, units to the east were furthest advanced, having pushed into an industrial area just south of the highway. In the center and west, units were about even with the highway.
General Natonski confirmed that American forces had surrounded the northwestern neighborhood of Jolan, but for the most part had not entered it, on their first pass through the area on Monday and Tuesday. Jolan, long considered one of the most dangerous areas in Falluja, had not been subdued in an aborted invasion of the city last April. Fighting was seen in the area on Wednesday, after the marines finally went in.
"Jolan has been traditionally a site of resistance," General Natonski said. "It is kind of a labyrinth." He said that the marines were able to clear the area fairly quickly and hand it over to Iraqi national guardsmen. But he conceded, "There's been some heavy fighting, there's been some casualties."
General Mohan, head of the Iraqi forces, said Iraqi soldiers searching around the city had found large caches of weapons that appeared to be gifts from foreign countries, and records listing the names of foreign fighters killed in recent air strikes.
A wave of refugees began moving out of southern Falluja on Thursday, with about 300 people, most of them men, trying to escape by car or on foot. All of them were detained by American military patrols, who allowed the women and children to continue but tested the men for explosive residue. All tested negative, and were sent back to Falluja in accordance with procedures established by the American military to maintain the city's isolation while fighting continues inside.
Many of the people trying to flee Falluja were waving white flags as they came down the road, apparently terrified of being shot.
One group of refugees, packed into two small ambulances, was detained by an Army patrol as they sped southward away from the city. A man driving one of the ambulances, who gave his name as Victor Yarov, said he and several other men in the group were doctors at Falluja General Hospital, one of the first buildings taken when the advance on Falluja began Monday night. The others, he said, were residents fleeing the violence whom he had picked up in the city.
On Wednesday, Army patrols destroyed several boats on the Euphrates River south and west of Falluja, out of concern that some insurgents may be trying to escape from the city by water, military officials said.
Reuters reported that it had received a copy of a videotape showing rebels holding captive 20 Iraqi National Guardsmen whom the insurgents say were seized in the Falluja battle. The men have their backs to the camera and are wearing brown National Guard uniforms. The authenticity of the tape could not be confirmed.
The American military reported that a soldier was killed and another wounded early Wednesday when their patrol hit an roadside bomb near the town of Balad. On Tuesday, a soldier in southern Baghdad was killed by small-arms fire in an insurgent ambush, the military said.
At least eight American troops outside of the Falluja offensive have been killed since last weekend.
In the evening, a powerful car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in the Zaytouna neighborhood of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 15 others, police officials and witnesses at the scene said. The explosion incinerated about two dozen nearby cars and shattered storefronts and homes along busy Al Rubaie Street.
Robert F. Worth reported from Falluja for this article and Edward Wong from Baghdad. Dexter Filkins contributed reporting from Falluja, Iraqi employees of The New York Times from Baghdad and Mosul, and Eric Schmitt from Washington.
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