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オーストラリア国防相、バクダッド空港から動けず。大使館にもグリーンゾーンにも行けず。
「こんなに危険な状態は4回の訪問で初めてだ。」
「ヘリはもっと重要な任務で出払っていて使えなかった」
とのこと。
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11597627%255E401,00.html
Baghdad worse than ever, says Hill
By Patrick Walters
December 6, 2004
ROBERT Hill has learnt first-hand the new perils involved in visiting strife-torn Baghdad.
Such has been the escalation of violence in the run-up to the January 30 elections that for the first time in four visits, the Defence Minister could not make it to the centre of the Iraqi capital last Friday.
So dangerous has the main highway to and from the airport become, with daily suicide bomb attacks, he did not visit the Australian embassy or the Green Zone that comprises the headquarters of the US-led coalition forces in Iraq.
"This is the first time I've been unable to do that. It's very dangerous - a number of countries are no longer travelling along it," Senator Hill told The Australian yesterday.
"I would have (travelled into central Baghdad) if we'd had a helicopter, but they were being used for more important tasks."