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ペンタゴンが、装甲ハンビーの生産促進を、軍需契約の会社に発注したとの情報の裏の裏には、軍需産業が潜んでいるのではなかろうか。
ここで紹介するのは、12月11日、つまり、昨日の土曜日のニューヨークタイムズのヘッドライン記事であるが、これには、その2日前の12 月 09 日に、阿修羅戦争掲示板に投稿された読売新聞記事（この投稿の最後に再録）と、英語の米紙報道があり、メディアの「やらせ」説もあった。
ハイライト場面は、写真入りの以下の部位分である。
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質問を浴びせたのは、陸軍の男性技術兵。「我々兵隊はなぜ、車両を強化するためにゴミ捨て場へ行き、金属スクラップや劣化した防弾ガラスを掘り当てなければならないのですか」と婉曲（えんきょく）表現で尋ねると、会場から大歓声が起きた。
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メディアの「やらせ」を「裏」とすれば、そのまた「裏」には、軍需産業が潜んでいるのかもしれない。
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/11/international/middleeast/11armor.html?oref=login&th
December 11, 2004
PROTECTION
Pentagon Asks Contractor to Speed Production of Armored Humvees
By MICHAEL MOSS
he Pentagon yesterday asked a contractor building fully armor-protected Humvee military vehicles to speed production to 550 vehicles a month, up from its current output of 450.
"Once I was informed of the additional production capacity, I wanted to ensure those additional vehicles were going directly to our forces in Iraq," the Army secretary, Francis J. Harvey, said in a statement.
The company, Armor Holdings, said its plant in Ohio would not be able to reach the higher level until February or March.
Concerns that troops are inadequately supplied with armor have surfaced repeatedly since the Iraq war began and became a hot issue for the Pentagon on Wednesday when soldiers en route to Iraq confronted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld with complaints that the Pentagon was still sending troops to war without enough protection from armored equipment.
Specialist Thomas Jerry Wilson asked why troops had to scrounge up discarded scrap metal to shield their vehicles against bombs, and Mr. Rumsfeld indicated that factory production was limited.
"It's essentially a matter of physics," Mr. Rumsfeld said. "It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the Army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it."
Armor Holdings said it had begun working toward producing 450 vehicles a month after meeting in February with Les Brownlee, then the acting Army secretary, and that it had reached that level of production in September. On Thursday, the company announced that it had told the Army last month that it was capable of boosting its output to 550 vehicles, and that the Army did not respond.
As late as yesterday morning, Army officials in charge of providing equipment to soldiers said that what was needed were not more new armored Humvees, but rather more of the conversion kits being produced that add armor to existing Humvees. They said that the kits could be removed, allowing the Army to convert the Humvees back into lighter vehicles when they were no longer needed in life-threatening situations like the attacks soldiers are facing in Iraq.
But the soldiers' confrontation with Mr. Rumsfeld provoked criticism from members of Congress and others, and led to high-level discussions yesterday at the Pentagon where officials labored to sort through the issue's many dimensions.
Michael Fox, a spokesman for Armor Holdings, disputed the view that kits are a more rational approach and said new vehicles built with armor, known as "up-armored," provided the most protection.
"Up-armored is the best level of protection," Mr. Fox said. "And if you ask the troops, I'm sure they will agree."
Democrats in Congress who on Thursday criticized Mr. Rumsfeld and said troops had inadequate equipment, in part because of the urgency with which the United States went to war, expressed cautious support for the pending increased production.
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a statement that such a move would reflect "a step in the right direction."
"But it troubles me that it would take a highly publicized question posed by an Army specialist to get the Department of Defense to address our troops' safety concerns," he said. "And it remains to be seen whether this modest step is sufficient to meet the needs of our men and women in uniform."
Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said through a spokesman yesterday that the committee would address the armor issue in an oversight hearing on Iraq that it plans to hold early next year. He said committee members would gather information during scheduled trips to the region in the coming weeks.
"The committee remains committed to doing everything it can to help resolve this problem for our men and women in uniform, no matter what unit they deploy with," said the spokesman, John Ullyot.
Armor Holdings said yesterday that "based on our statement that we were prepared to expand capacity to meet the needs of other customers, the U.S. Army approached us and requested that we increase production of up-armored Humvees from 450 units per month to 550 units per month, and we have agreed to do that as soon as possible. We expect to achieve this rate of production by no later than the February-March time frame without any significant changes to our infrastructure."
The company said it was ahead of the Army's production schedule by more than 330 vehicles.
The armor kits being shipped to Iraq are being produced mostly by the Army at its depots in New York and six other states.
装備が足りない…イラク行きの米兵、国防長官に訴え 【読売:カイロ＝柳沢亨之】
http://www.asyura2.com/0411/war64/msg/347.html
投稿者 木田貴常 日時 2004 年 12 月 09 日 11:17:45:RlhpPT16qKgB2
写真：ラムズフェルド国防長官に装備が不備と訴える米兵＝ＡＰ
装備が足りない…イラク行きの米兵、国防長官に訴え
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20041209it02.htm
フォトニュース 写真の拡大＋
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/zoom/20041209it02-1-Z20041209102539143M-L.htm
【カイロ＝柳沢亨之】ＡＰ通信によると、ラムズフェルド米国防長官が８日、イラク行きの米兵を激励しようと、訪問先のクウェートの米軍基地での演説後に質問を受け付けたところ、装備不足を訴えられた上、この質問に会場の約２０００人の兵隊から歓声がわき起こり、長官が答えに詰まる一幕があった。
質問を浴びせたのは、陸軍の男性技術兵。「我々兵隊はなぜ、車両を強化するためにゴミ捨て場へ行き、金属スクラップや劣化した防弾ガラスを掘り当てなければならないのですか」と婉曲（えんきょく）表現で尋ねると、会場から大歓声が起きた。
長官が質問を繰り返すよう求めると、技術兵は「我々の車両は装甲されていないのです」と言い換え、長官は「今ある装備で戦うしかないだろう」などと応じた。
イラクでは、米軍車両が、道路わきに仕掛けられた爆弾などの主な標的となっており、昨年５月の主要戦闘終了宣言以降、米兵の死者は１０００人以上に上る。長官は制服組の懸念を振り切って軽量・機動部隊による攻撃・治安作戦を主張したとされるが、駐留米軍の１万２０００人増強を決めるなど作戦の修正を余儀なくされている。
(2004/12/9/10:43 読売新聞 無断転載禁止)
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