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(回答先: マスコミ各社の重要情報隠しを糾弾する。「政府のサマワ自衛隊撤退への調整」報道をなぜしない！軍国化への協力だぞ！ 投稿者 新世紀人 日時 2005 年 5 月 09 日 12:49:08)
US hoping to start its withdrawal from Iraq in December
By Oliver Poole in Baghdad
(Filed: 02/05/2005)
The American military has set a target of December for handing over responsibility for security to Iraqi army and police units, says a classified document being circulated among senior officers.
It is the first time that a date has been put forward for the phasing back of US involvement in controlling the insurgency that has raged for more than two years.
Iraqi police at the scene of a car bombing in Baghdad yesterday. 98 police were killed in March
The proposal envisages that after the planned election of a five-year parliament in December the American military would withdraw from patrolling, starting a gradual pull-out from the country. America and Britain have declined to detail an exit strategy in public for fear of encouraging insurgents and being seen to cut and run.
However, the deadline illustrates American confidence that the development of Iraq's security forces is proceeding as planned.
The police now number almost 87,000 officers and the army has 72,500 troops. A further 19,000 men and women are being trained.
An American officer confirmed that the withdrawal document had been circulated. He emphasised that it was intended as "prudent planning".
"No one in the chain of command is pushing us to complete our work faster or compromise our developed processes to meet some arbitrary timeline," he said.
Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, Iraq's chief security adviser, told CNN's Late Edition yesterday that larger withdrawals would not take place until the middle of next year.
The challenge of meeting the timetable was reinforced yesterday as rebels continued the wave of attacks that followed the announcement last week of the composition of the new government after three months of negotiations.
Thirty men, believed to be from a Sunni militia, stormed a checkpoint in the south of Baghdad, killing five policemen. An interior ministry official said some of the victime could have been asleep.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qa'eda associate, claimed responsibility on the internet.
A young girl died and 10 Iraqis were injured when a car bomb exploded as an American convoy was attacked in south-east Baghdad. There was no immediate word of US casualties but at least one Humvee was blown apart.
A suicide car bomb exploded at the funeral of a Kurdish official in the northern city of Tal Afar, 90 miles from the Syrian border, killing 20 Iraqis and wounding more than 30.
The government confirmed the widely held belief that the security situation had markedly worsened this month. Nearly 570 Iraqis have been killed, a 48 per cent rise on March, and 668 wounded.
Civilians made up the vast majority of the dead, with 98 policemen and 41 soldiers among those killed. The interior and defence ministries put insurgent losses at 64.
US military confidence in the security forces has grown in recent months, with Iraqi army and police units conducting several independent operations that resulted in the capture of large rebel cells and the discovery of several significant weapons caches.
Coalition troops formerly described their role as training Iraqi units; the new message is that they "mentor" them. This involves Iraqi forces conducting their own missions, often accompanied by US and British advisers.
Last month Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, said he expected British troops to start withdrawing from Iraq next year, a move that would fit in with the proposed American timetable. But for that to happen the rise in rebel activity would have to be halted and elections in December conducted as planned.
Another major problem is that as many as 50,000 of those on the Iraqi security payroll may be "ghost soldiers" who collect their pay cheques but do not turn up.
• Credible reports of threats against the US are at their lowest since the September 11 attacks as terrorists focus instead on Americans in Iraq and Europe, Washington said.
30 April 2005: Suicide bombers kill 27 in Iraq
14 April 2005: Troops to start leaving Iraq next year
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