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□イラク・レジスタンス・レポートのシーア派巡礼者事故関連の記事
・これらの記事では，迫撃砲などによる攻撃もスンニ派とシーア派の事故を巡る罵りあいなども
まるで出てきません。
▽橋の上のシーア派巡礼者のパニックで1000名以上が死亡 アメリカ軍の現場付近の道路封鎖によって
混乱に拍車，救助活動に支障が出る
この記事では死者が841名，負傷者323名となっている
負傷者の多くが重傷のため，今後さらに死者が増える可能性がある
▽事故の原因の1つにアメリカ軍による道路封鎖があると指摘
事故が発生した地区では，ほとんど全ての道路がアメリカ軍が設置したコンクリート製の
防護壁によって封鎖，または交通が妨害される状態になっていた
この防護壁は，救助隊の到着を遅らせる原因にもなっていく
▽傀儡政府の運輸大臣Salam al-Malikiは記者会見で今回の事故の責任がアメリカ軍にあると主張する
アメリカ軍は事故が発生した地区で，自分たち以外の車両が地区に入ることを
妨げていたという
▽パニックの発生は事故が起きたカジミア地区の地元警察署の対応ミスが原因か
目撃者のAhmad Hassunによると，パニックの原因が通りを埋める人々の橋への流入を止めるために
警察が悪意なく『自動車爆弾があります。テロリストがいます。束にならないでください』などと叫んでいき，
これがパニックの引き金となってしまい多くの人々が川に飛び込むなどの事態を招いてしまったという
パニックが起きると警察自身もパニックになってしまい，さっきの警告が偽の情報であると叫ぶが群集の耳には届かなかった
橋の近くに住む地元住民は今回の事故に関して，何ら武器などを使用した攻撃は発生しておらず，
事故は警察による群集への対応ミスが原因であったと目撃者と同じ主張をしている
内務省は事故の調査のために，橋の警備を担当していた地元警察署の将校などの身柄を拘束している
▽アザミア地区の数百人のスンニ派の住民たちがシーア派の人々の救うために
バグダッド中心部にあるal-Yarmuk総合病院で献血を行なう
この献血はスンニ派の宗教指導者や部族長たちの呼び掛けによって行なわれていく
▽サドル師が今回の事故を『バグダッドの大虐殺』と呼び，傀儡政府を非難する
サドル師は，自分たちが巡礼を取り仕切っていた時にはこのような事故は起きていなかったと
指摘している
サドル師は傀儡政府とアメリカ軍に対して事故の調査を要求している
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/61784
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Death toll of 1,000 feared in stampede of panicked Shi‘i pilgrims on crowded bridge in Baghdad. Disaster compounded by closure of most roads in the area by US forces, increasing overcrowding, seriously delaying arrival of medical help.
At least 841 were confirmed dead and 323 others injured Wednesday afternoon as a result of a stampede on the al-A’immah Bridge in Baghdad, in which, it was reported, part of the bridge collapsed.
A dispatch posted on the website of al-Jazeera satellite TV at 15:50GMT Wednesday evening, quoted the “Ministry of Health” in the US-installed Iraqi regime in Baghdad as saying that the death toll was likely to top 1,000.
Earlier, in a dispatch posted at 2:20pm Mecca time Wednesday afternoon, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a brigadier general in the Iraqi puppet army as saying that the total number of those killed in the stampede on the bridge might exceed 1,000 persons, because of the severity of the injuries suffered by many of the survivors.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent said that most of the dead had been pushed off the bridge and into the Tigris River where they drowned, according to the general.
The general’s estimate was backed up by the Deputy Director of Medical City Hospital in Baghdad who said that the sun would not set Wednesday except on more than 1,000 dead pilgrims, Mafkarat al-Islam noted.
Media reports said that the pilgrims were in a procession heading to the al-Kazimayn Mosque on the right bank of the Tigris when rumors of a bomb ﾐ that turned out to be unfounded ﾐ produced a deadly stampede.
Crowded conditions aggravated by US military road closures. . .
A statement issued by the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, the highest Sunni Muslim religious authority in the country, said that for more than three days caravans of Iraqi pilgrims had been pouring in from all over Iraq to visit the tomb of the 8th-Century Shi‘i Imam Musa ibn Ja‘far on the occasion of the anniversary of his death.
Witnesses quoted in the statement said that there was great overcrowding and pushing as pilgrims from the provinces jammed in, particularly on the al-A’immah bridge that links the al-A‘zamiyah district of Baghdad with the al-Kazimiyah district where the tomb is located. The witnesses said that there was a panic in which many fell and were trampled. Older people were quickly killed in the stampede.
The witnesses said that the disaster was compounded by the fact that “nearly all of the roads” in the area had been closed or obstructed by concrete barricades put up by the US occupation forces, aggravating the overcrowding and preventing medical help from getting to the victims quickly.
“Minister of Transport” in US-backed regime blames American forces for deaths. . .
Those views of witnesses were backed up when the “Minister of Transport” in the puppet government in Baghdad, Salam al-Maliki, told a press conference that the “multi-national forces bear most of the blame for the catastrophe because they prevented the arrival of medical assistance to the area where the disaster took place.”
Al-Maliki said that the US forces deployed in the area of the catastrophe had closed roads and prevented any cars other than their own vehicles from entering their areas. He said that they prevented ambulances and medical teams of divers and first aid providers from reaching the scene of the disaster in time.
Al-Maliki accused the American occupation forces of being so afraid of possible attacks on themselves at the time of the incident that they had no concern for the lives of Iraqis, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.
Witnesses, victims say police mistake caused panic . . .
In a dispatch posted at 3pm Mecca time Wednesday afternoon, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Kazimiyah reported that a group of witnesses there said that the immediate cause of the panic that led to the disaster was an unintentional mistake made by puppet policemen from the al-Kazimiyah police station who were deployed at the approach to the bridge.
Ahmad Hassun, one of those injured in the disaster, told Mafkarat al-Islam that the reason for the panic and stampede was that the people on the bridge were responding to the police who were trying to get them to move with greater speed so as to allow the people jamming the street to get on to the bridge more quickly.
Hassun said that the police were shouting things like, “Brothers, hurry up. There are car bombs. There are terrorists. Don’t bunch up. Hurry on. Keep moving.” But the crowds took that talk to be an actual warning of something about to happen and started to push and jump into the river. Hassun said he was hurt when he fell to the ground and was trampled by other people.
Another witness who was at the scene when the disaster occurred told Mafkarat al-Islam that after the panic started, the police themselves panicked and started shouting, “Brothers! False alarm! False alarm! There’s nothing wrong!” But the people didn’t trust the police and thought they were just trying to stay in control so they paid no attention to them.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that local residents of the area around the bridge agreed with the witnesses that there had been no armed attacks in the area, as some sources claimed, and that the whole disaster was due to an unintentional mistake by the police.
Twenty minutes after Mafkarat al-Islam reported those remarks, a source in the puppet government’s “Interior Ministry” was quoted as saying that the “Ministry” had arrested the officers and men of the police detachment that had been on duty at the approach to the bridge in order to investigate their role in sparking the incident, Mafkarat al-Islam reported.
Hundreds of Sunni Iraqis rush to aid Shi‘i victims . . .
The witnesses who spoke to the Association of Muslim Scholars said that the people from the predominantly Sunni al-A‘zamiyah district rushed to the aid of the victims and provided whatever help they could.
Many donated blood. According to a Mafkarat al-Islam dispatch posted at 2:50pm Mecca time Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of Sunnis from al-A‘zamiyah had flocked to al-Yarmuk General Hospital in central Baghdad to donate blood for the victims of the bridge disaster in the facility. The correspondent in the Baghdad district of al-Karakh reported that Sunni religious leaders and Sunni tribal notables had taken the lead in the emergency effort to donate blood.
Sunni residents of the area where the disaster took place, hastened to take part in the recovery of the injured and the dead from the Tigris River, carrying them to ambulances. In that effort as well, Sunni religious leaders played a prominent role.
Sadr spokesman: no such disasters when Sadr Movment organized events . . .
Meanwhile, al-Jazeera satellite TV reported ‘Abbas ar-Rabi‘i, the political representative of Shi‘i Muslim religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, as pointing out that this year the US occupation authorities had appointed the people who organized the activities marking the religious occasion and that it was on their watch that the catastrophe occurred. On earlier occasions, when the as-Sadr movement had charge of the event, nothing of the sort ever took place.
Later in the afternoon Muqtada as-Sadr himself issued a statement in an-Najaf in which he blamed the US occupation and its puppet government in Baghdad for what he called the “Baghdad Massacre” and demanded that an investigation into the incident be opened.
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