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最近のバクダッドでの爆弾攻撃 当局者によると道路脇爆弾はほとんどが駐留米軍を狙ったもの
ニューヨークタイムズ紙（8月17日付）は、イラクで駐留米軍に対する爆弾攻撃が急増し、イラクのアルカイダ指導者・ザルカウィが殺害されて以後も米軍への攻撃が収まらないことを報じている。同紙によると、７月の米軍への攻撃は１月の２倍に上ったという。
同紙が入手したバクダッドの米軍当局の統計では、１月の爆発物攻撃が1,454回（爆発あるいは爆発前に発見）だったのに対し、７月は2,625回だった。うち実際に爆発したのは1,666回で、爆発前に発見は959回だった。
また攻撃が増すにつれ死傷者も増加した。月別死亡者が１月38人から７月42人と若干減少しているのに対して、負傷者数は１月287人から７月518人に急増した。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/world/middleeast/17military.html
Bombs Aimed at G.I.’s in Iraq Are Increasing
This article is by Michael R. Gordon, Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 — The number of roadside bombs planted in Iraq rose in July to the highest monthly total of the war, offering more evidence that the anti-American insurgency has continued to strengthen despite the killing of the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Along with a sharp increase in sectarian attacks, the number of daily strikes against American and Iraqi security forces has doubled since January. The deadliest means of attack, roadside bombs, made up much of that increase. In July, of 2,625 explosive devices, 1,666 exploded and 959 were discovered before they went off. In January, 1,454 bombs exploded or were found.
The bomb statistics — compiled by American military authorities in Baghdad and made available at the request of The New York Times — are part of a growing body of data and intelligence analysis about the violence in Iraq that has produced somber public assessments from military commanders, administration officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
“The insurgency has gotten worse by almost all measures, with insurgent attacks at historically high levels,” said a senior Defense Department official who agreed to discuss the issue only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for attribution. “The insurgency has more public support and is demonstrably more capable in numbers of people active and in its ability to direct violence than at any point in time.”
A separate, classified report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated Aug. 3, details worsening security conditions inside the country and describes how Iraq risks sliding toward civil war, according to several officials who have read the document or who have received a briefing on its contents.
The nine-page D.I.A. study, titled “Iraq Update,” compiles the most recent empirical data on the number of attacks, bombings, murders and other violent acts, as well as diagrams of the groups carrying out insurgent and sectarian attacks, the officials said.
The report’s contents are being widely discussed among Pentagon officials, military commanders and, in particular, on Capitol Hill, where concern among senior lawmakers of both parties is growing over a troubling dichotomy: even as Iraq takes important steps toward democracy — including the election of a permanent government this spring — the violence has gotten worse.
Senior Bush administration officials reject the idea that Iraq is on the verge of civil war, and state with unwavering confidence that the broad American strategy in Iraq remains on course. But American commanders in Iraq have shifted thousands of soldiers from outlying provinces to Baghdad to combat increased violence in the Iraqi capital.
The increased attacks have taken their toll. While the number of Americans killed in action per month has declined slightly — to 38 killed in action in July, from 42 in January, in part reflecting improvements in armor and other defenses — the number of Americans wounded has soared, to 518 in July from 287 in January. Explosive devices accounted for slightly more than half the deaths.
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