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(回答先: 米情報機関秘密報告／イラク戦争がテロ増の主因／政府主張を否定 投稿者 gataro 日時 2006 年 9 月 26 日 16:56:49)
米情報機関秘密報告について報じたワシントン・ポスト紙とニューヨーク・タイムズ紙の記事は次のものと思われる（それぞれ電子版から）。
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400209.html
Intel: War Has Worsened Terror Threat
諜報機関：（イラク）戦争がテロの脅威を悪化させた
By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
Sunday, September 24, 2006; 10:49 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war has contributed to an increased threat of terrorism, according to an intelligence assessment that has not lessened the Senate majority leader's defense of the U.S.-led invasion three years ago and occupation.
The classified assessment of the war's impact on terrorism came in a National Intelligence Estimate that represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government, an intelligence official said Sunday. The official, confirming accounts first published in Sunday's New York Times and Washington Post, spoke on condition of anonymity because the report is classified.
The report found that the war has helped create a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn. said he had not seen the classified report, which was completed in April, but said Americans understand the United States must continue to fight terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere.
"Either we are going to be fighting this battle, this war overseas, or it's going to be right here in this country," Frist said on ABC's "This Week," echoing an argument that President Bush frequently makes.
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement that the assessment "should put the final nail in the coffin for President Bush's phony argument about the Iraq war."
"How many more independent reports, how many more deaths, how much deeper into civil war will Iraq need to fall for the White House to wake up and change its strategy in Iraq?"
A White House spokesman, Blair Jones, said "We don't comment on classified documents" and that the published accounts' "characterization of the NIE is not representative of the complete document."
Frist said, "We've got to win this war on terror, wherever it is, and it's going to be fought overseas, or if we don't win there, it's going to be fought here in the United States."
As part of the overall strategy of combating terrorism, Frist also said he expects Congress to pass legislation this week that would set rules for the interrogation and trial of suspected terrorists. The president has pressured lawmakers to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm elections.
The legislation is the result of a compromise between the White House and holdout Republican senators who had disagreed over how far the U.S. should be allowed to go to get information from suspected terrorists. The bill lists acts that would constitute a war crime, including torture, rape, biological experiments and cruel and inhuman treatment.
Frist would not say whether the legislation would ban techniques that U.S. agents reportedly have used in the past, such as simulated drowning, cold cells, prolonged standing and sleep deprivation. He also said he did not know whether the bill would prevent prosecution of North Koreans, for example, if they captured Americans and simulated drowning, a technique known as "water boarding."
"I'm not going to comment on individual techniques," Frist said. "It helps the terrorists and the reason why it helps the terrorists who are going to come and try to assassinate us and people listening to us right now."
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-security-usa.html
Iraq War Fuels Islamic Radicals: Retired U.S. General
イラク戦争がイスラム過激派に火をつける：退役将軍
By REUTERS
Published: September 25, 2006
Filed at 11:32 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The conduct of the Iraq war fueled Islamic fundamentalism across the globe and created more enemies for the United States, a retired U.S. Army general who served in the conflict said on Monday.
The views of retired Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste buttressed an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies, which intelligence officials said concluded the war had inspired Islamist extremists and made the militant movement more dangerous.
The Iraq conflict, which began in March 2003, made ``America arguably less safe now than it was on September 11, 2001,'' Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, told a hearing on the war called by U.S. Senate Democrats.
``If we had seriously laid out and considered the full range of requirements for the war in Iraq, we would likely have taken a different course of action that would have maintained a clear focus on our main effort in Afghanistan, not fueled Islamic fundamentalism across the globe, and not created more enemies than there were insurgents,'' Batiste said.
U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte refuted that charge at a Washington dinner late Monday, denying the Iraq war had increased the terrorism threat to the United States.
``I think we could safely say that we are safer and that the threat to the homeland itself has, if anything, been reduced since 9/11,'' the U.S. director of national intelligence said in response to intelligence leaks on Iraq and terrorism that have engulfed the Bush administration in recent days.
``We are more vigilant. We are better prepared,'' he said.
Batiste, who was among retired generals who called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier this year, poured scorn on the war plan along with two other retired military men at a hearing called by Senate Democrats.
HARSH TREATMENT MAKES ENEMIES
They said the Pentagon let the insurgency grow by not sending enough U.S. troops and made enemies by abusing Iraqis.
``Probably 99 percent of those people were guilty of absolutely nothing,'' Batiste said of Iraqis U.S. forces held at Abu Ghraib prison. ``But the way we treated them, the way we abused them, turned them against the effort in Iraq forever.''
At one point, retired Marine Corps Col. Thomas Hammes derisively referred to the U.S. Iraq strategy as ''Whack-a-mole,'' a fairground game where the player uses a big hammer to swat mechanical moles as they pop up from holes.
Hammes said the United States needed another 10 years to succeed in Iraq, while retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton said the Army needed another 60,000 troops to finish the job. There are 142,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.
Hammes helped establish bases for Iraqi armed forces in 2004, while Eaton trained Iraqi military and police in 2003-4.
Most Democrats are pushing for a plan to start withdrawing U.S. forces, but without a deadline to finish the withdrawal.
Democrats have seized upon the National Intelligence Estimate to undermine the image fostered by President George W. Bush and Republicans as the party best able to stop terrorism before November elections in which control of Congress is at stake.
The classified intelligence document said Iraq had become the main recruiting tool for the Islamic militant movement as well as a training ground for guerrillas, according to current and former intelligence officials.
Negroponte told his audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars that news accounts exaggerated the NIE's emphasis on Iraq by overlooking a range of other factors including slow progress in economic, social and political reform throughout the Muslim world.
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