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(回答先: バグダッドで米兵４人爆死 死者数は２７２３人に （英文） 投稿者 明るい共産党をつくる会 日時 2006 年 10 月 04 日 01:05:49)
□イラクでアメリカ兵11名が戦死(英文記事)
・10月1日と2日の『イラク・レジスタンス・レポート』を参照のこと。
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11 US Soldiers killed in Iraq
By: Various on: 03.10.2006 [07:17 ] (681 reads)
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Ten US soldiers killed across Iraq
US forces scouting out areas of east Baghdad that are breeding places for death squads linked to Shiite militias.
By Dave Clark - BAGHDAD
Four US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their vehicle in northwest Baghdad on Monday, the US military said Tuesday.
The blast happened at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) Monday night, the same day the US military announced the deaths of six other servicemen, also mainly in Baghdad.
One soldier was killed in southwest Baghdad when his patrol came under fire, while two others were shot dead in separate attacks in the north of the capital, all on Monday.
A soldier died Sunday night of wounds inflicted by a roadside bomb west of the city, the military said.
Two marines from Regimental Combat Team 7, which operates in the western reaches of the Euphrates valley in Iraq's Al-Anbar province, died from injuries received during fighting, one on Sunday and one on Saturday.
Late Monday, the military reported the death of another soldier whose unit had come under fire in Baghdad.
Thousands of US troops are currently patrolling Baghdad in part of Iraqi government plan to stabilize the war-torn capital.
The latest fatalities bring the number of US military dead since the March 2003 invasion to 2,723 according to Pentagon figures.
The deaths came as US forces are scouting out the areas of east Baghdad that are breeding places for the death squads linked to powerful Shiite militias.
As the daily body count continues to rise in a city wracked by sectarian violence, armoured patrols nose their way through muddy lanes and decrepit slums and troops size up the challenges facing any attempt to restore order.
This week, US infantry riding 17-tonne Stryker armoured troop transports entered the eastern Baghdad neighbourhood of Obeidi for the first time, receiving a distrustful welcome from its mainly Shiite, predominantly poor inhabitants.
Depending on how the scouting goes, the soldiers may soon be back in force to conduct the kind of cordon and search operation which US commanders feel has proved successful in reducing death squad violence in the west of the city.
"You don't want to go into an area and know nothing about it. You want to do reconnaissance first," Captain David Musick, a tactical intelligence officer with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, said.
Obeidi is part of Baghdad Jadida, a sprawling modern overflow from the ancient city, much of it dating to the 1970s oil boom. Today, the angry tenants of its overcrowded slum housing are deprived of reliable power and sewage.
There is another problem. A short distance away, across a strip of wasteland that serves as a dumping ground for the corpses of death squad victims, lies Sadr City, bastion of the Mahdi Army militia, or JAM as the US troops call it, an acronym for its Arabic name of Jaish al-Mahdi.
"The ethnic breakdown is about 70 percent Shiite so you're going to have radical JAM guys, guys that work what we call extrajudicial killings. The non-army phrasing for it would be murder squads, death squads," Musick said.
Obeidi will present many challenges of its own for the infantrymen heading there in their Strykers - the sudden arrival of which clearly surprised residents - but Sadr City remains the key to the security plan.
The soldiers passed posters of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and a Hezbollah flag flying by the road sign to Sadr City, and were frustrated not to be heading there.
"We thought that was why we were being brought into Baghdad," complained one young rifleman, a 21-year-old who has spent almost half of his three year army career in Iraq and after spending a year in the northern city of Mosul, seen his tour extended another four months.
Last week, US commanders also expressed frustration that Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has yet to give the go ahead for US and Iraqi forces to take on the politically fraught task of disarming the militia.
"We have to fix the militia issue. We can't have armed militias competing with Iraqi security forces, but I have to trust the prime minister to decide when to do that," said US second-in-command General Peter Chiarelli.
Maliki and his US allies face a political problem, however.
Since August 2004, when he courted disaster by taking on the Americans in an armed rebellion and only avoided capture by brokering a hasty peace deal, Sadr has reinvented himself as a more mainstream political leader.
His movement now has 30 lawmakers in Maliki's fragile coalition government and outside of Sadr City his fighters are careful to avoid too public a display of defiance of the elected regime and its US backers.
But the Mehdi Army hasn't gone away and they have won more support their key constituency, impoverished Shiites, by defending them from Sunni bombers such as those inspired and trained by al-Qaeda in Iraq.
"You get a large percentage of people who, either out of fear or tacit support, say, 'Well, OK, I'm going to go with the flow, because who else am I going to rely on?'," said Musick, explaining Sadr's appeal.
"The Shia feel that JAM provide a legitimate security service, where people are not attacked in downtown Sadr City by Sunnis," he added.
"That makes people think, 'What do I care what JAM does in other parts of the country? They're keeping me safe here'. There's not a large negative sentiment towards JAM among the Shia."
On Monday, Maliki announced a new plan to bring an end to sectarian violence by setting up cross-community security commissions. If it doesn't work, his army - and its US allies - might yet have to go in to Sadr City.
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Nine U-S soldiers, two more Marines killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq There's word this morning of eleven more American deaths in Iraq.
The U-S command reports the toll includes nine Army soldiers and two Marines.
Four soldiers were killed in separate small-arms-fire attacks yesterday in Baghdad. Four more died when a roadside bomb blew up as their patrol passed by northwest of the city. The ninth soldier was killed Sunday when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
The military today also reports that two more Marines have been killed, both in fighting in western Iraq's particularly dangerous Anbar province. One was killed Sunday. The other died the day before. They were among five U-S Marines killed over the weekend: four in combat, one in a vehicle accident.
More than 27-hundred members of the U-S military have lost their lives in Iraq since the war began.
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