Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:52 AM
Subject: [nmw] ４月のイラク米軍死者は１０４名
４月のイラク米軍死者は１０４名（AP集計。以下同じ） イラクでの米兵死者
数は３３５１名になった。これまでに一月の死者が１００名を超えたことは他に
５回だけ。今年始まった掃討作戦がいかに失敗しているかを示している。
訪米中の久間は、掃討作戦を「最後の賭け」と絶賛したつもりだったが、その
「賭け」に負けたのだ。久間によると米軍はもう終わりだ。
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Apr 30, 12:35 PM EDT
U.S. April death toll in Iraq passes 100
By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Five U.S. troops were killed over the weekend in Iraq,
the military said Monday, pushing the death toll for April past 100 in
the deadliest month for American forces this year.
A suicide bomber, meanwhile, blew himself up during a Shiite funeral in
a volatile area north of Baghdad, the deadliest in a series of attacks
that killed at least 51 people nationwide.
The bomber detonated his explosives about 6:30 p.m. inside a tent where
mourners were gathered in Khalis, a flashpoint Shiite enclave in Diyala
province, where U.S.-Iraqi forces have seen fierce fighting with Sunni
and Shiite militants.
At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded in the blast, which
occurred four days after a suicide car bomber killed 10 Iraqi soldiers
at a checkpoint in the city, 50 miles north of Baghdad.
Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for that attack in an area
where Sunni Arab insurgents are thought to have fled to escape the
security crackdown in Baghdad that U.S. and Iraqi troops launched Feb.
14.
The killings of the Americans came as U.S. troops have been
increasingly deployed on the streets of Baghdad and housed with Iraqi
troops in joint security operations away from their heavily fortified
bases, raising their vulnerability to attacks.
Three American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed by a
roadside bomb while on a combat patrol Sunday in eastern Baghdad, the
military said. A U.S. soldier was slain Saturday by small arms fire in
the same part of the city - a predominantly Shiite area where American
and Iraqi forces have stepped up operations as part of the nearly 11-
week-old operation to quell sectarian violence.
A Marine also was killed Sunday in Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent
stronghold west of the capital, the military said.
An al-Qaida-linked group vowed Monday to pursue a "long-term war of
attrition" in Anbar against U.S. forces and an alliance of Sunni tribal
leaders who have turned against the terror network.
Underscoring the threat, a tanker truck exploded near a restaurant just
west of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, killing four people and
wounding six, police said.
U.S.-backed Sunni sheiks and tribal leaders have begun turning against
al-Qaida in Anbar, forming the Anbar Salvation Council. That has helped
reduce violence in Ramadi and elsewhere, but has triggered clashes for
control of the vast desert area that borders Syria, Saudi Arabia and
Jordan.
The Islamic State in Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al-Qaida,
warned militants were developing long-term plans and tactics for a "
long-term war of attrition" against the Americans, in a statement
posted on a militant Web site.
"The Marines do not confront the militants face-to-face, but they hide
themselves behind thieves and highway robbers," the group said in an
apparent reference to the tribal alliance. "The mujahedeen are ongoing
in their fights against the enemies of God."
Bombings, shootings and mortar attacks struck a series of other targets
Monday, including a car bomb that exploded just before 5 p.m. in a
residential area in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood of Baiyaa,
killing five civilians and wounding 10, police said.
Another car bomb struck a commercial area at about the same time in the
eastern Baghdad area of Talibiyah, killing two civilians and wounding
eight, police said.
Hours earlier after a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi checkpoint as
he emerged from an underpass in a predominantly Sunni area in western
Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 10, police said.
The blast, which occurred at 10 a.m. at an Interior Ministry checkpoint
in Nisour Square in the Harthiyah neighborhood, caused part of the road
to buckle and destroyed the underpass, killing the two commandos and
two civilians.
On Sunday, Iran agreed to join the U.S. and other countries at a
conference on Iraq this week, raising hopes the government in Tehran
would help stabilize its neighbor and stem the flow of guns and bombs
over the border.
Senior Iranian envoy Ali Larijani flew to Baghdad on Sunday for talks
with Iraqi leaders ahead of this week's meetings in Egypt - the highest-
ranking Iranian official to visit Iraq since the collapse of Saddam
Hussein's regime in 2003.
Larijani met Monday with Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and
offered Iranian support for the Iraqi government, saying "we see that
Iraq's territories and unity must be preserved."
Zebari stressed the importance of the meetings Thursday and Friday in
the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.
"It is true that it aims to help the Iraqi government in improving
security and stability, but it also has regional and international
dimensions. It is in Iraq's interest that the atmosphere be good,"
Zebari said.
The U.S. deaths raised to at least 104 American troops who have died in
Iraq as April draws to a close, the deadliest month since December,
when 112 Americans died. The U.S. monthly death toll has topped 100
five other times since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to
an Associated Press count based on military figures.
At least 3,351 members of the U.S. military have died since the war
started, according to the AP count.
President Bush has committed some 30,000 extra American troops to the
security operation in Baghdad, but he is facing legislation by the
Democratic-led Congress calling for the Americans to begin withdrawing
from Iraq by Oct. 1. Bush has promised to veto the measure.
It also has been the deadliest month for British forces in Iraq since
the first month of the war. The 11 British troops deaths reported this
month is surpassed only by 27 who died in March 2003, reflecting
increasing violence in southern Iraq where they are based, particularly
among Shiite groups vying for influence as Britain prepares to reduce
its forces.
The area is mainly Shiite and rarely sees the car bombs usually blamed
on Sunni insurgents, although rival Shiite militias frequently clash
and stage attacks.
On Monday, Iraqi commandos detained a suspected Shiite militia leader
linked to death squad activities in the Basra area, according to a U.S.
military statement.
The U.S. military also said a joint American-Iraqi raid Sunday was
aimed at capturing "high-value individuals" in Baghdad's heavily Shiite
district of Kazimiyah and the resulting clash killed one Iraqi soldier
and eight gunmen.
Iraqi police in the area said the raid targeted a local office of
radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and guards had clashed with the
troops. The U.S. statement said none of the individuals targeted by the
raid were captured.
Hundreds of Shiites waving Iraqi flags and posters of al-Sadr and his
late father rallied Monday outside a revered Shiite mosque in Kazimiyah
to protest the raid as funerals were held for those killed.
In northern Iraq, a parked car bomb struck a police patrol in the Raas
al-Jada, a mainly Sunni Arab area in Mosul, killing one policeman and
wounding two others, police Brig. Gen. Mohammed Idan al-Jubouri said.
The attack occurred at 8 a.m., about four hours after some 50 gunmen
attacked a police station in the same area, prompting a firefight and
clashes as police chased the gunmen through the narrow streets. Four of
the gunmen were killed and two others detained, while one policeman was
wounded, police said.
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