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先月、米国の傭兵企業ブラックウォーター社の傭兵がイラク市民を殺害した事件が起こったばかり。今度はオーストラリアの傭兵企業がイラク人女性２人を銃撃し殺害した。報じたのは英ガーディアン紙（10月10日付電子版）。
それによると、事件を起こしたのはオーストラリア籍の傭兵企業はユニティ・リソース・グループ（ドバイを根拠地にしている）。昨夜（9日）、２人が乗車した自動車が傭兵集団の車列に近づき過ぎたために銃弾が浴びせられた。
殺害されたイラク人女性２人が乗っていた自動車（AFP提供）
イラク政府スポークスマンは、犯人の身元が明らかになっていない時点で、「本日の事件は警備会社による一連の無法な事件の一つである」と語っている。
内務省スポークスマンは企業側から政府に謝罪があったと述べ、事件はバクダード中心部の企業事務所付近で起こったとした。
企業責任者は深い遺憾の意を表明し、引き続き事実の究明に努めるとしているが、先月に米国のブラックウォーター社が一般市民を殺害して、イラク政府が遺族に対して１億3600万㌦を支払うよう要求した矢先の事件である。傭兵企業の無法な行為に今後非難が集まるのは必至である。
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2187278,00.html
Private security guards accused of killing two women in car（The Guardian）
Michael Howard in Irbil
Wednesday October 10, 2007
The Guardian
Private security firms in Iraq were under fresh scrutiny last night after two women died in a hail of bullets, apparently because their car had got too close to a security convoy travelling through central Baghdad.
The identity of the guards remains unknown but Ali al-Dabbagh, an Iraqi government spokesman said: "Today's incident is part of a series of reckless actions by some security companies."
Later reports suggested guards from an Australian-owned security company based in Dubai, Unity Resources Group, had fired at the women.
An interior ministry spokesman said the company had apologised to the Iraqi government. The shooting occurred near Unity offices in central Baghdad's Karradah district.
Michael Priddin, Unity's chief operating officer, issued a statement saying: "We deeply regret this incident and will continue to pass on further information when the facts have been verified and the necessary people and authorities notified."
The deaths came just hours after Iraq's government demanded that the US security company Blackwater pay a total of $136m (£67m) in compensation to the families of civilians killed in a shooting in Baghdad last month. Seventeen people were shot and at least 20 injured when Blackwater guards protecting a US diplomatic convoy opened fire. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has urged the US to sever its relations with the company within six months.
Police at the scene of the shooting said they had collected 19 shell casings used by Nato forces and by Iraqi security agencies which have recently received new US weapons. In a scene that has become depressingly familiar to Baghdad residents, the women were shot after they drove too close to a convoy of three unmarked four-wheel drives close to the former German embassy.
One witness said the guards in the convoy, who were reported to be masked, had fired a warning shot and a smoke bomb in the direction of the women's car. He said the woman driving appeared to panic and failed to stop. A police spokesman said their car had then been hit with at least 16 bullets. The convoy then sped off leaving behind the blood-stained vehicle. Iraqi police later collected the bodies and towed the car to a local police station.
The women were described as being Christians. Marou Awanis, 48, was named as the driver. Relatives said she had been ferrying government employees to work to raise money to support her daughters. Two children in the back seat escaped unharmed, police said.
An interior ministry spokesman said the government was committed to regulating the private security sector. A senior Iraqi policeman said: "Why is it that when US soldiers commit crimes they go on trial, but when these thugs shoot innocent people they get away with it?"
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