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(回答先: イラク反体制派がベルリンのイラク大使館を占拠〔読売新聞〕 投稿者 FP親衛隊国家保安本部 日時 2002 年 8 月 20 日 22:45:43)
Iraqi: Cia, Mossad Behind Incident
Wednesday August 21, 2002 9:00 PM
BERLIN (AP) - Recounting the five hours he was held hostage by gunmen, Iraq's acting ambassador said Wednesday that he is convinced his captors were either Israeli or American agents whose goal was to raise German support for a U.S. attack on Baghdad.
Given the way the five men handily disabled embassy security systems and rewired a gate to enter the grounds, Shamil Mohammed said they could not have been ordinary Iraqi dissidents as they claimed.
``It was a good and well planned action and these people were not politically motivated, they are mercenaries, they are gangsters,'' Mohammed told The Associated Press. ``I think you can ask the people in Washington or London or Tel Aviv about it - it was either CIA or Mossad.''
A previously unknown Iraqi dissident group calling itself the Democratic Iraqi Opposition of Germany said its members were behind the embassy seizure Tuesday and called for the overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. German commandos stormed the building, detaining the five men and freeing the hostages.
Other Iraqi opposition groups said the group was new and that they had no connection to it. During the hostage-taking, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the administration had no knowledge of - or contacts with - the group and called such attempts to overthrow Saddam ``unacceptable.''
Mohammed was in his first-floor office Tuesday when he heard gunshots from outside and saw men run past his wife and two young sons, who had been playing on the neatly manicured embassy grounds. He and his designated successor, Muaead Hussain, rushed to the front door but were unable to stop the assailants from forcing their way in with axes and handguns.
``They entered the building, we tried to stop them but they threatened us with their pistols, then sprayed gas in our faces - it was very painful, and for two hours we couldn't see anything,'' Mohammed said.
Mohammed said the men used tape to bind him, Hussain, and an Iraqi man and his German wife who had been at the embassy. The latter two were freed after the officials told their captors they had nothing to do with the embassy, but Mohammed and Hussain were kept gunpoint.
``They said always, 'If you move, we will shoot you,' but we couldn't move because we were taped,'' Mohammed said.
Mohammed said the men did not voice any demands.
``They refused to discuss the matter. They said, 'We are implementing orders from outside', and all the time they were receiving calls on their cell phones,'' he said.
Berlin judicial spokeswoman Ariane Faust said the five men, aged 32 to 43, had all applied for asylum in Germany and were believed to be Iraqis who were living outside of Berlin. The men have refused to talk to officials.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has opposed any military action against Iraq, and Mohammed said officials in Baghdad are convinced the incident was an attempt to turn German opinion toward supporting a U.S. attack.
Mohammed rejected the White House's denial of any contacts with the group. ``They would like to invade Iraq - what do you think they would do, come with flowers?'' he said. ``That is just propaganda and we are sure they are behind this action.''
After receiving the go-ahead from Iraqi authorities, German police stormed the building and rescued Mohammed and Hussain without a shot being fired.
``They gave up - in a few seconds it was all over,'' Mohammed said.
Two pencil-sized holes were visible in the embassy's main door, and police had marked the stairs with yellow where an ammunition cartridge had fallen. The inner door had another hole through it, and the frame was splintered where it had been kicked in.
A police car sat in front of the building, a villa in an affluent Berlin neighborhood which was opened as Iraq's embassy a month ago after it moved from Bonn. Mohammed said he had now requested police remain outside the compound permanently.
Mohammed said his country would like to have the five men extradited for trial in Baghdad, but he expected that they would remain in Germany.
``This is Iraqi soil, and we will try'' for extradition, he said, standing on the embassy grounds. ``But we are confident the Germans will do their job properly.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1961731,00.html
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