バグダード：ＢＢＣの７日の記事２つ（サドルシティ，イタリア人NGOメンバー拉致）
サドルシティの戦闘で40人ほどが死亡，そして「バグダードへの橋」のイタリア人２人が拉致。いずれも７日のＢＢＣ記事。（以下はまだ中途半端）
■サドルシティ
Dozens killed in Baghdad fighting
Last Updated: Tuesday, 7 September, 2004, 17:27 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3633742.stm
Fighting between US forces and Shia insurgents across Baghdad's Sadr City suburb has left at least 34 dead.
Clashes in the last 24 hours also injured at least 170 Iraqis, health officials said. One US soldier is among the dead and several were wounded.
Another US soldier was killed by small arms fire in another part of Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, the US army said.
Also in Baghdad, the city's governor narrowly escaped assassination in an attack on his convoy.
Loud explosions and gunfire were heard across Sadr City throughout Monday night and Tuesday morning, as US fighter jets flew overhead.
The area is a bastion of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, who recently called on followers to observe a ceasefire.
Mr Sadr's Mehdi Army militia has been involved in numerous clashes with US-led forces in Iraq in recent months.
A peace deal in August ended weeks of fighting in the southern city of Najaf, but sporadic fighting has continued elsewhere.
Many Sadr militiamen are believed to have since returned from Najaf to Sadr City - a heavily-populated slum in north-east Baghdad named after Mr Sadr's father, a senior cleric assassinated in 1999 reportedly on Saddam Hussein's orders.
A US army captain quoted by Associated Press said the American soldier killed in Sadr City was shot when militants attacked troops carrying out routine patrols.
"We just kept coming under fire," Capt Brian O'Malley said.
A spokesman for Mr Sadr blamed intrusive American incursions into the area for the violence, and said his forces "had no choice but to return fire".
Sporadic attacks
Separate roadside bombs in Baghdad a day earlier killed three American soldiers, the US military said on Tuesday.
A fourth soldier died in a blast near Mosul on the same day.
The latest attacks bring the number of Americans killed in Iraq on Monday and Tuesday to 13 and the total number since the March 2003 invasion to nearly 1,000.
In addition to the attack on the Governor of Baghdad, the son of the governor of the northern province of Niniveh was killed in a drive-by shooting, hospital officials said.
Nineteen-year-old Leith Dureid Kashmula was hit by two bullets in the chest and rushed to hospital where he died of his injuries, hospital staff in Mosul said.
He had been alone in the car in the west of the city when he was attacked. The current governor's predecessor was assassinated in July.
日本語での紹介は改めて。しかしこの記事にいくつ「死」が入ってるんだろうね。
■支援団体「バグダードへの橋」のイタリア人２人が拉致
Italian women kidnapped in Iraq
Last Updated: Tuesday, 7 September, 2004, 18:23 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3635304.stm
Two Italian women working for a humanitarian group in Iraq have been kidnapped in Baghdad.
Witnesses said armed men stormed the offices of A Bridge for Baghdad, abducting Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, and two Iraqis.
More than 100 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi cut short a visit to Milan in order to monitor the situation.
One of the Iraqis captured was a male engineer who worked for the humanitarian group, although unconfirmed reports indicated that he may have escaped shortly after being seized.
The other Iraqi was believed to work for Intersos, another Italian organisation.
Contacts
A spokesperson for A Bridge for Baghdad, based in Rome, confirmed that the women worked on water and school projects in the Iraqi capital.
The kidnappings happened in the Wehda district of Baghdad, on a side just off a busy square and close to a hospital.
Witnesses said that up to 20 heavily-armed kidnappers drove up in three cars to the offices of the two organisations and seized the four hostages.
Jean-Dominique Bunel, of the NGO Co-ordination Committee in Iraq, told the Associated Press news agency that religious authorities had been contacted.
"We are working for their release," he said.
The two women are not the first Italians to be abducted in Iraq.
Insurgents kidnapped and killed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month as he travelled to the southern city of Najaf.
In April, kidnappers killed Italian security guard Fabrizio Quattrocchi.
Journalists
A Bridge for Baghdad is a volunteer association created in 1991 to bring aid to the Iraqi people and to oppose the sanctions imposed on the country until the fall of Saddam Hussein, its website says.
The charity has also operated in the Balkans.
The kidnappings come as French authorities continue attempts to negotiate the release of two journalists seized in Iraq more than two weeks ago.
Diplomats hoping to secure the release of Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot held talks on Tuesday with Shia Muslim clerics believed to have contact with Iraqi insurgents holding the journalists.
Hatem al-Zaid, a member of the Muslim Scholars Committee, said: "We are just waiting and hoping the French hostages will be freed."
……ああ，またか。
しかも「バグダードへの橋」か。
投稿者：いけだ
■サドルシティ
Dozens killed in Baghdad fighting
Last Updated: Tuesday, 7 September, 2004, 17:27 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3633742.stm
Fighting between US forces and Shia insurgents across Baghdad's Sadr City suburb has left at least 34 dead.
Clashes in the last 24 hours also injured at least 170 Iraqis, health officials said. One US soldier is among the dead and several were wounded.
Another US soldier was killed by small arms fire in another part of Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, the US army said.
Also in Baghdad, the city's governor narrowly escaped assassination in an attack on his convoy.
Loud explosions and gunfire were heard across Sadr City throughout Monday night and Tuesday morning, as US fighter jets flew overhead.
The area is a bastion of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, who recently called on followers to observe a ceasefire.
Mr Sadr's Mehdi Army militia has been involved in numerous clashes with US-led forces in Iraq in recent months.
A peace deal in August ended weeks of fighting in the southern city of Najaf, but sporadic fighting has continued elsewhere.
Many Sadr militiamen are believed to have since returned from Najaf to Sadr City - a heavily-populated slum in north-east Baghdad named after Mr Sadr's father, a senior cleric assassinated in 1999 reportedly on Saddam Hussein's orders.
A US army captain quoted by Associated Press said the American soldier killed in Sadr City was shot when militants attacked troops carrying out routine patrols.
"We just kept coming under fire," Capt Brian O'Malley said.
A spokesman for Mr Sadr blamed intrusive American incursions into the area for the violence, and said his forces "had no choice but to return fire".
Sporadic attacks
Separate roadside bombs in Baghdad a day earlier killed three American soldiers, the US military said on Tuesday.
A fourth soldier died in a blast near Mosul on the same day.
The latest attacks bring the number of Americans killed in Iraq on Monday and Tuesday to 13 and the total number since the March 2003 invasion to nearly 1,000.
In addition to the attack on the Governor of Baghdad, the son of the governor of the northern province of Niniveh was killed in a drive-by shooting, hospital officials said.
Nineteen-year-old Leith Dureid Kashmula was hit by two bullets in the chest and rushed to hospital where he died of his injuries, hospital staff in Mosul said.
He had been alone in the car in the west of the city when he was attacked. The current governor's predecessor was assassinated in July.
日本語での紹介は改めて。しかしこの記事にいくつ「死」が入ってるんだろうね。
■支援団体「バグダードへの橋」のイタリア人２人が拉致
Italian women kidnapped in Iraq
Last Updated: Tuesday, 7 September, 2004, 18:23 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3635304.stm
Two Italian women working for a humanitarian group in Iraq have been kidnapped in Baghdad.
Witnesses said armed men stormed the offices of A Bridge for Baghdad, abducting Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, and two Iraqis.
More than 100 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi cut short a visit to Milan in order to monitor the situation.
One of the Iraqis captured was a male engineer who worked for the humanitarian group, although unconfirmed reports indicated that he may have escaped shortly after being seized.
The other Iraqi was believed to work for Intersos, another Italian organisation.
Contacts
A spokesperson for A Bridge for Baghdad, based in Rome, confirmed that the women worked on water and school projects in the Iraqi capital.
The kidnappings happened in the Wehda district of Baghdad, on a side just off a busy square and close to a hospital.
Witnesses said that up to 20 heavily-armed kidnappers drove up in three cars to the offices of the two organisations and seized the four hostages.
Jean-Dominique Bunel, of the NGO Co-ordination Committee in Iraq, told the Associated Press news agency that religious authorities had been contacted.
"We are working for their release," he said.
The two women are not the first Italians to be abducted in Iraq.
Insurgents kidnapped and killed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month as he travelled to the southern city of Najaf.
In April, kidnappers killed Italian security guard Fabrizio Quattrocchi.
Journalists
A Bridge for Baghdad is a volunteer association created in 1991 to bring aid to the Iraqi people and to oppose the sanctions imposed on the country until the fall of Saddam Hussein, its website says.
The charity has also operated in the Balkans.
The kidnappings come as French authorities continue attempts to negotiate the release of two journalists seized in Iraq more than two weeks ago.
Diplomats hoping to secure the release of Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot held talks on Tuesday with Shia Muslim clerics believed to have contact with Iraqi insurgents holding the journalists.
Hatem al-Zaid, a member of the Muslim Scholars Committee, said: "We are just waiting and hoping the French hostages will be freed."
……ああ，またか。
しかも「バグダードへの橋」か。
投稿者：いけだ