対イラク武力行使

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june06/iraq_05-16.html


Who was behind the attack?

JUDY WOODRUFF:Do we know anything about who's behind this?
Is this Sunni against Shia and vice versa?
Is it outside insurgents like al-Qaida?
What is known,if anything?

誰の犯行か目星はついているんですか
スンニ派とシーア派の抗争か
アルカイダのような外部の勢力の犯行か
現時点で何が分かっているんですか


SABRINA TAVERNISE:Most of what happened today seemed to be
local Sunnis,although it's always hard to tell
But the parking garage was guarded by Shiites who counted themselves
among the Mahdi Army,which is a Shiite kind very loosely affiliated
militia group
So we think that probably was-they were Sunni Arabs targeting them
But a lot of the violence has been sectarian
For example,yesterday north of Baghdad,a minibus-
I believe it was carrying teachers -- was pulled over and
the Sunni teachers were separated from the Shiite teachers
The Sunni teachers were let go;the Shiite teachers were shot dead
So there is a lot of that happening,a lot of, you know,assassinations
targeted killings,different than the suicide bombings and the large
spectacular,you know,market and public space bombings that we were
seeing a lot of last year at this time

今日の事件に関しては殆どが地元スンニ派が関わったとみられています
ガレージの警備員はシーア派でマハディ軍に属していました
その為スンニ派の犯行という見方が強いです
いずれにしても宗派間の対立によるものが多いのです
15日にもバグダッド北部で、教師を乗せたマイクロバスが、武装勢力によって
止められ、スンニ派教師は即時解放されましたが、シーア派教師は殺害されま
した
今このような狙い撃ちが増加しています
去年頻発したような自爆テロや公共の場での大規模な爆弾事件とは
性格が異なってきています


Patterns of violence

JUDY WOODRUFF:It does seem like every time we open the newspaper or
look at television,there's been another-it's been another day of
violence in Iraq.A Is there any pattern?
A Or how would you describe the pace of it?

新聞を開いたり、テレビを観る度に、イラクでの事件を目にしますが
何らかのパターンがあるのでしょうか
犯行のペースについては、どう思われますか


SABRINA TAVERNISE:Yes,the pace-it's very strange because
last year at this time,as you might remember,a lot of big bombings
a lot of big,spectacular,you know,headline-grabbing violence
And it's really-the suicide bombings and car bombings have come down
quite a lot,the American military says by about 75 percent
which actually feels right in the cap
But on the other hand,there's a lot more of the shootings that
we saw yesterday with the teachers
So,you know,somebody stops a car,pulls people out of the car
kills them based on their identity
And that's harder to track,but it's been more prevalent,and actually
it's been killing-it seems like it's been killing more people

ペースについては奇妙な動きを示しています
去年の今頃は、トップニュースになる程の大規模な爆弾テロ事件が
起こっていました
米軍によれば自爆テロ、自動車を使ったテロは首都では
75％減少
今日の教師の襲撃のような銃撃事件が増加
誰かが車を止めて、車から引きずり出して、特定の宗派、民族だけを
殺害するという事件
これは追求が難しい
死者数は去年より増加


So people are dying at great rates,
but kind of in a different way than last year.

一定期間内の死者数は増加
その殺害の手口は去年とは違う


You know,Iraqis continue to take over battle spaces from the Americans.
More than half of Baghdad is controlled by Iraqis and policed by Iraqis,
a lot of it the army,but some of it also the police.

イラク人は米軍から警備地域を引き継ぎつつあり
既にバグダッドの半分以上で主にイラク軍、一部イラク警察に
治安権限が移譲