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イラクで米軍ヘリ撃墜
イラク中部で2日、米軍のヘリコプターが何者かに攻撃され、撃墜された。ヘリには休暇のために国外に出る予定だった30数人の兵士が搭乗していたが、このうち少なくとも15人が死亡した。
Iraqi insurgents bring down U.S. helicopter, killing at least 15 soldiers
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. Chinook helicopter believed to be carrying dozens of soldiers to leaves abroad was struck by a missile and crashed west of Baghdad on Nov. 2, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 21 others, the U.S. command reported.
It was the deadliest day for American troops in the six-month-old occupation of Iraq.
The heavy transport helicopter was the biggest U.S. target yet shot from the skies by Iraq's insurgents, in a resistance campaign that has escalated in recent days. Witnesses and U.S. officials said four to five other U.S. soldiers were reported killed Nov. 2 in ground attacks here and elsewhere in central Iraq.
Witnesses near Fallujah, which is a center of Sunni Muslim resistance to the U.S. occupation, said they saw two missiles fired at the helicopter, which came down amid cornfields nearby.
Insurgents have fired on U.S. aircraft before, downing two helicopters, and American military officials have repeatedly warned that hundreds of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles remain unaccounted for in Iraq since the collapse of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime in April.
The helicopter was part of a formation of two Chinooks carrying more than 50 passengers to the U.S. base at Baghdad International Airport (BIA).
"Our initial report is that they were being transported to BIA for R&R flights," that is, rest-and-recreation leaves abroad, a U.S. command spokeswoman in Baghdad said.
Someone fired two missiles from the area of a date palm grove about 450 meters from where one of the helicopters came crashing down, said an Iraqi witness.
Other witnesses said the second helicopter hovered over the downed craft for some minutes and then set down, apparently to try to help extinguish a fire, but the downed helicopter was destroyed.
Shukan ST: Nov. 14, 2003
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- insurgents
- 反対分子
- Chinook helicopter
- チヌーク輸送ヘリコプター
- leaves abroad
- 国外での休暇
- command
- 司令部
- occupation
- 占領
- heavy transport helicopter
- 大型輸送ヘリコプター
- yet
- これまでのところ
- shot from the skies
- 撃墜された
- resistance campaign
- 敵対軍事行動
- Witnesses
- 目撃者
- Sunni Muslim
- スンニ派イスラム教徒の
- came down amid cornfields
- トウモロコシ畑に墜落した
- downing
- 撃墜して
- shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles
- 肩に担いで撃つ地対空ミサイル
- remain unaccounted for
- 行方不明のままだ
- regime
- 政権
- formation
- 編隊
- initial
- 当初の
- R&R
- (=rest-and-recreation)
- flights
- 休暇で国外に出ること
- date palm grove
- ナツメヤシの森
- hovered over 〜
- 〜上空を舞った
- set down
- 着陸した
- extinguish a fire
- 消火する