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シーア派最大の宗教行事アシュラ祭礼日の2日、バグダッドとイラク中部のイスラム教シーア派の聖地カルバラで同時爆弾テロが起きた。
Deadly attacks in Iraq turn festival into bloodiest day since war bean
BAGHDAD (AP) - Suicide bombers set off simultaneous attacks on Shiite Muslim shrines crowded with pilgrims in the two Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Karbala on March 2, turning the holiest day on the Shiite calendar into the bloodiest since the fall of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Iraq Governing Council President Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum said 271 people were killed and 393 wounded in the bombings at Baghdad's Kazimiya shrine and holy sites in Karbala. U.S. officials, however, put the combined death toll at 117, down from 143 that they reported earlier.
Authorities said there were about a dozen bombers in those cities as well as in Basra, several of whom were captured before they were able to detonate their explosives
U.S. officials and Iraqi leaders named an al-Qaeda-linked militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a "prime suspect" for the attacks, saying he seeks to spark a Sunni-Shiite civil war to wreck U.S. plans to hand over power to the Iraqis on June 30.
But some Shiites lashed out at U.S. forces. Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Hussein al-Sistani, blamed the Americans for not providing security.
The attacks forced the delay of a milestone in the path toward the U.S. handover - the planned March 4 signing of an interim constitution approved by the Governing Council.
The devastating explosions came on the climactic day of the 10-day Shiite mourning festival Ashoura commemorating the 7th-century martyrdom of the prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein.
The festival was also the occasion of an attack on a Shiite procession later March 2 in Quetta, Pakistan. At least 42 people - including two attackers - were killed there and over 160 were wounded.
Shukan ST: March 12, 2004
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- Suicide bombers
- 自爆テロ犯
- set off 〜
- 〜を起こした
- simultaneous
- 同時の
- Shiite Muslim
- イスラム教シーア派
- pilgrims
- 巡礼者
- Iraq Governing Council
- イラク統治評議会
- combined death toll
- 総死者数
- were captured
- 逮捕された
- detonate their explosives
- 爆弾を爆発させる
- al-Qaeda-linked militant
- テロ組織アルカイダと関係のある過激派
- prime suspect
- 首謀者
- spark 〜
- 〜を誘発する
- Sunni-Shiite civil war
- スンニ派とシーア派間の内戦
- wreck 〜
- 〜をつぶす
- hand over power to 〜
- 〜へ権限を委譲する
- lashed out at 〜
- 〜を激しく非難した
- cleric
- 聖職者
- blamed 〜
- 〜を非難した
- milestone
- 重要な節目
- interim constitution
- 暫定憲法
- devastating
- 壊滅的な
- climactic
- 最高潮の
- mourning festival Ashoura commemorating 〜
- 〜を悼む祭礼行事アシュラ
- martyrdom
- 殉死
- prophet
- 預言者
- procession
- 行列