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スペイン部隊、イラクから撤退
18日のサパテロ新スペイン首相の早期撤退発表を受け、イラクに展開中のスペイン軍は19日に撤退を始めた。ボノ国防相は、6週間以内に撤退を完了させると語った。
Spain to withdraw all troops from Iraq in less than six weeks
MADRID (AP) - Spain started the process of pulling its forces out of Iraq on April 19, and Defense Minister Jose Bono said the withdrawal of all 1,300 troops would be completed in less than six weeks.
Newly elected Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had announced a day earlier that he would fulfill his campaign promise to bring home troops unless the United Nations takes control of the occupation of Iraq by June 30.
Zapatero said he had determined that condition would not be met by the deadline.
U.S. President George W. Bush lamented Spain's decision and cautioned Zapatero to avoid actions that might give "false comfort to terrorists or enemies of freedom in Iraq," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said
Bono and Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos declined to comment on Bush's remarks, which Spanish media played up as confrontational, although Moratinos insisted that the United States, a firm ally of former conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, was still "a friend and an Atlantic partner."
Meanwhile, suicide attackers unleashed car bombings against police buildings in Iraq's biggest Shiite city, Basra, on April 21, striking rush-hour crowds and killing at least 68 people and wounding around 200
Among the dead were 16 children - 10 kindergartners and six girls aged between 10 and 15 - who were incinerated in their school bus on the way to school.
In Fallujah, the bloodiest battlefield in April, an agreement aimed at bringing peace to the city ran into trouble. Insurgents attacked U.S. Marines April 21, prompting fighting that killed 20 guerrillas. Marines said most weapons turned in by residents were unusable, undermining a crucial attempt at disarming fighters.
Shukan ST: April 30, 2004
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- withdraw
- 撤退する
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- 部隊
- pulling its forces out of 〜
- 〜から部隊を撤退させる
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- 公約を実行する
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