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米同時テロ、イラク関与証拠なし
2001年9月11日に起きた米同時多発テロの経緯について検証している独立調査委員会は16日、同テロにイラクが関与する証拠はなかったとする報告書を公表した。
Independent commission on 9/11 questions Iraq links to attacks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rebuffing claims from the U.S. administration, an independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said June 16 no evidence exists that terrorist network al-Qaeda had strong ties to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Although Osama bin Laden asked for help from Iraq in the mid-1990s, Hussein's government never responded, according to a report by the commission staff based on interviews with government intelligence and law enforcement officials. The report said there is "no credible evidence" that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 strikes.
Al-Qaeda is actively trying to replicate the destruction of that day, the report said, though the terrorist network has been weakened by losing its sanctuary in Afghanistan and many leaders to U.S. strikes and arrests.
The terror organization also is trying to obtain a nuclear weapon and is "extremely interested" in chemical, radiological and biological attacks, including the use of anthrax, it said.
"The trend toward attacks intended to cause ever-higher casualties will continue," the report said.
The commission staff said that Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed originally planned for an attack involving 10 aircraft targeting both U.S. coasts. Mohammed proposed that he pilot one of the planes, kill all the male passengers, land the plane at a U.S. airport and make a "speech denouncing U.S. policies in the Middle East before releasing all the women and children," the report said
Bin Laden rejected that plan as too complex, deciding instead on four aircraft piloted by handpicked suicide operatives. The report said the targets were chosen based on symbolism: the Pentagon, which represented the U.S. military; the World Trade Center, a symbol of American economic strength; the Capitol, which was seen as the source of U.S. support for Israel; and the White House. Training for the attacks began in 1999.
Shukan ST: June 25, 2004
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- Independent commission
- 独立調査委員会
- 9/11
- 2001年9月11日に起きた米同時多発テロのこと
- Rebuffing 〜
- 〜をはねつけて
- claims
- 主張
- administration
- 政権
- intelligence and law enforcement officials
- 諜報員と捜査当局者
- credible
- 確かな
- was involved in 〜
- 〜に関与した
- replicate
- 繰り返す
- destruction
- 破壊
- has been weakened
- 弱体化した
- sanctuary
- 安全な場所
- obtain 〜
- 〜を得る
- nuclear weapon
- 核兵器
- chemical, radiological and biological attacks
- 化学兵器、放射性物質、生物兵器を使った攻撃
- anthrax
- 炭そ菌
- trend
- 動き
- intended to 〜
- 〜することを意図した
- casualties
- 死傷者数
- mastermind
- 首謀者
- both U.S. coasts
- 米東西両海岸
- denouncing 〜
- 〜を非難する
- complex
- 複雑な
- handpicked
- ビン・ラディンが選んだ
- suicide operatives
- 自爆テロ実行者
- Pentagon
- 米国防総省のこと
- Capitol
- 米連邦議会議事堂