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吐き気がする。あまりにグロテスクだ。気持ち悪い。モチベーション下がる。そして私の目の前には，食ってくための仕事がある。だから書かない。羅列するだけ，ＵＲＬと，記事の冒頭を。

一応分類だけしとく。「ラマディ」と，「オペレーション･マタドール」と，「アル＝カーイム」とに。

ともあれ，ちょっとググっただけで，「２００４年１１月のファルージャ総攻撃でザルカウィが逃げたから，アル＝カーイムは〔ラマディは〕テロリストの巣窟となって，米軍は攻撃せざるをえない」などということは言えなくなるよ。記事の日付に注目。

■「アル＝カーイム」
US attack on Iraqi city fought off
Saturday 17 April 2004
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3C4312DA-9ADD-4D4D-A972-68153FBCA56E.htm

US occupation forces have tried to storm the northern Iraqi city of al-Qaim, but have been repelled by resistance fighters, Aljazeera's correspondent reports.
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The clash occurred after a mortar attack on a US military base in the Jamarik area in the city near the border with Syria on Saturday.
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Witnesses told Aljazeera several US soldiers had been injured in the attack. "US helicopters were seen transferring the injured to hospital," the witnesses added. Columns of smoke were seen rising from the base.

Early U.S. Decisions on Iraq Now Haunt American Efforts
19apr04
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Early-US-Decisions-Iraq19apr04.htm
※元はWSJ。


US continues Iraq border offensive
Agencies
Tuesday May 10, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/
0,2763,1480752,00.html

US forces backed by helicopter gunships and warplanes swept through an area of western Iraq near the Syrian border again today, raiding desert outposts and safe houses in the hunt for the Jordanian militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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The US military reported that up to 100 militants had been killed since Operation Matador began on Saturday night in the border city of Qaim, 200 miles west of Baghdad. The offensive, one of the largest undertaken by the US military in Iraq for six months, targeted the followers of Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. US officials said at least three US marines died in the attacks, and a Los Angeles Times reporter embedded with US forces said 20 American troops were wounded.

■「ラマディ」
Ramadi-A Delicate Lid
by Dahr Jamail | Posted May 17, 2004
http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000402.html

He was asked what would happen in Ramadi if the US military attempted to do what it did in Falluja. "This would be worse than Falluja," he replied. "Even now they are hit 3-4 times each day. We are honored by the resistance here."
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Another man, Abdul Ahab, a 21 year-old student at the Economics College, said, "Security is worse. All Ramadis are against the Americans. I used to think they were different, but after seeing the torturing, I hate them."
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A 24 year-old student of the Science University here, listening to the conversation, added, "The Americans are invaders. They took their authority by invading, and it is worse here than before they came."
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All of the men I spoke with were extremely angry. Each question was like taking another lid off of a boiling kettle.
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The student continued, "They came with a mask of freedom, but we are not free. They brought torture, worse security, and terrorism. They are the terrorists!"

Fallujah parallels in Ramadi
July 23, 2004
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0723/p06s01-woiq.html

At sunset, as American helicopters swooped over central Ramadi, a small funeral procession for Iraqis killed in the fighting moved slowly through town. But stores remained locked behind metal gratings and few residents ventured onto streets littered with debris and cratered by bombs.

Battle at Ramadi
Aug. 15, 2004
Google Cache，エンベッド記者の薄ら寒い同一化のanother example

Ramadi is one of the most dangerous places in Iraq.
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The capital of Anbar province in the heart of a Sunni stronghold, this city on the Euphrates River was a power base for Saddam Hussein and remains a restive hotbed of resistance. If the Iraqi insurgency has a center of gravity, Ramadi, on the main road between Baghdad and Jordan, probably is it.
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More than 129 U.S. service members have died in Anbar province since President Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1, 2003.

Many killed in Ramadi, Falluja raids
Tuesday 14 September 2004
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/19287CF7-A5CE-4D8F-988B-F3CB37B6F1FF.htm

US snipers have killed at least 11 people in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, while air strikes on nearby Falluja have left 18 people dead.
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Dr Khamis al-Saad, general director of Ramadi hospital, told Aljazeera that 11 people, including a woman and children, were killed and another 18 wounded under US fire on Monday.
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Ambulances and medical teams were targeted by US snipers in different areas of Ramadi, particularly near hospitals for women and children, al-Saad said.
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Two ambulance drivers and members of medical teams on board the vehicles were also killed, he said.

あと，とりあえず，あっちに１９件あります。

ラフール・マハジャン記事〜ハイファ・ストリート，ファルージャ，タルアファル
2004-09-16
http://teanotwar.blogtribe.org/entry-e89315cc3722e9cb9c254ceaa0ad6a9a.html

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　バグダードの西に位置するラマディでは，米軍の戦車とヘリが住宅街で攻撃を開始し，女性や子どもを含む10人が死亡，40人が負傷した，とラマディ病院のアブデル・サラーム・モハメド医師がロイターに語った。米軍はこの件についてまだコメントを出していない。
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アモリヤーの難民キャンプ（ＣＰＴ，３月６日）
2005-03-07
http://teanotwar.blogtribe.org/entry-2f7b74dd27fa23c7ab4b1294c205bf42.html

ラマディに向かうハイウェイは閉鎖されていて，アモリヤーへは裏道を行かなければならない。私たちを迎えてくれているイラク人は女性の人権活動家で非常にタフな女性だが，彼女は米軍はラマディを数ヶ月前のファルージャ同様に包囲し攻撃していると言う。そしてその攻撃はレジスタンスを「破る」ためのものだと。

『ラマディの狂気』――米フロリダ州国家警備隊の「不適切な」ビデオ（米PBP，３月１３日など）
2005-03-14
http://teanotwar.blogtribe.org/entry-9487c4733ebb5e7def481d7afeb2a7ed.html

■「オペレーション・マタドール」
Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
Sunday, 15 May, 2005, 11:21 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4548393.stm
ＢＢＣはこんな記事の一番下にちょこっと書いていやがる。しかもこんなコンテクストを用意しやがって。（このbutの使い方は，英語屋として見て，いかにも稚拙で不自然で，まるで品位というものがない。）２００３年３月２５日ごろに戻ったみたいだ。

More than 400 people have been killed in militant attacks since Iraq's democratically elected government was announced at the end of April.
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But the US said it had made progress in its week-long Operation Matador.
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The Americans said they had killed more than 125 rebels for the loss of nine of their own men, with 40 wounded.
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The campaign, involving air strikes and at least 1,000 ground troops, took place close to the border with Syria.
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It was the largest campaign against insurgents since the US-led assault on Falluja in November.

……もうやめていいですか？　本当に吐き気がするんです。

英語でただ流れ込んでくる「情報」をひとりで受け止めきれなくなって，その発露としてRaed blogの翻訳を始めたのが２００４年４月。ほぼ同時に『ファルージャ』の編訳の作業をやって，あのときはとにかく，ただ，目の前にあるこれ（＝英語）を何とかしなきゃ，みたいな気持ちでがーっとやってた。「来年の今頃は」なんてまったく考えてもいなかった。そんなこと，まったく思い浮かびもしなかった。

今は「来年の今頃は」と考える。そして非常に重たく暗い気持ちになる。

スラヴォイ・ジジェクが『イラク』で書いていたのは，こういうことだったのだと，身に染みてわかる。この吐き気がそれだ。

イラクに行ったこともなく，イラクを知らない私でさえこうなのだ。イラクの人たちはどうだろう。

そのことを思うと，ひたすらにただ，申し訳ない。

■「ファルージャ」
teanotwarの「ファルージャの状況」カテゴリ

ファルージャ，再び。
2004 年 06 月 20 日（日）
http://ch.kitaguni.tv/u/917/todays_news_from_uk/0000093376.html

「ファルージャ」を伝える／伝えない。
2004 年 06 月 21 日（月）
http://ch.kitaguni.tv/u/917/voices_from_iraq/0000093713.html

ファルージャが19日にまたもや爆撃された。

……去年の６月２０日ごろ，すなわち『ファルージャ』がそろそろ店頭に出るというころ。４月のあれを，一応“まとめた”ものを私たちが生み出したころ，ファルージャはまたやられていた。

本当は私，去年の今くらいから少し後には，今年の今頃がこうなってることを，知っていたのかもしれない。