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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Iraqis Make Sure Assailant Doesn't Escape
Father Hands In Teenager Who Shot at Humvee; 2 Soldiers Killed in Other Attacks
By Theola Labb?
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 1, 2003; Page A14
BAGHDAD, July 31 -- U.S. troops in Iraq have grown grimly accustomed to guerrilla-style assaults by nameless, faceless attackers who toss grenades or fire mortars at them on an almost daily basis.
But Iraqis who live along Baghdad's busy Haifa Street refused to let such an attack go unsolved this morning. When someone shot an antitank weapon at a U.S. military armored vehicle, wounding one soldier, local residents identified a teenager from the neighborhood as the assailant, and the boy's father handed him over to U.S. troops, witnesses said.
"Those soldiers were very nice guys," said Salim Saheb Alwan, 55, a retired military officer who witnessed the attack. "We used to talk to them and play with these people."
The unusual arrest of the alleged assailant occurred within hours of two other attacks on U.S. forces that produced deadly results. Late Wednesday night, a soldier with the 4th Infantry Division was killed and two were wounded by small-arms fire at a tactical operations center about 40 miles east of Baqubah, and a soldier with the 1st Armored Division was killed and three were wounded at around noon today when their armored personnel carrier hit a land mine on the road between Baghdad and the city's international airport.
Meanwhile, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq said that the country's U.S.-appointed Governing Council could be replaced by a democratically elected body as soon as the middle of next year.
L. Paul Bremer, touring the Iraqi Foreign Ministry with some of the council's 25 members, told reporters that organizing elections by this time next year was "not unrealistic." Bremer previously had stated that elections would be held at the end of 2004 to replace the council, which is led by a committee largely made up of exiles and has struggled to gain the support of Iraqis who question its legitimacy.
Also today, neighboring Jordan granted asylum to former president Saddam Hussein's two eldest daughters, according to the Associated Press. The AP quoted Jordanian Information Minister Nabil Sharif as saying King Abdullah had offered asylum to Raghad and Rana Saddam Hussein and their nine children on humanitarian grounds. U.S. military officials in Baghdad did not comment on the report, and it was unclear whether the two women were being sought for questioning by U.S. authorities.
On Haifa Street this evening, pieces of the armored vehicle that was attacked still lay on the ground as children played soccer nearby.
Haifa Street was the scene of another attack on U.S. forces in early July, when a bomb planted in a median strip wounded three soldiers patrolling in a Humvee. The bomb also killed two Iraqis and injured 12, but witnesses blamed the Iraqi casualties on American troops who fired randomly after the bombing. An angry mob set the disabled Humvee on fire and cheered "God is greatest" as it burned.
Today, however, witnesses said they were disgusted at the attack on U.S. troops and were eager to catch the culprit. They were particularly upset, they said, because many innocent Iraqis could have been killed if the armored vehicle blew up in such a heavily populated area.
Arshed Salem, 17, who owns a soda and candy stand near where the armored vehicle was hit, said he was sitting in his store at about 9:30 a.m. and "all of a sudden there was a really big explosion and I was really shocked. I didn't know what was going on."
Salem said he saw someone running away and tried to catch him. He said he saw a bazooka-like weapon lying in a grassy area behind a bush, and though he didn't see the attacker, he said he had a good idea who it was.
Salem and some of his neighbors said they thought the attacker was a local boy, age 16 or 17, who was said by many in the area to have a penchant for gunplay and alcohol. Neighbors said the boy once shot his uncle in the stomach and fired bullets at his father's feet to see him dance. He had attempted to attack American soldiers twice before, they said, beginning about two weeks ago.
The neighbors told U.S. soldiers about their suspicions and gave them the address of a store owned by the teen's father. When the soldiers went to talk to the father, neighbors said, he took them to his house and handed over his son.
U.S. military officials said they had no information about the incident and could not confirm that an arrest had been made.
Salem said he had hoped that the boy would give U.S. authorities the names of other criminals on Haifa Street "so that this can cool off the shooting and stealing and looting."
Meanwhile, members of the 1st Armored Division outfit that came under attack said the incident had left them nervous and more watchful.
"We dodged something big today," one soldier said.
Special correspondent Naseer Nouri contributed to this report
?2003 The Washington Post Company
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