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米情報機関、「フセイン死亡」の電話傍受 ＮＹＴ紙報道
http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0412/017.html
１２日付の米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズ（電子版）は、イラクのフセイン大統領が米英軍による空爆で死亡したと話すイラク政府当局者同士の交信を米情報機関が傍受した、と報じた。同様の会話を傍受したケースは複数あるが、いずれも死亡した状況については触れていないという。
複数の米政府当局者の話として伝えた。それによると、ある高官はこうした会話の傍受で米政府が「死亡説」に傾いていると語った。しかし、会話をしていたこの当局者らが真実を知らなかったり、盗聴を前提に偽情報を流したりしている可能性も米情報機関は捨てていない。
フセイン大統領が死亡したという物証は見つかっていない。ブッシュ大統領は１１日、「死んでいるか生きているか分からない」と語った。
(04/12 19:58)
U.S. Officials Say Messages Imply Hussein May Be Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12INTE.html
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, April 11 — American intelligence officials said today that they had intercepted communications in which former Iraqi officials said among themselves that they believed that President Saddam Hussein had been killed in a bombing raid in Baghdad.
But the American officials said they were not certain that Mr. Hussein had been killed, citing the lack of physical evidence and the fact that forensic teams had not yet examined the site of an American bombing raid on Monday in the Mansur neighborhood of Baghdad, where intelligence reports indicated Mr. Hussein was meeting top aides.
The officials who described the communications intercepts today have disputed reports from military officials in the field who said Mr. Hussein was seen Thursday at a mosque in Baghdad that was the site of a firefight later that day.
American officials warned that it is possible that the midlevel Iraqi officials discussing Mr. Hussein's death did not know the truth, or were passing on disinformation, convinced that the American intelligence agencies would be eavesdropping on their conversations.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that he had not seen enough intelligence information "that would enable me to walk up and say that I have conviction that he's dead."
Even so, American officials said that there were two, and possibly more, intercepted communications involving different Iraqi leaders discussing Mr. Hussein's death. In the conversations, the Iraqis did not specifically refer to the circumstances in which Mr. Hussein was supposed to have been killed, the officials said.
One senior intelligence official said that because of the intercepts, officials were "leaning more towards the idea that he is dead."
Military leaders said they had issued playing cards to American troops with the faces of the top wanted Iraqis so they could be on the lookout for them as they patrolled the streets of Iraqi cities.
Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company
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