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(回答先: デンマーク国防相が辞任 ＡＦＰ通信など報道 [asahi.com] 投稿者 ひろ 日時 2004 年 4 月 24 日 11:00:38)
Denmark's defense minister resigns
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Copyright © 2004 AP Online
By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (April 23, 8:53 am ADT) - Denmark's defense minister resigned Friday as lawmakers questioned military intelligence reports the government used to justify its support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Svend Aage Jensby said he was stepping down because of a "smear campaign" by critics who say the government lied about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. A year after the invasion, no such weapons have been found.
Denmark has nearly 500 troops in Basra and nearby Qurnah, 250 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Jensby notified Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of his decision earlier Friday. The prime minister had not yet accepted the resignation.
In a statement, Jensby, who has held the job since November 2001, said "that he wanted to step down as minister."
"The government has achieved outstanding results and I don't want to burden the government and my family with the smear campaign that has been targeted at my person," Jensby said in a statement.
Lawmakers have questioned the military's reports on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction after a former military intelligence analyst was fired for leaking portions of two confidential reports to a newspaper in February. The analyst claimed that Fogh Rasmussen lied to lawmakers in 2002 when he sought support for the war to oust Saddam.
On Monday, Danish Defense Intelligence Service chief Rear Adm. Joern Olesen said the agency had always believed that Iraq "probably had biological and chemical weapons," adding that the documents were based on information gathered by the United Nations and NATO.
But a Danish intelligence report dated March 7, 2003, concluded that there was no "certain information" that Iraq had working weapons of mass destruction.
Ultimately, Denmark backed the invasion and contributed soldiers and a submarine, saying force was needed because Saddam would not cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Jensby came under more pressure after the Justice Ministry said he had broken state secrecy laws by discussing an intelligence committee meeting during a television interview.
In the interview, Jensby referred to a March 15 meeting of the parliamentary Control Committee, which gathered to read the reports that the Danish Defense Intelligence Service had written on Iraq.
"None of the members of the Control Committee questioned the facts that the government didn't handle the information totally correctly," Jensby said.
The Justice Ministry said Jensby had broken the law by referring to what had been discussed behind the closed doors. If found guilty, he could be fined or jailed for as long as six months. No charges were filed.
Jensby's resignation is not expected to jeopardize Fogh Rasmussen's center-right government.
Denmark, which backed the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, currently has nearly 500 troops in Basra and nearby Qurnah, 250 miles southeast of Baghdad.
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