自上周二6名英军士兵在伊拉克南部城镇马加尔遭武装人员杀害后，英军于周六首次重返该镇。
英国国防部说，一支由500名士兵组成的英军部队在该镇会晤了当地一个由什叶派穆斯林代表和地方名流组成的代表团。国防部发言人说：“（他们传达的）信息是：我们不会被吓退，但也不会像萨达姆那样惩罚人们。我们将帮助你们重建家园。”
他还说，进驻马加尔的英军部分使命是调查士兵死亡事件。上周二,在距伊拉克城市阿马拉以南30公里处的马加尔分别发生两起事件，造成6名英军士兵死亡，8人受伤。英军方曾表示，上述14人的死伤可能是由于英军与当地居民在武器搜查问题上的误会造成的。
British Troops Return to Southern Iraqi Town
British troops returned on Saturday to the southern Iraqi townof Majjar for the first time since six soldiers were killed thereby gunmen last Tuesday.
The British Ministry of Defense said a force of some 500 troopsmet with a dele-gation of Shiite clerics and local digni-taries inthe town.“The message（they were delivering）was: we’re not goingto be fcenterened off but neither are we going to punish the peoplein the way Saddam Hus-sein would have done.Were going to help youre-establish your community,a min-istry spokesman said.
He added that part of the troops duties in Majjar would be toinvestigate the deaths of the so ldiers.Six British soldiers werekilled and eight wounded on Tuesday in two sete incidents inMajjar,30kilometers south of the Iraqi city of Ama-rah.The Britishmilitary has said that all 14 were victims of a misunderstandingbe-tween troops and locals over weapons searches.
