9-9-2005

付款纠纷使巴格达机场暂时关闭 (Payment Dispute Temporarily Shuts Baghdad Airport)

伊拉克政府把本国部队派到巴格达国际机场，以重新启用机场设施。此前，负责保卫机场的一家英国公司因付款方面的纠纷而关闭了机场。伊拉克代理交通部长埃斯马特.阿米尔星期五说，机场的开放关系到伊拉克的主权。他说，所有飞行业务星期五都将恢复。

英国保安公司全球战略集团表示，伊拉克政府拖欠了7个月的款项。这家公司说，他们会继续保护机场的安全，不过，飞行业务要在账单付清之后才能恢复。

另外，反叛分子在巴格达的袭击造成两名伊拉克人死亡，另有至少6人受伤。在另一方面，星期三被美国军队救出的美国人罗伊.哈卢姆斯正在重返故里的途中。同时，伊拉克临时总统塔拉巴尼星期五在华盛顿访问，并参观了美国之音。

Iraq's government has ordered its troops to Baghdad's international airport to re-open the facility after the British company that protects it shut it down in a payment dispute. Acting Transportation Minister Esmat Amer said (today/Friday) keeping the airport open is a matter of Iraqi sovereignty. He said flights will resume today.

The British security firm Global Strategies Group says the Iraqi government is seven months behind in payments. The company says it will continue to secure the complex, but flights will be grounded until the bills are paid.

Meanwhile, in Baghdad, insurgent attacks have left two Iraqis dead and at least six others injured. In other developments, former American hostage Roy Hallums, who was rescued by American troops Wednesday, is on his way home to the United States. And President Jalal Talabani is in Washington today, where he visited the Voice of America.

当局加紧对不肯撤离的飓风灾民施压 (Authorities Step Up Pressure on Hurricane Holdouts)

当局正在对那些拒绝撤离遭受飓风重创的新奥尔良市的居民加大压力。数以千计的警察和国民警卫队员即将完成撤离所有愿意撤离居民的行动，而那些拒绝服从强制撤离令的人现在成了他们新的工作重点。

有关官员估计，有5千到1万人不顾污染的大水和几处熊熊的大火，仍然滞留在新奥尔良。当局警告说，死亡人数有可能数以千计，不过，目前只找到了200具尸体。当局为了清理行动提供了2万5千个收尸袋。

Authorities are stepping up the pressure on New Orleans residents who have refused to leave the devastated city. Thousands of police and National Guard troops are completing their efforts to evacuate all those who want to leave and are now turning their attention to those who have not obeyed a mandatory evacuation effort.

Officials estimate that between five-and-ten-thousand residents remain in New Orleans, despite contaminated floodwaters and several raging fires. Authorities warn the death toll could reach into the thousands, although fewer than 200 bodies have been found so far. Twenty-five thousand body bags have been provided for the clean-up operation.