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	Sakai Keiko interviewed by Eric Prideaux: Japan's Iraq Conundrum - Iraq,Japan,Japanese,there,Samawah,SDF,Iraqi ...
		In other words, in my view, more than asking whether Samawah itself is or isn't a combat area, the point is that when the SDF was dispatched there, Iraq, as a whole, remained in the throes of war.
		Samawah, compared to other areas, is still relatively calm.
		Sadr had few supporters in Samawah, but those who were there probably thought they had to pitch in somehow.
	japanfocus.org /products/details/2087 (3010 words)

	Samawah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samawah or As Samawah (Arabic language:السماوة) is a city in Iraq, 280 km southeast of Baghdad.
		Iraqi policeman guards the governor's house in Samawah.
		Japan Self-Defense Forces, stationed in Samawah since January 2004, are scheduled to leave by the end of July 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samawah (1633 words)

	David Ashe 2nd Congressional District of Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Samawah's brand new, U.S.-backed deputy mayor has light in his fl eyes and a snap of energy in his hands.
		Samawah is rooted in the Shiite south, a region that has blossomed since Saddam's fall.
		Samawah's past is being dragged slowly into view; the mass graves are being exhumed.
	davidasheforcongress.com /CampaignNews/articles/12-19-04_CoverStory.htm (6714 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Fierce battle for key town
		United States infantry in southern central Iraq have been engaged in heavy fighting with Iraqi militiamen for control of the strategically important town of Samawah.
		All morning there has been an intense battle going on for the town of Samawah.
		This is a crucial staging post on one of the convoy routes from Kuwait up to the outskirts of Baghdad.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2891291.stm (511 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Grassroots Human Security Grant Aid to Iraq (Governorate of Al-Muthanna) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On June 26 at the etape of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces in Samawah, the Acting Director of the Department of Samawah Municipality, the Director of the Department of Ar-Rumaitha and the Director of the Road and Bridge Department of the Governorate of Al-Muthanna, signed a grant contract.
		Samawah, the central city of the Governorate of Al-Muthanna, through which passes National Route 8, the main highway in southern Iraq, suffers heavy traffic and severe damage to its roads.
		Speeding up road repair in Samawah is expected to improve the traffic situation including alleviating congestion and activating even further the social and economic activities of the Samawah citizens.
	reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6DTHSX?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=irq (580 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		The Samawah hospital will be given a very high priority, receiving an initial grant of 1 billion yen.
		Samawah citizens have so many requests and such high expectations about what the troops are going to do that the Japanese government is already beginning to worry that the troop contingent - and what it actually is able to do - might disappoint local people.
		Samawah has been a relatively peaceful city, although an Iraqi policeman was fatally shot on Saturday.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FA27Dh04.html (1370 words)

	village voice > news > Temperatures Rise by David Axe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He says that when coalition forces took Samawah in March 2003, all three tanks were "sedimented up." Coalition forces cleaned them, only to discover that power outages were sapping the pressure in the plant's pipes, contributing to the clogging.
		Mattison says that a new 40-megawatt power plant opened here recently but that much of the electricity it generates goes to Baghdad, where insurgent attacks wreck infrastructure, meaning much of what gets sent north is wasted.
		At the Samawah market on June 6, Sayid Hassan, a 55-year-old shop owner, complains that the Japanese are repainting a school that's about to fall down.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0534,axe,67092,6.html (1214 words)

	As Samawah
		The city of Samawah reveals itself in the luminescent glow of tracers fired from an AC-130 gunship flying somewhere overhead.
		Samawah will be one model of modern battlefield victory, a footnote in a war that will turn out to be a short and decisive exercise in military might.
		The problem with this idea is that the U.S. forces believe that the 400-bed Samawah General Hospital is a main base of operations for the local paramilitary fighters.
	home.surfree.com /~bgc883/id1.html (3877 words)

	Japan mulls building a power plant in Samawah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japan is looking at building a $100 million, 60-megawatt thermal power plant in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah with grant aid as Japan's first major infrastructure project since the U.S. invaded, according to government sources.
		Samawah is where the Self-Defense Forces have been conducting their humanitarian activities.
		The electricity supply is so bad that Samawah has a 10-hour flout every day, and local authorities have been calling for a large-scale power plant as part of the international effort to rebuild the country.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1403955/posts (576 words)

	Koizumi sends Japanese troops to Iraq
		Their stated mission is to rebuild infrastructure such as schools and provide water to the communities around Samawah, but the units are clearly preparing for armed conflict.
		Samawah, with a population 140,000, is just 240 kilometres from Baghdad and the site of a major bridge over the Euphrates River.
		Whatever humanitarian assistance the Japanese troops render to the local population, they will be operating in Samawah for only one, expressly military, purpose—to hold territory on behalf of the US occupation authority.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/dec2003/japa-d16.shtml (1718 words)

	Press Releases; Contributions: Iraq, Grassroots Human Security Grant Aid to Iraq (Governorate of Al-Muthanna)
		On June 26 at the etape of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces in Samawah, the Acting Director of the Department of Samawah Municipality, the Director of the Department of Ar-Rumaitha and the Director of the Road and Bridge Department of the Governorate of Al-Muthanna, signed a grant contract.
		Samawah, the central city of the Governorate of Al-Muthanna, through which passes National Route 8, the main highway in southern Iraq, suffers heavy traffic and severe damage to its roads.
		Speeding up road repair in Samawah is expected to improve the traffic situation including alleviating congestion and activating even further the social and economic activities of the Samawah citizens.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6DTHSX?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=irq (619 words)

	GSDF goodness elated Samawah: Iraqi journalist \| The Japan Times Online
		Many Iraqis in the southern city of Samawah feel grateful to withdrawing Japanese troops for rebuilding roads, hospitals and other vital facilities there, but some have felt disappointed because they had higher expectations for what the troops could do, a Samawah-based Iraqi journalist said.
		But "some residents thought things would work out once the troops came, when the reality was that everything won't be ready in one or two or even in 10 years," he said.
		Overall, however, many residents in Samawah have approved of the troops, according to Halawa.
	search.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/nn20060718f2.html (545 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Grassroots Human Security Grant Aid to Iraq (Governorate of Al-Muthanna) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The event was attended by the Acting Director of the Department of Samawah Municipality, the Director of the Department of Al-Majid, the Director of the Road and Bridge Department of the Governorate of Al-Muthanna, and others.
		The Department of Samawah Municipality, however, lacks the road construction equipment necessary to conduct long-term repairs of the damaged roads, resulting in delays in road repair and paving, traffic jams and other problems.
		The aid, which will repair a part of the Albu Khder Road (6.5 km in total), is expected to help improve the lives of the people in areas on either side of the road and the welfare and stabilization of the local community.
	reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6E7GQ7?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=irq (543 words)

	Iraq: Unrest In Samawah Bodes Ill For Handover - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		Moreover, the growing unrest leaves many wondering whether Samawah -- named as one of the first cities where the coalition is expected to hand over control to Iraqi forces -- is ready for self-governance.
		In early January, an unidentified senior member of al-Sadr's Samawah office told "Asahi Shimbun" that the group was responsible for an attack on the Japanese camp.
		An Iraqi sports group and another unidentified association planned a pro-GSDF rally in Samawah for 3 July in support of Japanese assistance, but the rally was canceled because an armed group threatened to "punish" those taking part, "Asahi Shimbun" reported on 5 July.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/08/f8c1c30f-b323-46ed-8712-1307209d0245.html (1647 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		It's been almost a month since Japanese troops went to the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on a humanitarian mission that is taking place in a dangerous country where guerrillas target troops allied with the United States.
		Although precise military details have not been released, the media has quoted government sources as saying that between 30 percent to 40 percent of the troops will be assigned to security duties related to guarding the camp.
		And any deterioration of public order in Samawah could mean that more troops would be assigned to security, more than 50 percent, thus severely curtailing troops' humanitarian work.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FB19Dh05.html (1814 words)

	Feature - Former Iraqi citizen returns to serve as Air Force officer
		He was 29 years old and living in his hometown of Samawah, Iraq, when the United States and its coalition partners ejected the Iraqi army from Kuwait in 1991.
		The government's response to the heroic struggle by Samawah's residents was fierce.
		Falling back toward the Saudi Arabian desert, the captain and his fellow freedom fighters had to pass through a mine field that was planted by the Republican Guard to delay the advancement of American troops.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?id=123073298 (1932 words)

	US forces battle elite troops \| World news \| guardian.co.uk
		US forces advancing towards Baghdad were today held up by fierce fighting in the city of Samawah, against 1,500 Iraqi paramilitaries guarding a bridge across the Euphrates river.
		Earlier, RFE's correspondent at Samawah reported mortar fire against US troops by the Iraqi paramilitaries, who were able to approach American positions undetected because of a fierce dust storm.
		Samawah is on the west side of the Euphrates, in a strategic transport corridor that US forces secured at the weekend and have been using to push combat troops and their logistical support towards Baghdad.
	www.guardian.co.uk /world/2003/mar/27/iraq.georgewright (1599 words)

	Japanese Power Plant for Samawah?
		Japan is looking at building a $100 million, 60-megawatt thermal power plant in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah with grant aid as Japan's first major infrastructure project since the U.S. invaded, according to government sources.
		Samawah is where the Self-Defense Forces have been conducting their humanitarian activities.
		The electricity supply is so bad that Samawah has a 10-hour flout every day, and local authorities have been calling for a large-scale power plant as part of the international effort to rebuild the country.
	mathaba.net /0_index.shtml?x=215674 (632 words)

	MOFA: Ceremony to Present Water Tank Trucks and Feed Tanks to Samawah, Iraq
		Some of the 26 water tank trucks and 304 feed tanks purchased by the Water Department of the Governorate of Al-Muthanna in Iraq (a total of $3,680,000 (about 404 million yen)) with the fund extended by the Japanese Government as grassroots human security grant aid were delivered to Samawah in the Governorate of Al- Muthanna.
		The ceremony, held in a camp of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces in Samawah at 4 p.m.
		At the ceremony, 15 boys belonging to the Samawah Football Club were invited as guests.
	www.mofa.go.jp /announce/announce/2004/10/1026-2.html (274 words)

	LawkSalih.Com - Samawah roads improved with grant aid
		On October 25, the completion ceremony for the improved roads in the city of Samawah, for which Japan extended grassroots human security grant aid in January, was held at the etape of the Ground Self Defense Force of Japan (GSDF) in Samawah.
		The ceremony was attended by Governorate of Al-Muthanna, city of Samawah, Liaison Office in Samawah of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials and the GSDF in Samawah.
		This aid is expected to improve the road traffic situation in Samawah and public services for the residents, such as water supply, medical care and education.
	www.lawksalih.com /php/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=98 (233 words)

	Where Charter Is Least Of Worries
		SAMAWAH, Iraq -- The first copies of the draft constitution that would remake Iraq arrived in this sandy provincial capital in U.S. military helicopters, offloaded with a phalanx of neatly pressed and jacketed Iraqi officials keen to explain the charter.
		The unveiling of the constitution in Samawah revealed just how unsophisticated, almost pre-political, the democracy is, and how loyal the majority is to the Shiite tribal, religious and political leaders steering Iraq.
		Raysan Zayady, a sports jacket over his white dishdasha and sheer summer robe, was asked whether he would advise his tribe how to vote.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601868_pf.html (991 words)

	Japan Now Vol. 1, No. 8 (December 1, 2005)
		Ebata was one of the ten Japanese staff members in Samawah, rotating between a month each in Tokyo and in Iraq so that there were five diplomats in Iraq at any one time.
		Ebata, who was a specialist of the Balkan countries and not an expert of Arabic countries, decided to go to Samawah for various reasons.
		Samawah was a "physically tough place to live," Ebata said.
	www.us.emb-japan.go.jp /jicc/EJN_no8.htm (2651 words)

	300 police added to security near GSDF base in Samawah
		SAMAWAH, Iraq-Iraqi police will reinforce security in the Samawah area, meaning there will be about one guard for every member of the Self-Defense Forces operating there.
		The 10-member provincial security committee comprises the governor and representatives of the provincial police, local political parties, tribal leaders, the Samawah city government and the Dutch military, which has been assigned by the Coalition Provisional Authority to ensure security in the Samawah region.
		Sources said a committee meeting Wednesday was devoted to improving security for the scheduled arrival over the next month or so of the main GSDF contingent.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1074641/posts (346 words)

	DefenseLink News Article: Japanese Troops Welcome Abizaid in Samawah, Iraq
		DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 16, 2004 Japanese troops extended a warm welcome to U.S. Army Gen. John Abizaid today on their base in Samawah, Iraq, where the commander of U.S. Central Command made the final stop of a three-day visit to coalition forces in Iraq.
		There are roughly 550 Japanese personnel serving in Samawah, which is located in a relatively peaceful portion of southern Iraq.
		The primary specialties of the Japanese troops in Samawah are engineering and medical, and there is also a complement of infantry to provide defense and force protection, Fukumoto said.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=24815 (449 words)

	Iraq Diaries: Women of Samawah Speaking Out (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As she shared her concerns and described the center's work, we began to sense what might have been behind the attacks.
		Since it is difficult and dangerous for women to go to Baghdad for higher education, the center also wants to establish a university in Samawah where women can study.
		She believes the reason she hasn't been able to get funding for these is because she is a woman.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1898.shtml (763 words)

	War in Iraq -- 3rd ID squadron meets stiff resistance near As Samawah
		AS SAMAWAH, Iraq — For the second day in a row U.S and British troops faced stiffer than expected resistance from Iraqi forces determined to slow, if not halt, the drive to Baghdad.
		No where was this more evident than in As Samawah, where the 3rd Infantry Division’s 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment fought a day-long battle with Iraqi troops at a canal crossing near the southern bank of the Euphrates River.
		By day’s end, the squadron had killed at least 40 Iraqi troops and was in control of the bridge.
	www.militarycity.com /iraq/1694730.html (911 words)

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