遜尼派三角地帶

遜尼派三角（Sunni Triangle）是一個人口稠密地區的伊拉克巴格達西北部，主要由遜尼派穆斯林阿拉伯人居住。

基本介紹

• 中文名：遜尼派三角地帶
• 外文名：Sunni Triangle
• 釋義：伊拉克巴格達西北部
• 居住人群：遜尼派穆斯林阿拉伯人

漢語內容

大約三角地帶的角落，附近通常所說的Baqubah（東側的三角形），巴格達（在南邊），拉馬迪（西邊）和提克里特（北邊）。每一方大約有125英里長。該地區的城市還包含了一個薩和費盧傑。

這個地區是一個中心的大力支持，伊拉克前總統薩達姆·海珊政府；從1970年代，許多政府工作人員、政客和軍事領導人來自該地區。薩達姆本人出生提克里特城外。

2003年對伊拉克的入侵後，該地區成為焦點的遜尼派武裝反對聯盟的規則。這是人們普遍預測在西方媒體薩達姆將尋找避雨的遜尼派支持者和2003年12月13日，他在一次行動中被捕獲在村里大約15公里的ad-Dawr提克里特南部。

術語“遜尼派三角”是1970年代的穿插使用專家，通常在學術伊拉克來區分它從北部和南部的國家。早期使用在主流媒體是一個《舊金山紀事報》的文章，2002年9月14日在前聯合國武器核查”斯科特碼瑞歐瑞特說：“我們可以產生支持入侵的一些什葉派之間和一些庫德人到巴格達，但你必須穿透遜尼派三角。”然而，它並沒有達成廣泛的使用，直到《紐約時報》，2003年6月10條流行術語在一份報告中對“美國最新的一項努力平息初生的南部地區的遜尼派武裝抵抗的西部和北部地區（在巴格達被稱為‘遜尼派三角’）”。它已經成為幾乎無處不在報告以美國為首的聯軍的努力，控制該地區。

“遜尼派三角”不應該混與所謂的“死亡”，一個三角形的巴格達以南居住。

英譯參考

The Sunni Triangle is a densely-populated region of Iraq to the northwest of Baghdad that is inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslim Arabs.

The roughly triangular area's corners are usually said to lie near Baqubah (on the east side of the triangle), Baghdad (on the South side), Ramadi (on the west side) and Tikrit (on the north side). Each side is approximately 125 miles long. The area also contains the cities of Samarra and Fallujah.

The area was a center of strong support for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's government; starting in the 1970s many government workers, politicians, and military leaders came from the area. Saddam himself was born just outside Tikrit.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the area became a focus of armed Sunni opposition to Coalition rule. It was widely predicted in the Western press that Saddam would seek shelter from Sunni supporters and on December 13, 2003, he was captured in a raid on the village of ad-Dawr about 15 km south of Tikrit.

The term "Sunni triangle" was used intermittently from the 1970s among academic Iraq specialists, usually to differentiate it from the northern and southern parts of the country. An early use in mainstream media is a San Francisco Chronicle article of September 14, 2002 in which former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter says: "We may be able to generate support for an invasion among some of the Shiites and some of the Kurds, but to get to Baghdad you must penetrate the Sunni Triangle." However, it did not achieve widespread use until a New York Times article of June 10, 2003 popularised the term in a report on "a new U.S. effort to quell nascent armed resistance in Sunni Muslim-dominated areas north and west of Baghdad [in an] area known as the 'Sunni triangle'." It has since become virtually ubiquitous in reports on the US-led coalition's efforts to control the region.

The "Sunni Triangle" should not be confused with the so-called "Triangle of Death", an area south of Baghdad inhabited by Sunni majority which was the focus of major combat activity in November and December 2004.