Report: Mosul Attack Was a Suicide Bombing

[KingChicken]

Report: Mosul Attack Was a Suicide Bombing

Investigators Say Deadly Mess Tent Blast Was a Suicide Attack

Dec. 22, 2004 -- New evidence shows the bombing of a U.S. military mess tent in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday — which killed 22 people and wounded 69 others — was a suicide attack, ABC News has learned.

Investigators at the base have found remnants of a torso and a suicide vest that was probably a backpack, sources told ABC News, indicating that the attack was a suicide bombing.

The bombing at the mess tent at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul was one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq since the start of the war. Early reports indicated that the massive explosion might have been the result of a rocket attack.

But a radical Sunni Muslim group, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, later claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was a "martyrdom operation," a reference to a suicide bomber.

A day after the devastating attack, another message posted on a Web site, allegedly by Ansar al-Sunnah, provided details. According to the online message, the suicide bomber was a 24-year-old man from Mosul who worked at the base for two months and had provided information about the base to the group.

The base, also known as the al-Ghizlani military camp, is about three miles south of Mosul and is used by both U.S. troops and the interim Iraqi government's security forces. It once was Mosul's civilian airport but is now a heavily fortified area.


http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=351870&page=1

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The commanders in the field are so ignorant, we have known for months that the ranks of Iraqi contractors, soldiers, and police officers are working for the other side. When are they going to wake up and realize how popular this resistance is? These insurgents are very smart, quick, and cunning, they adapt faster and use superior field tactics, to defeat this foe we must first respect them as a worthy adversary instead of blasting bullshit propaganda.

[eaprez]

1. I wish they'd stop calling them insurgents.....and call them

what they are....Iraqi Citizens!

[Moderator]

2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1091615