Posted on 12/21/2004 5:31:14 AM PST by ChefKeith
Just mentioned on FNC:
Dining facility on U.S. Base in Iraq hit by rocket attack- 10 dead
Waiting for more info...
i see storys about troops shipping out again "back to iraq" maybe as a jump off into syria..hit syria,find the wmd,free lebanon,send a message to IRAN since syria is iran's lacky,i read where isreal,was ready to negotiate with syria and the US said don't bother,they wont be there long
Bump for later.
Wow, looks like a direct hit.
Prayers to all.........
Prayers going out fer all the wounded and the families of the heroes who died in this senseless attack...MUD
By The Associated Press
The Ansar al-Sunnah Army is one of the most feared extremist groups operating in Iraq, having taken responsibility for several major attacks and the killings of foreign hostages.
The group's members are thought to fundamentalist Muslims whose goal is to turn Iraq into a tightly controlled Islamic state like the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
It first appeared with a claim that it staged dual suicide bombings at the offices of two Kurdish political parties that killed 109 people last Feb. 1. Some experts speculated the group was an offshoot of Ansar al-Islam, a militant group operating in Iraq's Kurdish north, and suggested the new name was designed to appeal to the country's Sunni Arabs.
In a statement issued last month, Ansar al-Sunnah said it had begun working with two other terrorist groups, Al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian Musab al-Zarqawi, and the Islamic Army in Iraq.
Some actions by Ansar al-Sunnah over last four months:
_Dec. 21: Claims to be behind rocket attack on U.S.-Iraqi base near Mosul that kills at least 20 and wounding more than five dozen.
_Dec. 5: Claims responsibility for machine gun attack in Tikrit that kills 17 Iraqi civilians employed by U.S. military.
_Dec. 1: Claims to have abducted and killed three Iraqis working for U.S. Marines.
_Nov. 25: Claims responsibility for rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone that kills four Nepalese security guards and 12 others.
_Nov. 20: Posts video on Internet showing fatal shooting of two hostages identified as members of Kurdish political group in Mosul.
_Nov. 4: Puts video on Internet showing beheading of man it says was Iraqi army major captured in Mosul.
_Oct. 28: Claims it killed 11 Iraqi soldiers taken hostage south of Baghdad.
_Oct. 18: Claims responsibility for killing of nine Iraqi policemen returning from training in Jordan.
_Aug. 31: Takes responsibility for killing of 12 kidnapped Nepalese construction workers, shown in video posted on Internet.
Wow, I have a nephew in Mosul. I'm praying....
I'll be praying for him too, Adsimp.
"My son just returned home from there."
That is some great news. Please pass my gratitude on to him.
FReegards...MUD
A lot of people are joining you in those prayers.
I would be surprised if we did anything like that. It at least appears, we have our plate full as it is. If we did anything to Syria or Iran it would be air strikes.
Let us know that everything is okay (I'm thinking postively here for you.)
The RTD has posted a short slide show:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/
I surely do not know how to do a handover. The tent was maybe a weak link as it was reported some troops said it was an accident waiting to happen. I am just a freeper, not a military expert. I believe we must complete the mission but Iraq is no Afghanistan.
Mosul Attack Kills More Than 20; Halliburton Workers Among Dead
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Insurgents fired explosives at a dining tent during lunchtime at a U.S. Army base in Iraq's northern city of Mosul today, killing more than 20 people, including soldiers and employees of military contractor Halliburton Co.
``The killed include U.S. military personnel, U.S. contractors, foreign national contractors and Iraqi army,'' Brigadier General Carter Ham said in a Pentagon video from Mosul, according to a transcript. He did not provide an exact number of those dead, and said more than 60 were wounded.
Ham is commander of Task Force Olympia, a roughly 8,000- soldier force that includes 5,000 soldiers from Fort Lewis, Washington. Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, was the scene of a violent flare-up last month in which insurgents seized most of the town's police stations.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a8l8alveT5Pk&refer=us
I'm still trying to figure out this situation with Al-Manar.
How can you label it a terrorist organization and ban its members from entering the United States, and then, allow its signal to be beamed here via satellite?
Iraqi students display the Iraqi national flag and shout anti-US slogans during a demonstration against the violence in the northern city of Mosul. The 300 or so students also called for an end to military raids on mosques in the city.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed)
May they rest in peace .....
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Insurgents fired explosives at a dining tent during lunchtime at a U.S. Army base in Iraq's northern city of Mosul today, killing more than 20 people, including soldiers and employees of military contractor Halliburton Co.
``The killed include U.S. military personnel, U.S. contractors, foreign national contractors and Iraqi army,'' Brigadier General Carter Ham said in a Pentagon video from Mosul, according to a transcript. He did not provide an exact number of those dead, and said more than 60 were wounded.
Ham is commander of Task Force Olympia, a roughly 8,000- soldier force that includes 5,000 soldiers from Fort Lewis, Washington. Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, was the scene of a violent flare-up last month in which insurgents seized most of the town's police stations.
Today's attack pointed up the widespread violence aimed at U.S. forces and Iraqis as the country readies for its first democratic vote since the Saddam Hussein dictatorship was toppled last year. Three election workers were shot dead on a Baghdad street Dec. 19 and at least 63 other Iraqis died in bombings elsewhere the same day.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose organization is helping prepare for Iraqi elections next month, warned of the threat of insurgent attacks.
``Violence, if it continues, will have an impact on elections,'' Annan said at a news conference today in New York.
Rockets Suspected
The attackers in Mosul fired suspected rockets just as hundreds of soldiers sat down to eat, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter on the scene. The newspaper posted a photograph shot inside the tent showing wounded soldiers being treated. The roof of the tent was in shreds and sunlight streaked the smoke-filled air.
The force of the blasts knocked soldiers from their seats, and a fireball reached the top of the tent while shrapnel hit diners, according to the Times-Dispatch report on its Web site. Soldiers overturned tables to use as stretchers, carting off the wounded.
Among the dead in Mosul were two American soldiers from a Richmond, Virginia-based engineering battalion, according to the Times-Dispatch. The newspaper said 24 people were killed.
``It's a sad day in Mosul,'' Ham said. Those surviving will ``do what they can do best to honor those who were fallen today, and that is to see this very important mission through to a successful completion.''
`No Road Map'
Houston-based Halliburton issued a statement saying it was ``deeply saddened'' by the deaths of four employees of subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root and three subcontractors.
``There is no road map for coping with events like this and we are doing everything we can to support our KBR personnel in Mosul,'' the e-mailed statement said. The deaths today raised the toll of Halliburton workers and subcontractors killed in Iraq and Kuwait to 62.
About 250 miles south of Mosul, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise visit and met with Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Blair, the staunchest ally of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, said holding elections Jan. 30 will help stabilize the country.
The U.S. force in Mosul force includes a Stryker armored- vehicle brigade that has about 300 wheeled units. The Strykers have been patrolling Mosul since a widespread campaign of intimidation against city police started last month.
Insurgents took advantage of the U.S. focus on a military operation in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, last month to launch their Mosul attack. U.S. and Iraqi commanders were forced to deploy troops to the northern city on Nov. 11 after insurgents seized most of Mosul's police stations.
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