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U.S. troops were on alert at bases across Iraq on Thursday after concluding that a suicide bomber, probably in Iraqi military uniform, was behind the deadliest strike on Americans since they invaded last year. "I am concerned about ... copycat attacks," said Brigadier General Carter Ham, the U.S. commander in Mosul where the bomber killed 18 Americans and three Iraqi National Guards on Tuesday in a pre-Christmas lunchtime blast at a crowded base mess tent. "So we have to be on our best guard over the coming days, weeks and months for that kind of threat," Ham told CNN. He...

(Wednesday 12/22/2004)Tonight I received the following email from a very dear friend & and am asking for your help.------------------------- To everyone who has been wondering about my brother, Roger and to the ones I want to let know who can pray for him. I am writing to all my friends and family members that have been asking about and praying for my brother who was seriously injured in the attack at Mosul, Iraq to give you an update of the situation. I now have the information of what my brothers condition is. He's critical but stable which is better than...

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 more than 70 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...