Where?
Whoa! How did this person get into the mess hall? Was it an inside job?
BTTT
Bad news! That means they've penetrated into the base somehow.
DETAILS! Five "W"s and "H". Tell us where? What? ... for crying out loud, when you post on FR....
This shouldn't be a that big of a surprise to Freepers, we were discussing this yesterday.
American Muslim in the ranks? Iraqi soldier/police? Iraqi civilian?
Explain to me again why it was wrong for that Marine to kill the wounded man who was recently firing at us ?
When I read the Chaplain's report about the attack he mentioned that many people were injured by pellets-- I was surprised that a rocket or mortar was filled with BB's. On the other hand, the roof sure looks like it was hit from the outside. And a burned and bloodied Soviet-style ammo bandolier would sure look like a 'suicide' vest.
Must have been one of the service staff. Food carts are easy hiding places for explosives.
Bump.
Report: Mosul Attack Was a Suicide Bombing
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 70 others — was a suicide attack, ABC News has learned.A backpack found by investigators at the site and remnants of a torso indicate that the attack was caused by a suicide bombing, sources told ABC News.
The attack at the mess tent in 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 in the tent 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 Mosul attack and said it was a "martyrdom operation," a reference to a suicide bomber.
FOX NewsChannel said a POSSIBLE suicide bomber......how in the heck could that happen? A traitor?
A co-worker's son is stationed in Baghdad and she said her son "hates the Iraqis because they cannot be trusted".
The group claiming responsibility is saying it was a "martayrdome attack". Meaning suicide bombing. There has been ZERO confirmation or presentation of any evidence that it was such.
Then a bunker would have made the bomb far more effective by concentrating the blast within it.
Report said the perp was 24-year old who had been 'employed' at the base for two months.
Investigators have found the perp's torso and fragments of a bomb belt, which they believe was brought into the facility in a backpack.