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| General: Bomber Not With Iraq Nat'l Guard |
| 2004-12-26 |
| The suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an attack on a U.S. army base in Mosul was not a member of the Iraqi security forces but may have been wearing their uniform, the army's chief of staff said Sunday. "Certainly he was not a member of the National Guards because all of our men stationed in the base have been accounted for," Gen. Babaker B. Shawkat Zebari said in an interview. On Tuesday, an attacker blew himself up in a crowded mess hall at the Marez base just south of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. The explosion, the deadliest strike on a U.S. military facility in Iraq, triggered a wide-ranging investigation into how the attacker penetrated the heavily guarded area. The base also was used by members of Iraq's fledgeling security forces. Three members of the Iraqi National Guard — a paramilitary internal security force — were also killed in the blast. The U.S. military said it appeared likely that an individual in an Iraqi military uniform, who was probably wearing an explosives-laden vest — carried out the attack. "That is possible because uniforms of National Guards, police and army are available in the market," said Zebari. "It is not difficult for a person to wear one." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 six Arabs using forged Iraqi identity cards were detained near the Syrian border on Thursday. He said the men were detained with explosives in their possession Heat up the vise grips, Tattoo... |
| Posted by: Unogum Elmenter3878 2004-12-26 10:18:10 PM |
| #3 Here's more Zabari: Zebari reiterated his claim that foreign fighters are still infiltrating into Iraq from Syria. "I don't know if the (Syrian) government is closing its eyes or the terrorists are finding their ways to cross," Zebari said. Zebari said six Arabs using forged Iraqi identity cards were detained near the Syrian border on Thursday. He said the men were detained with explosives in their possession. Zebari's comments came a day after Najaf's police commander, Ghaleb al-Jazaeri, said police detained an Iraqi who confessed to receiving training in a camp in Syria under the supervision of a Syrian military officer. The man was apparently involved in a bombing in Najaf earlier this month that killed 54 people. Syria on Sunday dismissed al-Jazaeri's statements as "baseless and nonobjective." In Baghdad, masked gunmen assassinated a high-ranking Iraqi police officer, Col. Yassin Ibrahim Jawad, and wounded his two bodyguards, police said. |
| Posted by: Spemble Hupains3886 2004-12-26 8:47:51 PM |
| #2 Hell PD, they make uniforms over there. It's kinda, a small, lesser good sign maybe, hopefully. Please. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-26 5:33:54 PM |
| #1 "all of our men stationed in the base have been accounted for" And their uniforms? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-26 11:10:11 AM |