2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing
- 2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing
Infobox terrorist attack
title=Attack on Forward Operating Base Marez
location=Mosul, Iraq
target=Forward Operating Base Marez
date=December 21, 2004
type=suicide bombing
fatalities=14 U.S. soldiers
4 U.S. civilians
4 Iraqi soldiers
injuries=72 (including 51 U.S. soldiers)
perps=Army of Ansar al-Sunna
The Forward Operating Base Marez bombing took place on December 21 2004. Fourteen U.S. soldiers, four U.S. citizen Halliburton employees, and four Iraqi soldiers allied with the U.S. military were killed in an attack on a dining hall at the Forward Operating Base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul.
The Pentagon reported that 72 other personnel were injured in the attack carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest and the uniform of the Iraqi security services. The Islamist insurgent group Army of Ansar al-Sunna (partly evolved from Ansar al-Islam) took credit for the attack in an Internet statement. The bomber entered the mess tent and approached a large group of U.S. soldiers detonating himself killing 22 people. It was the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers with 14 soldiers dead.
Weeks before the attack, soldiers from the base intercepted a document that mentioned a proposal for a massive "Beirut"-type attack on U.S. forces. The reference was apparently to the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in which 241 U.S. service members were killed. Following the discovery of the papers, commanders at the base — which is about three miles south of Mosul and is used by both U.S. troops and the interim Iraqi National Guard forces — ratcheted up already tight security. Ansar al-Sunnah said 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.
External links
* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142157,00.html Deadly Attack on U.S. Military Base] FoxNews
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