December 26, 2004

Suicide Bomber Not Iraqi National Guard Soldier

The suicide bomber who attacked the mess hall in Mosul, Iraq was not a member of the Iraqi National Guard according to a top Iraqi General. Ansar al-Sunnah released a video of the attack which I've been unable to locate at present. Two of their sites have been taken down and the exact placement of the video is not known.

The bomber is believed to have recieved help from moles working inside the base, entering the main gate wearing an Iraqi National Guard uniform with the help of a guard. He was able to enter the base with a police identification under the premise of fixing air conditioning units.

General Babaker B. Shawkat Zebari also commented upon Syria's role in feeding the terrorism within Iraq.

Zebari said foreign fighters are still entering Iraq from Syria.

"I don't know if the (Syrian) government is closing its eyes or the terrorists are finding their ways to cross," he said.

Zibari said six Arabs using forged Iraqi identity cards and carrying explosives were detained near the Syrian border on Thursday.

His comments came a day after Najaf's police commander, Ghaleb al-Jazaeri, said they detained an Iraqi who confessed to receiving training in a camp in Syria under the supervision of a Syrian military officer. The detainee is suspected in a bombing in Najaf this month that killed 54 people.


Ansar al-Sunnah, the terrorist group claiming responsibility for the Mosul attack, allegedly consists primarily of Iraqis however there has been a growing amount of evidence pointing to many foreigners joining the ranks of the group. Syria of course has housed, indoctrinated, armed and equiped terrorists heading into Iraq for months now with the government of Syria either looking the other direction or fueling the fire.

Update:
The video of the Ansar al-Sunnah suicide bombing in the U.S. mess hall in Mosul can be downloaded here, courtesy of Global Terror Alert.

Cross-posted at In the Bullpen

Posted by: Chad at 09:51 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment
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1 Chad, you should be able to find it under "www.terroristmedia.com" but it's just a message spoken by someone with particularly good english. I didn't know which video you were specifically looking for but it should be on that site. It's not hard to navigate but they had to change their format due to so many people giving them a hard time. I hope the soldiers in Mosul (said like Mo zul) send these asshats to their martyrdom read soon. Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 11:23 AM (D39Vm)

2 I am familiar with the site and it was not on there when I checked this morning.

Posted by: Chad at December 26, 2004 11:33 AM (F6dAB)

3 Chad, I found it but Rusty has that site shut off for some reason; he uses it too. How do I send it to you? Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 11:42 AM (D39Vm)

4 I posted the website on your blog. Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 11:46 AM (D39Vm)

5 Hey Chad, get with it. We caught two more biggies from the Al Qaeda camp. Was in my paper this a.m. Maybe we can interrogate these two bastards, and find out where Zarcoward and Osama are holed up????

Posted by: Laura at December 26, 2004 12:56 PM (ptOpl)

6 The real problem here is we have too few grunts. Both in the war and at home. A lack of fighters makes any threats to either Syria or Iran a dumb, meaningless gesture. So we dont. They in turn continue to aid our attackers and in the process disrupt our drive to freedom for Iraq. We need to reactivate the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions now. Then send the 2nd and 3rd Divisions to the war; not necessarily Iraq or Afghanistan.

Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 26, 2004 03:37 PM (tHUgl)

7 I would like a copy of the video !! ( Mosul base attack )

Posted by: josh wright at December 26, 2004 06:34 PM (effdX)

8 Rod - good to see you again, Marine. You don't think the Iran is going to be part of the "conflct" someday soon in the future? On the Syrian borner they have chicken wire up and soldiers placed here and there. It must be a very boring job for these guys but if someone wanted to pass through, they probably could do it fairly easy once they knew the schedule of those guard soldiers. Iran is more porous and that's a hard line to protect. Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 06:36 PM (D39Vm)

9 Yo put conflict in quotes yourself, heh

Posted by: dirtyangel at December 26, 2004 09:43 PM (9axDF)

10 So I put the word "conflict" in quotes. So what? I do that to make a word stick out - for they are part of the conflict. Check a map.

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 12:51 PM (D39Vm)

11 Josh, the video is linked but it's stupid and it doesnt show anything. You see the cowards covered in black and using a knife, click on certain parts of a map of the base in Mosul, then it switches to going by the street and seeing the hole in the roof of the mess tent. Nothing to see but plenty to do. I think we should ban video camera's over there, too. Mosul has been locked down tight because after Falluja, there's Baghdad, then Mosul. Behind Mosul you end up in the mountainous region of Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan all blended into one. Then you have the Anbar province where they are also doing a lot of damage. If you look at a map of Iraq, it's the bulbous area to the left of the country. So as to the video there is nothing to see and the only thing worthwhile to see is the detailed map of the base in Mosul. Even embedded reporters did not film this, they waited. Know what really bugs me, too. When the worst get to Germany, there are hundreds of reporters and their cameras there trying to get a glimpse of the wounded. Because of that, you'll have service men and women lining up along the side so you can't see who's coming out of the plane, to preserve their privacy and those of their families. Want to do something good - help out the famiy folks of those who died,, and those who were injured and help out the troops in Fort Lewis, WA where most of them came from; donate funds to build more strykers units; join the service and go over and help. We see all the bad stuff. On Christmas Day, I watched FOX and saw all the good stuff with tears pouring down my face. Rod, you know that the only people who will request more troops are the commanders on the ground and they feel they have enough, so until they say the word, more divisions probably won't be going over. I know a group going over after the first of the year to train Iraqi's as military men. It's a secret where they'll be doing just that but I do agree that more soldiers need to be sent over. I hate war. I hate this war because you cannot tell the bad guys from the good guys. Wish they didn't look like civilians and wore uniforms and weren't such cowards that they had to cover their faces. I remember when CBFTW wrote about the MEN IN BLACK, a poster said I hope you find that store that's carrying those black hoods and blow it up.":-) Cindy The daughter of a Marine in Korea The widow of a Green Berets, Special Forces specialized, secretized soldier from vietnam A sister of a brother who was in the Air Force Reserve for 10 years A sister of a late brother who was also in the Air Force during Vietnam

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 01:22 PM (D39Vm)

12 I cant believe this is the sort of Bullshit our soldiers are having to put up with..... getting blown up just trying to get a descent meal! We need to keep up the pressure on these Fucking Cowards,get the elections held, and get the FUCK OUT of this ridiculous Country

Posted by: Mighty Whitey at December 27, 2004 05:53 PM (sXM84)

13 Or level it altogether, since most of the civilians are gone anyway.

Posted by: Laura at December 28, 2004 06:22 PM (ptOpl)

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