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General's aide is slightly injured

Feb-23-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

MOSUL, Iraq - Someone threw a grenade at Brig. Gen. Carter Ham's convoy on his way to a meeting Sunday morning with a local security commander.

The general's aide, Capt. Phil Mundweil, suffered a small cut on his hip from flying shrapnel, but otherwise no one was hurt in the 9:20 a.m. attack.

Officials are investigating the possibility that the attacker knew the Task Force Olympia commander was riding in the five-vehicle convoy. The four Humvees and one SUV were en route to a meeting with Facilities Protection Security Forces commander Col. Muataz Adel Taha in northern Mosul.

Ham, 52, the deputy commanding general for training and readiness at Fort Lewis, is in charge of coalition forces operating in northern Iraq.

Mundweil was riding in the left rear seat of Ham's semi-armored Humvee when the grenade detonated just off to the left of the vehicle. Ham was in the front passenger seat.


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