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Guardsman with Fort Lewis task force killed

Apr-21-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Michael Gilbert reports on recent SBCT activity in Mosul, including a separate convoy attack near Tall Afar.

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MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

A Maine National Guardsman attached to the Fort Lewis-based Task Force Olympia was killed Tuesday and four other soldiers were wounded when their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in northern Iraq.

The attack occurred Tuesday morning west of Mosul, according to a U.S. military press release and news service reports. [...]

Iraqi police arrested four people who attacked their headquarters with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, and U.S. troops captured five people suspected of attacking coalition forces in Mosul on Monday night, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of coalition operations, told reporters in Baghdad.

A coalition soldier was wounded near Tall Afar, about 35 miles west of Mosul, when his patrol was attacked with a hand grenade. The patrol captured two of the attackers, Kimmitt said, according to a transcript of his Tuesday morning briefing.

Kimmitt also said authorities in Mosul are concerned about rhetoric from the mosques and in the local media following the killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, assassinated by an Israeli missile strike Saturday in Gaza City.


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