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Fort Lewis Units Fight Insurgents in Mosul

Jun-25-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

This article by Michael Gilbert details a little more about yesterday's events.

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MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

Mosul, where 4,200 Fort Lewis soldiers are headquartered, bore the brunt of Thursday's wave of bombings and ambushes across Iraq that killed more than 100 Iraqis and wounded another 300, officials said.

At least 62 were killed, including one U.S. soldier, and more than 220 wounded in a series of car and truck bombings Thursday morning at police facilities and at a hospital in the northern city.

Troops from the Fort Lewis-based Stryker brigade helped Iraqi soldiers retake a police station and mosque that were overrun, officials said.

"These are the most well-coordinated and most lethal attacks we've seen," Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of coalition forces in northern Iraq, told The News Tribune. "Unfortunately I don't think this is the end of it."

He and other U.S. and Iraqi officials said the violence would likely increase before the U.S.-led coalition hands over power to a new Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi on July 1 and afterward.

"We're not kidding ourselves," Ham said. "We're thinking in the six days remaining and in the time immediately following the transfer of sovereignty there will continue to be attacks."

Insurgents also struck Iraqi police and other government facilities and U.S. forces in Baghdad, Ramadi, Fallujah, Baqubah and Mahaweel.


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