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Ramadan Attacks

Oct-22-2006 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Sean Cockerham

FOB Marez, Mosul __ There have been a lot of attacks here in Mosul and throughout Iraq during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is supposed to end over the next few days, but Fort Lewis officers tell me the exact date depends on which cleric you are talking to.

I’ve written in the paper about both the recent attacks in Mosul. The first was on Oct. 12th and began with a mortar attack on Forward Operating Base Diamondback, which is across the road from this base, FOB Marez.

Fort Lewis soldiers caught the mortar men and killed two of them but the Iraqi army and police did most of the fighting that night.

Exactly a week later there were a half dozen suicide bomb attacks in Mosul. The largest targeted a police station and ended up killing 10 Iraqi civilians.

Police at the scene told me they had no idea why they are being targeted, other than the fact that insurgents don’t like them. Fort Lewis commanders told me the night of the attack that the insurgents were trying to make a big splash with the multiple bombings in order to get money from their financiers.

Col. Steve Townsend, 3rd Brigade commander from Fort Lewis, tells me he now thinks the police station was chosen as one of the targets out of revenge for the cops’ unwillingness to let U.S. forces be attacked.[...]


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Keep up the fight we are behind you 100%

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