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December 25, 2004

Mosul attack 'an inside job'

Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives

Asia News - Dec 25, is reporting what I previously suspected would be the case, that the Mosul attack was an inside job and accomplished with the assistance of Iraqi armed forces.

The deadly suicide attack on a US military base in Mosul this week was an "inside job" carried out by insurgents who are part of the Iraqi armed forces, Asia Times Online has been told.

Sources said a strong nexus between Iraqi forces and the resistance is what allowed them to carry out the most devastating attack on US troops since the beginning of the invasion. US forces have imposed a curfew in Mosul and have launched a military operation in the city, but, the sources say, this will have little effect on the problem, for the simple reason that the US-trained Iraqi military is heavily infected with people loyal to the resistance groups.

Responsibility for the suicide bombing in the US mess tent was claimed by Islamist resistance organization Jaish Ansar al-Sunnah (JAAS).  Continue reading Asia Times article....

 




Posted by Hyscience at December 25, 2004 10:12 PM


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