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Iraq horror on tape
BY MAGGIE HABERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, December 27th, 2004
A sickening video claiming to show last week's Mosul mess-tent bombing - including a fireball bursting skyward - hit the Internet yesterday, courtesy of the Iraqi terror thugs responsible for the attack.
The video shows three black-hooded men - one of whom appears to be the suicide bomber - talking a day before the attack about carrying out their plan with maximum carnage by slipping onto the base during a guard change at lunchtime.
"We have been observing their schedule for a long time," a gunman flanked by the other two says, reading from a statement before bidding farewell to the apparent suicide bomber.
The three are believed to be members of the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, the terror group that claimed responsibility for last Tuesday's blast at Forward .Operating Base Marez that left 22 dead and dozens others injured.
Last week, they promised to release a video of the attack.
The video begins with the three black-clad, gun-toting masked men sitting in front of a black banner bearing the group's name.
That footage is date-stamped Dec. 20, a day before the attack.
On the left is a man wearing an explosives belt - apparently the suicide bomber, identified as Abu Omar al-Mosuli on the video, though no other information is given about him.
"One of the lions from our martyrdom-seeking brothers will infiltrate the defenses of the enemy at the Marez base in Mosul," a gunman says. "He will slip through a hole in the camp's wire, exploiting the changing of the guard.
"This lion will then proceed to his target, and he will take advantage of lunchtime, when the dining hall is crowded with the crusaders and their [Iraqi] allies," the gunman says. "The operation will then be carried out."
"Let [President] Bush, [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair and [Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad] Allawi know that we are coming and that we will chase them all away, God willing."
The speaker and the third man embrace al-Mosuli.
Then, the footage cuts to a gunman holding a crude blueprint of the military base, with one section scrawled over in .Arabic, "the dining hall." The gunman points out different sites using a large knife.
The footage then jumps a day and records a grainy image of the base. Haunting music plays, and then a fireball streaks from a white tent amid a huge boom. The last images are motion shots of a car driving away, past the mess hall, with a massive gash in its roof.
Today, a car bomb exploded outside the Baghdad offices of one of Iraq's leading Shi'ite Muslim political parties, killing five and wounding 15 people, party officials and witnesses said.
"The car exploded at the gate to the offices, near the reception area," one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We took several guards and receptionists to the hospital."
War update
# A roadside bomb hit a U.S. military convoy in Mosul consisting of two Humvees and a supply truck, injuring three U.S. soldiers.
# Iraq's electoral commission is considering setting aside seats in the country's National Assembly for Sunni Arab politicians and other groups if their supporters don't vote in the country's Jan. 30 elections because the supporters fear attacks by insurgents.
# The U.S. military death toll reached 1,323 yesterday since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. At least 1,034 of them died as a result of hostile action, the Pentagon said.
# The head of Iraq's armed forces said Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing on a U.S. base was not carried out by a member of Iraq's security forces. A U.S. general had earlier suggested there may have been infiltration into the Iraqi armed forces.
# In Baghdad, masked gunmen assassinated a high-ranking Iraqi police officer, Col. Yassin Ibrahim Jawad, and wounded his two bodyguards, police said.
# El Salvador, the only country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. with soldiers still in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, may extend its troop deployment beyond a scheduled return early next year, El Salvador's president said.
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I say kill them all!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iraq horror on tape
BY MAGGIE HABERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, December 27th, 2004
A sickening video claiming to show last week's Mosul mess-tent bombing - including a fireball bursting skyward - hit the Internet yesterday, courtesy of the Iraqi terror thugs responsible for the attack.
The video shows three black-hooded men - one of whom appears to be the suicide bomber - talking a day before the attack about carrying out their plan with maximum carnage by slipping onto the base during a guard change at lunchtime.
"We have been observing their schedule for a long time," a gunman flanked by the other two says, reading from a statement before bidding farewell to the apparent suicide bomber.
The three are believed to be members of the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, the terror group that claimed responsibility for last Tuesday's blast at Forward .Operating Base Marez that left 22 dead and dozens others injured.
Last week, they promised to release a video of the attack.
The video begins with the three black-clad, gun-toting masked men sitting in front of a black banner bearing the group's name.
That footage is date-stamped Dec. 20, a day before the attack.
On the left is a man wearing an explosives belt - apparently the suicide bomber, identified as Abu Omar al-Mosuli on the video, though no other information is given about him.
"One of the lions from our martyrdom-seeking brothers will infiltrate the defenses of the enemy at the Marez base in Mosul," a gunman says. "He will slip through a hole in the camp's wire, exploiting the changing of the guard.
"This lion will then proceed to his target, and he will take advantage of lunchtime, when the dining hall is crowded with the crusaders and their [Iraqi] allies," the gunman says. "The operation will then be carried out."
"Let [President] Bush, [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair and [Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad] Allawi know that we are coming and that we will chase them all away, God willing."
The speaker and the third man embrace al-Mosuli.
Then, the footage cuts to a gunman holding a crude blueprint of the military base, with one section scrawled over in .Arabic, "the dining hall." The gunman points out different sites using a large knife.
The footage then jumps a day and records a grainy image of the base. Haunting music plays, and then a fireball streaks from a white tent amid a huge boom. The last images are motion shots of a car driving away, past the mess hall, with a massive gash in its roof.
Today, a car bomb exploded outside the Baghdad offices of one of Iraq's leading Shi'ite Muslim political parties, killing five and wounding 15 people, party officials and witnesses said.
"The car exploded at the gate to the offices, near the reception area," one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We took several guards and receptionists to the hospital."
War update
# A roadside bomb hit a U.S. military convoy in Mosul consisting of two Humvees and a supply truck, injuring three U.S. soldiers.
# Iraq's electoral commission is considering setting aside seats in the country's National Assembly for Sunni Arab politicians and other groups if their supporters don't vote in the country's Jan. 30 elections because the supporters fear attacks by insurgents.
# The U.S. military death toll reached 1,323 yesterday since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. At least 1,034 of them died as a result of hostile action, the Pentagon said.
# The head of Iraq's armed forces said Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing on a U.S. base was not carried out by a member of Iraq's security forces. A U.S. general had earlier suggested there may have been infiltration into the Iraqi armed forces.
# In Baghdad, masked gunmen assassinated a high-ranking Iraqi police officer, Col. Yassin Ibrahim Jawad, and wounded his two bodyguards, police said.
# El Salvador, the only country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. with soldiers still in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, may extend its troop deployment beyond a scheduled return early next year, El Salvador's president said.
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I say kill them all!!!!!!!!!!!!
