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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 22 Dec 2004 [PDF]
• 22 KILLED, 72 WOUNDED DURING ATTACK ON DINING FACILITY CENTCOM 21 Dec 2004 -- Twenty-two people were killed and 72 others wounded following an explosion in a dining facility at Forward Operating Base Marez in southwest Mosul on Dec. 21.
• TWENTY-TWO KILLED IN EXPLOSION AT FOB MAREZ NEAR MOSUL
• MARINE DIES OF WOUNDS
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

• Transcript: Defense Department Operational Update Briefing 22 Dec 2004 -- Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; and General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• PENTAGON / IRAQ VOA 22 Dec 2004 -- The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, says a suicide bomber apparently caused the explosion that killed 22 people, including 13 American troops, on a U.S. military base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
• Suicide Bomber May Have Been Responsible for Mosul Attack AFPS 22 Dec 2004 -- It appears that a suicide bomber was responsible for the attack on the mess hall at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul that killed 22 people Dec. 21, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a Pentagon news briefing today.
• U.S. Military Investigating Deadly Mosul Blast RFE/RL 22 Dec 2004 -- U.S. military investigators have begun work to determine what -- and who -- was behind yesterday's deadly blast in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that killed 22 people, most of them U.S. soldiers.
• MOSUL BLAST INVESTIGATION VOA 22 Dec 2004 -- The U.S. military in Iraq has begun an investigation into Tuesday's blast at a base in Mosul, as well as a search for those responsible for an explosion at a mess hall tent that killed 22 people, among them 13 American soldiers. It was one of the deadliest attacks on American troops since the war began.
• Task Force Danger Soldiers Capture Three Near Hawija MNF-I/MNC-I 22 Dec 2004 -- Task Force Danger Soldiers captured three individuals, including a suspected anti-Iraqi forces member, in a raid near Hawija at about 2:50 a.m., December 22. The
• U.S. Military Investigating Deadly Mosul Blast RFE/RL 22 Dec 2004 -- The United States military has launched an investigation into yesterday's attack against a military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that killed at least 22 people.
• MPs keep convoys, EOD safe in Iraq USMC News 22 Dec 2004 -- The idea of military police evokes images of being pulled over by the flashing blue lights of a police cruiser for driving too fast on base.

Deployments

US Policy

• MNF-I STATEMENT ON MOSUL ATTACK CENTCOM 22 Dec 2004 -- A preliminary investigation indicates that the explosion at the U.S. Army dining facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Marez in Mosul on Tuesday was likely caused by an improvised explosive device worn by a suicide attacker.
• Iraq Elections Will Produce Vibrant Government, Armitage Says Washington File 22 Dec 2004 -- Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage expects that the January 30, 2005, Iraqi elections will produce a vibrant, democratic government that is broadly representative of Iraqi society.
• Powell Discusses Iraq in Interview with Paris Match Washington File 22 Dec 2004 -- The breach between France and the United States over the war in Iraq still has not yet healed but will over time, said Secretary of State Colin Powell in a newly released December 13 interview with the French magazine Paris Match.
• White House Pledges Probe Of Abuse Allegations RFE/RL 22 Dec 2004 -- The U.S. White House has pledged a full investigation of fresh revelations about American military personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

United Nations

• Iraqis have first chance in long while to reclaim their destiny - Annan UN News Centre 22 Dec 2004 -- As his top envoy continued meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad ahead of elections scheduled for 30 January, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that the Iraqi people "have a chance for the first time in a long, long time to take their destiny in hand, to determine their own future."

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Focus on Fallujah residents returning IRIN 22 Dec 2004 -- In floods of tears, and with her 10-month old son in her arms, Hanan Jaboury, a mother of five and resident of Fallujah, some 60 km west of Baghdad, waited near a US checkpoint on the outskirts of the city for the green light.

Foreign Reactions

• FRENCH HOSTAGES VOA 22 Dec 2004 -- French reporters Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot returned to France Wednesday, after being held hostage in Iraq for 124 days. The conditions that led to the men's release are a matter of speculation.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 22 Dec 2004