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The dead included U.S. military personnel, U.S. contractors, foreign national contractors and Iraqi army, said Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia in Mosul.
Jan 27, 2005 · Beginning in January 2004, however, the force was drawn down to the 8,700-strong Task Force Olympia (built around a Stryker Brigade Combat Team), with a commensurate loss of security, mentoring, and CERP capacity.
2 days ago · In 2004, she took a contract job in Mosul, Iraq, staffing the base gym and the recreation center, then was quickly promoted to working as an operations specialist and historian. The work wasn’t ...
Jun 22, 2004 · B-roll of Soldiers re-enlisting in the Army while deployed in Mosul, Iraq. Scenes include the re-enlistment ceremony being held on the stairs inside a palace and Soldiers signing the paperwork...
- ‘I Just Noticed A Flame That Pushed Out from His Body’
- The Captive’S Confession
- Nick and Davey
The war was still raging in Iraq the year the suicide bomber struck, though President Bush had declared “major combat operations” had ended the year before beneath a banner that read “Mission Accomplished.” Things were getting worse by the day. In March of 2004, four American security contractors were ambushed and killed in Fallujah. Their bodies w...
Two weeks after the attack, the Associated Press reportedthat an Arabic newspaper identified the suicide bomber as a 20-year-old Saudi medical student named Ahmed Said Ahmed Ghamdi. The Saudi-owned newspaper, according to the AP, cited unidentified friends of the man’s father, who refused to discuss the bombing. The records I obtained from the U.S....
The suicide bombing killed a sergeant major serving in a Special Forces unit, four Army National Guardsmen, an Army Reservist, a Navy Seabee and seven soldiers, including a captain. Ranging in age from 20 to 47, they served in units based in Louisiana, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington. Some had wives and young children. Both 2...
- Jeremy Redmon
Dec 22, 2004 · Just last month, for example, a mortar attack on a Mosul base killed two troops with Task Force Olympia, the reinforced brigade responsible for security in much of northern Iraq.
The Joint Special Operations Command Task Force which fought in the Iraq War was a joint U.S. and British special operations temporary grouping assembled from different units.
