What the records say
- When
- 21 Dec 2004
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 36.37° N, 43.12° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing.
2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing
2004 Islamist attack on a US base in Mosul, Iraq
The Forward Operating Base Marez bombing took place on December 21, 2004. Fourteen U.S. soldiers, four U.S. citizen Halliburton employees, and four Iraqi soldiers allied with the U.S. military were killed by a suicide bomber in a dining hall at the Forward Operating Base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul.
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