U.S. Opens Probe Into Mosul Base Attack

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The brigadier general who investigated abuse at Abu Ghraib prison is heading the U.S. military's probe into how a suicide bomber infiltrated a U.S. Army base near Mosul and detonated a deadly explosion, authorities said Friday.

The team led by Brig. Gen. Richard P. Formica started its work in Mosul as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas Eve visit to the wounded soldiers at the base, part of a tour that also took him to Tikrit and Fallujah.

"Now we have a pretty good idea that it was a suicide bomber," said Lt. Col. Paul Hastings, a spokesman at the Mosul base. "(Formica) is going to investigate into the how's — how did that happen?"

Formica, an artillery commander, has already investigated detention practices by special forces in Iraq (news - web sites), including allegations of torture and mistreatment of prisoners linked to the Abu Ghraib abuses scandal.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[flamingyouth]

1. I have a friend who was there but was uninjured

He is part of the Stryker Brigade at Fort Lewis, Wash. They lost six guys: :cry:
http://www.komotv.com/stories/34540.htm