Mosul Bombing

An unidentified casualty is moved into an ambulance at the U.S. Airbase of Ramstein, southern Germany, Dec. 22, 2004. Some 50 patients, most of whom were injured during the attack in Mosul, Iraq, a day earlier, arrived at Ramstein Air Base. It is not known whether the man pictured was one of those injured in the Mosul incident.

Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefs reporters at a Pentagon news conference Wednday. At least 22 people were killed when insurgents struck a tent at Forward Operating Base Marez where hundreds of troops were sitting down to lunch. The dead included 18 Americans and four Iraqis; 72 others were wounded

Sgt. Dee Robinson of Gardiner, Maine, right, looks toward the triage area as other 133rd Engineer Battalion soldiers load a wounded soldier into a Humvee outside the dining facilty, Dec. 21, 2004, near Mosul, Iraq.

Lt. Col. Bill Costello, a Fort Lewis spokesman, turns to leave after speaking to reporters, Dec. 21, 2004, at a news conference near the entrance to Fort Lewis, Wash. Fort Lewis officials had little immediate information on the attack on the post of Task Force Olympia. Many of its members are Fort Lewis soldiers.

A soldier with the 133rd Engineer Battalion of the Maine Army National Guard stands by as a helicopter lands near the dining facility of a base near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004. At least 22 people were killed when insurgents struck a tent at Forward Operating Base Marez where hundreds of troops were sitting down to lunch. The dead included 18 Americans and four Iraqis; 72 others were wounded.

Soldiers look over the damage inside the dining facility at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

An injured civilian employee who worked in the dining facility at Forward Operating Base Marez is loaded into the back of a Stryker vehicle after the attack, Dec. 21, 2004.

Brig. Gen. Carter F. Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia, reflects on the attack on his troops near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

A cloud of smoke covers a dining area after an apparent insurgent mortar attack at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

A hole in the roof of a tent lights smoke moments after an apparent insurgent mortar attack at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

U.S. soldiers help a wounded comrade after an apparent insurgent mortar attack at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

Workers and U.S. soldiers tend to the wounded after an apparent insurgent mortar attack at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

U.S. Army Chaplain Eddie Barnett, far right, says a prayer with members of 276th EN BN after an apparent mortar attack on Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

U.S Army Cpl. Nathan Almquist is comforted by a member of his unit as he stands over a stretcher with the body of a Task Force Olympia soldier, after an apparent mortar attack on a dining facility near Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.

Sgt. Evan Byler of Fauquier County, Va., smokes a cigarette with the blood of a commrade still on his hands, after an apparent mortar attack on a military dining facility in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004.