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LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Iraq's militant Army of
Ansar al-Sunna group, which claimed responsibility
for Tuesday's suicide bombing at a U.S. base near
Mosul, has carried out many other attacks and
hostage killings this year.
The Sunni Muslim group, sworn to attack Iraqi
officials and foreign forces until "God's law"
prevails, described the bombing as a "martyrdom
operation" against "infidel occupation forces".
The U.S. military said a suicide bomber probably
carried out what was the deadliest single attack on
Americans in Iraq.
Here is a chronology of violence claimed by Ansar
al-Sunna in 2004.
July 6 - Suicide bomber kills six people, wounds 35
at a funeral in al-Khalis, north of Baghdad.
Aug 25 - Group's Web site shows beheading of what it
calls a CIA spy named Jamal Tewfic Salman.
Aug 31 - Web site claims killing of 12 Nepali
hostages kidnapped 11 days earlier, shows one being
beheaded and others being shot.
Sept 16 - Web site shows killings of three drivers:
Abbas Muslim Nouri, Farhan Halil Kazem and Sabbar
Hanash Akhmam, nationalities not known.
Oct 11 - Group says it has beheaded Luqman Hussein
Mohammed, member of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),
as a "spy".
Oct 14 - Web site video shows beheading of Ramazan
Elbu, a Turkish driver held hostage.
Oct 23 - Group assassinates Colonel Taha Ahmed, a
security chief in northern city of Arbil, and
threatens to kill Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani.
Oct 28 - Web site posts pictures of killings of 11
Iraqi National Guards abducted a week earlier.
Nov 1 - Web site says group killed Hatem Karim,
deputy governor of Baghdad.
Nov 2 - Group says it has beheaded Iraqi Major
Hussein Shunun in Mosul, saying he had helped U.S.
forces there.
Nov 7 - Group says it has shot dead three Iraqi
translators working for U.S. forces in Tikrit, north
of Baghdad.
Nov 21 - Web site video shows two Kurds from the
government-allied Kurdistan Democratic Party being
shot.
Dec 21 - Suicide bomber kills 22 people and wounds
69 in a mess tent at Forward Operating Base Marez in
Mosul. Fourteen of the dead were U.S. soldiers, five
U.S. civilians, three Iraqi National Guards and one
was an unidentified non-U.S. person.
Reuters
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