http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480WASHINGTON - Iraqi insurgents have attacked several U.S. military dining hall tents in recent months and the Pentagon was finishing a hardened bunker to replace the dining tent at the base near Mosul attacked Tuesday, military officials said.
Days before the hardened dining hall was scheduled to be completed, a 122mm rocket slammed into the tent at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul where hundreds of troops were sitting down to lunch.
Accounts of the number killed varied, but Pentagon officials said Tuesday night that 22 were killed, including 20 Americans. The toll included 15 military servicemembers and five civilians. More than 60 were wounded, including U.S. troops, civilian workers and Iraqi soldiers.
A spokeswoman for Halliburton, the Army contractor which provides food services, said four company employees and three subcontractors were killed. Safety is a concern for the contract workers, as well.