26th November 2004 Bodies of members of the Iraqi National Guard, dumped by insurgents in a cemetery in Mosul, northern Iraq.
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26 November 2004Location:
Wadi Iqab cemetery, Mosul, northern Iraq.More information:
This is Mosul's largest cemetery in the Wadi Iqab area, in the north-west of the city, adjacent to the road to Aleppo in Syria. The victims were murdered and dumped the night before by insurgents. The Iraqi National Guard was part of the new Military of Iraq. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, United States Coalition Provisional Authority Chief, Paul Bremer, disbanded the military apparatus of Iraq that existed under Saddam Hussein. As the security situation in occupied Iraq deteriorated and the Iraqi insurgency became increasingly active, the US set up, recruited and trained the new security force in order to combat the insurgency. Despite attacks by insurgent and terrorist groups, the Iraqi National Guard was able to recruit many Iraqis from the vast ranks of the unemployed. In December 2004 its strength was officially over 40, 000 men.