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Gen. Richard B. Myers and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld brief reporters.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld brief reporters in the Pentagon on the December 21st explosion in the dining facility at Forward Operating Base Marez in southwest Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 22, 2004. Officials are still investigating the cause of the explosion, but preliminary evidence indicates that it could be the work of a suicide bomber.