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2004 Iraq KBR convoy ambush
The Good Friday Ambush 2004, was an attack by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004 during the Iraq War on a convoy of American supply trucks (near the Baghdad International Airport). It happened in the midst of the Iraq spring fighting of 2004, which saw intensified clashes throughout the country.
==History==
On April 5, 2004, the radical cleric Muqtada Al Sadr called for a jihad against coalition forces and Thursday night, April 8, his Mahdi Militia dropped eight bridges and overspans around Camp Scania, thus severing the northbound traffic into the Sunni Triangle hoping to starve the 1st Cavalry Division of fuel and ammunition. Consequently, the 724th Transportation Company was tasked to haul fuel to the north gate of Baghdad Airport from Camp Anaconda, 60 miles away the next morning - Good Friday and the anniversary of the Americans entering Baghdad. Unknown to the truck drivers, elements of the 1st Cavalry Division had pushed militants into the suburbs of Abu Graib, through which the convoy had to travel. Up until this time, the convoy ambushes consisted of four or five insurgents firing on passing convoys with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. The reaction to enemy contact at time was to return fire and clear the kill zone.〔Richard E. Killblane, Chapter 2, "Good Friday Ambush, Abu Graib - 9 April 2004," Jon Hoffman (ed), ''Tip of the Spear'', Center of Military History, 2009.〕
That morning, five vehicles of the 724th armed with crew-served weapons escorted a convoy of 17 fuel trucks and two bobtail tractors operated by American defense contractor KBR. En route, the convoy ran through a well planned, large scale ambush that included improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, believed to be from either al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Badr Organization, and/or the Mahdi Army. The convoy commander, Lieutenant Matthew Brown was wounded in the head and blacked out leaving his driver, Private First Class Jeremy Church, to lead the convoy to safety. The attack damaged or destroyed numerous convoy vehicles and those that made the turn on the overpass drove through the mob of insurgents that had been driven into the neighborhood the day before. Church reached the safety of a dairy factory where a company of tanks waited. He then led a rescue of the trucks stranded in the kill zone and volunteered to remain in the kill zone when the Humvee he was riding in was full of wounded. Tanks drove the length of the kill zone while scout vehicles recovered Church and Specialist Patrick Pelz. Five civilian contractors and one U.S. Army soldier were killed. Twelve soldiers and four KBR drivers were wounded. Three civilian contractors, Thomas Hamill, Timothy Bell and William Bradley, and U.S. Army soldiers, Sergeant Elmer Krause and Private First Class Keith Matthew Maupin disappeared. Hamill escaped from his captors and was recovered by U.S. forces 27 days later. Bradley's body was recovered in January 2005. Krause's body was recovered on April 23 and Maupin was held captive for an undetermined time before being executed.〔Richard E. Killblane, ''Convoy Ambush Case Studies Vol. II, Iraq and Afghanistan'', Transportation School, 2015.〕
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