The holy warriors managed a sneak attack on a military base near Mosul today, killing 24 people.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion ripped through a mess tent at a military base near Mosul where hundreds of U.S. troops had just sat down to lunch Tuesday, and officials said more than 20 people were killed and at least 57 were wounded. A military spokesman said 19 of the dead were American soldiers — the deadliest single attack on U.S. troops since the start of the Iraq war.

A radical Muslim group, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, claimed responsibility.

The dead included U.S. military personnel, U.S. contractors, foreign national contractors and Iraqi army, said Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia in Mosul.

Deranged Bush-hater Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga titles his post about this attack: Bush destroys another 22 families.