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LONDON (Reuters) - A man accused of being involved in a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier will face trial early next year, a London court heard on Friday. Parviz Khan, 36, is accused of "intention to kidnap and kill a member of the British armed forces" in a plan media reports said would involve copying militants' tactics in Iraq by beheading the soldier and posting the killing on the Internet. The father-of-four was one of a group of men arrested in Birmingham in a major anti-terrorism operation last month. Khan and four other suspects appeared via...

Britain Arrests 9 in Terrorist Kidnapping Plot By ALAN COWELL LONDON, Jan. 31 — The British police conducted a series of raids on Wednesday, arresting nine suspects on terrorism charges in what appeared to be a shift in the tactics of terrorism in Britain. The suspects are accused of devising a plot that included plans to kidnap, torture and behead a British Muslim soldier and broadcast video images of his killing on the Internet. The arrests, in the central city of Birmingham, were part of what the authorities called a major operation involving hundreds of officers after months of preparation....

<p>ORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- When Ihsan Bagby, who advised Islamic soldiers stationed here, heard that a Muslim soldier, Asan Akbar, was accused of rolling grenades and spraying gunfire into his superiors' tents, killing two and wounding 14, he was more saddened than shocked.</p>

Muslim Soldier Held In Grenade Attack Worshipped At LA Mosque POSTED: 8:16 a.m. PST March 26, 2003 LOS ANGELES -- The soldier held in a grenade attack against his fellow 101st Airborne soldiers once worshipped at the largest mosque for black Muslims in Los Angeles, a mosque once visited regularly by Muhammad Ali and that continues to count celebrities and sport stars among its worshippers. Sgt. Asan Akbar reportedly uttered anti-American statements after his arrest for Sunday's attack on a brigade command center that killed two, including an Air Force major who died of his wounds Tuesday, and injured...

Sgt. Asan Akbar

Fox listed the traitor who attacked the 101st with grenades as Assan Akbar

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Ten soldiers have been wounded in an attack on Camp Pennsylvania, a military base in northern Kuwait, the U.S. military said on Sunday. A U.S. military spokesman gave no further details. But Jim Lacey, a correspondent for Time magazine who was at the camp, told CNN two grenades had been rolled into the command tent in the camp, in what appeared to be a "terrorist attack."

6 Screaming Eagle Injured Arab tanslators accounted for. One soldier missing A case of Fragging?

10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack March 22, 2003 Ten U.S. soldiers were injured, six or seven of them seriously, in a grenade and small arms attack at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is traveling with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. Strassmann said the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire. "From our reports it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent," said George...

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 23 -- One soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed and 13 were wounded this morning when two hand grenades were thrown into the 1st Brigade technical operations center at Camp Pennsylvania in central Kuwait, U.S. Army officials said.A U.S. soldier assigned to the brigade was in custody, the officials said. The soldier who was killed was not idenfitied.

Camp Attack an Inside Job?Mar 23, 2003 Addendum: The attack on members of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania allegedly was carried out by two individuals -- one a U.S. engineer who is Muslim and the other apparently not a soldier, a Sky News correspondent on the scene has reported. The soldier's behavior was considered "suspicious" in recent days, and he was not to be sent to the front. He was reportedly in the barracks when the grenades were rolled into command tents by the other individual, who was shot in the leg after the attack. Editor's Note:...

Sat March 22, 2003 11:59 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the 13 soldiers wounded in a grenade attack on a tented camp in Kuwait early on Sunday has died of his injuries, CNN reported. Time magazine correspondent Jim Lacey told the broadcaster by telephone from Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait that he had been told of the death by several people. "We're allowed to talk about it," he said.

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait -- A U.S. soldier was being held early today in connection with a grenade attack on the 101st Airborne Division's infantry brigade. The attack killed one and injured about 15 soldiers. Eleven of the victims were airlifted to the combat support hospital in nearby Camp Udairi. The sergeant, whose identity has not been released, was himself wounded either before or during his capture, Army officials said. Early this morning (late Saturday night in Florida), the sergeant was being questioned along with two Middle Eastern civilians, Army officials said. Authorities declined to say whether the two civilians were...

U.S. soldier held in attack on 101st JOHN PARTIPILO / STAFF Soldiers stand guard outside the tents where a fellow member of the 101st Airborne Division is suspected of tossing grenades at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. By CHANTAL ESCOTO The (Clarksville) Leaf-Chronicle CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait — An Army sergeant from Fort Campbell was detained as a suspect in a nighttime grenade attack here that killed one soldier from the 101st Airborne Division and injured 13 others, Army officials said. Three of the injured soldiers were hurt seriously, according to George Heath, a spokesman for the 101st at division headquarters in...

(CBS) Ten U.S. soldiers were injured, six or seven of them seriously, in a grenade and small arms attack at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is traveling with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. Strassmann said the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire. "From our reports it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent," said George Heath, spokesman at Fort Campbell, home base of the...

(CBS) An American soldier is among three suspects being held in connection with a grenade and small-arms attack that injured at least 16 U.S. soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassman, who is on the scene with the Army's 101st Airborne Division. Eleven of the injured were hurt so seriously they had to be choppered out of the camp. Strassmann said three grenades were rolled into three officers' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire. Three suspects were being held for questioning: two Kuwaitis...

'US SOLDIER ATTACKS TROOPS' An American Muslim soldier is understood to have carried out a grenade attack on a US military camp which injured 16 soldiers. A second man, who is not a soldier, is thought to be held. Three grenades were rolled into three tents housing military leaders of the 101st Airborne Division Saturday night at Camp Pennsylvania, home of the, near the Iraqi border, said Sky correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is in the base. The grenade that was rolled into the first tent, where the commanding officer sleeps, did not go off. But two other grenades used to...

As the U.S. geared up for military action in Afghanistan, Army Chaplain Capt. Abd Al-Rasheed Muhammad began questioning the permissibility of a fight against fellow Muslims. Muhammad, the imam of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, sent an inquiry on the matter to the North American Fiqh Council, which deals with matters of Islamic jurisprudence. In turn, according to reports published in the Arabic-language press, the matter was referred to clerics in the Arab world. At first, the clerics issued a Fatwa, or edict, permitting Muslim soldiers to take part in the fighting if there was no alternative. The...

Although Langston Hughes had been confident that the American dream could be made to include his people, thousands upon thousands of other Afro-Americans, especially among the lower classes, were extremely dubious. In 1916, Marcus Garvey came to Harlem, and before long his Universal Negro Improvement Association had opened chapters in urban centers all across the nation. As mentioned previously, Garvey did not believe that blacks could be taken into American society. Hundreds of thousands, who apparently agreed with him, followed his banner. Whatever was the actual number of members of the U.N.I.A., the movement gained more grass-roots support than had...

I was in the middle of doing some stuff around the house this morning and I turned on the puter and the TV to get caught up. I kept switching between Fox & MSNBC to see the Iraqis setting fire to weeds along the river and the "search" for the downed aviators. MSNBC then switched to an update re: the Black Muslim soldier from the "not really fragging" (my term) incident of yesterday. I had already seen the footage of this guy lying on the ground many times and then being picked up by his hands tied behind his back....