Posted on 03/22/2003 4:33:03 PM PST by Gamecock
6 Screaming Eagle Injured
Arab tanslators accounted for.
One soldier missing
A case of Fragging?
Is missing soldier a muslim?
Saturday, March 22, 2003
KUWAIT CITY — A camp of the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades and small arms fire, wounding 10 people, including six seriously, U.S. military officials said.
"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, Ky., home base of the 101st.
He said 10 people were wounded, six seriously.
The injured were rushed to a field hospital but military officials had no word on their conditions, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens said from Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar. Their names and nationalities were not released.
The attack, which included small arms fire, happened at a rear base camp of the 101st, near the Iraqi border, U.S. military officials said.
The military did not identify the unit of the 101st that was in the camp but said it had been in Kuwait for about one week.
Most of the division has entered southern Iraq.
Iraq has fired at least seven missiles over its southern border toward U.S. troops and Kuwait City since the start of the U.S.-led campaign to oust Saddam Hussein.
Sunday's attack was the fourth against Americans in Kuwait since October. Kuwait was the main launching point for the tens of thousands of ground forces who have entered Iraq.
The 101st Airborne is a rapid deployment group trained to go anywhere in the world within 36 hours. The roughly 22,000 members of the 101st were deployed Feb. 6. The last time the entire division was deployed was during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, which began after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait.
Most recently, it hunted suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Three Kuwaitis were arrested last month on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in the tiny, oil-rich emirate.
The men were described as Muslim extremists who followed the principles of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden. The arrests followed several attacks against Americans in Kuwait.
On Jan. 21, Islamic extremists were blamed for killing a San Diego computer contractor and injuring another American close to Camp Doha, where U.S. forces are based.
A Kuwaiti policeman faces trial on charges of shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers on Nov. 21 after allegedly stopping their car on a highway.
In October, Muslim fundamentalists killed one U.S. Marine and injured another on a Kuwaiti island. Other Marines killed the gunmen, who were religious extremists.
America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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A term used in Vietnam for enlisted men dropping a grenade in their CO's hootch.
This is not clear at all. Meanwhile, Vic Ratner on ABC claiming that there was an explosion in the sky---perhaps a Patriot, but no air raid sirens, although the guys on the ground were told to put their masks on!
Typically refers to enlisted personnel sending officers into the afterlife, usually by means of grenades.
No kidding? This could get interesting...
American or Kuwaiti?
And this was seconds after the same Shep Smith told us that the translators were accounted for and that a soldier was missing. I interpreted this to mean that the "top headlines" segment had been taped some minutes earlier.
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