Black Muslim US soldier is a suspect! ("10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack")

CBS News website ^ | 3-22-03 | CBS

[Atlas Sneezed]

(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 101st.

Strassman said three suspects were being held for questioning, two Kuwaitis who served a translators and an American soldier described as a black Muslim.

The injured soldiers 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.

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.

Separately, Strassmann reported, an Iraqi rocket fired at U.S. forces in Kuwait was destroyed by Patriot missiles launched from nearby Camp New Jersey.

The terror and missile attack came as the U.S. assault on Iraq gained steam. American and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra and pounded Baghdad with impunity. But tough fighting loomed for coalition troops as they pressed deeper into Iraq.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

I don't see how 'black' is relevant in this situation. Muslim clearly is relevant, but I'm unclear why 'black' matters.

How many members of the NOI do you know of who are anything but black?

[SAMWolf]

Fox has a reporter on the scene, they hacve the guy he's wounded.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Not nearly far enough for me. When can we keelhaul Spencer?

Sentence him to spend the rest of his life chained to the bottom of a portable military commode.

[Petronski]

How many here think CBS is considering scrubbing the word 'muslim' from the text of its story?

[P.O.E.]

Suspect shot in the leg, being held.

[lsee]

Did you see this?

[Eva]

Wasn't John Mohammad, the DC sniper accused of doing this during the first Gulf War?

[U S Army EOD]

You are wrong on this one, we are currently fighting to liberate and entire country full of them from a tryant. Most people I have known are decent deep down inside.

[ArcLight]

He didn't say they were in critical condition. 4 in Serious condition. FWIW, MSNBC said none of the injuries are life-threatening.

[Timesink]

Note that the standard-issue CBS anti-American pull quote REMAINS in this story as well!

[OldFriend]

I believe some terrorists were caught in Oregon who had joined the military to learn shooting skills, etc.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Right.

[Prince Charles]

Reporters: camp commander was target of the attack.

[pipecorp]

The point being, in this country black muslim is redundant?

[TLBSHOW]

Islam the bloody cult needs to be banned in America!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Amen.

[MEG33]

I am not like Mcvay.or Nichols.

[ctnoell70]

remember........Islam is a religion of peace! Yeah, right!

[templar]

It happened a lot in Vietnam.

Fragging was generally a means of changing commanding officers by soldiers expressing their dissatisfaction with leadership. It didn't involve collaboration with the enemy, or enemy participation. This sounds more like an enemy attack than an expression of low morale. Apparently, one of the enemy might have been an American soldier.

[VOA]

Wasn't there a sign that protesters were carrying about soldiers turning and firing
on their commanders?

IIRC, the banner said something like:
"We Support Our Troops...
When They Are Killing Their Commanders"

Gold (light-color) letters on a nice blue background...took some time to
make that banner.

I saw the photo of it yesterday on a thread here...I think it was from the lovely
Saddam-ites in the streets of San Francisco.
You know San Francisco...because, if you're going to San Francisco, you're going to
meet some lovely people there...
(old "Summer of Love" song...)