Posted on 03/22/2003 5:18:31 PM PST by 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.
Arab and Iranian Muslims are white Caucasians. They are not "black" any more than Italians and Greeks.
His father held up a picture of his son and said that George W. Bush killed him.
Grenade hurts 13 at 101st Airborne camp
Sunday, March 23, 2003 Posted: 0133 GMT ( 9:33 AM HKT)CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (CNN) -- Intruders lobbed a hand grenade and fired small arms into a command tent of the U.S. Army's front-line 101st Airborne Division early Sunday, wounding 13 people, six seriously, military spokesmen said.
The incident targeting top officers gathered in the Tactical Operations Center of the legendary division's 1st Brigade was first reported by Time magazine correspondent Jim Lacey, who is accompanying the unit.
The camp spokesman said six of the wounded soldiers were evacuated to a field hospital at Camp Arifjan, also in the northern Kuwaiti desert.
Lacey, who was in a tent about 20 yards from the blast, helped move two of the wounded to an ambulance. "The carnage inside those tents was pretty severe," he said.
A major told Lacey he saw a grenade roll by him before the explosion.
Lacey said two people "ran off into the darkness" after the explosion. Two people were being held by the military but it was unclear whether they were suspects, he said.
A suspicious bag made of camouflage material was being checked by military investigators.
Lacey said the bag did not "look like any piece of military equipment" and said it had been moved to one side and people were being told to stay away from it.
"I don't know if they think it's a bomb, or they're just not taking any chances with it," Lacey said.
Lacey said a "full company" of soldiers was guarding the perimeter of the camp before the blast, but there had been traffic in and out, including "trucks, buses, and contractors. It's not a foolproof system."
About 2,100 soldiers are encamped at the post. Lacey said immediately after the blasts soldiers were assembled and deployed around the compound.
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The only disgrace is to him, ArcLight. If this is true, regardless of his race, he will have proven that he is not an honorable American soldier, but a disgrace to his country, outfit and mankind--the civilized branch of mankind, not the branch that admires Osama, Saddamn and their ilk.
If anything, this soldiers treachery will totally disgrace any and all Muslims, be they black, white or whatever, who are currently serving in the military. Muslim soldiers will be watched closely after this, I guarantee it. Sad. And evil.
No difference. Who'd want a Muslim "American" soldier covering their back?
In certain Far Eastern locales, a method of execution was to take a length of bamboo long enough to reach from the person's foot to his navel. You sharpen one end, insert into rectum, place other end into hole in ground, attach subjects feet to stakes on either side.
You then see how long he can stand up.
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