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.

[wardaddy]

Damn right Mad Tom.

I'm hearing on FOX right now that these cretins in our military have their own "mullahs" that are allowed to proslytize this anti-white anti-US crap to them while they are on duty preparing for war.

This too bizarre. Black (and otherwise) muslims who are being preached anti-American vitriol are marching towards Baghdad as we speak with their mullahs in tow.

Fact stranger than fiction folks. I wish Rummy was on the ground over there and no reporters present.

This is pure insanity folks...this is what we have come to now.

Lord help us.

[nicmarlo]

I can't watch t.v. and I just heard about this.....I was in shock at first, and now I'm feeling sick to my stomach.....this is the most awful thing I've ever heard.....I heard three died.....is this true?

[sinkspur]

Frank Gaffney's on with Rita Cosby, and says that the 9 Wahabi Muslim chaplains are likely telling their followers that, according to the Koran, Muslims don't attack other Muslims.

This is bad news. No soldier who knows his bunkmate is a Muslim will trust him. Trust is essential to military cohesion.

It's time for Imams to step up and start condemning this bullshit. I don't give a damn what the Koran says.

Innocent people are at risk here, all for some gutter religion.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Col. Hunt bringing up excellent points...I am surprised by Rita's coherency tonight.

[Wolfstar]

Wow – takes my breath away. I hate the Left in all its variations. Absolutely HATE the Left. From 1848, when Marx and Engels published their 'Communist Manifesto,' the Leftist movement metastasized into the most murderous regimes the world has ever known: the Communist/Socialist systems under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Min, Pol Pot, the North Koreans, Castro and, more recently, Saddam Hussein (who modeled himself after Stalin), to say nothing of all the murderous tin-pot Communist/Socialist dictators in Africa and Latin America. Then there was the ‘nationalist’ brand of socialism under Hitler, Mussolini, Tito, and others. Anyone who still holds up those values simply does not know the monstrous history of the Left.

[pipecorp]

And many are sadly mistaken, just as those who believe all religions lead to god, or that islam is religion of peace.

[DoughtyOne]

I had thought he was raised as a Christian. If not I appologize.

[wardaddy]

I know.....thuggery is an epidemic now...and celebrated.

[teletech]

I understand this "soldier" was shot in the leg. To bad whoever shot him didn't shoot to kill!

[gitmogrunt]

Court Martial

"If" found guilty...Summary Field Execution.

Case Closed

[Freedom2specul8]

"known radical military branch of Islam based in Saudi Arabia."

I'm speechless..

[July 4th]

I agree with you there. Courts-martial and execution.

Muslims don't kill other muslims, right? Strap him to the front of the first tank into Baghdad.

[Pushi]

Yeah, I saw it, and the all in the family are making real asses out of themselves. I find it very hard to sympathize with them.

[leadpencil1]

It's time for Imams to step up and start condemning this bullshit

I'm not sure they can, since we are infidels, tight?

[William McKinley]

Those who embrace Wahabbi terrorism

Ok, now your brush is getting narrower, which is a step in the right direction, since not all muslims are Wahabbi terrorists.

[ysoitanly]

Even FOX is calling this f$ck a 'Muslim American' - not a TRAITOR WHO SHOULD BE SHOT, REGARDLESS. Sorry this pri@k was only shot in the leg to slow him down to question him. I'm signing off soon tonight because I'm just too furious and I'll probably say something to get me banned if I go on. This is now *the* focus of the news - not our successes, not our troops, not the liberation, nothing good - the news LOVES the fact our own got assaulted and this is just SICKENING and that's ALL they're going to talk about. They're already bringing in LAWYERS, because of course the traitor has RIGHTS and this is now going to be a big piece of the 'news' going forward. THE RELIGION OF PEACE STRIKES AGAIN!!! end of rant.

[brydic1]

I think maybe it would be wise to keep this info from the troops in Iraq ready to do battle tomorrow. I would find it almost impossible to fight a battle if I had information conveyed to me that might make me suspicious of those fighting alongside me.

[twntaipan]

Question: Since this happened in the field, does the court martial and any sentence (assuming a firing squad)also happen in the field?

[DoughtyOne]

Look, this is not the only Moslem serving in our military. Therefore I don't see the Moslem part as a major problem. Now, if he's recently arrived (in the last five years or so) from the middle-east, I would agree that we need to have our heads examined for letting him enter the military.