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.

[Preech1]

It's already been done, check the link to the original story...

[wardaddy]

Lots of folks do associate Tim Mcveigh with hard right white folks like me.

In fact you and several others have been using that analogy as a moral equivalency tool on occasion since this thread started.

This is about black muslims in the military right now whose loyalty may be in question. How many White Christian Identity fools do you reckon are in the military?

I bet the average Farakhan rally has 10 times the number of all the white supremacist memberships combined in the nation.

[Radix]

The assholes in the mainstream media would want it to be a Black thing!

Those effing retards in the TV land are in for a serious wake up call.

Stupid left wingers with no background in logic, math, or history.

They could teach me a lot about make-up and poise, and perhaps some voice lessons.

I will call them when I am ready for lessons!

They have made themselves so irrelevant.

Stupid people.

I love the Internet.

[baggadonuts]

Whoa, Whoa Maeve. They don't all feel that way. The Saudi financed and bred Wahabbi muslim cultists that have profliferated the globe including the Taliban and Al Qaeda certainly feel that way. However, the sufi (not sunni) muslims in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans don't subscribe to the teachings of Al Wahhab.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

I know...I've seen two or three that identify him as "muslim".

Only Fox News Channel has brought this up and actually talked about it.

I have not a doubt that in the next few days, this event will be buried, and not one major alphabet network will touch the "muslim" angle...not one.

Now who wants to bet it will be the "mental illness" angle, like with John Mohammed...

Yeah, they did it because they were "mentally ill", Islam had nothing to do with it...yeah, that's the ticket...mental problems...not religion...

Nothing to see hear, folks, move along, move along...ignore the Islamofascist behind the curtain...

[ladyjane]

Re: a court martial and firing squad...if that happens this guy will replace Mumia as the Cause Celeb for the Radical Left. He'll be their new hero

Hopefully he'll be dealt with quickly. No sitting around on death row for 15 years, ACLU and Johnnie Cochrin wasting taxpayers dollars with endless appeals. Hopefully.

[brydic1]

The fact is both CNN and CBS interviewed the embedded British reporter and he totally unaware of our laws forbidding truth telling told the story as he was actually seeing it. Its hard to take it all back now.

[Windcatcher]

Not a problem. If this guy is convicted, all FNC has to do is trot out witness and documents on him, and THEN point out the failure of specific networks to mention it. I forsee ABC, CNN, et. al. lying on the ground screaming in pain.

[jackbill]

Are there limits to your omnipresence and omniscience?

What? What is "omnipresence and omniscience"? Whatever, I suspect my "limits" are no where near as unbounded as the limits of your ignorance.

[Wormwood]

He the a helicopter maintenance specialist as well. The Skynews commentator who saw the crash, said that the chopper fell to the ground, then blew up.

I get a chill just contemplating that.

Vermin.

[Maeve]

The majority of mosques in America are underwritten by Saudi Arabia and their orientation is Wahabbi. That is a matter of record. You have no basis for your claim that the majority of Muslims in America do not hold that worldview. That worldview is essential to Wahabbi Islam which is the dominant strain in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And the reason it is the dominant strain is because we have allowed "our friends' the Saudis to pour money into America to build Mosques, and centers, and to train Wahabist clergy for the United States. Wake up!

[snarkpup]

Someone on Rita Cosby's just said that there are 13 muslim chaplins in the U.S. military, and at least 9 of them are "wahabi" muslims.

We have lost our minds.

Yep. Mother of All Security Breaches.

[William McKinley]

False.

Even in middle eastern nations more than double the percentage of Muslims you said believed arabs were behind 9/11. Granted, a really crappy number, but they are in the hotbed of Islamist propaganda.

Here in the US, your numbers are nowhere near reality.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Rita Crosby is driving me crazy. She is referring to this suspect as "Muslim American" which strikes me more and more as an oxymoron. Then, she keeps saying how we have no idea why he did this......maybe not exactly but there are some obvious possibilities. Also, she said he could be crazy. Crazy blinded by religious furvor, maybe.

[river rat]

"If we were wise we'd recognize the Fifth Column among us and drive it from our shores."

It would be wrong to simply push our problems offshore.. We should kill the bastards..

American Black Muslims should be identified as a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION....
They have demonstrated themselves to be the enemy within. ALL members should be photographed and fingerprinted....of course there are already long criminal records for most...

It's time to protect society and remove these stupid and dangerous assholes from society....

Semper Fi

[bethelgrad]

I've heard Rush call Louie "Calypso," what is Calypso?

[Reborn]

What do you call a moderate Muslim?

A Muslim that has run out of ammo.

Enough said!

[michigander]

US Soldier "frags" 101st Airborne Command Tents, Injures 13

BBSNews - 2003-03-22 -- US Central Command reported earlier "An unknown assailant or assailants attacked elements of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait at approximately 1:30 a.m. local (March 23), injuring 13 soldiers. The wounded soldiers were medically evacuated to a Combat Service Hospital for treatment of their injuries. The area has been secured and an investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of the attack."

CNN has Time Magazine correspondent Jim Lacey, inside Camp Pennsylvania. Lacey reported at about 9:15 EST that an American soldier is being held for this incident. During the Vietnam War there were similar occurances but this time there is speculation on why it has happened so early in the US war on Iraq. Lacey also reported that he was cleared to say the soldier was of "Arabic" descent and that the soldier had been discontent and having some discipline problems.

Authorities are said to be questioning the soldier at this time.

[John Robinson]

The anti-Muslim rhetoric gets pretty damn annoying.

Fact: No organized religion is free of atrocities committed by individuals or groups of individuals in the name of said religion.

Fact: Religion does not fly planes, pull triggers, nor throw hand grenades. People do. Cf. "guns do not kill people, people do."