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.

[Freedom2specul8]

GMTA!

[Pushi]

I'd say the same thing about an unpatriotic person regardless of race. I am an equal opportunity critic when it comes to patriotism.

[Lady Heron]

Some of them are terrorists and many of them are not.

But 99% of the muslims support the terrorist

[cake_crumb]

"Now the Somali's who were in the area where we were at were loyal to Mohammed Aideed"

Really? Tangled web.

[dep]

So you are suggesting that the Constitution be amended then to remove the freedom of religion from it?

indeed, that has already effectively happened. by federal court fiat, we are distinctly anti-christian as a nation; and until 9/11 we were officially promoting athiesm. now we are bending over backwards for islam.

dep

[Radix]

SEMPER FI

[Admin Moderator]

You are a major dumbass. LOL

[skeeter]

Uh oh.

[FreeReign]

The anti-Muslim rhetoric gets pretty damn annoying.

Especially when you consider that there are about 800 million or more of them and most have never killed anybody.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Rita said that he did have an "arabic last name"...so I guess this will come out.

We need to make sure O'Reilly and Hannity, Rush and Savage, and the rest of the conservative media push this issue and do not let it go.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Who told you Walker was raised Christian? I've never read that. I thought he was raised Gay Liberal.

Actually, the little-reported (surprise!) story was that he was raised "normally" -- albeit by libs, a Leftist lawyer father -- but he went astray after his father left his mother and went off to live with another man. Publicising this would have damaged the liberal everything-is-moral paradigm, so it was dropped faster than a French defender's rifle.

[cyborg]

"Black Muslims" to me are simply a collection of failures and criminals who share one thing in common: hatred for whites, capitalism, and US society. They should wake up or be plowed under.

**Which plow? Deere or Komatsu? :-) God bless the troops!

[kaylar]

Chest Rockwell signed up 2002-08-04.

This account has been banned.

[Petronski]

I still believe there is ambiguity in the (now scrubbed) CBS language "black muslim." Did they mean the suspect was 'a black and a muslim?' Or did they mean the suspect was a member of a 'Black Muslim' organization?

I agree with your assessment of FOI and their ilk, I am just not sure this guy is a 'Black Muslim.' I prefer to wait for more information.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Agreed! Some fall all over themselves showing how "Tolerant" they are.

[dep]

yet.

dep

[Bella_Bru]

LOL! I think he just found out.

[LibKill]

God, please don't let him be black...what a disgrace that would be for our people.

Relax and drop your pack. :)

He ain't you, you ain't him. And we can tell the difference.

[crazykatz]

One of the American Marines killed when the chopper went down the other day was a muslim convert.

I read that his Dad said he was involved with chopper maintenance at one time.