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Black Muslim US soldier is a suspect! ("10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack")
CBS News website ^ | 3-22-03 | CBS

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 101stairborne; 101stattack; antiamerican; blackmuslim; camppennsylvania; casualties; donttrustmuslims; islam; islammeanspeace; jihadinamerica; muslim; muslimsoldier; prosaddam; religionofpeace; religionofpeacealert; religionofpeacetm; sedition; terrorwar; traitor; traitorlist; treason; unamerican; warlist
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To: AngrySpud
I was thinking the same thing. At the time, there was speculation about infiltration of the armed services. I hope this was an isolated case. I don't thing our men and women in harm's way need to be watching their backs among their own ranks.

761 posted on 03/22/2003 7:13:36 PM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: TJFLSTRAT
No more callers please .... we have a winner !!
Snooter ;o)
762 posted on 03/22/2003 7:13:47 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: Wormwood
I have no idea, but I'm not really that active a Freeper.

John Robinson, brother of Jim Robinson, owner of FR. John is the man who keeps this site running on the technical end. When is goes "oops", he's the one at 3am fixing it.

763 posted on 03/22/2003 7:13:54 PM PST by Bella_Bru (For all your tagline needs. Don't delay! Orders shipped overnight.)
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To: Radix
What are we supposed to do? We should behave as if Islam is not a threat to our Culture?

We could do one of two things;

1. We could fight all the radical Muslims.

2. We could fight all 800 million Muslims.

764 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:02 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Petronski
Whew! I'm getting too punchy. I'm off to bed.
765 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:04 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: baggadonuts
My God, which commentator? What network? I hadn't heard that. I think we may have more problems than most people realize.

I can't identify the guy. I was surfing channels at the time, and heard this. It was Fox News and Rita Cosby was the anchor. I've seen the guy before and I suspect that he was one of the many "retired generals" that the cable networks have hired.

766 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:11 PM PST by jackbill (waiting to be removed by administrator))
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
You chose your screen name remarkably well.

He said 90% of muslims in the US thought Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.

I am still waiting for his proof, because what he just provided ran counter to his assertion.

767 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:14 PM PST by William McKinley (You're so vain, you probably think this tagline's about you)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
I goofed on the name....it is the Wahabi sect of Islam that they discussed.
768 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:44 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Take W-04........Across America!)
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To: TLBSHOW
Gotta disagree with you there, chief. This guy (if guilty) needs to be shot, and I'll gladly donate the bullet. But I think his "Muslim-ness" is only a symptom of the real problem:

(rest crossposted from an earlier comment of mine on another thread--so I'm lazy) :)

I don't think the "Black Muslims" are really Muslims. I think their motivation is the following:

- they HATE whites to such an extent that they'd fall on their swords before accpeting a "white" religion

- they're LEFTISTS, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, and ANARCHISTS, and they're USING Islam to protect and camouflage their views. The essense of Communism is its insidiousness, its ability to look like something else. If anything we should feel sorry for the millions of peaceful Muslims who have had their religion HIJACKED. I'm a Christian, raised Catholic, but that doesn't mean I support what Hitler did to Christianity when he was in power--he hijecked it and twisted it to his ends. It is characteristic of evil men.
769 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:48 PM PST by Windcatcher ("So what did Doug use?" "He used...sarcasm!")
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To: Petronski
RUHROH..can't find his acct anywhere.. looks like he got kicked to the curb. Foul language will do it every time me thinks.
770 posted on 03/22/2003 7:14:59 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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Story got updated by Dan Blather.

16 now injured. Not life-threatning. Rather, for some strange reason, does not identify the soldier as a Muslim.

I will try to investigate why he ommitted this fact.

771 posted on 03/22/2003 7:15:10 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: William McKinley
I am still waiting for his proof, because what he just provided ran counter to his assertion.

Deal with the 60%.

772 posted on 03/22/2003 7:15:11 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant (jk)
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To: Bella_Bru
I thought John was Jim's son??
773 posted on 03/22/2003 7:15:29 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: eno_
Oh, it may be as high as 1 in 10. May be. Possibly. So might as well shoot the other 9. Just to be sure. Or lock 'em up. Hell, they aren't really people, right?

What the hell is wrong with you?

774 posted on 03/22/2003 7:15:34 PM PST by William McKinley (You're so vain, you probably think this tagline's about you)
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To: SendShaqtoIraq
BUT....CBS has already pulled their original report labeling the soldier as "black muslim".

Good catch. Just one more reason FR is so cool, and one more reason why copying article text as it exists on a web site at the time of the post is SOOOO important (one more addition to the "fair use" argument).

Obviously someone "described" the suspect as a black Muslim to the reporter.

How many other times has an FR poster caught the PC press sanitizing its copy? Very, very many.

775 posted on 03/22/2003 7:15:48 PM PST by litany_of_lies
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To: A CA Guy
Not bang, I think it might be a hanging offense, honestly.
Any military guys here with the correct info on this?

Depends on how they prosecute this -- if they just go with Attempted murder - then it is life in Leavenworth.

BUT since they are in a Combat Zone, Under the UCMJ this would qualify as treason (attempted murder of CO) -- and that is a execution offence in the military.

776 posted on 03/22/2003 7:16:06 PM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: aristeides
"John Muhammad has an Arabic last name."

His name was John Williams before he found Islam and changed it. I am really falling behind the replies here...

777 posted on 03/22/2003 7:16:16 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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To: William McKinley
60% isn't a lot? Wouldn't you be worried if 60% of the US population believes in the Tooth Fairy?
778 posted on 03/22/2003 7:16:20 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Davea
CNN coverage of the incident does not mention that he is a Muslim. They have had comparisons to Nam era "fragging", spun out there without the sligthest hint of the single most important fact in the case. MSNBC likewise does not mention it. They are tip-toeing around the subject, hinting other things are suspected or may be going on, but refusing to say anything - as though for reasons of security. Only Fox, as far as I have seen, has mentioned the unmentionable, that he is Muslim. No one has mentioned his race. And of course, almost all of them are saying it *isn't* a terrorist incident if a soldier did it - which does not remotely follow, of course.
779 posted on 03/22/2003 7:16:20 PM PST by JasonC
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To: Petronski
nah...now that is good fer yer lungs and all!
780 posted on 03/22/2003 7:16:35 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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