CBS spikes "black muslim suspect," now "engineering sergeant"!

CBS News website ^ | 3-22-03 | CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassman

[Atlas Sneezed]

(CBS) An American soldier is among three suspects being held in connection with a grenade and small-arms attack that injured at least 16 U.S. soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassman, who is on the scene with the Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Eleven of the injured were hurt so seriously they had to be choppered out of the camp.

Strassmann said three grenades were rolled into three officers' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire.

Three suspects were being held for questioning: two Kuwaitis who served as translators and an American soldier described as an engineering sergeant.

The American was found injured and hiding in a bunker. Asked if he was hurt throwing a grenade, Strassman reports the soldier replied, "Yes."

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 attacks on U.S. troops came as the American assault on Iraq gained steam. American and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra and pounded Baghdad with impunity.

Coalition ground forces crossed the Euphrates River and were within 150 miles of the capital. They’re still meeting only light resistance, with many Iraqi troops surrendering or simply leaving the battlefield.

But six divisions of the Republican Guard, Saddam's best and most loyal soldiers, were still in the way.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Now, they write:

"Three suspects were being held for questioning: two Kuwaitis who served as translators and an American soldier described as an engineering sergeant."

An hour ago, it was:

"Three suspects were being held for questioning: two Kuwaitis who served as translators and an American soldier described as a black muslim."

See FR thread at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/872619/posts

[TLBSHOW]

Must be a black muslim then for sure!

[estjohn]

I noticed that too. If they make a change they should say so like wire services do when they send out a correction. What gives?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Wow. Great media bias catch!

[stlnative]

The American was found injured and hiding in a bunker. Asked if he was hurt throwing a grenade, Strassman reports the soldier replied, "Yes."

[Wormwood]

doubleplus ungood refs blackmuslim rectify upsub antefiling

[goldstategop]

You know as well as I do a follower of the Religion Of Peace would NEVER commit an act of violent. And to call him black is to malign the victim status of black people. So let's get all PC now.

[Cold Heat]

LOL! Dummies! I was a Combat Engineer as well. I am very upset about this mess.

[CrimeOf73]

To some reporters, political correctness is far more important than accuracy.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Its PC. Jim Lacey, reporter for Time that was on scene when it happened, stated on Larry King's show that the soldier had an Arabic last name. Sky News article clearly identifies him as a muslim, as does Fox News Channel.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1084723,00.html

[finnman69]

Well, CBS does partner with the NY times after all.

[God luvs America]

They had cuffed him and were pointing guns to his head...if he did it they should've pulled the trigger.

[Semper Paratus]

I heard on Fox talk that Wahabi Ministers are Chaplains and may be radicalizing the soldier faithful.

I hope I really didn't hear that but I think I did.

[freebilly]

A bullet is too good for him. An old fashioned hanging will do just fine. Let him kick for a while then twist in the wind....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good catch!

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[Cold Heat]

It was pure speculation, but you heard it right. They said 7 out of ten were Wahabi.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Three suspects were being held for questioning: two Kuwaitis who served as translators and an American soldier described as an engineering sergeant.

An engineering sergeant who happened to be a Black Muslim.

[MarlboroRed]

This is a real problem--BIG problem.

I doubt there are a lot of Arab muslims in the Services, and if there are any, no doubt, right now they're dumped in some "token" position where they can do little harm.

Black muslims, however, are a different story. Blacks comprise 13% of the Services--32,500 in the theater now--and of that number assume 5% are self-identified Black Muslims--conservative assumption if you ask me. That gives us 1,625 black muslims, and this frightens me.

Why? Because blacks who've converted to Islam have done so because (i) they hate the U.S., (ii) hate Jews, and (iii) hate White people. In other words, the perfect candidate for a soldier who would do something like this. One or two here or there, no big deal, but 1,625 could do real damage.

[Prince Charles]

SeeBS News strikes again.

[Diddle E. Squat]

CNN is now having Charles Clover report on the incident, not Jim Lacey who was on scene at the attack had been reporting on it since then, and who said he had been approved to release that the soldier had an arabic last name. However Charles Clover is neither mentioning that nor his muslim affiliation. Stumbling and dancing all around it in fact.