'US SOLDIER ATTACKS TROOPS' [unsanitized discussion of MUSLIM treason suspect]

Sky News ^ | 3/22/03 | not given

[mondonico]

'US SOLDIER ATTACKS TROOPS'

An American Muslim soldier is understood to have carried out a grenade attack on a US military camp which injured 16 soldiers.

A second man, who is not a soldier, is thought to be held.

Three grenades were rolled into three tents housing military leaders of the 101st Airborne Division Saturday night at Camp Pennsylvania, home of the, near the Iraqi border, said Sky correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is in the base.

The grenade that was rolled into the first tent, where the commanding officer sleeps, did not go off.

But two other grenades used to attack tents where the unit's majors and captains sleep did explode.

'Acting weird'

Ramsay watched as the suspects were held.

"Two men are being held, one of which is a Muslim soldier who is an engineer," Ramsay said.

"It appears he was hiding in a barrack where the attacks happened. A second man, who we believe is not an American soldier, is being held by the military.

"As the man who carried out the attack moved away there was some shooting. He was shot in the leg. He was held on the ground less than 100 yards from where the attack happened."

He said fears about the Muslim soldier's behaviour had been raised in recent days by colleagues.

Interrogation

"In recent days they were concerned about his behaviour and were not going to send him up to the front when the soldiers were going to be deployed."

It is not clear whether the soldier, who Ramsay said would have been in the Gulf for some weeks, had planned the attack before being deployed.

"To be honest we just do not know," Ramsay said.

"Talking to other soldiers, it could be that he was disgruntled. They said he had been acting 'weird' for days."

Eleven soldiers who were seriously hurt were flown out of the camp by helicopter.

[Ronin]

I'll be a sonofabitch...

When I read this story on the Internet this morning (via cell phone Yahoo) I was more pissed at the American Army for not ensuring base camp security.

Stupid me, I never thought that it would be a traitor in our own ranks who did this. I (blushing now) assumed that the grunts had just been lax in rear echelon security.

This is sickening. I hope they shoot this guy. Then stand him up, and shoot him again.

[Between the Lines]

From the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12339-2003Mar22.html

A command tent of the 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades, and 13 soldiers were wounded, six seriously, military officials said. An American soldier was detained as a suspect, the Army said.

Two persons of Middle Eastern descent were also detained in Camp Pennsylvania and questioned about the attack, said George Heath, civilian spokesman for Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home base of the 101st. He did not know if they are still being questioned.

Two Middle Eastern men had been hired as contractors working for the Army at that camp, but Heath did not say in what capacity.

The American soldier detained is assigned to the 101st Airborne, said Max Blumenfeld, a spokesman for the U.S. Army V Corps.

Of the 13 wounded, two were treated at the scene and released and helicopters evacuated 11 to Army hospitals, he said.

Preliminary information suggests the attack at 1:30 a.m. was carried out using hand grenades only, Blumenfeld said. Earlier reports had also talked of small-arms fire. The motive most likely was resentment, he said, without elaborating.

Blumenfeld said investigators do not know if others were involved and the suspect has not been charged.

Names of the wounded were not released.

Earlier, Heath said the attack appeared to have been carried out by terrorists.

The attack happened at a rear base camp of the 101st, near the Iraqi border, U.S. military officials said.

Near Camp New York, another encampment in Kuwait, a Patriot missile hit an incoming missile, a military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. There were no reports of injuries or where debris from the missile might have landed. Camp New York, which is near Camp Pennsylvania, was the largest of the desert staging camps.

Jim Lacey, a correspondent for Time magazine, told CNN that he was about 20 yards (meters) away when explosions at Camp Pennsylvania went off at what he said were two tents that housed division leadership.

"The people who did it ran off into the darkness," he said.

He said he interviewed an Army major who was sitting outside the tent. "He said he saw the grenade roll by him," Lacey said.

After the attack, troops fanned out around the compound to find the perpetrators, Lacey said.

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.

Kuwait was the main launching point for the tens of thousands of ground forces who have entered Iraq.

The 101st Airborne is a rapid deployment group trained to go anywhere in the world within 36 hours. The roughly 22,000 members of the 101st were deployed Feb. 6. The last time the entire division was deployed was during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, which began after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait.

Most recently, it hunted suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan. Its exploits are followed in Kentucky with much pride.

News of the attack at the camp compounded the anxiety of relatives of the division's soldiers.

"I get a little worried but when I think I should be crying, I'm not," said Chelsey Payne of Clarksville, Tenn., whose husband, Sgt. Robert Payne, is with the division. "I just don't get scared about my own husband, I just know that he's a good soldier and he's coming home. He promised me."

[RightWhale]

The military has complete stats on each and every soldier. The matter is being handled right now.

[KingPin]

Must have missed it, give me a link

[Kozak]

Punitive Articles of the UCMJ

Article 106a Espionage


“(1) Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any entity described in paragraph (2), either directly or indirectly, anything described in paragraph (3) shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, except that if the accused is found guilty of an offense that directly concerns (A) nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large scale attack, (B) war plans, (C) communications intelligence or cryptographic information, or (D) any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy, the accused shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.


Punitive Articles of the UCMJ

Article 90—Assaulting or willfully disobeying superior commissioned officer

(1) strikes his superior commissioned officer or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him while he is in the execution of his office; or

(2) willfully disobeys a lawful command of his superior commissioned officer; shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, and if the offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment, other than death, as a court-martial may direct.”


Time for court martial and firing squad.
Bastard.

[floriduh voter]

Fox News is working with Sky News around the clock. There's a chance that Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News in my estimation. Maybe someone here knows.

[aristeides]

Two Middle Eastern men had been hired as contractors working for the Army at that camp, but Heath did not say in what capacity.

I heard from CBS News on WTOP Radio in D.C. a couple of hours ago that they had been hired as translators the day before, for a mission the unit was about to perform (in Iraq, I imagine.)

[Leroy S. Mort]

Interesting choice of picture attached to THIS CNN story.

[floriduh voter]

Fox News announces: Motive? "resentment". That didn't take long, did it? I'm not buying it, not one iota.

[ffusco]

I thought Sky News was from that Bond movie.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Abar]

The American public has no idea what they are up against.

Jihad is on their doorsteps and they don't know it yet.

Christians and Jews, the enemy has arrived.

[aristeides]

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.

What I heard on the radio: First Brigade, 101st Airborne.

[ChadGore]

ROPMA

[Leroy S. Mort]

Oops..make that AP vs CNN story....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Can you say Satan's trojan horse

[JerseyHighlander]

As the man who carried out the attack moved away there was some shooting. He was shot in the leg. He was held on the ground less than 100 yards from where the attack happened."

If this is correct, Lacey was on TV Live talking to Lou Dobbs the moment the gun shots were fired at the base. The line went dead within 10 seconds.

[kaylar]

On another thread, a WP report has stated that one of the wounded has died.post 867 has the link

[ontos-on]

"Isolated incident?"

A fatwah issued the same today sparks an attack by several fronted by an "insider" who is a sleeper terrorist with terrorist connections. This is isolated only in the sense that it is the first. It was political act of terrorism but several people sparked by a muslim fatwah. Are you sleeping or just ignoring those details? I am not talking about going crazy -- but those are the reliably reported facts.

[HiTech RedNeck]

ROPMA??