[mondonico]

Sky News is a British television news network.

[Humal]

Surprisingly, I heard this first from Dan Blather, then from Fox News. None of them, though, said he was a Muslim.

[Abar]

RED Alert to the military, BUSH and the NSC.

Attention!

They are here.

[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."

[Leroy S. Mort]

Interesting choice of picture attached to THIS CNN story.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[ChadGore]

ROPMA

[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

[XHogPilot]

Absolutely amazing how US press has quickly buried the "Moslem" tag on this traitor.

In the words of the so-so actor Jim Carey, in the part of "The Grinch", let's "GUT HIM LIKE A FISH!"

[nutmeg]

ping!

[FirstTomato]

Sen. Tim Johnson (Dem of S.D.)has a son in the 101st, does he not?

[Imperialist]

REMOVE ALL KNOWN MooSLIMES FROM THE ARMED FORCES NOW. THEY ARE A FIFTH COLUMN.

[joesnuffy]

This is not a disgruntled soldier fragging....
This was a coordinated assassination attempt on the Brigade commander..and his commanders..
This was a "Decapitation" strike...akin to the one we made on Saddam Hussein
This muslim american showed his loyalty to allah and muhammed rather than his country and fellow soldiers....
This was an enemy operation aided by a muslim american...it was premeditated and planned and not a spur of the moment fragging incident regardless of the spin fox or anyother news channel puts on it..
The Army probably feels they cannot stop their momentum to deal with their internal muslim problem..
Which if pushed will be spun into a racial issue..as Jesse jackons and sharpton Mckinney will do on Mon...this will fuel other blacks and the black congressional cawkass..the american commies and antiwar peace creeps....
If they can spin this into a random act of a disgruntled soldier and put him under wraps till its over...
Of course if he was white he would be summarily executed as he should be according to military law in combat

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Sheppard Smith just interrupted a reporter and insisted his sources said the guy was definitely Muslim.

I'm liking old Shep better and better.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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

What happened to the second guy? I'm seeing no more about him.

[Cachelot]

An American Muslim soldier is understood to have carried out a grenade attack

Maybe I remember wrong, but didn't that black muslim sniper fellow have something similar in his military record?

[visualops]

Out of over 1/4 million people involved, one is a nut-case that actually acts out. Considering the stress of the situation, I do not find it terribly unusual that one would crack. This is likely someone would have cracked at some point, no matter what their situation (i.e. in the military or not).
There is also no solid info on whether his being Muslim was a factor either. There is a great deal of misinformation and speculation being reported all over. The only report I give any weight is the Sky News report, since that reporter is at the scene.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Go here Comment on War Against Islam. and read post number 25. Many here, including myself, have tried to tell people that this is a war against Islam. It IS a war against Islam. Anyone who practices that religion is going to have to be deported from the U.S. If deportations to not take place, we will face violence for years to come. Absolutely no doubt about it.