Terror Alert Should be raised to Severe!
Islamonazi Terrorists are in the U.S. Military and they are ARMED and DANGEROUS!
God Bless and Protect our Troops and their families.
Posted on 03/22/2003 9:10:52 PM PST by Axion
Camp Attack an Inside Job? Addendum: The attack on members of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania allegedly was carried out by two individuals -- one a U.S. engineer who is Muslim and the other apparently not a soldier, a Sky News correspondent on the scene has reported. The soldier's behavior was considered "suspicious" in recent days, and he was not to be sent to the front. He was reportedly in the barracks when the grenades were rolled into command tents by the other individual, who was shot in the leg after the attack. Summary
Mar 23, 2003
Editor's Note: Shortly after this piece was posted, U.S. troops captured the person they claim carried out the attack on Camp Pennsylvania and identified him as a U.S. soldier.
The attack on a 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Kuwait may have been carried out by someone in the Kuwaiti military or the Peninsula Shield force, comprised of soldiers from Gulf States. If this is the case, it will raise tensions between U.S. troops and their Kuwaiti hosts.
Analysis
The attackers of U.S. forces in Camp Pennsylvania were able to penetrate the camp's extremely high security -- armed -- and identify and approach two of the 101st Airborne Division headquarters tents. This was not a lucky shot.
The camps in northern Kuwait were on a war footing and were carefully patrolled prior to the start of the war, with multiple layers of security. Security has only intensified since the onset of hostilities, and guards are undoubtedly under orders to shoot to kill if there is any question about an intruder. Reports suggest the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne is still in the camp, so it is unlikely that only a skeleton crew remained to defend the camp.
Finally, while Camp Pennsylvania is reportedly the closest of U.S. Army camps to the border, it is still some 30 miles inside the country. Whoever attacked the camp had to cross miles of Kuwaiti territory that were crawling with troops from the United States, Britain, Kuwait and Gulf States contributing to the Peninsula Shield force defending Kuwait.
All this suggests that the attackers were known and allowed into the camp. Assuming the attackers were not just seriously unhinged U.S. or British soldiers, that means they were either employees of a local company providing services to the camp or members of the Kuwaiti military or the Peninsula Shield forces. Any local service company employees are no doubt searched for weapons, narrowing the list of suspects to armed local erstwhile allies.
Note that an attacker of U.S. forces in Kuwait on Jan. 21 was a member of the Kuwaiti police. And a Nov. 22, 2002, attack on U.S. forces at the al Fujairah air base in the United Arab Emirates was carried out by a UAE customs officer.
If it turns out that members of the Kuwaiti military or the Peninsula Shield force carried out the attack, it will generate tremendous stresses in relations with these forces, with U.S. troops forced to treat their hosts and allies as potential attackers.
Terror Alert Should be raised to Severe!
Islamonazi Terrorists are in the U.S. Military and they are ARMED and DANGEROUS!
God Bless and Protect our Troops and their families.
If he was a muslim, his religious convictions weren't misguided. They were in perfect harmony with the teachings of the cult of death.
Need I say More?
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