Muslim-American soldier detained in Kuwait attack (I KNEW it!)

WorldNetDaily ^ | March 22, 2003 | WND

[Edward Watson]

Muslim-American soldier detained in Kuwait attack 16 troops injured in grenade assault described by Pentagon as 'inside job'

A U.S. soldier being described as a Muslim is now in custody for alleged complicity in the grenade and small-arms attack on members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division encamped in Northern Kuwait, which injured 16 soldiers, 11 seriously.

In addition, two Kuwaitis who had served a translators are being held for questioning, according to CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is imbedded with the 101st.

Strassmann reported that the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents. When officers ran from their tents, they were hit by small arms fire, he said.

George Heath, 101st spokesman at home base Fort Campbell, said: "From our reports it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent."

Calling it a criminal matter and an "inside job," the Pentagon says the U.S. soldier had been missing on base. The soldier implicated was reportedly in charge of grenades, according to MSNBC.

None of the injuries are being called life threatening, and some of the casualties have been air-lifted out of the camp.

Strassmann also reported that an Iraqi rocket fired at U.S. forces in Kuwait was downed by Patriot missiles launched from nearby Camp New Jersey.

Time reporter Jim Lacey told ABC News that he talked to an eyewitness at the rear base camp who said that grenades were rolled into a tents that housed the leaders of the brigadier unit. A terrorist, the witness told Lacey, shot the first two people who exited the tent. Sky News reports that a third grendade was rolled into a third tent housing officers, but that it did not explode.

Camp Pennsylvania was named to honor of the victims of plane that crashed in Pennsylvania during the Sept. 11 attacks. The camp, located approximately 20-30 miles south of the Iraqi border, is surrounded by large berms and guarded by armed soldiers, with others in observation posts watching the desert. The camp is also home to Patriot missile batteries.

The U.S. soldier is currently being questioned, and U.S. authorities are tight-lipped about characterizing his possible involvement.

Stuart Ramsay, a reporter with Sky News, says the Muslim soldier had become a concern to his commanding officers.

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

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.

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

[TLBSHOW]

get islam out of the USA.... ...


it would be treason if we don't.........

[TLBSHOW]

This definitely was a planned attack, probably with more than one person involved.

.........
the AMC and Cair to start with........

[TLBSHOW]

You don't want to miss this thread!

[PGalt]

You're right Kevin. It's not the color of the skin, it's the content of the character...of the words...of the deeds.

[Illbay]

A Black Muslim is not a real Muslim.

Sort of like Jim Jones' cult were not real Christians.

[Voice in your head]

"I am firmly behind our war with Iraq, but as a Christian I have to struggle with God's commandments to love all people."

This is probably not a verbatim quote, but I believe that Jesus said something along the lines of, "Love knows no greater friend than he who would lay his life down in defense of another."

[Voice in your head]

I would not trust an Al-Qaeda operative or Republican Guard thug in my platoon.

[buffyt]

The article at the link you furnished says:

"Ramsay said the soldier had been guarding a grenades depot at the time.
He said fears about the soldier's behaviour had been raised by colleagues.
"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."

If they were so concerned about his recent behavior WHY was he in charge of guarding the grenades!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[buffyt]

Do you see Burka clad women in USA? I have lived in LA and Houston - Houston has a large Muslim population - and I have never seen a Burka. Lots of scarves, but no Burkas. U don't understand the scarf over the hair idea. Is hair supposed to be to sexy to be seen in public? My hair is NOT sexy!

[buffyt]

Should have been

I don't understand the scarf over the hair....

[SauronOfMordor]

And a commentator on Fox News TV mentioned it at least twice. But you can't find it yet on their website.

FOX is not mentioning the "Black Muslim" bit at all on their cable broadcast this morning. The article on the CBS website that mentioned "Black Muslim" has been edited -- now it's just a soldier who was "resentful". The "Black Muslim" data is now "down the memory hole" at the major media -- luckily the original text was preserved in the thread on the CBS article (one of the big values of FreeRepublic

[FreedomPoster]

Big report RIGHT NOW AS I'M TYPING about this on FNC. At least a couple of minutes, which is a long time for our ADD press. No mention of the "religious" affiliation of the soldier.

[Freebird Forever]

I have full faith in his abilities to accomplish his mission and bring his men home alive.

Yeah, that's what Anwar Sadat thought.

[Vigilanteman]

The puke resposible should be tried and and hanged.

. . . with a rope made of pig leather. The remains should then be fed to pigs and the dung produced thereafter cremated with pig lard.

[SauronOfMordor]

Yes, this could be a big, but I do expect that somehow this story WILL be sanitized in a few hours, by the unrelenting left, some major media outlets and maybe even the DoD.

Try "MOST" media outlets. The original article on the CBS website that said "Black Muslim" last night, got the term edited out this morning. Now it's just a generic "disgruntled soldier". I saw the FOX broadcast this morning. They aren't touching it, making no mention of "Black Muslim"

[aristeides]

I wonder how long they can avoid giving the perp's "Arabic" name.

[DH]

So much for tolerance, diversity and political correctness. Hopefully this incident will put an end to this insane belief that profiling does not accomplish anything.

[snippy_about_it]

Needs repeating, loudly.

Would we be so tolerant if the war was against a communist nation by having avowed communists serving in our armed forces?

[kaylar]

I have seen burka-clad women in Columbia, Missouri shopping malls and wal marts.