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."

[whadizit]

I heard that also. That's like putting a FOX IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE!!

[floriduh voter]

Hillary's Lovely Legs linked all the threads here above (I think).

[lizbet]

When I last saw the CBS news, they didn't even mention that he was a Muslim.

[Freedom2specul8]

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[demosthenes the elder]

I was not expecting a fragging, but as soon as I heard about it I had the immediate suspicion that it was a muslim.

[two23]

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.

[demosthenes the elder]

as to last paragraph: Amen!

[so_real]

I don't care how "American" one would claim to be, I would NOT trust any muslim to cover my butt in a war where jihad is rally cry. It's utterly ridiculous. We don't need that crap on the front line! I'd take it a step further and say we don't need that crap state-side either, but that would be a whole lot bigger argument to make.

[two23]

Good--you all may want to check out the other threads--there are some photo's etc.

[just mimi]

What is a 'naturalized Muslim?' That is a new term to me. It was in one of the news article about this story, wasn't it?

[noutopia]

Beware the enemy inside.

[oldtimer]

But "Minister" Farakahn is going to have a medal ready for this perp!

[Alberta's Child]

Hey, Charlie Rangel was so concerned about the large number of minorities fighting this war that he recommended re-instituting the draft.

If they threw all these Muslim bastards out of the armed forces, then it wouldn't be a problem.

[TLBSHOW]

Warning of Norquest bringing the President Islamist Terrorist front groups and bringing them inside the white house.

here

Islamists' White House gatekeeper

Preeminent among these is the threat posed by "Islamists" -- adherents to radical, violent Muslim sects like the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia -- not only in remote places like Indonesia, Pakistan and Bosnia but in the United States, itself. I made an express distinction between such Islamists and what is, I believe, the majority of Muslims in this country whom the former are determined to recruit, intimidate and dominate through a variety of techniques.

Wahhabi/Saudi funding appears to have been instrumental in creating and sustaining a large number of organizations involved in such troubling activities as: prison recruitment of American felons, indoctrination of U.S. military personnel, proselytizing on more than 500 college campuses across the United States, charitable fund-raising for terrorists and, of course, underwriting -- and, therefore, controlling -- as many as 70-80 percent of the Nation's mosques.

Given the politically attuned nature of the CPAC audience, I expressed particular concern about one of the most insidious of the Wahhabis' activities -- a concerted attempt to penetrate and otherwise influence political circles in Washington. I noted that among the several groups engaged in such activities, the American Muslim Council (AMC), had issued a press release gloating about a recent success: their invitation to participate in a January 16th White House "dialogue" with Muslim and Arab-American organizations opposed to the Bush Administration's registration of aliens from terrorist-sponsoring and -harboring nations.

The AMC press release made a point of commending Ali Tulbah, an Associate Director of the White House's Office of Cabinet Affairs, for including their representatives (notably, executive director Eric Erfan Vickers) in the meeting. Tulbah similarly admitted another highly controversial organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in this meeting. There appear to have been at least nine other meetings that these groups have attended with the White House and senior Administration officials since September 2001, some at the invitation of a predecessor of Mr. Tulbah in the role of gatekeeper for the Administration's Muslim "outreach efforts, Suhail khan.

The inclusion of such organizations is remarkable on its face. It is, after all, a matter of public record that they actively oppose President Bush on: the need forcibly to liberate Iraq; increasing surveillance of potentially dangerous aliens in this country and the places where they congregate (including mosques); and giving law enforcement tools to counter terror. They have also repeatedly expressed sympathy for, excused or otherwise supported groups identified by the Bush Administration as terrorists. For example, CAIR's executive director Nihad Awad has declared in the past "I am in support of the Hamas movement." And in a television debate last June with me, the AMC's Vickers declined repeatedly to denounce either Hamas, Hezbollah or even al Qaeda, finally describing the last as a "resistance movement."

At CPAC, I expressed grave concern that allowing these sorts of organizations to meet with the President and his senior subordinates is a very bad idea in two respects. First, it could enable radical opponents of the Administration a chance to exercise undesirable influence over policy (for example, watering down immigration, law enforcement and intelligence procedures they find objectionable.) And second, it confers (witness the AMC press release) a legitimacy and stature that can only help their bid to establish the Islamists' dominance over the rest of the Nation's Islamic community.

It may be that the family ties both Messrs. Tulbah and Khan have to Wahhabi religious organizations colors their judgment about the inadvisability of favoring the likes of CAIR and the AMC. Observing that this connection exists and that, in any event, their judgment is flawed, is neither racist nor bigoted. Such judgements are, rather, the sort of things that those who care about this President and the national security must ensure are properly addressed.

Grover Norquist's intemperate and defamatory attack on me says much less about my behavior and character than it does about his own relationship to this Wahhabi political influence operation and the role of the Islamic Institute he formerly chaired in facilitating its access to the Bush team. Let us hope that his own conduct has not caused irreparable damage to either this President or the conservative movement.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/frankjgaffneyjr/fg20030211.shtml


and here

Who's with President Bush?


President Bush has characterized the choice to be made in this war on terror: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." The stark clarity of this binary decision has served the United States well in marshaling a large number of nations in the fight against al Qaeda and a smaller, but still ample, number for the next phase of this war: the liberation of Iraq.

Regrettably, in the months since September 11, 2001, people who have made no secret of their sympathy for terrorists, provided them financial support, excused their murderous attacks and/or sought to impede the prosecution of the war against them have repeatedly been put in the company of the President. In other words, individuals and organizations who appear to be "with the terrorists" have time and again been allowed to be with the President in the White House and elsewhere.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/frankjgaffneyjr/fg20030218.shtml

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., is President of the Center for Security Policy, a TownHall.com member organization.

and now they are in the military too!

[floriduh voter]

Here's the thread with all the links: See post 69.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872736/posts?q=1&&page=51

[Windcatcher]

Prediction: we'll see anti-war protestors carrying signs singing his praises TOMORROW.

[Victoria Delsoul]

If they threw all these Muslim bastards out of the COUNTRY, then it wouldn't be a problem.

Agreed! :-)

[crazykatz]

He was a chopper maintanance specialist....so said his daddy.... after the rant against Bush. Saw it on MSNBC.

The chopper went down due to mechanicial trouble... not shot down.

[TLBSHOW]

One of the four marines killed recently in the chopter crash was a naturalized Muslim.

Is that right? I didn't know that.

.....

Looks to me like The President has some choices to start making about who the enemy really is!

[JimRic54]

It does not matter not all Germans in world war 2 were bad. But all Germans were the enemy!

No, all Germans Americans were NOT the Enemy!