[max_rpf]

Calling the FBI -- Find this man's Mullah!

[the_doc]

Looks like Sgt. Akbar is quite a babe.

[CindyDawg]

Bet it isn't his birth name.

[Brett66]

I wonder if his words, as he threw the grenades, were "Allah Akbar". Dirty fifth columnist.

[xJones]

Sgt. Asan Akbar

Who among us is surprised?

[ambrose]

Would you like to be fighting in the same division as a guy named Akbar?

[ChadGore]

ROPMA

[blackangus]

Remember now, NO PROFILING!!!

[Bogey78O]

Asan the Great....typical muslim name

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

[evolved_rage]

Those internment camps during WWII didn't help at all! </sarcasm>

[Sabertooth]

I saw somewhere that this guy is from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Anyone got a confirmation?

We might see a Fuqra connection before this is done.

[Professional]

WTF is someone in the US army allowed to serve with a name like that?! Good golly!

[BushMeister]

Really, now. If a soldier is "insubordinate" when a war has just begun, "cashier" him or arrest him. DO NOT LET HIM GUARD A GRENADE DEPOT, especially if he is a muslim.

For those who don't know, "Beltway Sniper" John Muhammad was strongly suspected of tossing a grenade (phosphorus, I think) into a tent of *his* fellow sleeping soldiers.

[Dr.Deth]

Darn, I had Sgt. Hakmalak Achmalakalach in the pool.

[Grig]

This guy?

[KG Peiper]

Maybe time for profiling in the military, will someone call the ACLU and get permission.

[Alberta's Child]

If this guy is still alive 24 hours from now, then the U.S. government ought to call the war off and bring every f#cking soldier back home.

Waging war against Iraq and al-Qaeda is idiotic if we can't even deal with Islamic enemies in our own ranks.

[MinuteGal]

"Ali Akbar"? Named for a Muslim revolutionary martyr?

General Ali Akbar Derahshani was a recognized opponent of the Shah of Iran. In the earlier stages of the Iranian revolution, he was arrested by the Shah's police and died the same night in prison.

Leni

[Unmarked Package]

This incident will certainly degrade the argument of the naïve who constantly hold that devout Moslems easily subjugate their religious beliefs to live and function in modern U.S. society as good, patriotic citizens. How could a person be more indoctrinated in the concepts, culture and principles of the U.S. than one who attains the rank of Sgt. in the military? Yet religious fervor completely overwhelms that instruction and training (assuming his religion played a role in his decision to commit the criminal act).

It bolsters the argument that Moslems in the U.S. who are good citizens and patriotic (there are many) are indeed not devout followers of Islam. The two are mutually exclusive. The startling reality is that it is not Islamic radicals who are trying to hijack the Moslem faith. In fact, it is the moderate Moslems who are attempting to divert and change the true faith of Islam which is violent and intolerant in the extreme.