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GI Held In Base Attack Made Anti U.S. Remarks
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 24, 2003 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 03/24/2003 1:50:25 PM PST by joesnuffy

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM GI held in base attack made anti-U.S. remarks Mother of Asan Akbar claims son accused because he is Muslim

Posted: March 24, 2003 3:10 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The Muslim U.S. soldier accused of killing a division captain and wounding 15 fellow soldiers in a grenade and automatic weapon attack on members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division encamped in Northern Kuwait made anti-American statements after he was apprehended, according to the Los Angeles Times.

"You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children," Army Sgt. Asan Akbar was overheard as saying by soldiers who survived the attack.

Akbar, 31, is being held for allegedly rolling grenades into three tents where officers and senior noncommissioned officers were sleeping, and shooting at least two fellow soldiers as they raced from their tents.

Following the explosion of the first grenade the suspect shouted, "We're being attacked!" officers told the Times.

"The first thing I thought was some sort of commando attack, or a terrorist raid," the commander of the division's 1st Brigade, Col. Frederick B. Hodges said.

Hodges narrowly escaped, when an incendiary grenade rolled into his tent, setting it on fire.

"I was furious," the brigade's command sergeant major, Bart Womack, who shares the tent with Hodges added. "I was thinking, 'How did the enemy get into our camp?'"

Womack shook the colonel awake just as a fragmentation grenade exploded next to his cot, spraying shrapnel and wounding Hodges.

The duo stumbled over each other in the smoke as they struggled to get out of the tent. The colonel emerged first, only to be shot in the leg by the suspect who had been lying in wait by the tent entrance with his rifle.

Womack said Akbar then ran to the next tent a few paces away and tossed a fragmentation grenade inside. When an officer ran out, Womack told the Times, "The guy just stopped, shot the officer in the back when he paused to put on his mask, then he kept on running."

Akbar was subsequently caught carrying two grenades and a standard-issue M-4 automatic rifle. His leg was bleeding, apparently cut by shrapnel.

Of the sixteen soldiers injured, 11 were evacuated by helicopter, reports Army Times. One soldier, whose name has not been released, died later of his injuries.

The Army identified the soldier who died as Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division.

Camp Pennsylvania was named to honor the victims of the 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 paper reports the attack leaves many at the remote camp feeling vulnerable and betrayed.

"It's bad enough we have to worry about enemy forces, but now we have to worry about our own guys," Spc. Autumn Simmer told the Times. Simmer had been sleeping in a row of tents behind those that were attacked.

The motive in the attack ''most likely was resentment,'' said Army spokesman Max Blumenfeld, but he did not elaborate.

Two high-ranking U.S. Army sources say Akbar was opposed to the killing of Muslims and opposed to the war in Iraq, according to NBC News.

The Muslim soldier reportedly had become a concern to his commanding officers. Military criminal investigators said he was recently reprimanded for insubordination and was told he would not join his unit's push into Iraq.

Other soldiers told Sky News that Akbar had been acting "weird" for days.

Akbar graduated from Locke High School in Los Angeles. He also studied at the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center, a predominantly African American mosque in South-Central Los Angeles.

Those who knew Akbar from the past expressed disbelief that he could be responsible. Imam Hasan told the Times that the Akbar he remembered was a quiet, shy and studious boy who stayed out of trouble, even normal schoolyard scuffles and roughhousing.

"He was never a troublemaker," Hasan said. "I'm remembering him as a kid and listening to what he's charged with, and it doesn't compute. It's completely against the character of the person I knew."

Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, told the Chicago Sun-Times her son has been accused simply because he is a Muslim, and that he had feared problems due to his faith.

''He said, 'Mama, when I get over there, I have the feeling they are going to arrest me just because of the name that I have carried,'" Bilal continued.

''He's not like that,'' she said. ''He said the only thing he was going out there to do was blow up the bridges. He was never like that.''

She told the paper her son did not participate in the first Iraq war because his religion created a ''conflict of interest."

The Leaf-Chronicle newspaper in Clarksville, Tenn., reported that the FBI combed Akbar's apartment complex in that town early Sunday, looking for clues.

Dennis Olgin, a former Army prosecutor told Fox News Akbar could be charged with treason, but murder and attempted murder would be easier to prove.

The penalty of life would be the minimum if Akbar were to be charged and convicted of murder.

Earlier article:

Muslim-American soldier detained in Kuwait attack


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KEYWORDS: 101airborne; 101stattack; asanakbar; blackmuslim; blackmuslims; decapitationstrike; terroristattack; traitor; wariniraq
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To: joesnuffy
One soldier, whose name has not been released, died later of his injuries.
The Army identified the soldier who died as Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division.

Is this a typo, or have two soldiers died from this traitor?

21 posted on 03/24/2003 2:24:15 PM PST by NautiNurse (Usama bin Laden has produced more tapes than Steely Dan)
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To: joesnuffy
Being that he is also an NCO he probably has a "Secret" security clearance....

Actually, that is unlikely if he's a combat engineer.

Hell, I was in an MOS that was expected to handle classified material on a regular basis, and all I held was "Confidential," and that only when my CO decided that I had a need to know.

22 posted on 03/24/2003 2:26:39 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: joesnuffy
"Religion of Peace" my A$$!!!

Who still believes this drivel?? Where is the condemnation from the Muslim community? Nothing!!

My advice to others in units with Muslims, "Watch your back!"

Is there still a question of what we are fighting?
23 posted on 03/24/2003 2:39:02 PM PST by dmanLA
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To: HEY4QDEMS
He will end up in the Military Prison at Levenworth, Military Guards and other prisoners who are military.

If he was lucky he would of been killed that night because they will make his life a living hell at Leavenworth.
24 posted on 03/24/2003 2:42:15 PM PST by Swiss
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To: Paul Ross
I will ping you to any threads on this issue that has now claimed an American soldiers life because of PC and playing footsie with the enemy.

You do know Frank was a Reagan man?

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=static&page=islamists
25 posted on 03/24/2003 2:42:26 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The gift is to see the truth......)
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To: Paul Ross
Because we have a bunch of PC crap [ the 'Religion of Peace' ] being foisted on our military. Fred Gaffney has been turning somersaults trying to get Donald Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz to take seriously his alarm that out of the 13 Islamic military 'chaplains' in the U.S. armed forces, NINE OF THEM ARE WAHHABBIST's!!!

I wonder how many are currently in the Gulf area right now?
26 posted on 03/24/2003 2:48:05 PM PST by Kozak
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To: KineticKitty
"...you're going to rape our women..."

Don't flatter yourself, Akbar. We'll leave the bearded ladies to you guys. Did it ever occur to you that there was a reason Muhammed wanted their faces covered?

27 posted on 03/24/2003 2:49:21 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: KineticKitty
Agree. There is also something very, very wrong with our (their) congress-critters. Check your FReep mail.

Mustang sends w/ Best FReegards.
28 posted on 03/24/2003 2:52:38 PM PST by Mustang (Evil Thrives When Good People Do Nothing!)
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To: Anamensis
“…Muslim Arabs are holding African Christians as slaves at this very moment in Sudan.“

The racial affinity of others is of no significance to a Muslim. The only thing they recognize is that the “other” isn’t Islamic and therefore unworthy of compassion, fair treatment or even life. That is the basic tenant of their cult.


29 posted on 03/24/2003 2:54:42 PM PST by sinclair (The Constitution tells government not to mess with me – not the other way around.)
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To: joesnuffy

OMG! (Gosh)

Cry me a river, the evil us went all the way to the mideast to kill babies and rape people.

This is nothing more than muslim propaganda. He sounds as bad as the natives there, but he's actually worse because he has enough firsthand experience to know better.

Kill Him for his crime.

Then bury him in bacon grease for insulting our collective intelligence with this ridiculous statement.

30 posted on 03/24/2003 2:54:52 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville, and this is "Freepin for Zot!")
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To: joesnuffy
First, who the hell put this scum in charge of guarding a friggin arsonal.

Second, The brigade commander and the command sergeant major share a tent, that's somebody who is in tune with things.

31 posted on 03/24/2003 2:56:48 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: joesnuffy
Those who knew Akbar from the past expressed disbelief that he could be responsible. Imam Hasan told the Times that the Akbar he remembered was a quiet, shy and studious boy who stayed out of trouble, even normal schoolyard scuffles and roughhousing.

"For a limited time only! Turn YOUR quiet, shy, and studious boy into a murderous thug. Just add Islam. Yes, Islam. That magical formula from the ancient past, imported from the shifting sands of the mysterious Orient. You claim your boy isn't quite xenophobic enough? That he doesn't even get into the normal schoolyard scuffles and scrapes? With a dash of Islam and its childhood to early-pubescent circumcision and license to kill the enemies of the House of Islam, you'll have no problem at all in awakening his latent paranoia and aggression and turning them outward. Islam! For all your martyr complex needs! And don't leave the girls out! Be one of the first hundred callers and get a free clitorectomy kit!"
32 posted on 03/24/2003 3:00:01 PM PST by aruanan
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To: joesnuffy
"Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, told the Chicago Sun-Times her son has been accused simply because he is a Muslim, and that he had feared problems due to his faith.

Right "mom", his problem is his "faith"...
His problem is, YOU rasied a murdering asshole.

With a stupid bitch like this for a mother...you can see where the bastard son went wrong....

Semper Fi

33 posted on 03/24/2003 3:06:06 PM PST by river rat (War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
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To: joesnuffy
Too bad he isn't a white Christian. We could hang the little ******, but we must understand his plight. He must have been so alienated being a black muslim in the military and all.
34 posted on 03/24/2003 3:06:39 PM PST by ODDITHER
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To: Mister Baredog
Has anyone heard from the American Muslim community?

Oh, not to worry, we will. Once this guy gets back to Kentucky to face court-martial, all the Muslim groups will be all over the media defending him. They'll claim he's being targeted for being Muslim, demand that he be taken out of the miltary justice system and given a civilain trial, and then raise lots of money to hire Johnnie Cochran or some other defense lawyer of his stature.

He's going to be at least as big a darling of the Left as Sami Al Arian.

35 posted on 03/24/2003 3:09:21 PM PST by CFC__VRWC
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To: joesnuffy
Court martial and execute.
36 posted on 03/24/2003 3:15:48 PM PST by Bars4Bill
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To: Mustang
"...you're going to rape our women..."

Say what, Akbar?

37 posted on 03/24/2003 3:16:00 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: Swiss
The guards at Leavenworth will make his life a living hell? I hope so. My first hope was that he should be tried that day, shot that afternoon. Buried in the desert with his name never released and his mother never notified. That was the way it was done in WWII. Over 50 of our soldiers were done that way for mere COWARDICE! This a**hole is still drawing breath. That absolutely infuriates me. Those guards at Leavenworth had best do a good job on this scum, and for decades, too.
38 posted on 03/24/2003 3:16:30 PM PST by wastoute
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To: joesnuffy
Re: Coming into "our countries"

How typical of a jihadist to so egotisticly assume a mandate that was neither bestowed upon him, nor taken up himself.

39 posted on 03/24/2003 3:19:12 PM PST by ChadGore (288,007,154 Americans did not protest the war today)
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To: Bonaparte
Love those blue felt-pen eyebrows.
40 posted on 03/24/2003 3:23:09 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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