Black Muslim US soldier is a suspect! ("10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack")

CBS News website ^ | 3-22-03 | CBS

[Atlas Sneezed]

(CBS) Ten U.S. soldiers were injured, six or seven of them seriously, in a grenade and small arms attack at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is traveling with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Strassmann said the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire.

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

Strassman said three suspects were being held for questioning, two Kuwaitis who served a translators and an American soldier described as a black Muslim.

The injured soldiers were rushed to a field hospital but military officials had no word on their conditions, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens said from Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar.

The military did not identify the unit of the 101st that was in the camp but said it had been in Kuwait for about one week. Most of the division has entered southern Iraq.

Separately, Strassmann reported, an Iraqi rocket fired at U.S. forces in Kuwait was destroyed by Patriot missiles launched from nearby Camp New Jersey.

The terror and missile attack came as the U.S. assault on Iraq gained steam. American and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra and pounded Baghdad with impunity. But tough fighting loomed for coalition troops as they pressed deeper into Iraq.

[rimmont]

This is where multiculturalism inevitably leads.

[dep]

And the last people the bigots will think of blaming are themselves.

not to put too fine a point on it, but blow me. there is a substantial religion in the world, the chief tenet of which is the eradication of everyone else. that religion has demonstrated its willingness to do all it can to bring about that end. you are full of it.

dep

[blam]

"Yes. That is why the Muslims need to be booted out. Without trust their is no esprit de corps and operations cannot be conducted with eyes on the target instead of each other."

This is one isolated incident, it just proves we haven't tried hard enough at diversity.<>

[TLBSHOW]

Fox News: Wahabi Muslim Clerics Serving as Military Chaplains


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[viaveritasvita]

I'm curious: I read the post, which mentioned that 2 Kuwaiti translators and a soldier described as a black muslim were being questioned. I clicked on the CBS link and that sentence now describes the black muslim as an engineering somethingorother. Did you copy your post from the initial story from that CBS link? If so, they've already erased the part about suspect being muslim. On the other hand, as I'm typing this CBS radio* is reporting the muslim aspect of this story, but for how long is the big question.

*My news radio station here in Charlotte, NC. I'm forced to listen to CBS 'cuz I don't own a TV (by choice).

[Petronski]

Democratic Underground scrubbed both threads they had running on this story.

Their PC glands must be swollen by now.

[Windcatcher]

Here, here. I've suspected for some time that the Muslim aspect was merely being used as a shield to protect their anti-American, Marxist views. Freedom of religion is indeed a many-edged sword: you can hijack a religion, twist it, and use it to push agendas that not only conflict with it, but in reality have nothing to do with it.

[aristeides]

Do a google search on Tabligh, Jamaat, and John Walker Lindh, and you'll get lots of hits. Here, for example, is an article from rediff.com: US Tablighis fear crackdown.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Figures, another Mohammed. It's about time to run these bastards out of town starting with Dearbornistan.

[DoughtyOne]

Interesting comment. Thanks.

[Freedom2specul8]

Do you have a link to that report?

[vikingcelt]

"All of them. Really. Quite a perspective". Yes, quite a perspective, is it not? I find it absolutely amazing that because it is being reported that a Black Muslim US soldier is suspected in this grenade attack, comments about the father of the dead soldier appear on this thread. Just what exactly is the connection? Other than that they are both "Black", there is none. And because there is none it seems to me that some posters here are trying to equate being "Black" with being anti-American or unpatriotic or something. Amongst my friends and acquaintances some of the finest are black men who served this country in the military with the utmost dignity, bravery and patriotism. These are men who deserve our deepest respect and gratitude.

[Terry Mross]

Well, there' aren't many white Muslims and I don't count Arabs and Iranians caucasian. Guess I could be wrong. And I still say there are no White Muslims serving in the Army and I doubt if Calypso Louie would allow a white guy to join.

[nicmarlo]

I haven't heard of any deaths from this attack as of yet. My prayers are with them.

ty; as are my prayers, also with them, most especially.

[William McKinley]

I think it is obvious that not all muslims are radical.

But I won't disregard the constitutional question as easily as you will if I am reading your post there correctly. The Constitution is not something that should be disregarded when it is considered impractical.

[Maeve]

This is one isolated incident, it just proves we haven't tried hard enough at diversity.

Oh vomit.

[Chest Rockwell]

I agree that "black" has nothing to do with this. "Muslim" is the key descriptor.

[boxerblues]

If I hear anything I will let you know. I have to go now and get home and see whats happening on the TV...Goodnight & God Bless

[this_ol_patriot]

When McVeigh did his terror you didn't see thousands of white Christians chanting down with America, kill all Americans, you saw just the opposite. Why is it everytime an event involving Americans and the Middle East happens there are thousands of Muslims on the streets chanting kill Americans and down with America? You expect a rational person to say that these people should live among us? These are not all Wahabi's yet they still carry their hatred forward.

[Windcatcher]

Hahahaha. They're being dragged kicking and screaming. Those LEFTISTS will deny he's a black muslim right up to the moment the firing squad squeezes their triggers (assuming, of course, guilt).