CBS spikes "black muslim suspect," now "engineering sergeant"!

CBS News website ^ | 3-22-03 | CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassman

[Atlas Sneezed]

(CBS) An American soldier is among three suspects being held in connection with a grenade and small-arms attack that injured at least 16 U.S. soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassman, who is on the scene with the Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Eleven of the injured were hurt so seriously they had to be choppered out of the camp.

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

Three suspects were being held for questioning: two Kuwaitis who served as translators and an American soldier described as an engineering sergeant.

The American was found injured and hiding in a bunker. Asked if he was hurt throwing a grenade, Strassman reports the soldier replied, "Yes."

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 attacks on U.S. troops came as the American assault on Iraq gained steam. American and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra and pounded Baghdad with impunity.

Coalition ground forces crossed the Euphrates River and were within 150 miles of the capital. They’re still meeting only light resistance, with many Iraqi troops surrendering or simply leaving the battlefield.

But six divisions of the Republican Guard, Saddam's best and most loyal soldiers, were still in the way.

[over3Owithabrain]

The reality is, this is going to swept under the rug, not only by the media, but by the government. It simply cannot distract from the task on hand. Admitting the likely truth that the attack was motivated by Islam will only inflame tensions.
This story will last for a day or two and then be put down as stress-related by a poor young soldier.
I hope at least behind the scenes our military brass will not trust another "Muslim-American" with the lives of our soldiers, PC be damned.

[Cold Heat]

I have a electronics shop. There a seven sets sitting back there right now.

RCA made some pretty scewed up chassis that are also in GE and some other off the wall brand names. They will last about three to four years, running just fine and then.........

POP! (pain in the butt to repair due to volage spike damages throughout the chassis.)

[Black Agnes]

This is a much more important fact than the particular individuals race. Do we have any Albanian muslims in the ranks? Saudis? Who knows?...As I stated in a previous post, each and every one of the black servicemen I have known have been 110% patriotic Americans. (although none of them were Muslims...good Baptists and AME attenders...)

[floriduh voter]

Oh. Anyway, the suspect is a rat who targeted the leadership, got a couple of majors and 11 are being medivaced somewhere. I do not know how to spell medivaced.

[over3Owithabrain]

That's exactly what happened to my 4 year old 31 inch RCA TV. Spiked and stopped working. They wanted 250 bucks to fix it - I sold it to the repair guys for 50 bucks and bought another brand.

[FoxGirl]

They have togo west

Help me here. Who is togo west? TIA.

[Alberta's Child]

WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THOSE DAMNED ENGINEERS?

:-(

[WOSG]

Deliberate spiking. wow.

[supercat]

Probably a RCA. They self destruct.

My parent's RCA television set gave up the ghost a couple years ago when it was about 8-10 years old, but it had survived a power surge a couple years before that which damaged a VCR, fried a fluorescent ballast and shot the plastic part of its plug from the wall, and fused another light bulb to its socket.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL! Uh-oh bye bye, AC.

[floriduh voter]

Now you're scarin' me. I have a 31 inch GE and a 32 inch RCA that have the little satellite menus. So, I have three years before they may blow? LOL Thank you for the education tonight.

Please just don't tell me my 13 inch Sylvania tv/vcr is going to blow up at a pre-determined time. I've been watching that all during Iraqi Freedom. I was shocked and awed even with the small screen.

[Cold Heat]

I think that you are misunderstanding the term "black Muslim."

Not really. We all know what it means.

"Black" is a American term. Muslim is not. Hence Black Muslim means to most people just what it states.

The term once refered to radical organizations, but was adopted to refer to all in the American parlance.

Mohamed Ali, (formerly Cassius Clay) is a black Muslim.

Now you can argue the precise parsing of the language, but street talk still rules.

[floriduh voter]

Did CBS err initially by omitting a comma in describing this slug. If they would have written " a black, muslim soldier" it would not have had the same inflammatory effect as black muslim which reads too much like islamic fundamentalist.

[Windcatcher]

This is PERFECT. If it turns out this way, the liberal networks are teed up nicely for FNC to whack, HARD. Expect to see FNC hammer this one. It'll be fun to watch.

[Cold Heat]

got a couple of majors and 11 are being medivaced somewhere.

Sheesh! Your screen name is appropriate!

This kid is but a high school grad. No more than that or he would be a officer. He is a combat engineer and NOT a Engineer. One is a MOS designation and the other is a major (education)

Combat engineers are equipment operators, truck drivers, ditch diggers and also soldiers if needed.

[MarlboroRed]

"And of course you cannot assume a black muslim is a member of one of these groups, any more that you can assume that a white christian is a member of the racist "white christian" groups either."

This is the kind of babble that results in people getting killed.

Why would any black person convert to Islam (and more than half of muslims in the U.S. are converted blacks) if they didn't follow the teachings of Farrakhan and Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad?

It's simply amazing anyone would utter such PC mumbo-jumbo after everything we've experienced. The very core of Black Muslims is their (i) hate for the USA, (ii) hate for Jews, and (iii) hate for "blue-eyed devils". I'm not saying this, the leaders of Black Muslims are. And, unlike you, I take seriously what they say, I don't try to sugar-coat it because it makes me uncomfotable. Yes, some people don't like, some people want to see us suffer, would butcher us if they had their way.

It's the same with bin Laden--he kept telling us he was going to hurt us, was going to seek revenge, and no one seemed to take it seriously. Rather, we late 19 young Arab guys with one-way tickets and light luggage onto the planes on September 11 because to suspect them would have been too horrible in this PC dominated world. September 11 was really a failure of our culture and society to have even an ounce of self-preservation in its blood.

I only hope the army isn't filled with people who think like you.

[Cold Heat]

Your OK with the little one. The 32, has not been out long enough for me to get any in the shop. It is the 25-27 inch that are the problem currently. Most started comming in about 3 years ago. Just when I think they have all blown up! I get another one in. Same ole, same ole.

Personally, I believe they got some bad parts or the design was bad, but I have not seen any 32's.(different chassis)

[Huber]

Gee, I can't remember for sure, but did CBS also use the term "laborer/carpenter" to describe the defendants in the James Byrd draffing or did they happen to mention their race?

[floriduh voter]

I discerned from your other post the distinction between engineer types. Admittedly, I am better at politics than matters of war but sometimes, I'm just typing what I hear on my Sylvania tv which I hope doesn't blow up. I need it to transcribe debates and pressers. I'm a fast freeper typer. It comes in handy sometimes.

[floriduh voter]

Well, the 31 and the 32 are heavy enough. The 32 is kind of top heavy. I need to get a bigger stand for it.