Posted on 03/22/2003 7:00:11 PM PST by 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.
You can be as dumb as a rock(some are) to be a engineer, but the job generally takes a high IQ.
They do not design anything like a skilled engineer.(officers are degreed engineers for the most part) They do the heavy work. They drive the dozer's, clear the airstrips and landing zones, blow the obstacles with explosives and generally get dirty.(and shot at)
A sergeant normally has a squad of seven and does whatever task is assigned.(within his specialties)
This guy was on guard duty apparently and was most likely being disciplined or was in charge of other guards. I suppose the story will unfold.
The service is no place for anyone who isn't 100% trustworthy. I've seen radical Black Muslims work up a crowd in the housing projects, trying to get them to go after cops, etc., they're scary folks.
Sept 11th was a wake-up call. Most people have long since rolled over and gone back to sleep. Today's action against the 101st Airborne was another wake-up call. Our leaders can either go back to sleep or they can get up, ditch the PC crap, and start taking steps to prevent pc from getting all of us killed.
Enlisted personel would be combat engineeres with or without any higher education. The name does not imply that one is anything close to a engineer. That was what I was trying in vain at the time to explain.
You can never defeat a determined enemy unless you recognize and identify that enemy.
America and Israel refuse to recognize and identify their common enemy: Islam.
America was created as a Republic in which the concept of religious liberty and tolerance is enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
More importantly, ever since America's formation in 1776, the doctrine of religious freedom and diversity has been enshrined in the heart and soul of the American people.
So it is extremely difficult for Americans to identify an enemy based upon his religious beliefs.
To do so seemingly goes against the spirit of American religious pluralism.
Americans believe that everyone has the right to their own religious beliefs and that it is un-American to infringe upon the religious liberties of their fellow citizens.
But....
What do we do when we are confronted by a religion, Islam, that preaches the physical extermination or forced conversion of all non-Muslims?What do we do when we are violently attacked by a Nazi ideology that happens to be the deeply held religious belief of 1.3 billion Muslims?
What do we do when the Muslim religion itself, through its hateful Koran, commands all Muslims to engage in "jihad" (holy war) until the entire world is "dar al Islam" (under Islamic rule)?
What do we do when the Muslim religion itself in the Koran refers to all non-Muslims as "pigs" and "monkeys"?
What do we do when the world's Muslims obey Koranic Nazi teachings and massacre huge numbers of Christians, Jews and other non-Muslim "infidels"?
What do we do as the Muslim world races feverishly to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction to exterminate millions of Americans and Israelis as their religion commands them to do?
What do we do about the Muslim birthrate, which is by far the world's largest and which is causing the Islamic Nazi menace to grow astronomically?
What do we do? We deny reality because to acknowledge the truth would be to condemn an entire religion, something which Americans consider to be extraordinary distasteful.
So George W. Bush knowingly lies to the American people and speaks of how "peaceful" Islam really is.
The Bolshevik news media — much of which is now owned by Muslim terrorist Arab oil money — happily trumpets the same lies about "peaceful" Islam.
The fact that Islam was created and spread by the sword is ignored by our politicians and media.
The fact that the Nazi Koran preaches fanatic hatred, intolerance and genocide against all non-Muslims is ignored.
Americans face a difficult situation because for the first time in U.S. history, our nation is under attack for religious reasons.
All of America's prior wars had nationalistic — rather than religious — motivations.
The Revolutionary War was a battle for liberty and independence from British tyranny.
The Civil War was a battle over slavery and states rights.
World War I was a battle to prevent fanatic German chauvinism from overrunning all of Europe.
World War II was a battle to prevent the fascism of Germany, Japan and their numerous allies from conquering the world.
Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War were all battles against G-dless Communism.
Now for the first time in history, America is under attack for religious reasons.
The Muslim war against America did not begin on September 11, 2001.
The war started in June 1968, when PLO terrorist Sirhan Sirhan — under the direct orders of the Arab Hitler Yasser Arafat — assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had just become the frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination following his victory in the California primary.
PLO terrorists then seized the American Embassy in the Sudan to demand Sirhan's release. The CIA has Arafat's voice on a tape in which he personally ordered the PLO terrorists to murder the American Ambassador and his assistant, which the PLO terrorists in fact did.
Other Muslim terrorist attacks followed in which Americans were murdered but the U.S. did not get the message.
When Egypt, Syria and the Arab world staged a sneak attack on little Israel while Jews were fasting and praying on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) in October 1973, the U.S. prevented the Jewish State from decisively winning the war when Washington demanded a premature ceasefire just as the Israel Defense Forces were about to destroy the Egyptian Muslim Nazi attackers.
The Arab Muslim world "thanked" the U.S. for saving Nazi Egypt from total defeat by imposing a devastating oil embargo that crippled America's economy throughout the 1970s.
In November 1979, the Iranian Muslim terrorist regime seized the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and held over 100 Americans hostage until January 20, 1981.
In 1983, the Iranian- and Syrian-controlled Hezballah terrorists blew up a U.S. Marines barrack in Lebanon murdering 243 American servicemen. The U.S. "retaliated" by lightly bombing Syrian Army positions in Syrian-occupied Lebanon — causing no casualties and no major damage.
The U.S. Marines were in Lebanon to protect the PLO terrorists from Israeli retaliation. The Marines enabled the PLO terrorists to safely escape from the Israel Defense Forces.
For the millionth time, America desperately sought to curry favor with the hateful Muslim world by stabbing little Israel in the back.
And for the millionth time, the Muslims "thanked" the U.S. by savagely slaughtering hundreds of American "infidels."
The relentless Muslim terrorist attacks on Americans continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s until 3,000 Americans were brutally butchered on September 11th.
But America — and Israel — refuse to recognize that the source of the problem is the Koran.
As long as 1.3 billion Muslims continue to believe in a Nazi book that demands genocide against all non-Muslims, Islamic terrorism will only get worse, much worse, until millions of "infidels" are massacred by weapons of mass destruction.
The only way to end this nightmare is to have leaders in America and Israel who clearly identify the enemy: Islam.
Then we would become energy independent and cut off the hundreds of billions of dollars that flow to Muslim terrorist regimes in order to purchase their oil.Then we would end our insane policy of giving foreign aid to all of our enemies.
Then we would destroy Muslim terrorist nuclear bomb-making factories in Iran, Libya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia rather than focus solely on the far less developed — and far less dangerous — weapons development program in Iraq.
If we did all of this, the primitive, lazy and parasitic Muslim world would literally be starving.
That would force an end to the Muslim population boom, and there would not be the billions of dollars needed to rebuild destroyed nuclear bomb-making factories.
The only voices of truth in the life-and-death struggle against Islam are JTF in America and the Herut (Liberty) Party in Israel.
We can turn the tide and awaken the American and Israeli public if only we have the necessary funding.
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