Family: Army's grenade attacker 'driven to it'

ABC News ^ | 03/25/03 | ABC News

[bolobaby]

Attitude Problem?
Family: Soldier Accused in Grenade Attack Troubled Over Race & Religion Issues

March 25 — U.S. Army Sgt. Asan Akbar, the soldier being detained in connection with a grenade attack on his fellow soldiers, told his family members that he encountered racism as an African-American and a Muslim in the armed services.

His stepfather, William Bilal, who was once married to Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, said that his stepson was resentful toward the military and had complained several years ago that it was difficult for a black man "to make rank" in the military.

"Asan was pushed to this. We've got that clear," William Bilal told WBRZ, ABCNEWS' affiliate in Baton Rouge, La. "Everybody's got a breaking point, to put it that way. Everybody's got a breaking point. If he did this, he was driven."

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[Pushi]

Yeah, and he was the mechanic of the helicopter that went down because of "mechanical difficulties."

[Dan(9698)]

>>>...Why did he not seek some kind of officer training,...

You also have to have an IQ of 110 or higher. Some can't meet that.

[nebulas]

Are you serious? Documentation?

[bvw]

This is confusing ... did William Bilal RUN the "Bilal Islamic Center", and does he live in Lousiania? How old was Hasan when his mother moved away from William Bilal? And where is the man she remarried, after she left William? And who is Hasan's real dad? Who long was she a "single mom"? Is Hasan a bastard, tossed between one "step-dad" or temporaray lover of his mom's for any fatherly advice and affection?

And why the heck doesn't "Good Morning America' ask these obvious questions?

His stepfather, William Bilal, who was once married to Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, ... William Bilal [spoke with] WBRZ, ABCNEWS' affiliate in Baton Rouge, La.

[Akbar] was raised Muslim and Akbar and his family attended the Bilal Islamic Center, across the street from their family home before he moved to Tennessee for the military.

His mother said she changed his name to Asan Akbar after she remarried when he was a young boy. In some public records, the first name is spelled Hasan.

[Pushi]

I read it on one of the threads at Free Republic--not a post, but part of an article.

[laz17]

Yes, he was driven to it. He was driven to it by Satan, the entity who drives all of the actions of our enemies on the Left and in islam.

[valleygal]

Thanks for the help. :) My dh wondered what it meant to.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I'm a cynic. He will be acquited. He will be given an honorable discharge with a Purple Heart.(This will be learned in about 3 years from now). He will of course receive disability. He will then run for public office and be elected. Retiring after many years he will receive another pension(plus all the accumulated graft)and filled with public honors, hit the talk show circuit, and even have a movie made of his life ending with a scene showing him justly killing the 'evil' military officer. Finally, dying(perhaps even directly translated) he will be wafted to heaven and there sit on the right hand of Bill Clinton. At the end of time he and Clinton shall come and judge the quick and the dead.

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[Tennessee_Bob]

In other words - they don't just hand out rank. They didn't in the Air Force either. Funny, isn't it - you got promoted on your abilities and potential, rather than just because it was time.

Hmmm - wonder if that applies here??

[aristeides]

Because you don't make rank, you're driven to kill people?

What rank did he want? He was a sergeant after enlisting in 1998.

[FRMAG]

Actually the military very quietly went to lethal injection as a means of execution a few years ago. The facility is at Levenworth. There is a rumor that there is a Master Sergeant medic floating around the Army somewhere who is the only one to hold the MOS of executioner.