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Is it asking too much for something more than a verdict in the court-martial of Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the man accused of killing two officers -- including Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert of Williams Township -- a few days after the start of the war in Iraq? Something like an answer to the question: Why? Jury selection in Akbar's court-martial is under way in North Carolina, but pre-trial events only seem to have muddied the picture. Akbar is accused of using grenades and a rifle to attack fellow troops at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait in March 2003. He has been...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A soldier charged in a fatal grenade attack on two officers in Kuwait tried to overpower one of his military guards Wednesday, causing the postponement of a planned pretrial hearing. Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar turned against one of his military police escorts at Fort Bragg's courts building around 7 a.m., two hours before the scheduled start of the hearing, the Army said in a statement. "The MPs quickly regained control of Akbar," the statement said. "During the incident both Akbar and one of the MPs suffered injuries and received medical attention." Further details on the incident...

A judge ruled that a sergeant's admission that he rolled grenades into his colleagues' tent will be allowed in his court-martial, which has been delayed until April. FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Sgt. Hasan Akbar's statement acknowledging he rolled grenades into the tents of sleeping U.S. soldiers will be admissible when he goes on trial in the attack that killed two officers, a judge ruled Thursday. But the judge excluded statements Akbar made to two sergeants who guarded him after the attack, saying Akbar had not yet been informed of his legal rights. Defense attorneys also succeeded in getting a nearly...

<p>The U.S. Army intends to court-martial a sergeant accused of tossing grenades into fellow service members' tents while stationed in Kuwait. The attack killed two officers.</p> <p>The court-martial, expected to take place this summer, could result in the death penalty for Sgt. Hasan Akbar (search), 32.</p>

One soldier waits in a Fort Knox jail. Two others rest in graves dug just months ago. The Army says the jailed soldier, Sgt. Hasan Akbar, put the other two in the ground. But nearly a year after Maj. Gregory Stone and Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert were killed in a Kuwaiti desert, Akbar still doesn't know if he will face a court-martial in which he could receive the death penalty. His family — and the families of the deceased — are hoping the issue can be resolved. All were members of the 101st Airborne Division. "We've learned a hard lesson,"...

What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough. The most disturbing story of the war so far is the fragging at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. According to news reports, on March 23, Sgt. Asan Akbar rolled a grenade into each of three tents of sleeping officers and senior NCOs of the 101st Airborne Division. Then he allegedly shot the soldiers with an automatic weapon as they fled from their tents. Two of them, a major and a captain, died, and 14 others were injured. The episode is unsettling for a number of reasons, most of all because...

The U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing two officers and wounding 14 soldiers by throwing three grenades into a tent in Kuwait, has told his mother that he was relentlessly humiliated about his Islamic faith by three superior officers, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Sgt. Asan Akbar described fellow soldiers referred to him as a 'rag head' after his deployment to Kuwait. He claimed he was ''provoked and harassed'' and made to feel like the enemy rather than an American soldier. ''If they hadn't done what they done, and said what they said, this never would...

Mother of soldier arrested in grenade attack fears for son’s safety WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)--A Muslim soldier from the 101st Airborne Division has been charged with murder in a grenade attack on Army officers’ four days after the U.S. invasion of Iraq that killed two U.S. servicemen in Kuwait, officials at Ft. Campbell, Ky. announced on April 4. Sergeant Asan K. Akbar, 32, was officially charged on March 25 with two counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder along with other charges under military law. He was transferred from Kuwait to a military detention center in Mannheim, Germany immediately...

4th Infantry Readies to Roll Into Iraq By DAVID RISING .c The Associated Press CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (AP) - Around the clock, the 4th Infantry Division's tanks, howitzers and other vehicles are being hauled into this camp near the Iraq border to make sure they are ready to roll within a week, a commander said Wednesday. With a battalion of 18 Paladin howitzers, two armored battalions with 44 Abrams tanks each and two infantry battalions, the 1st Brigade will be the first part of the division to move north across the border. ``We'll have 80 percent of the brigade here...

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (Army News Service, March 24, 2003) - The dim dust of the desert settled lightly upon a pair of combat boots this morning. An inverted black rifle stood prone, topped by a camouflage helmet embossed with the black club of the Bastogne Brigade. A silver set of identification tags hung motionless from the rifle, capturing a glimmer of the morning sun. Upon those tags were etched a name that lay heavy upon the morning haze: Capt. Christopher Seifert, 28 years old, a captain, assistant S2, 1st Brigade headquarters, 101st Airborne Division. The 101st had lost one of...

U.S. soldier held in attack on 101st JOHN PARTIPILO / STAFF Soldiers stand guard outside the tents where a fellow member of the 101st Airborne Division is suspected of tossing grenades at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. By CHANTAL ESCOTO The (Clarksville) Leaf-Chronicle CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait — An Army sergeant from Fort Campbell was detained as a suspect in a nighttime grenade attack here that killed one soldier from the 101st Airborne Division and injured 13 others, Army officials said. Three of the injured soldiers were hurt seriously, according to George Heath, a spokesman for the 101st at division headquarters in...

TIME's Jim Lacey has been traveling with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Over two weeks ago, they had set up camp in northern Kuwait just 20 miles south of the Iraqi border. Then the drama began: It was 1:45 Sunday morning when I was awakened by the first blast—a boom 10 times louder than a car backfiring. Ten seconds later there was a second blast, and then soldiers started screaming, "Get out! Get out!" Someone had slipped two hand grenades into the tent housing more than a dozen of the brigade's officers. One woman in my tent,...

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait -- A U.S. soldier was being held early today in connection with a grenade attack on the 101st Airborne Division's infantry brigade. The attack killed one and injured about 15 soldiers. Eleven of the victims were airlifted to the combat support hospital in nearby Camp Udairi. The sergeant, whose identity has not been released, was himself wounded either before or during his capture, Army officials said. Early this morning (late Saturday night in Florida), the sergeant was being questioned along with two Middle Eastern civilians, Army officials said. Authorities declined to say whether the two civilians were...

Camp Attack an Inside Job?Mar 23, 2003 Addendum: The attack on members of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania allegedly was carried out by two individuals -- one a U.S. engineer who is Muslim and the other apparently not a soldier, a Sky News correspondent on the scene has reported. The soldier's behavior was considered "suspicious" in recent days, and he was not to be sent to the front. He was reportedly in the barracks when the grenades were rolled into command tents by the other individual, who was shot in the leg after the attack. Editor's Note:...

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 23 -- One soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed and 13 were wounded this morning when two hand grenades were thrown into the 1st Brigade technical operations center at Camp Pennsylvania in central Kuwait, U.S. Army officials said.A U.S. soldier assigned to the brigade was in custody, the officials said. The soldier who was killed was not idenfitied.

KUWAIT CITY - A command tent at the 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades, and 14 soldiers were wounded, four seriously, military officials said. An American soldier was detained as a suspect, the Army said. The soldier, who was found hiding in a bunker, is assigned to the 101st Airborne, military officials said. The motive in the attack "most likely was resentment," said Max Blumenfeld, a U.S. Army spokesman. He did not elaborate. Ten of those wounded had superficial wounds, including puncture wounds to their arms and legs from fragments of the grenade, said...

(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...

'US SOLDIER ATTACKS TROOPS' An American Muslim soldier is understood to have carried out a grenade attack on a US military camp which injured 16 soldiers. A second man, who is not a soldier, is thought to be held. Three grenades were rolled into three tents housing military leaders of the 101st Airborne Division Saturday night at Camp Pennsylvania, home of the, near the Iraqi border, said Sky correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is in the base. The grenade that was rolled into the first tent, where the commanding officer sleeps, did not go off. But two other grenades used to...

10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack March 22, 2003 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...

(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...