March 22, 2003

Update: It's now being reported that this attack was carried out by a Muslim-American U.S. soldier. Unforgivable, craven and cowardly, for which I'm sure he'll be court-martialled, if not executed.
That is, if he's a real GI.
If Muslim-American soldiers will put their loyalty to "Islam" above their loyalty to their country, then Washington, we have a problem and these people will have to be weeded out of the military!

U.S. Troops Attacked in Kuwait; 10 Wounded

A camp of the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades and small arms fire, wounding 10 people, including six seriously, U.S. military officials said.

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, Ky., home base of the 101st.[Not just "a tent;" it was the Command tent.--Jen]
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The attack, which included small arms fire, happened at a rear base camp of the 101st, near the Iraqi border, U.S. military officials said.

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.
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Sunday's attack was the fourth against Americans in Kuwait since October. Kuwait was the main launching point for the tens of thousands of ground forces who have entered Iraq.
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Three Kuwaitis were arrested last month on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in the tiny, oil-rich emirate.

The men were described as Muslim extremists who followed the principles of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden. The arrests followed several attacks against Americans in Kuwait.

On Jan. 21, Islamic extremists were blamed for killing a San Diego computer contractor and injuring another American close to Camp Doha, where U.S. forces are based.

A Kuwaiti policeman faces trial on charges of shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers on Nov. 21 after allegedly stopping their car on a highway.

In October, Muslim fundamentalists killed one U.S. Marine and injured another on a Kuwaiti island. Other Marines killed the gunmen, who were religious extremists.

Lest we forget who the enemy is, there's an incident like this to serve as an ugly reminder...
even Fox seems fishing for ways not to call them Islamofascists, though.
This makes me furious, not only because our soldiers have been seriously hurt, but also because these "Muslim extremists" aren't men enough to fight like men and like soldiers themselves, but are content to murder like cowards. "Terrorist scum," indeed.
I pray for the wounded, that they can recover from their injuries.
Back at Camp Pennsylvania, they need to seriously work on their security; however tight it's been, it needs to get even tighter.
Like rats and cockroaches, these Islamist vermin seem "clever" at finding any "holes" in a given security system (like Mohammed Atta and his 9/11 boys with the box cutters, dammit!).
Rumor has it that these "Arab nationals" who perpetrated the grenade attack were allowed in the camp because they were working as translators for the staff.