10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack

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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 101st.

The injured were rushed to a field hospital but military officials had no word on their conditions, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens said from Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar.

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.

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 terror and missile attack came as the U.S. assault on Iraq gained steam. American and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra and pounded Baghdad with impunity. But tough fighting loomed for coalition troops as they pressed deeper into Iraq.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
 
:confuse3: So they were "terrorist". Not enemy infiltrators or Iraqi special forces or even just Iraqi patriots? How do you lable the enemy as terrorists when you're at war?
 
Damn it...MSNBC just reported that there is a soldier missing from the 101st and they are looking for him as a suspect. :disgust2:
 
There have been "terrorist" attacks in N Iraq. They were specifically Al Qieda.

Here, they're looking like enemy infiltrators, aka translators working for the 101st.
 
I simply wouldn't label this terrorism as it's not against civilians. I can understand however how some might make this mistake and others quite simply might actually attempt to argue this point. I won't however.
 
Somehow, I doubt this guy's gonna have a pleasant night. If they don't evac him asap, he won't survive the night.
 
For some reason these two ex-military officers on cnn tried to blow it off as some crackpot who just snapped under the stress until one of the journalists that was in the tent next to the officers said bullshit and mentioned that the guy had an Arab name and that he felt that it had absolutely nothing to do with stress. After his comments one of the officers responded by saying something like "we'll just wait until the investigation is concluded" It just seemed strange that these officers wanted to push it off as stress-related.
 
for posterity

WashingtonPost said:
By PATRICK McDOWELL
The Associated Press
Saturday, March 22, 2003; 9:32 PM


Troops in a tent at the 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait were attacked early Sunday with grenades, and 13 soldiers were wounded, six seriously, military officials said. An American soldier was detained as a suspect, the Army said.

© 2003 The Associated Press
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FoxNews said:
KUWAIT CITY — Troops in a tent at the 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait were attacked early Sunday with grenades, and 13 soldiers were wounded, six seriously, military officials said. An American soldier was detained as a suspect, the Army said.





The American soldier detained is assigned to the 101st Airborne, said Max Blumenfeld, a spokesman for the U.S. Army V Corps.

Of the 13 wounded two were treated at the scene and released and helicopters evacuated 11 to Army hospitals, he said.

Preliminary information suggests the attack at 1:30 a.m. was carried out using hand grenades only, Blumenfeld said. The motive most likely was resentment, he said, without elaborating.

Blumenfeld said investigators do not know if others were involved and the suspect has not been charged.

However, George Heath, civilian spokesman for the 101st's home base at Fort Campbell, Ky., said two Middle Eastern men were detained. He said they had been hired as contractors working for the Army at that camp.
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