TERROR IN KUWAIT:

'US SOLDIER ATTACKS TROOPS' (SkyNews, 3/22/2003)

An American Muslim soldier is understood to have carried out a grenade attack on a US military camp, injuring16 soldiers.

A second man, who is not a soldier, is thought to be held....

[Sky correspondent Stuart] Ramsay watched as the suspects were held....

"Two men are being held, one of which is a Muslim soldier who is an engineer," Ramsay said.

"It appears he was hiding in a barrack where the attacks happened. A second man, who we believe is not an American soldier, is being held by the military."...

He said fears about the Muslim soldier's behaviour had been raised in recent days by colleagues.

"In recent days they were concerned about his behaviour and were not going to send him up to the front when the soldiers were going to be deployed."

Debka is reporting that two hired Kuwaiti interpreters also participated in the attack and escaped. I wonder why none of the U.S. media are yet reporting that the perpetrator is Muslim?

FOR EXAMPLE:
U.S. Soldier Held for Another's Death in Grenade AttackRick Atkinson, , March 23, 2003, Washington Post)

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.

Army sources said that soldiers from the 1st Brigade had loaded their vehicles and were preparing to move from Camp Pennsylvania when the grenades exploded at about 1:21 a.m. local time in the operations center, which is in a closely confined tent and usually manned by a couple dozen staff officers.

A soldier guarding a convoy of engineer vehicles was found to be missing, as were four grenades from the convoy's ammunition supply.

Roughly an hour after the grenade attack, a missile alert sounded and the missing soldier was discovered in a protective bunker. The soldier was arrested and was in the custody of the military police at Camp Pennsylvania.

Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 22, 2003 10:29 PM