posted on March 22, 2003 06:46:30 PM new
Fox News has been reporting on the number of US troops who have been injured by a Muslim US Soldier who has been reported to have thrown two grenades, one in two different tents of our soldiers.
They report he'd been acting 'funny' the last couple of days.
Now we have to worry about those who have pledged to serve their country.
posted on March 22, 2003 07:29:53 PM new
CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (CNN) -- A soldier has been detained for questioning about a grenade and small arms attack early Sunday on a command tent of the front-line 101st Airborne Division, the U.S. Central Command said.
The attack wounded 13 soldiers, six seriously, military officials said. The attack at about 1:30 a.m. (5:30 p.m. EST Saturday) apparently targeted top officers gathered in the Tactical Operations Center of the legendary division's 1st Brigade.
Military criminal investigators said the suspect was recently reprimanded for insubordination and was told he would stay behind when his unit left camp for Iraq, according to Time magazine correspondent Jim Lacey, who is accompanying the unit.
Lacey said he was told by a military commander the soldier lobbed three grenades into the operations center and yelled, "You're under attack!" A major told Lacey he saw a grenade roll by him before the explosion.
Lacey, who was in a tent about 20 yards from the blast, helped move two of the wounded to an ambulance. "The carnage inside those tents was pretty severe," he said.
Two soldiers were wounded by gunfire, the others by grenade fragments, the Financial Times reported. Two were treated and released and the 11 others were transported by helicopter to Army combat support hospitals in the region, Central Command said.
Lacey said a "full company" of soldiers was guarding the perimeter of the camp before the blast, but there had been traffic in and out, including "trucks, buses, and contractors. It's not a foolproof system."
About 2,100 soldiers are encamped at the post. Lacey said immediately after the blasts soldiers were assembled and deployed around the compound.
posted on March 22, 2003 09:21:23 PM new
I read that in Vietnam, assassination of officers by members of troops happened during the Vietnam war also...usually by using a grenade. It was called fragging.
I don't know if this is really true but it sounds like what happened today.
