BREAKING: CBS - Some sort of incident inside Kuwait 101st Airborne

CBS News - TV ^ | 3/22/2003 | CBS News

[cherry]

"wandering "farmers"

you would think that they would at least be stopped and searched....

[clintonh8r]

Sounds like a big lapse in security. Some commander is going to have some 'splaining to do...

[ElisabethInCincy]

I get the same feeling.....:((( I keep asking my husband why is it so quiet.. he is pulling us into baghdad for something :((. I am continiuing to pray for our troops!

[jwalsh07]

Everyone thinks we are marching triumphantly to Baghdad,

We are, the Iraqi regulars and the jihadists are two different problems requiring two different solutions.

If Hussein doesn't use CB, we win, if he does, we win. It's a matter of time.

Security will now be taken much more seriously in the rear which is a good thing because jihadists abound.

[goldstategop]

If this is the worst they can do, America is more blessed than I had believed.

[Diddle E. Squat]

ABC now insinuating that the Iraqi celebrations were not representative and perhaps staged.

[kcvl]

Middle East - AP

Attack Injures 10 U.S. Troops in Kuwait
10 minutes ago


KUWAIT CITY - The camp of the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades, wounding 10, 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, home base of the 101st.


He said 10 people were wounded, six seriously.

[CindyDawg]

Commander may not be able to "splain" right now :'(

[demnomo]

Are the two terrorists/enemy combatants in custody or did they get away?

[leadpenny]

One of the Bdes. of the 101st has already gone into Iraq. This was a Bde still in Kuwait. What I don't know is if there is a third Bde there or if they left a Bde in Campbell. This had to be on the edge of a perimeter and it is in the middle of the night.

[goldstategop]

Agreed. Its like using a prick to stop a rampaging elephant. We haven't even stopped to notice.

[Endeavor]

what is ABC saying?

[Diddle E. Squat]

John Donvan nitpicking like a Democrat Soccer Mom.

[Dante3]

Too many of our men have already been killed. It was just reported on TV that the translators of our troops turned out to be the suicide bombers. Time to make a change in the tactics. I don't want to see any more of our best and bravest killed.

[goodnesswins]

What's a "Bde?" (I'm learning lots here.)

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

From the Iraqi Blog:

IS SALAM PAX REAL? please stop sending emails asking if I were for real, don't belive it? then don't read it. I am not anybody's propaganda ploy, well except my own. 2 more hours untill the B52's get to Iraq. :: salam 6:05 PM [+] ::

... The most disturbing news today has come from Al-Jazeera, they said that nine B52 bombers have left the airfield in Britain and flying “presumably” towards Iraq, as if they would be doing a spin around the block. Anyway they have 6 hours to get here.

Last night was very quiet in Baghdad. Today in the morning I went out to get bread and groceries. There were no Ba’ath party people stopping us from leaving the area where we live, this apparently happens after the evening prayers. But they are still everywhere. The streets are empty only bakeries are open and some grocery shops charging 4 times the normal prices, while I was buying bread a police car stopped in front of the bakery and asked the baker if they had enough flour and asked when they opened; the baker told me that they have been informed that they must open their shops and they get flour delivered to them daily. Groceries, meat and dairy products are a different story. One dairy product company seems to be still operating, not state owned, and their cars were going around the city distributing butter, cheese and yoghurt to any open markets. Meat is not safe to buy because you wouldn’t know from where and how it got to the shops. Anyway we bought fresh tomatoes and zucchini for 1000 dinar a kilo which would normally be 250. and most amazingly the garbage car came around.

The Iraqi Satellite Channel is not broadcasting anymore. The second youth TV channel (it shows Egyptian soaps in the morning and sports afterwards) also stopped transmitting. This leaves two channels: Iraq TV and Shabab (youth) TV. They are still full of patriotic songs and useless “news”, they love the French here. We also saw the latest Sahaf show on Al-Jazeera and Iraq TV, and the most distressing minister of Interior affairs with his guns. Freaks. Hurling abuse at the world is the only thing left for them to do.

On BBC we are watching scenes of Iraqis surrendering. My youngest cousin was muttering “what shame” to himself, yes it is better for them to do that but still seeing them carrying that white flag makes something deep inside you cringe.

we sit infront of the TV with the mao of Iraq on our laps trying to figure out what is going on in the south. :: salam 3:13 PM [+] :: ...

[Endeavor]

no one wants to see our troops killed. Maybe you ought to go watch basketball.

[clintonh8r]

At large, I believe. Just heard the "translator" angle. Still, I would think they would have minders, 24/7.

[dogbyte12]

Local Talk Radio Station in LA reported that 2 people apparently died. I have heard no other confirmation of that fact. Anybody else hear something similar?

[SICSEMPERTYRANNUS]

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