Army isn't linking grenade attack to soldier's Muslim religion

Kait8 News ^ | 3/22/1980 | Unknown

[de_oppresso_liber1]

Fort Campbell, Kentucky-AP -- The soldier taken into custody after a grenade attack at a 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait has been identified as Sergeant Asan Akbar.

But Army spokesman George Heath says the attack that left one dead and 15 wounded hasn't been linked to Akbar's Islamic faith. And he says the attack won't lead to other Muslims being barred from serving in the U-S military.

Heath says an Islamic chaplain is assigned to the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait. And he says Akbar is being allowed to say his Muslim daily prayers while he's in custody. No charges have been filed yet.

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[de_oppresso_liber1]

What a joke that we have to be so civilized as to accord rights to this guy.

[Orangedog]

It won't really be a joke until this turd escapes a date with the firing squad. THAT will be the punch line.

[Stavka2]

Good to see PCness so alive and well. What will it take for Americans to wake up and smell the Shiete?

[Uncle Miltie]

But Army spokesman George Heath says the attack that left one dead and 15 wounded hasn't been linked to Akbar's Islamic faith.

We have had one incident of fratricide in the war on Muslim Terrorists. Surprise! The perp is Muslim. What are the odds.....

[Humidston]

Someone on FNC mentioned the U.S. has 9 Islamic chaplains whose beliefs are somewhat over the top. If he's correct, is the chaplain assigned to this killer one of them??

[clintonh8r]

Ahhhhh, diversity.......it must be protected and.....CELEBRATED! at any cost....

[JoeSixPack1]

Easy on the ammo, one shot, one kill. Semper Fi

[Diogenesis]

Political correctness trumps accountability. <--- A BAD IDEA

[dts32041]

They are going to send him to Lewiston, Me with the ranger killers, the iraqi security service killers.

[Alberta's Child]

400 shots, one nasty message.

[Balding_Eagle]

Let's wait to hear the truth about this from Ann Coulter. She's gonna rip the Army a new one. They deserve everything she's going to hand them.

[sinkspur]

The grunt in the field who's got to bunk next to a Muslim will always have a question in the back of his mind.

That's not a good thing for unit cohesion.

[pave palestine]

Akbar was born Mark Fidel Kools. His mother said she changed his name to Hasan Akbar after she remarried when he was a young boy. Public records found by The Associated Press showed listings for Hasan Akbar under the name Kools as well.

Sgt. Asan Akbar

[KeyLargo]

Reminds me of the same cover-up crap by the media and government when they made sure that they downplayed that the Beltway Snipers were Muslims.

Just another example of the power of the Louie Farrahkhan crowd.

[Lady Johanna]

Isn't turning on your own troops during time of war treason? punishable by death? by firing squad?

[sinkspur]

Let's wait to hear the truth about this from Ann Coulter.

We have the truth. The perp's a Muslim, didn't want to fight, didn't think we ought to be fighting against Muslims.

Coulter is likely to inflame this, but she won't add anything to it.

[1 spark]

This PC tap dance will bury us if we keep it up. The enemy must be splitting a gut at our SHEER STUPIDITY.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

When he is given a diagnosis of "schizophrenia" and quietly boarded out of the Army, remember that I predicted it here on FR on Day One. There will be NO General Court-Martial, NO prison time, and most definitely NO execution.

[Joe 6-pack]

This is the institutional rot over which I resigned my commission. Somewhere in the Kuwait dessert a CID CW-4 warrant officer is conducting a criminal investigation with explicit orders to get all the facts without getting, "all," the facts.

God bless our troops...May our nation be worthy of them.

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