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What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough. The most disturbing story of the war so far is the fragging at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. According to news reports, on March 23, Sgt. Asan Akbar rolled a grenade into each of three tents of sleeping officers and senior NCOs of the 101st Airborne Division. Then he allegedly shot the soldiers with an automatic weapon as they fled from their tents. Two of them, a major and a captain, died, and 14 others were injured. The episode is unsettling for a number of reasons, most of all because...

Mother of soldier arrested in grenade attack fears for son’s safety WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)--A Muslim soldier from the 101st Airborne Division has been charged with murder in a grenade attack on Army officers’ four days after the U.S. invasion of Iraq that killed two U.S. servicemen in Kuwait, officials at Ft. Campbell, Ky. announced on April 4. Sergeant Asan K. Akbar, 32, was officially charged on March 25 with two counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder along with other charges under military law. He was transferred from Kuwait to a military detention center in Mannheim, Germany immediately...

Enemy Within May Complicate War Posted April 1, 2003 By Scott L. Wheeler Muslims constitute an estimated 2 percent of the 400,000 soldiers serving in the U.S. Army. Perimeter guards were in place to protect resting U.S. troops awaiting deployment orders that soon would send them rappelling from hovering helicopters to the ground assault that distinguishes the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. With the perimeter secured, the officers of the 1st Brigade were getting some of the sleep they knew would be in short supply once they were dropped into combat. But shortly after 1:00 a.m. local time,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was charged with two counts of premeditated murder in an incident in Kuwait where grenades were rolled into tents of fellow soldiers, the U.S. military said on Friday. Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 32, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was charged on March 25 with two counts of premeditated murder, 17 counts of attempted murder, one count of aggravated arson and one count of misbehavior as a sentinel, a statement from Fort Campbell said. Two U.S. soldiers were killed after grenades were lobbed into three tents at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait...

The alleged grenade attack by U.S. Army Sgt. Asan Akbar on U.S. soldiers in Kuwait stirred disturbing memories of the murderous attacks by American soldiers on each other during the Vietnam War. There were a reported 209 "fragging incidents" during that conflict. The targets of the attacks were mostly junior field officers, and the men who killed their officers were in many cases African Americans. They were pushed over the top by what they considered the brutal, racist and dehumanizing actions of white officers. Their hatred was fed by resentment of being drafted and forced to fight in what they...

Muslim Soldier Held In Grenade Attack Worshipped At LA Mosque POSTED: 8:16 a.m. PST March 26, 2003 LOS ANGELES -- The soldier held in a grenade attack against his fellow 101st Airborne soldiers once worshipped at the largest mosque for black Muslims in Los Angeles, a mosque once visited regularly by Muhammad Ali and that continues to count celebrities and sport stars among its worshippers. Sgt. Asan Akbar reportedly uttered anti-American statements after his arrest for Sunday's attack on a brigade command center that killed two, including an Air Force major who died of his wounds Tuesday, and injured...

<p>Last Wednesday, teacher Ron Hubbard told his fifth-graders at Castroville Elementary School about a friend of his who had come out of Compton to win a full scholarship to UC Davis.</p> <p>The students listened as Hubbard described a studious, sweet-natured, deeply religious young man who worked in the college coffeehouse and sent money home to his family, whose T-shirt business had burned during the April 1992 Los Angeles riots. A young man who, after he'd lost an older brother to a drive-by shooting, took his younger brother into his Davis apartment and set him on a path toward college.</p>

Grenade attack on 101st may have been premeditated By DAN MORAIN and LIANNE HART Los Angeles Times Akbar reportedly called before attack requesting prayers SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hasan Akbar, the U.S. Army sergeant accused of a grenade attack that killed two fellow soldiers and injured 14 in Kuwait, phoned his ex-wife's family the day before the attack and asked that they say ''final prayers'' for him, according to sources familiar with the conversations. Akbar, a Muslim, told his former in-laws that he was concerned he might die without having made the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- A U.S. soldier suspected of a deadly grenade attack on his own comrades in the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait is back in the United States, Army officials said Saturday. Hasan Akbar, 32, arrived in the U.S. on Friday, after being held in a detention facility in Germany, according to a statement from Fort Campbell, home of the 101st. The Army had previously said Akbar's first name was Asan, though family members had insisted all along that he spelled it Hasan. The statement, released Saturday, did not indicate where Akbar was being held in the...

<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The former stepfather of the U.S. soldier accused of attacking his own unit in Kuwait was arrested Thursday on a federal weapons charge.</p> <p>Officials said the arrest was unrelated to the case of Sgt. Asan Akbar, accused of lobbing hand grenades into a brigade command center of the 101st Airborne Division on Sunday. The attack killed two officers and injured 14 other soldiers.</p>

Non-Muslims only can apply for US base job Srinivasa Prasad(Bangalore, March 26) Tucked in the classifieds of national Indian dailies on Wednesday was an advertisement that could further alienate the Muslim community from the United States. The advertisement calls for applications from "non-Muslims only" for sundry jobs at the US base in northern Kuwait. The US base "urgently requires" lift operators, store keepers, clerks, typists, security guards and drivers. The advertisement insists that the applicants, besides being non-Muslims, should speak English and be below 35. The advertisement was issued by Indian head-hunters Rehman Enterprises and Continental Mercantile. Executives of...

What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough. The most disturbing story of the war so far is the fragging at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. According to news reports, on March 23, Sgt. Asan Akbar rolled a grenade into each of three tents of sleeping officers and senior NCOs of the 101st Airborne Division. Then he allegedly shot the soldiers with an automatic weapon as they fled from their tents. Two of them, a major and a captain, died, and 14 others were injured. The episode is unsettling for a number of reasons, most of all because...

In San Francisco last week there was a gathering of the great unwashed, better known as anti-war protesters. They carried signs and banners bearing anti-American and anti-Bush slogans. One of those banners proclaimed "We Support Our Troops When They Shoot Their Officers" according to the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto. Sgt. Asan Akbar apparently heard the message. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, in an army camp in Kuwait he rolled hand grenades into three tents killing a captain and injuring 15 others, including a brigade commander. According to The Los Angeles Times soldiers in his unit, the 326th Engineer...

Toogood Reports [Thursday, March 27, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ The U.S. military has a Moslem problem within the ranks, and its attempts to ignore the problem, have only worsened it. Imagine a black Moslem Army engineer with the rank of sergeant trying to murder other U.S. soldiers by throwing a hand grenade into a tent, and nothing happening to him. Now, imagine a second black Moslem Army engineer with the rank of sergeant doing the same thing, 12 years later. Impossible, right? Must be a fluke. Only it's possible, and it's no fluke. On Sunday, Asan Akbar aka Hasan...

March 25 — U.S. Army Sgt. Asan Akbar, the soldier being detained in connection with a grenade attack on his fellow soldiers, told his family members that he encountered racism as an African-American and a Muslim in the armed services. His stepfather, William Bilal, who was once married to Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, said that his stepson was resentful toward the military and had complained several years ago that it was difficult for a black man "to make rank" in the military. "Asan was pushed to this. We've got that clear," William Bilal told WBRZ, ABCNEWS' affiliate in Baton Rouge,...

U.S. Army Sgt. Asan Akbar, the black Muslim convert accused of fragging and killing two commanding officers in Kuwait, studied Islam at a Saudi-funded mosque in Los Angeles. As WorldNetDaily reported last spring, Riyadh bankrolled the construction of the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center and the Bilal Islamic Primary and Secondary School. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia pledged between $7 million and $8 million to build a new mosque at the site of the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center, the large black mosque in South Central Los Angeles, according to Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane Idleman Smith, authors of "Muslim Communities in...

The most traumatic loss the U.S. military has suffered to date in the war with Iraq may, ironically, have been inflicted not by Iraqi Republican Guards, regular army units or irregular "Fedayeen." Rather, it may have come at the hands of an American servicemen. Early Sunday morning Kuwait time, a sergeant assigned to an engineering brigade of the 101st Airborne Division allegedly attacked three tents in which many divisional commanding officers were sleeping on the eve of their unit's jump-off into Iraq.

MSWA: Muslim soldiers with attitude Sgt. Asan Akbar, a Muslim American soldier with the 326th Engineer Battalion, had an "attitude problem." According to his superiors and acquaintances, Akbar's attitude was bitterly anti-American and staunchly pro-Muslim. So how did this devout follower of the so-called Religion of Peace work out his attitudinal problems last weekend? By lobbing hand grenades and aiming his M-4 automatic rifle into three tents filled with sleeping commanding officers at the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade operations center in Kuwait. Akbar is the lone suspect being detained in the despicable attack, which left more than a dozen...

<p>A Boise-based Air National Guard major died Tuesday of injuries he suffered in a grenade attack on officers´ tents in Kuwait on Sunday. Maj. Gregory Stone died at a U.S. Army field hospital in Kuwait, Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Tim Marsano said.</p>

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A second U.S. serviceman has died from wounds he suffered in a grenade attack on soldiers in Kuwait, an attack an Army sergeant is suspected of carrying out.Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, based in Boise, was pronounced dead early Tuesday at an Army field hospital in Kuwait, the Idaho Air National Guard said. Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of Easton, Pa., also was killed in Saturday's attack, and 14 other soldiers were injured.Sgt. Asan Akbar is in custody. He was shipped to a military jail in Germany on Tuesday after a judge found probable...

A large contingent of Iraq's elite Republican Guard, including 1,000 vehicles, headed Wednesday toward U.S. Marines in central Iraq - an area that already has seen the heaviest fighting of the war. Intelligence officers with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said the Iraqi forces were headed south from Baghdad on a route that avoids advancing U.S. Army forces and leads them directly to the Marines who have been fighting in recent days around An Nasiriyah. The intelligence officers said about 3,000 Republican Guard troops were spotted in one town along Highway 7 and 2,000 more at another. In the...

Breaking.....Hang the bastard

LOYALTY AND TRUST….THE TRUE MARKS OF A SOLDIER Chris Seifert, 27, a Captain in the 101st Airborne Division was killed early Sunday morning in Kuwait. The Associated Press reported that fifteen other soldiers were injured, three seriously, by a surprise attack within the compound. At first, it was suspected that local Iraqi sympathizers were responsible. It turned out to be much worse. One of the 101st’s own, Sgt. Asan Akbar (his adopted Muslim name), was later identified as the probable attacker. According to AP, an army spokesman was quoted as saying that Akbar had been "having what you might call...

'How did the enemy get into our camp?" That's what Bart Womack, a command sergeant-major of the elite 101st Airborne Division, asked himself as a grenade rolled past him after 1 a.m. on Sunday at an American camp in Kuwait. The attacker worked methodically, destroying an electricity generator, throwing grenades into Womack's tent and the two other command tents, then shooting soldiers as they fled their tents. One soldier died and 15 sustained injuries. The enemy in this case appears to be not what one might expect -- an Iraqi soldier or a Kuwaiti Islamist. The only suspect in custody...

"How did the enemy get into our camp?" That's what Bart Womack, a command sergeant major of the elite 101st Airborne Division, asked himself as a grenade rolled past him after one o'clock a.m. on Sunday at an American camp in Kuwait. The attacker worked methodically, destroying an electricity generator, throwing grenades into Womack's tent and the two other command tents, then shooting soldiers as they fled their tents. One soldier died and 15 sustained injuries. The enemy in this case appears to be not what one might expect -- an Iraqi soldier or a Kuwaiti Islamist. The only...

Even as a Moravian College student, Christopher Scott Seifert wore the haircut of a military man. "He knew his path," said history prof Rosalind Remer, who taught Seifert about America's role in past wars. The Williams Township, PA native, a captain in the Army's 101st Airborne Division, was killed Sunday in Kuwait after another soldier rolled a grenade into the tents where he was sleeping, then opened fire as Seifert and others emerged from their quarters. Seifert died of a gunshot wound to the back. "What's really tragic is that Chris didn't die fighting for his country, he died at...

<p>But the Sgt. Akbar portrayed by military officials and reporters in Kuwait is entirely different. He is suspected of rolling three grenades into the tents of his military supervisors and shooting a fellow soldier in the back, killing him as he came out of a tent.</p>

The enlisted man who allegedly opened fire after rolling grenades into an officers' tent on Sunday morning, killing a Lehigh Valley native, will be tried before a regular military court and likely will face the death penalty, according to legal experts. The Army has launched a formal investigation into the murder of Army Capt. Christopher Seifert, a Army captain in the 101st Airborne Division. A grenade attack followed by a round of fire took the life of the 27-year-old officer and wounded 15 other soldiers at 1:22 a.m. Sunday at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. Pentagon spokesmen and Army officials would not...

101st Airborne Shocked by Attack Who Is Sergeant Detained in Grenade Attack on Fellow Servicemen?

The fifth column syndrome (Washington, D.C.): The most traumatic loss the U.S. military has suffered to date in the war with Iraq may, ironically, have been inflicted not by Iraqi Republican Guards, regular army units or irregular "Fedayeen." Rather, it may have come at the hands of an American servicemen. 'Fragged' by One of Our Own Early Sunday morning Kuwait time, a sergeant assigned to an engineering brigade of the 101st Airborne Division allegedly attacked three tents in which many divisional commanding officers were sleeping on the eve of their unit's jump-off into Iraq. According to press reports of the...

The Muslim U.S. soldier accused of killing a division captain and wounding 15 fellow soldiers in a grenade and automatic weapon attack on members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division encamped in Northern Kuwait made anti-American statements after he was apprehended, according to the Los Angeles Times. "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children," Army Sgt. Asan Akbar was overheard as saying by soldiers who survived the attack. Akbar, 31, is being held for allegedly rolling grenades into three tents where officers and senior noncommissioned officers were sleeping, and...

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM GI held in base attack made anti-U.S. remarks Mother of Asan Akbar claims son accused because he is Muslim Posted: March 24, 2003 3:10 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Muslim U.S. soldier accused of killing a division captain and wounding 15 fellow soldiers in a grenade and automatic weapon attack on members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division encamped in Northern Kuwait made anti-American statements after he was apprehended, according to the Los Angeles Times. "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children," Army Sgt. Asan...

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (Army News Service, March 24, 2003) - The dim dust of the desert settled lightly upon a pair of combat boots this morning. An inverted black rifle stood prone, topped by a camouflage helmet embossed with the black club of the Bastogne Brigade. A silver set of identification tags hung motionless from the rifle, capturing a glimmer of the morning sun. Upon those tags were etched a name that lay heavy upon the morning haze: Capt. Christopher Seifert, 28 years old, a captain, assistant S2, 1st Brigade headquarters, 101st Airborne Division. The 101st had lost one of...

<p>FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A sergeant accused of killing a fellow serviceman by throwing grenades into tents at a military command center in Kuwait told his mother he feared persecution because he is a Muslim and reportedly had recently been reprimanded for insubordination.</p>

Sgt. Held in Attack Had Been Reprimanded .c The Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - When Sgt. Asan Akbar was taken into custody on suspicion of killing a fellow serviceman with a grenade, an Army spokesman said he may have acted out of resentment. But where such bitterness may have come from remains a mystery. The deadly attack at a 101st Airborne Division brigade command center in Kuwait also wounded 15 other soldiers Sunday, three seriously. Akbar had reportedly told his mother he feared persecution because he is a Muslim and had been reprimanded recently for insubordination. The woman...

A career soldier who grew up in Williams Township and earned the respect of teachers and friends was killed Sunday in Kuwait, allegedly by a fellow U.S. soldier. Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of the Army's 101st Airborne Division died when live grenades were tossed into tents at the division's command center, an Army spokesman said. Sgt. Asan Akbar of the 326th Engineer Battalion is being held, but hasn't been charged. News of Seifert's death spread quickly Sunday night throughout the Wilson Area School District -- where he ran cross country in high school and played saxophone in the jazz...

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait -- The 101st Airborne Division soldier accused of single-handedly killing a division captain and wounding 15 fellow soldiers is a Muslim who made anti-American statements after he was apprehended, according to soldiers who survived the suspect's grenade and automatic weapon attack early yesterday. The soldier, who rolled a grenade into each of three tents of sleeping officers and senior noncommissioned officers of the 101st, shot at least two fellow soldiers as they raced from their tents, the witnesses said. Outside the charred and blood-splattered tents yesterday afternoon, soldiers recalled hearing the suspect say as he was being...

As predicted by many on this forum last night, the terrorist who was aprehended after killing one US soldier and injuring many more with a grenade attack on commanding officer's tent no longer is being identified as Muslim.

Pentagon identifies U.S. soldier killed by grenade WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Sunday identified an American soldier apparently killed by a hand grenade thrown by another U.S. soldier in Kuwait as Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27. The news release said no home-of-record was available for Seifert, who was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. In Kuwait earlier, a U.S. military source said one soldier was killed and 15 others wounded early on Sunday when a Muslim American serviceman apparently angered by the war against Iraq rolled hand grenades into their tents....

Sgt. Held in Attack Feared Persecution .c The Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A sergeant accused of killing a fellow serviceman by throwing grenades into tents at a military command center in Kuwait told his mother he feared persecution because he is a Muslim and reportedly had recently been reprimanded for insubordination. Sgt. Asan Akbar of the 101st Airborne Division's 326th Engineer Battalion was in custody, said George Heath, a civilian spokesman at Fort Campbell. Heath said Akbar had not been charged with a crime but was the only person being questioned in the attack that also wounded...

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT Tragedy at Camp Pennsylvania BENJAMIN LOWY/CORBIS FOR TIME Thirteen soldiers were wounded in the grenade attack, 11 of them seriously Sunday, Mar. 23, 2003 TIME's Jim Lacey has been traveling with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Over two weeks ago, they had set up camp in northern Kuwait just 20 miles south of the Iraqi border. Then the drama began: It was 1:45 Sunday morning when I was awakened by the first blast—a boom 10 times louder than a car backfiring. Ten seconds later there was a second blast, and then soldiers started screaming, "Get...

<p>March 23, 2003 -- A disgruntled U.S. soldier from the 101st Airborne Division allegedly launched a grenade attack against a command tent at his base in northern Kuwait - killing one and injuring as many 15 - in what appeared to be an attempt to kill the base commander, a Pentagon official told The Post.</p>

I was in the middle of doing some stuff around the house this morning and I turned on the puter and the TV to get caught up. I kept switching between Fox & MSNBC to see the Iraqis setting fire to weeds along the river and the "search" for the downed aviators. MSNBC then switched to an update re: the Black Muslim soldier from the "not really fragging" (my term) incident of yesterday. I had already seen the footage of this guy lying on the ground many times and then being picked up by his hands tied behind his back....

One of the soldiers wounded in the grenade attack has now died. On the phone live with Fox just now, Time magazine reporter Jim Lacey, an eyewitness to the devastation at Camp Pennsylvania, made the following statement about the possible motivation of the soldier suspected of participating in the deadly attack: "I do not think it's a chain of command problem. I don't think this is a soldier disgruntled with the military. I think this was someone striking out because of a misguided interpretation of his Muslim faith."

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...

A U.S. soldier was detained Sunday on suspicion of throwing grenades into three tents at a 101st Airborne command center in Kuwait, killing one fellow serviceman and wounding 15, three of them seriously. The motive in the attack "most likely was resentment," said Max Blumenfeld, a U.S. Army spokesman. The soldier in custody was identified Sunday as Sgt. Asan Akbar of the 326th Engineer Battalion. Fort Campbell, Ky., spokesman George Heath said Akbar had not been charged with any crime. He did not release Akbar's hometown or say how long he had been in the service. Akbar, who as a...

U.S. soldier held in attack on 101st JOHN PARTIPILO / STAFF Soldiers stand guard outside the tents where a fellow member of the 101st Airborne Division is suspected of tossing grenades at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. By CHANTAL ESCOTO The (Clarksville) Leaf-Chronicle CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait — An Army sergeant from Fort Campbell was detained as a suspect in a nighttime grenade attack here that killed one soldier from the 101st Airborne Division and injured 13 others, Army officials said. Three of the injured soldiers were hurt seriously, according to George Heath, a spokesman for the 101st at division headquarters in...

TIME's Jim Lacey has been traveling with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Over two weeks ago, they had set up camp in northern Kuwait just 20 miles south of the Iraqi border. Then the drama began: It was 1:45 Sunday morning when I was awakened by the first blast—a boom 10 times louder than a car backfiring. Ten seconds later there was a second blast, and then soldiers started screaming, "Get out! Get out!" Someone had slipped two hand grenades into the tent housing more than a dozen of the brigade's officers. One woman in my tent,...

Sgt. Asan Akbar

Fox listed the traitor who attacked the 101st with grenades as Assan Akbar