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A GENERAL has affirmed the death sentence for a US Army sergeant convicted of murdering two fellow soldiers in a grenade attack in Kuwait at the outset of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the army said today. Sergeant Hasan Akbar, 35, is the first US soldier to face the death penalty for killing another soldier since the end of the Vietnam War.

Sgt. Hasan Akbar, Muslim American soldier, killed two colleagues and wounded 14 other troops after tossing grenades into tents while soldiers slept at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait on March 23, 2003. He wrote in his diary: "I am going to try and kill as many of them as possible." Remember him? The case is still dragging on, though - via Army Times (hat tip: Mike at Kokonut Pundits, whose cousin Maj. Gregory Stone was one of Akbar's victims): The death sentence for convicted murderer Sgt. Hasan Akbar was approved late last week at Fort Bragg, N.C., by Lt. Gen. John...

A judge ruled that a sergeant's admission that he rolled grenades into his colleagues' tent will be allowed in his court-martial, which has been delayed until April. FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Sgt. Hasan Akbar's statement acknowledging he rolled grenades into the tents of sleeping U.S. soldiers will be admissible when he goes on trial in the attack that killed two officers, a judge ruled Thursday. But the judge excluded statements Akbar made to two sergeants who guarded him after the attack, saying Akbar had not yet been informed of his legal rights. Defense attorneys also succeeded in getting a nearly...

I have not seen any news in months about the (I think, Muslim) U.S. soldier who killed several comrades at a Kuwaiti base by rolling a grenade inside the tent. While we have updates on Malvo and Muhammad and Riady and Padilla, this guy seems to have slipped into the background, yet his action was as despicable as those of any of the others. Does anyone have any new information? I don't even recall his name.

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...

<p>Almost exactly six months ago, at the start of the liberation of Iraq, this column warned that a "fragging" incident at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom "could be the precursor for a far larger and more dangerous problem, both for the military and for American society more generally. Call it the 'Fifth Column syndrome.' "</p>

Almost exactly six months ago, at the start of the liberation of Iraq, the Center for Security Policy warned that a "fragging" incident at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom "could be the precursor for a far larger and more dangerous problem, both for the military and for American society more generally. Call it the ‘Fifth Column syndrome.'" This ominous forecast was prompted by a disturbing possibility: Sergeant Asan Akbar, the alleged perpetrator of a lethal grenade attack on his superiors who commanded the 101st Airborne on the eve of the unit's "jump off" into Iraq, "could have gotten murderous...

Can Moslems Serve? Sergeant Assan Akhbar. Sergeant John Allen Muhammad. Sergeant Ali Mohamed. Captain James Yee. What do all of these men have in common? They all served in the US Army, they are all Moslems, and they are all traitors. Akhbar killed several of his fellow soldiers in a grenade attack during the Iraq War. Muhammad was an unreliable solider who, after leaving the Army, killed ten people in a series of sniper attacks. Mohamed set up the terrorist cell which eventually bombed the US Embassy in Nairobi. The latest man on the list, Captain Yee, is a Chinese-American...

The U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing two officers and wounding 14 soldiers by throwing three grenades into a tent in Kuwait, has told his mother that he was relentlessly humiliated about his Islamic faith by three superior officers, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Sgt. Asan Akbar described fellow soldiers referred to him as a 'rag head' after his deployment to Kuwait. He claimed he was ''provoked and harassed'' and made to feel like the enemy rather than an American soldier. ''If they hadn't done what they done, and said what they said, this never would...

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...

<p>U.S. intelligence and security officials fear attacks by Muslim U.S. soldiers opposed to the war in Iraq in the wake of a fatal grenade attack in Kuwait blamed on a Muslim soldier in the Army.</p> <p>"There is concern that this may not be an isolated incident," said one intelligence official familiar with the investigation of Sgt. Asan Akbar, a member of the 101st Airborne Division who is charged with killing two U.S. soldiers in a grenade attack.</p>

Urban Warfare: Grappling With Asan Akbar's Descent When I hear pundits discuss the rationale of preemptive war, I think of the logic of the drive-by shooting. Both are about payback and the notion that you'd best do unto others before they do it to you. Forbearance, coalition and patience are tiresome compared to the cathartic energy of a shotgun blast from a moving car, or a big-ass war in a convenient Third World country. At first I wasn't sure that I knew Asan Akbar, the Army sergeant who last week attacked his commanding officers, killing two with a grenade. Akbar...

April 3, 2003, 8:50 a.m.The House that Raised AkbarAn army sergeant’s ties to Saudi Arabia. ith the Islamic connection virtually undeniable in the Asan Akbar grenade case, the question inevitably arises: Where is the Saudi money? Akbar is the black Muslim Army sergeant who, after killing two and wounding 14 of his fellow soldiers when he hurtled a grenade into a tent in Kuwait, ranted, "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children." So, what about the Saudi money? It's not so much a case of paranoia, as it...

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, Camp Pennsylvania received a jolt that jarred the trust and stirred the anger of combatants at this temporary location in Kuwait near the Iraqi border. Sgt. Asan...

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...

<p>ORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- When Ihsan Bagby, who advised Islamic soldiers stationed here, heard that a Muslim soldier, Asan Akbar, was accused of rolling grenades and spraying gunfire into his superiors' tents, killing two and wounding 14, he was more saddened than shocked.</p>

The U.S. military would do well to ensure there are no more Asan Akbars on duty on the Iraq front. In fact, the Defense Department should be developing some politically incorrect policies right now to ensure that no more U.S. soldiers die needlessly because of disloyal comrades who should be easily spotted and segregated at all costs from those willing to sacrifice their lives to defend our country. Men like Akbar, the 36-year-old sergeant accused of fragging three officers' tents at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait – killing two and injuring 14 – need to be drummed out of the service...

Wahhabism in the WarBy Stephen Schwartz The Weekly Standard | March 31, 2003 ON THE IRAQI WAR FRONT, Sunday, March 23 was a blood-red day for the terrorist Wahhabi movement, funded by "our Saudi allies" and aiming at control over world Islam. First, terrorism struck in the early hours, from within the ranks of the U.S. armed forces. Army captain Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, was killed and 15 servicemen were wounded in an attack on the command area of Camp Pennsylvania, the rear base in Kuwait for the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. A second serviceman has now...

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...

A Different Drummer [March 30, 2003] T he 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. Last Sunday, Asan Akbar aka Hasan Karim Akbar aka...

<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>

<p>French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin refused during a question-and-answer session on the war with Iraq to answer the question: "Who do you want to win the war?"</p> <p>So writes Britain's Sky News after Mr. de Villepin's lecture this week at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. The network said it was the foreign minister's first visit to Britain since the start of the U.S.-led war, which France has fiercely opposed.</p>

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.

<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>

Family of Muslim Marine struggles with their conflicted emotionsBy Kathryn Grondin Daily Herald Staff WriterPosted March 25, 2003 Atif Mostafa The Mostafa family experiences a daily tug-of-war of emotions about the fighting in Iraq. The Mostafas are drawn to the TV coverage of the war, yet they dread it at the same time. They hope for a glimpse of their brother and son, 21-year-old Atif Mostafa, a U.S. Marine. They dread the thought of seeing him injured or dead. Mostafa's brother, Emad, chooses to leave the TV off. "It's very scary and very unnerving," said Emad, who lives in Westmont....

Suppose the traitor who rolled three grenades into the tents of our soldiers in Iraq, killed a captain and wounded 15 others, was a member of Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church or Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral. Do you think his picture might be on the evening news or page one of the New York Times? In fact, the culprit, Asan Akbar (aka Mark Fidel Kools) is a black Muslim from South Central Los Angeles, and a member of the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center there. What this incident would show us, if the press were doing its job, is that...

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...

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...

When I heard about this... "A U.S. soldier (Sgt. Asan Akbar) 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, at least three of them seriously." ...the first thing I thought about was this banner... That's from an anti-war protest that occurred in San Francisco the week-end before the war started. San Francisco's Indy Media Site was so proud of that banner that they put it on their front page. Martin Sheen, Danny Glover & an estimated 80,000 San Francisco peaceniks were marching...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...