but engineers and President Bush.
What utter BS.
According to the media, Islamic terror is not the problem, but our President is. What utter BS.
Have forgotten already?
Posted on 03/24/2003 2:51:20 AM PST by sarcasm
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Opposition to war against Iraq may have spurred an American Muslim soldier - known as a disgruntled loner - to fatally shoot one comrade in Kuwait and wound 15 others with grenades, military sources said yesterday.
Sgt. Asan Akbar, 31, is "a Muslim, and it seems he was just against the war," said a source. Other sources agreed his alleged attack appeared to be "politically motivated" and that he was opposed to killing fellow Muslims.
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But the big thing to be seen is how this is IDENTICAL IN EVERY RESPECT TO SEPTEMBER 11TH. Some of the 9/11 hijackers were spotted as threats by Logan airport security, but the people who spotted them knew that--because of corrupt liberalism--any use of common sense would GET THEM FIRED. Same with the military in the last few days--if anything, the fact that this guy was a Muslim made it impossible for his superiors to take effective action against him when he started acting "weird." That young man who died in the grenade attack died because of liberalism. The Left and Death--Perfect Together.
Yeah, that and the fact that you MURDERED YOUR COMRADES!!!
I was thinking the same thing. He'll face a court martial though, it won't be a circus trial ala OJ.
Mama named her baby after a communist leader? I have a sneaky suspicion that this dirtbag was not raised with any sense of patriotism at all. Of course he will become the darling of the left.
Eh, he only enlisted in the army in 1998.
What utter BS.
According to the media, Islamic terror is not the problem, but our President is. What utter BS.
Have forgotten already?
Usually the Mom says something to the effect that, "Luther was getting his life together, even his parole officer said so, and he was visiting his children more and looking for a job and planning to get his GED."
Another successful product of the leftist/liberal culture and goobement housing, welfare and schools.
The mother of Hasan Akbar, the Army sergeant who is being held in connection with an attack ing on soldiers in Kuwait, expressed disbelief at reports implicating her son.
Quran Bilal said Sunday that no one in the military had informed her of the accusations against her son. In a phone interview from her home in Baton Rouge, La., she said she thinks her son has been accused simply because he is a Muslim.
''He's not like that,'' she said. ''He said the only thing he was going out there to do was blow up the bridges. He was never like that.''
Akbar, whose first name has been spelled Asan by the military, is being held as a suspect in the grenade attack that killed one 101st Airborne Division soldier and wounded more than a dozen others early Sunday morning in Kuwait. The dead soldier was identified as Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27.
Akbar serves with the division's 326th Engineering Battalion. He was being held in Kuwait by Army criminal investigators but has not been charged with any crime, said George Heath, a spokesman for Fort Campbell in Kentucky, the 101st Airborne's home base.
Heath said Akbar was the only person being questioned in the attack.
Jim Lacey, a correspondent for Time magazine, told CNN that military criminal investigators said Akbar was recently reprimanded for insubordination and was told he would not join his unit's push into Iraq.
Heath also said Akbar had been having ''an attitude problem.''
The motive in the attack ''most likely was resentment,'' said Max Blumenfeld, another U.S. Army spokesman.
If he is charged and eventually convicted, Akbar could face court-martial and, depending on the charge, the death penalty, Heath said.
Akbar was born Mark Fidel Kools. His mother changed his name to Hasan Akbar after she remarried, when he was a boy. Akbar began using his original name when he entered the Army. His mother said Akbar was not accepted into the Army with his Muslim name because he could not produce a birth certificate.
Public records showed listings for Akbar under the name Kools as well.
Bilal said she was very proud of her son and couldn't understand how the reports could possibly pertain to him. ''He wouldn't try to take nobody's life," she said.
Akbar, 31, studied engineering in college.
''He's been in school all his darn life," she said. Akbar was a ''straight-A student" and a ''half-genius," she said.
He expressed his concerns about being a Muslim in the Army to his mother in the past.
''He said, 'Mama, when I get over there, I have the feeling they are going to arrest me just because of the name that I have carried.'"
Akbar did not participate in the first Persian Gulf War because his religion created a ''conflict of interest,'' she said.
Abdul Karim Hasan, the imam at the Bilal Islamic Center in Los Angeles that Akbar and his family used to attend, described Akbar as a ''quiet, mild-type person."
The imam said he had known Akbar from his youth through his college days.
''I would have to see him do that in order to believe it,'' Abdul Karim Hasan said of the man he hadn't seen in about a decade. ''I don't see it in his character. A guy's character follows him throughout his life. I don't see how he could change that drastically.
PC is destroying our military. Can you imagine a combat situation where the soldier must watch the man behind him as well as the enemy in front? There are approximately three thousand in the service. THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION THAT CALLS OUT FOR PROFILING AND COMMON SENSE! Not PC but necessary to protect our troops.
Joined Army in April 1998
1+1=3?
There might be some Gulla/English or Ebonics/English language or math translation errors. Different number sets and all that... Maybe a public skool teacher who doesn't suffer my Anglo-centric Indo/Euro bias might inform me, or us, of our bigoted errors.
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