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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (15203)3/22/2003 9:42:36 PM
From: stockman_scott   of 89467
 
U.S. soldiers attacked in their own camp in Kuwait...very sad BUT I fear it may be the beginning of the UNintended consequences...


Thirteen US soldiers wounded in suspected terror attack in Kuwait

story.news.yahoo.com

<<...It was unclear how the suspected attack might have been carried out at the camp which, like other sprawling US military outposts in the Kuwait desert near the Iraq border, is under intense round-the-clock security.

If confirmed, the incident would mark the first time since the war began last week that US troops had been victims of a terror incident.

US journalist Jim Lacey told CNN from the scene that civilian contractors who carry out work at the camp may have been involved. He said two people had been detained there but that the suspected attackers had likely fled into the night.

"The carnage was pretty severe," Lacey said...>>

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US soldier questioned in grenade attack
By Alexander Davis
8:46pm 03/22/03

Military authorities are holding a U.S. soldier for questioning in connection with Sunday's predawn grenade attack on a tent at the 101st Airborne Division's camp in northern Kuwait, according to a Financial Times reporter who was interviewed on CNN. Officials also raised the number of soldiers wounded to 13, 6 of them seriously injured. The Financial Times also reported earlier that two locally recruited Army interpreters were being questioned. There were no other details immediately disclosed about the investigation into the attack on Camp Pennsylvania.
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