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To: stockman_scott who wrote (15257)	3/22/2003 10:18:17 PM
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American Held in U.S. Camp Attack By PATRICK McDOWELL KUWAIT CITY (AP) - A command tent at the 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades, and 13 soldiers were wounded, six seriously, military officials said. An American soldier was detained as a suspect, the Army said. The soldier is assigned to the 101st Airborne, and the motive in the attack ``most likely was resentment,'' said Max Blumenfeld, a spokesman for the U.S. Army V Corps. He did not elaborate. Two of the wounded were treated at the scene and released, and helicopters evacuated 11 to Army hospitals, he said. The 1:30 a.m. attack - which apparently used only grenades - took place in the command center of the 101st Division's 1st Brigade at Camp Pennsylvania, Blumenfeld said. The Army V Corps is in charge of all U.S. ground forces in Kuwait. Investigators do not yet know if others were involved. The suspect has not been charged, Blumenfeld said, and he did not identify the soldiers or say if any high-ranking officers were among the wounded. Names of the wounded were not released. However, George Heath, civilian spokesman for the 101st's home base at Fort Campbell, Ky., said two Middle Eastern men were detained. He said they had been hired as contractors working for the Army at that camp. Earlier, Heath said the attack appeared to have been carried out by terrorists. Military officials had said the attacker used two grenades and small-arms fire. Camp Pennsylvania is a rear base camp of the 101st, near the Iraqi border. Kuwait is the main launching point for the tens of thousands of ground forces - including parts of the 101st - who have entered Iraq. Near Camp New York, another encampment in Kuwait, a Patriot missile hit an incoming missile near, a military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. There were no reports of injuries or where debris from the missile might have landed. Camp New York, which is near Camp Pennsylvania, was the largest of the desert staging camps. Jim Lacey, a correspondent for Time magazine, told CNN that he was about 20 yards away when explosions at Camp Pennsylvania went off at what he said were two tents that housed division leadership. ``The people who did it ran off into the darkness,'' he said. He said he interviewed an Army major who was sitting outside the tent. ``He said he saw the grenade roll by him,'' Lacey said. After the attack, troops fanned out around the compound to find the perpetrators, Lacey said. The 101st Airborne is a rapid deployment group trained to go anywhere in the world within 36 hours. The roughly 22,000 members of the 101st were deployed Feb. 6. The last time the entire division was deployed was during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, which began after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait. Most recently, it hunted suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan. Its exploits are followed in Kentucky with much pride. News of the attack at the camp compounded the anxiety of relatives of the division's soldiers. ``I get a little worried but when I think I should be crying, I'm not,'' said Chelsey Payne of Clarksville, Tenn., whose husband, Sgt. Robert Payne, is with the division. ``I just don't get scared about my own husband, I just know that he's a good soldier and he's coming home. He promised me.'' 03/22/03 21:55