Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:44:22 +1200
From: Margaret Trawick <trawick-AT-clear.net.nz>
Subject: a few grenades


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If the US Army is not disciplined enough to keep one of its own soldiers from rolling a grenade into a command tent in Kuwait (outside the combat zone) how can they be trusted to avoid attacks against Iraqi civilians when the troops arrive in Baghdad?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2877087.stm

US soldier held over attack at base

      
      Much of the 101st airborne is already in Iraq
A US soldier has been arrested after a grenade attack at a rear base camp in northern Kuwait which wounded 13 other US troops.
A military spokesman said two grenades had been rolled into a command tent in Camp Pennsylvania, the base of the 101st US Airborne Division.

Eleven of the soldiers were evacuated to field hospitals in the area, while the other two were treated at the scene.

"The carnage was pretty severe," said journalist Jim Lacey from Time magazine, who was at the camp at the time.

The BBC's Peter Hunt says Camp Pennsylvania occupies a large area of Kuwaiti desert and security should have been tight, so questions - potentially embarrassing ones - will now be asked about how this could have taken place.

Increased hostility

The Associated Press news agency says the division has been based in Kuwait for about a week, but most of its personnel have already entered Iraq.

       
Correspondents say there are concerns in Kuwait about increasing hostility towards US troops, thousands of whom have been stationed in the country since the 1991 Gulf War.

In October last year, a US marine was killed during training on an island.

A month later, two US soldiers were shot and seriously wounded by a Kuwaiti policeman on a highway south of Kuwait City.

In January a US civilian was killed and one wounded near a military base north of the city.

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If the US Army is not disciplined enough to keep one of its own soldiers from rolling a grenade into a command tent in Kuwait (outside the combat zone) how can they be trusted to avoid attacks against Iraqi civilians when the troops arrive in Baghdad?

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2877087.stm

 

US soldier held over attack at base

Much of the 101st airborne is already in Iraq

A US soldier has been arrested after a grenade attack at a rear base camp in northern Kuwait which wounded 13 other US troops.

A military spokesman said two grenades had been rolled into a command tent in Camp Pennsylvania, the base of the 101st US Airborne Division.

Eleven of the soldiers were evacuated to field hospitals in the area, while the other two were treated at the scene.

"The carnage was pretty severe," said journalist Jim Lacey from Time magazine, who was at the camp at the time.

The BBC's Peter Hunt says Camp Pennsylvania occupies a large area of Kuwaiti desert and security should have been tight, so questions - potentially embarrassing ones - will now be asked about how this could have taken place.

Increased hostility

The Associated Press news agency says the division has been based in Kuwait for about a week, but most of its personnel have already entered Iraq.

Correspondents say there are concerns in Kuwait about increasing hostility towards US troops, thousands of whom have been stationed in the country since the 1991 Gulf War.

In October last year, a US marine was killed during training on an island.

A month later, two US soldiers were shot and seriously wounded by a Kuwaiti policeman on a highway south of Kuwait City.

In January a US civilian was killed and one wounded near a military base north of the city.