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Michelle Malkin
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030326.shtml

March 26, 2003

MSWA: Muslim soldiers with attitude


Sgt. Asan Akbar, a Muslim American soldier with the 326th Engineer Battalion, had an "attitude problem."

According to his superiors and acquaintances, Akbar's attitude was bitterly anti-American and staunchly pro-Muslim. So how did this devout follower of the so-called Religion of Peace work out his attitudinal problems last weekend?

By lobbing hand grenades and aiming his M-4 automatic rifle into three tents filled with sleeping commanding officers at the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade operations center in Kuwait.

Akbar is the lone suspect being detained in the despicable attack, which left more than a dozen wounded and one dead. Surviving soldiers say Akbar, found cowering in a bunker with shrapnel injuries, was overheard ranting after the assault: "You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children."

"Our"? At least there's no doubt about where this Religion of Peace practitioner's true loyalties lie.

Naturally, apologists for Islam-gone-awry are hard at work dismissing this traitorous act of murder as an "isolated, individual act and not an expression of faith." But such sentiments are willfully blind and recklessly p.c.

Sgt. Akbar is not the only MSWA -- Muslim soldier with attitude -- suspected of infiltrating our military, endangering our troops and undermining national security:

-- Ali A. Mohamed. Mohamed, a major in the Egyptian army, immigrated to the U.S. in 1986 and joined the U.S. Army while a resident alien. This despite being on a State Department terrorist watch list before securing his visa. An avowed Islamist, he taught classes on Muslim culture to U.S. Special Forces at Fort Bragg, N.C., and obtained classified military documents. He was granted U.S. citizenship over the objections of the CIA.

A former classmate, Jason T. Fogg, recalled that Mohamed was openly critical of the American military. "To be in the U.S. military and have so much hate toward the U.S. was odd. He never referred to America as his country."

Soon after he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1989, Mohamed hooked up with Osama bin Laden as an escort, trainer, bagman and messenger. Mohamed used his U.S. passport to conduct surveillance at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi; he later pled guilty to conspiring with bin Laden to "attack any Western target in the Middle East" and admitted his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings that killed more than 200 people, including a dozen Americans.

Ain't multiculturalism grand?

-- Semi Osman. An ethnic Lebanese born in Sierra Leone and a Seattle-based Muslim cleric, Osman served in a naval reserve fueling unit based in Tacoma, Wash. He had access to fuel trucks similar to the type used by al Qaeda in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers, which killed 19 U.S. airmen and wounded nearly 400 other Americans.

Osman was arrested last May as part of a federal investigation into the establishment of a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. Osman recently pleaded guilty to a weapons violation, and the feds dropped immigration charges against him in exchange for his testimony.

Ain't open borders grand?

-- John Muhammad. The accused Beltway sniper and Muslim convert was a member of the Army's 84th Engineering Company. In an eerie parallel to the Akbar case, Muhammad is suspected of throwing a thermite grenade into a tent housing 16 of his fellow soldiers as they slept before the ground-attack phase of Gulf War I in 1991. Muhammad's superior, Sgt. Kip Berentson, told both Newsweek and The Seattle Times that he immediately suspected Muhammad, who was "trouble from day one."

Curiously, Muhammad was admitted to the Army despite being earlier court-martialed for willfully disobeying orders, striking another noncommissioned officer, wrongfully taking property, and being absent without leave while serving in the Louisiana National Guard.

Although Muhammad was led away in handcuffs and transferred to another company pending charges for the grenade attack, an indictment never materialized. Muhammad was honorably discharged from the Army in 1994. Eight years later, he was arrested in the 21-day Beltway shooting spree that left 10 dead and three wounded.

Ain't tolerance grand?

-- Jeffrey Leon Battle. A former Army reservist, Battle was indicted in October 2002 for conspiring to levy war against the United States and "enlisting in the Reserves to receive military training to use against America." According to the Justice Department, he planned to wage war against American soldiers in Afghanistan.

Ain't diversity grand?

"It's bad enough we have to worry about enemy forces, but now we have to worry about our own guys," Spc. Autumn Simmer told the Los Angeles Times this week after the assault on the 101st Airborne. The Islamist infiltration of our troops is scandalous. Not one more American, soldier or civilian, must be sacrificed at the altar of multiculturalism, diversity, open borders, and tolerance of the murderous "attitude" of Jihad.



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Officers hurt in grenade attack
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030323-15040546.htm

By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


KUWAIT CITY — An attacker threw two hand grenades into the command tent at a U.S. army camp in northern Kuwait early this morning, local time, killing one soldier and injuring 13 persons, the Army said. A U.S. soldier being held for questioning had an "Arabic-sounding" name and recently had been reprimanded, CNN reported. Top Stories
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The grenades rolled into the tent used by officers and senior enlisted personnel of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, at about 1:30 a.m. this morning, according to a statement issued by the U.S. military's Central Command.
Authorities initially said terrorists were believed to be responsible but later announced that an American soldier had been detained and was being questioned.
Military authorities said four of the 14 victims were seriously injured. Others had superficial puncture wounds from shrapnel, a civilian spokesman at the division's home base in Fort Campbell, Ky., told the Associated Press.
The spokesman, George Heath, initially said "it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, [and] one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent."
However the military later announced that a U.S. soldier assigned to an engineering unit with the 101st Airborne had been found hiding in a bunker and was being questioned by the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. Fox News said the soldier was a Muslim American and that he had been described as "acting strange" before the attack.
U.S. Army spokesman Max Blumenfeld was quoted saying the motive "most likely was resentment."
There was some confusion about the suspect. Mr. Heath told the AP that authorities were questioning two Middle Eastern men who had been hired as contractors at the camp.
The military did not identify the victims or say how many of them were officers.
Mr. Blumenfeld told the French news agency Agence France-Presse that 11 of the wounded had been evacuated to military field hospitals in the region, most of them to Camp Arifjan in southern Kuwait.
Jim Lacey, a Time Magazine correspondent embedded with the military who was sleeping in a neighboring tent, told CNN last night that the Army's Criminal Investigation Division was questioning the soldier.
Mr. Lacey told CNN that he was about 20 yards away when the grenades exploded.
"Somebody did see the person do it but was not able to identify the person at the time," Mr. Lacey said.
"The people who did it ran off into the darkness," he said, adding that one Army major who had been sitting outside one of the tents described seeing the grenade roll past him.
Mr. Lacey said troops fanned out around the compound in search of the attackers.
The initial reports raised questions about how an outsider could have penetrated the camp, which, like all military camps in Kuwait, is under tight security. A review of security measures at the camp was likely.
Camp Pennsylvania is home to the 101st Airborne Division, which comprises roughly 3,000 troops. It is located less than 20 miles south of the Iraqi border. The division, normally based at Fort Campbell, Ky., arrived in Kuwait only about three weeks ago.
There had been three previous attacks on Americans in Kuwait since October. Kuwait was the main launching point for the tens of thousands of ground forces who have entered Iraq.
The 101st Airborne, most of whose 22,000 members are already in Iraq, is a rapid deployment group trained to go anywhere in the world within 36 hours. 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 Qaeda fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan. Its exploits are followed in Kentucky with much pride.


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http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/04/07.html

The Muslim Problem In The Military
By Cliff Kincaid
April 7, 2003



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At first, we were told it was the work of terrorists. Then we learned that an American soldier was being held in connection with a grenade attack on fellow servicemen in Kuwait, and that he was a black Muslim named Sergeant Asan Akbar. This brought to mind the Washington Beltway sniper shootings, allegedly carried out by two killers, one of them named John Allen Muhammed, another Black Muslim and military veteran.

It is timely to mention the fact that Alex Tizon of the Seattle Times wrote a revealing article about Muhammed, quoting his former superior officer, retired Sergeant Kip Berentson, as saying that he thought that Muhammed might someday turn to murder. While serving in the first Gulf War, Muhammed read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," the story of the black militant who became a leading minister in the Nation of Islam. Later, he became active in the organization under Louis Farrakhan and changed his last name from Williams to Muhammed.

Tizon also wrote about an incident that occurred during Muhammed’s military service. It turns out that he also tossed a grenade into the tent of his fellow soldiers. This is eerily similar to what Sergeant Asan Akbar allegedly attempted to do in Kuwait. The story, according to Berentson and others, was that Muhammad threw a thermite grenade into a tent housing 16 of his fellow soldiers. It could have easily killed or maimed, but all 16 in the tent escaped unharmed. Tizon reported, "The Army's Criminal Investigation Division, Berentson says, concluded Muhammad…was the lead suspect. Muhammad was led away in handcuffs and eventually transferred to another company pending charges. He had been court-martialed twice before for lesser incidents while serving in the Louisiana National Guard. But an indictment over the grenade incident never materialized, and Muhammad's Army file has no record of it."

The military has had other problems as well. Ali Mohammed, an Egyptian-born Islamic fundamentalist who helped plan Osama bin Laden’s bombing of the U.S embassies in Africa, had served as a sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Operations at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Yet the Christian Science Monitor recently featured a story about Army Sergeant Mike Dickinson, who is stationed in Afghanistan and converted to Islam two years ago while on a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. He says that if the U.S. ever goes to war alongside Israel against the Arabs, he will have to become a "conscientious objector."

Qaseem Uqdah, president of the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, is responsible for recruiting and endorsing Muslim chaplains for the armed forces. He says there are more than 15,000 loyal Muslims in the U.S. armed forces, with blacks making up the largest ethnic group.

The military opened its first permanent Islamic prayer center at the Norfolk, Virginia, Naval Air Station in 1997. And in December 2001, the Pentagon itself hosted a ceremony for Muslims in the U.S. military in connection with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The Pentagon message is that Islam is a religion of peace.


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March 25, 2003

Not One More American, Soldier Or Civilian, Must Be Sacrificed At The Altar Of Multiculturalism, Diversity, Open Borders…”
By Michelle Malkin

Sgt. Asan Akbar, a Muslim American soldier with the 326th Engineer Battalion, had an “attitude problem.”

According to his superiors and acquaintances, Akbar’s attitude was bitterly anti-American and staunchly pro-Muslim. So how did this devout follower of the so-called Religion of Peace work out his attitudinal problems last weekend?

By lobbing hand grenades and aiming his M-4 automatic rifle into three tents filled with sleeping commanding officers at the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade operations center in Kuwait.

Akbar is the lone suspect being detained in the despicable attack, which left more than a dozen wounded and one dead. Surviving soldiers say Akbar, found cowering in a bunker with shrapnel injuries, was overheard ranting after the assault: "You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children.”

“Our?” At least there’s no doubt about where this Religion of Peace practitioner’s true loyalties lie.

Naturally, apologists for Islam-gone-awry are hard at work dismissing this traitorous act of murder as an “isolated, individual act and not an _expression of faith.”

But such sentiments are willfully blind and recklessly p.c.

Sgt. Akbar is not the only MSWA – Muslim Soldier With Attitude – suspected of infiltrating our military, endangering our troops and undermining national security:

*Ali A. Mohamed. Mohamed, a major in the Egyptian army, immigrated to the U.S. in 1986 and joined the U.S. Army while a resident alien. This despite being on a State Department terrorist watch list before securing his visa. An avowed Islamist, he taught classes on Muslim culture to U.S. Special Forces at Fort Bragg, N.C., and obtained classified military documents. He was granted U.S. citizenship over the objections of the CIA.

A former classmate, Jason T. Fogg, recalled that Mohamed was openly critical of the American military. “To be in the U.S. military and have so much hate toward the U.S. was odd. He never referred to America as his country."

Soon after he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1989, Mohamed hooked up with Osama bin Laden as an escort, trainer, bagman, and messenger. Mohamed used his U.S. passport to conduct surveillance at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi; he later pled guilty to conspiring with bin Laden to “attack any Western target in the Middle East” and admitted his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings that killed more than 200 people, including a dozen Americans.

Ain’t multiculturalism grand?

*Semi Osman. An ethnic Lebanese born in Sierra Leone and a Seattle-based Muslim cleric, Osman served in a naval reserve fueling unit based in Tacoma, Wash. He had access to fuel trucks similar to the type used by al Qaeda in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers, which killed 19 U.S. airmen and wounded nearly 400 other Americans.

Osman was arrested last May as part of a federal investigation into the establishment of a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. Osman recently pleaded guilty to a weapons violation and the feds dropped immigration charges against him in exchange for his testi

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