regarding the kuwait camp..1 confirm is killed....
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Attack at U.S. Camp in Kuwait Kills One
7 minutes ago
By PATRICK McDOWELL, Associated Press Writer
KUWAIT CITY - Grenades exploded at a 101st Airborne command center
in Kuwait early Sunday, killing one and wounding 13 servicemen, and
a U.S. soldier was detained as a suspect in the attack, the Army
said.
Three others who sustained serious injuries were undergoing
surgery, the military said.
The attacker threw three grenades into three tents, including the
command tent, military officials said. The motive in the attack
"most likely was resentment," said Max Blumenfeld, a U.S. Army
spokesman. He did not elaborate.
The name of the soldier who died was not released because family
members had not been notified, said George Heath, civilian
spokesman for Fort Campbell, Ky., the storied 101st Airborne
Division's home base.
"Incidents of this nature are abnormalities throughout the Army,
specifically in the 101st," Heath said. "Death is a tragic incident
regardless of how it comes, but when it comes from a fellow
comrade, it does even more to hurt morale. Our hearts and prayers
go out to the families of the soldier. We pray that incidents of
this nature do not happen again in any military
organization."
The suspect, found hiding in a bunker, is an engineer from an
engineering platoon in the 101st Airborne, said Col. Frederick B.
Hodges, commander of the division's 1st Brigade.
The attack in the command center of the 101st Division's 1st
Brigade at Camp Pennsylvania happened at 1:30 a.m. (5:30 p.m. EST
Saturday) and apparently involved only grenades, Blumenfeld
said.
One of the grenades went off in the command tent, he said. The
tent, the tactical operations center, runs 24 hours a day and would
always be staffed by officers and senior enlisted personnel,
Blumenfeld said.
Ten of those wounded had superficial wounds, including puncture
wounds to their arms and legs from fragments of the grenade, Heath
said.
Helicopters evacuated 11 to Army hospitals, Blumenfeld said.
Names of the wounded were not released, and Blumenfeld did not say
if any high-ranking officers were hurt.
Hodges said he was asleep when a sergeant woke him up.
"I immediately smelled smoke," the commander told Britain's Sky
News television. "I heard a couple of explosions and then a popping
sound which I think was probably a rifle being fired. It looks like
some assailant threw a grenade into each of these three tents
here."
The suspect, whose name was not released, has not been charged,
Blumenfeld said, adding that investigators did not know if others
were involved.
Two Middle Eastern men who had been hired as contractors were
detained and later released, Heath said.
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 (news - web sites).
Near Camp New York, another encampment in Kuwait, a Patriot missile
hit an incoming missile, 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.
"When this all happened we tried to get accountability for
everybody," Hodges told Sky News. "We noticed four hand grenades
were missing and that this sergeant was unaccounted for. We started
looking for him and found him hiding here in one of these bunkers.
He is detained and he is being interrogated right now."
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 (news -
web sites), which began after Iraq invaded neighboring
Kuwait.
Most recently, it hunted suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in
the mountains of Afghanistan (news - web sites). 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."
Kuwait is the main launching point for the tens of thousands of
ground forces who have entered Iraq. Before the war with Iraq broke
out, Americans had come under attack four times in the oil-rich
emirate since October. Three of the attacks were blamed on Muslim
extremists.
