War Updates

MSNBC has just reported the same. There is no word on what unit within the division was targeted.

MSNBC just reported that 2 Arabic people are being held in connection with the attack on the 101st.

GERDIGO, Iraq - An apparent car bomb killed at least five people, including an Australian cameraman, at a checkpoint Saturday near a camp of the al-Qaida-linked militant group Ansar al-Islam. At least eight people were injured.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=8&u=/ap/20030322/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_journalists

KUWAIT CITY - The camp of the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was attacked early Sunday with grenades and small arms fire, wounding 10, including six seriously, U.S. military officials said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030322/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_kuwait_attack

I might have overheard on CNN there were some deaths now fm that.

Turkey said on Saturday there was no truth in reports it had sent troops into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq overnight, as U.S., European and NATO leaders made clear they wanted Ankara to stay out.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=564&e=2&u=/nm/20030322/ts_nm/iraq_turkey_dc_62

Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators, spanning 30 blocks, marched down Broadway on Saturday as part of a fresh round of cross-country protest against war on Iraq. Military backers also showed their support with flags and “USA” chants. In Chicago, troop supporters came within 20 feet of anti-war activists outside a federal building. As the protesters shouted, “killers, killers, killers,” a military backer yelled back, “idiots, idiots, idiots.”

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Antiwar_Movement

HIGHWAY 80 IN SOUTHERN IRAQ - Allied forces crossed the Euphrates River and were halfway to Baghdad on Saturday, their swift advance unimpeded by lingering resistance in the cities of Basra and Umm Qasr. The biggest hurdle: moving the massive military machine across the desert.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20030322/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_battlefield

It appears the attack on the 101st Airborne Division was not a terrorist attack. NBC is reporting that a soldier is being held in connection with the attack. A criminal investigation has been started by the Army (no online cite yet).

They’re now saying that 13, not 10, were injured in the Kuwait camp grenade attack, and that a US soldier is under arrest. They’ve no indication yet of his motive. Heard this on MSNBC and they mention it (with no attendant story) on their website.

From ABC:

Military officials said 13 soldiers were injured, two critically, during the early Sunday morning attack at Camp Pennsylvania of the 101st division. Military officials have detained one member of the 101st division as a suspect in the attack, and are searching for another suspect.

Time reporter Jim Lacey told ABCNEWS that he talked to an eyewitness who said that grenades were rolled into tents that housed the leaders of the brigadier unit. A culprit, the witness told Lacey, shot the first two people who exited the tent.

The injured soldiers were rushed to a field hospital but there is no word on their condition.

CNN
Military criminal investigators said the suspect was recently reprimanded for insubordination and was told he would stay behind when his unit left camp for Iraq, according to Time magazine correspondent Jim Lacey, who is accompanying the unit.

Arden Ranger, your link doesn’t work. Might they have taken it down, like a retraction?

Try this link:http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/22/sprj.irq.101.attack/index.html

One soldier was confirmed dead :frowning:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12212-2003Mar22.html

Elsewhere, in other message boards, the buzz seems to be that the army is requesting moderation on reporting this attack. Perhaps the reason why that other CNN link is not working now?

That’s weird. The link that does work has a similair story but it’s not quite the same. Actually, I think the one that does work has more information in it. It’s more up to date. Must be why mine’s a dead link now.

From One News

From One News

Well, here are two choices:

The original report was wrong.

Or the news was censored, but they changed it too late to prevent other news sources to pick it up.

I fear that in any case, Muslims in America are going to suffer a lot of hate coming from ignorant Americans. :frowning:

The link I have on the grenade attack is from Sky

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1084723,00.html

Might be interesting to note that ( no link, was on ABC radio news tonight at midnight ) that the two Arabs who were detained in reguards to the grenade attack were released when it was found they had nothing to do with it. That’s positive.

Umm Qasr has finally we-likely-mean-it-this-time has fallen into mostly British troops hands. A pink pickup truck with a light machine gun in back seemed to be the last vehicle out. It had a NYPD (New York Police Department) bumper sticker, reportedly.

Supposedly a Republican Guard Commander had surrendered. But lo! Seems there’s more gunfire.

It seems one of the vastly-overrated ‘patriot’ missles might have downed an RAF fighter.

correction The pink pickup truck was involved somewhere up in central Iraq - not Umm Qasr. It was pink, had a 7.62mm gun mounted in back, and a NYPD sticker on the windscreen(/shield).

This thread is for news. Please take editorials elsewhere.

Fox News

The Iraqi Vice President says that Iraq holds US prisoners of war who will be displayed “sometime soon” on Iraqi television. Centcom says that it is unaware of any American troops missing. A four-hour skirmish unfolded on live TV near the southern Iraq town of Umm Qasr as a US Marine battalion encountered a small pocket of resistance from remnant Republican Guards. A combined air and ground assault eliminated the resistance. A British aircraft of unknown type (rumors are that it was a Tornado) was apparently shot down by a US Patriot missile. Officials are still investigating, but enemy fire has been ruled out.