grenade attack injures 10 u.s. troops in kuwait

The latest reports in regards to the following story,
suggests that the 'attack' was carried out by a US soldier.
Sketchy details say that a 'fraggy' (?), a renegade US soldier, is under arrest & is being questioned over the incident.




Grenade Attack Injures 10 U.S. Troops in Kuwait

Sat March 22, 2003 07:01 PM ET
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Ten soldiers were injured in what U.S. military officials said on Sunday may have been a "terrorist" grenade attack at a U.S. military base in northern Kuwait.
A U.S. military spokesman said the attack happened at Camp Pennsylvania, one of the desert bases from where U.S. forces have launched a land invasion to try and overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Jim Lacey, a correspondent for Time magazine who was at the camp, told CNN that intruders rolled two grenades into the command tent.

Thousands of U.S. troops have been based in Kuwait since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. They have been targeted in several incidents in recent months by militants whom Kuwaiti authorities say may have links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

Last November, a Kuwaiti policeman shot and seriously wounded two U.S. soldiers on a highway south of Kuwait City and the previous month two Kuwaitis attacked U.S. Marines training on an island, killing one.

In January, a gunman ambushed two civilian contractors working for the U.S. military in Kuwait, killing one and wounding the other.

Kuwait is a key U.S. ally and the government is publicly grateful to Washington for leading the 1991 Gulf War that drove out occupying Iraqi troops from the oil-rich country.

But there have been concerns of rising anti-American sentiment in the country.

Last week, the U.S. embassy in Kuwait told American civilians in the country to leave immediately, advice taken up by several other embassies. Diplomats said the warnings were prompted by fears that Muslim militants angered by the war with Iraq could target Westerners in Kuwait.