Truck Hits Troops at U.S. Camp in Kuwait

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Americans should learn from history and not stick their heads where it dont belong. Re: Marines base in Lebanon 1983.

**Truck Hits Troops at U.S. Camp in Kuwait **

CAMP UDAIRI, Kuwait - A man drove a pickup truck into a group of U.S. soldiers outside a store at Camp Udairi on Sunday, injuring 10 to 15 people, a military official said.

The driver was wearing civilian clothes, said Lt. Col. Larry Cox, the public affairs officer at the U.S. base.

There was no information on those injured or where they were being treated. It also was not immediately clear what happened to the driver.

At a news briefing in Doha, Qatar, Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. war commander, had no further details about the attack but noted it was substantially different from a suicide car bomb attack that killed four American soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) on Saturday.

“It was obvious that the modus of the second attack (at Camp Udairi) was not at all like the first attack (a suicide car bombing),” he said.

Camp Udairi is primarily a V Corps aviation base that is also used for maintenance and supply. It is the United States’ northernmost base in Kuwait, near the Iraqi border.

Kuwait, an oil-rich desert state slightly smaller than New Jersey, has hosted U.S. troops since the Gulf War (news - web sites) ended in 1991 and is the key launching site for U.S. ground forces invading Iraq.

American troops and civilians have been killed or wounded in Kuwait in separate incidents since October.

Islamic extremists were blamed for the Jan. 21 shooting that killed a San Diego computer contractor and injured another American close to Camp Doha, where U.S. forces are based.

A Kuwaiti policeman faces trial on charges of shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers Nov. 21.

In October, Muslim fundamentalists killed one U.S. Marine and injured another on a Kuwaiti island. Other Marines killed the gunmen.

On March 23, a grenade attack killed two U.S. officers and wounded 14 soldiers at a 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait. U.S. soldier Hasan Akbar, 32, is being held in connection with the case

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Re: Truck Hits Troops at U.S. Camp in Kuwait

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Americans should learn from history and not stick their heads where it dont belong. Re: Marines base in Lebanon 1983.

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Exactly. By these repeated attacks in Kuwait it seems that there are so many people there who also want to see the back of the American's - that is so much like Lebanon.

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Re: Truck Hits Troops at U.S. Camp in Kuwait

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CAMP UDAIRI, Kuwait - A man drove a pickup truck into a group of U.S. soldiers outside a store at Camp Udairi on Sunday, *injuring 10 to 15 people, a military official said. *

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Its a huge pickup truck that just drove in to them and no one died? Sounds unrealistic.

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First wave of Islamic Jihad (suicide squad) reaches Baghdad..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52146-2003Mar30?language=printer

Islamic Jihad Say Suicide Bombers Gone to Baghdad

Reuters
Sunday, March 30, 2003; 10:58 AM

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad said on Sunday it had sent a first wave of suicide bombers to Baghdad to help Iraqis fight U.S. and British troops.

“Al-Quds Brigades brings to our people and nation the good news of the arrival of its first martyrdom (attackers) to the heart of Baghdad,” a faxed statement from the armed wing of Islamic Jihad said.

“This is to fulfil the holy duty of defending Arab and Muslim land,” it said.

Islamic Jihad also claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide bombing in a crowded pedestrian mall in the Israeli seaside town of Netanya that injured at least 30 people.

Islamic Jihad’s Lebanon representative, Abu Imad al-Rifai, confirmed the statement. He said the suicide bombers had not come from Palestinian territories but from several countries.

Rifai declined to say how many potential Islamic Jihad suicide bombers had gone to Iraq but said more were on the way.

“Some have already arrived and others will come later,” Rifai said. “If there are means for people to go, they will.”

Asked if the Islamic Jihad members said to have gone to Baghdad had orders to carry out suicide bombings, Rifai said: “Yes, correct.”

“A part of the role they are carrying out and have dedicated themselves to is fighting American occupation in Iraq and defending the Iraqi people,” he said.

Islamic Jihad is listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

© 2003 Reuters