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Soldier arrested for death { March 23 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12212-2003Mar22.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12212-2003Mar22.html U.S. Soldier Held for Another's Death in Attack; 15 Hurt By Rick Atkinson Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, March 23, 2003; Page A25 CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 23 (Sunday) -- One soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed and 15 were wounded this morning when two hand grenades were thrown into the 1st Brigade tactical operations center at Camp Pennsylvania in central Kuwait, U.S. Army officials said. A U.S. soldier assigned to the brigade was in custody, the officials said. The soldier who was killed was not identified. Army sources said that soldiers from the 1st Brigade had loaded their vehicles and were preparing to move from Camp Pennsylvania when the grenades exploded at about 1:21 a.m. local time (5:21 p.m. EST Saturday) in the operations center, which is in a closely confined tent and usually manned by a couple dozen staff officers. A soldier guarding a convoy of engineer vehicles was found to be missing, as were four grenades from the convoy's ammunition supply. Roughly an hour after the attack, a missile alert sounded and the missing soldier was discovered in a protective bunker. The soldier was arrested and was in the custody of military police at Camp Pennsylvania. Three soldiers were evacuated to the 86th Combat Support Hospital at Camp Udairi in northern Kuwait and seven were evacuated to the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Southern Kuwait. So many of the brigade's senior staff officers were injured in the attack that a measure of reorganization and moral building will be necessary, according to officials who said such efforts were already underway. Among those lightly wounded but not evacuated was the brigade commander, Col. Ben Hodges. He was reportedly injured in the arm by grenade shrapnel. The division commander, Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, was monitoring the situation from his headquarters at Camp New Jersey, several miles from Camp Pennsylvania. The 1st Brigade is one of three infantry brigades of the 101st Airborne, which began combat operations two days ago with the entry of the division's 3rd Brigade into Iraq. The 1st Brigade, comprising about 3,000 soldiers, has been staging at Camp Pennsylvania for follow-on combat operations. © 2003 The Washington Post Company

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