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. 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 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.
| I don't see any connection between the two, except for the fact of the Iraq war. In the one, an Iraqi kills himself to take out some infidels. In the other, a local Islamonutbag decides to be an Islamic hero by running over a few. The one's meat, the other's down at the mall regaling his friends with the tale of his heroism. |
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Bodyguard tells me that the 15 victims will be okay, just bruises, and the driver is expected to recover from his two sucking chest wounds... |