GRENADE ATTACKER AKBAR ANTI-AMERICAN

Don't listen to the Pentagon saying this is just an alleged criminal act by a disgruntled employee. If he's the culprit, it's more properly seen as premeditated terrorism and treason. He even warned his mother that his Muslim faith would lead to his arrest during the war:

Outside the charred and blood-splattered tents yesterday afternoon, soldiers recalled hearing the suspect say as he was being led away by armed soldiers: ''You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children.''

...A woman who said she is Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, told the Tennessean of Nashville that her son told her he feared persecution because he is a Muslim, the Associated Press reported.

''He said, `Mama, when I get over there, I have the feeling they are going to arrest me just because of the name that I have carried,' '' Bilal told the newspaper for a story published on its website last night.

Why tell mom you're going to be arrested as you're headed off to war, then follow that by telling her it will be related to your new Muslim name? Sounds like he knew exactly what he was planning to do, and he wanted to warn mom while assuring her "the fix is in" to make it easier on her.

Here's the original post comparing Akbar's M.O. to terrorist-sniper John Muhammed's attack. Maybe Rumsfeld was thinking of Muhammad when he told Tim Russert the attack was probably just "the kind of an incident that occurs in cities and towns from time to time."

The Pentagon should be ashamed they're treating attempted mass murder of fellow soldiers during wartime so cavalierly. He's a potential American Taliban in U.S. Army BDU's, and that makes him much more destructive to our forces, and their morale, than if he actually had the courage of his convictions. He would be a bigger man to defect, relinquish his citizenship, and overtly join up with enemy forces. A traitor is much worse, and the Army needs to send a serious message. Investigators need to find out if he ever defended the D.C. sniper or was aware of press accounts of Muhammad's own grenade attack on soldiers preparing to attack Iraq in '91.

UPDATE: Our suspect "homicide bomber's" mosque was entirely funded by the Saudis.

King Fahd of Saudi pledged as much as $8 million to build a new mosque at the site of the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center, the large black mosque in South Central Los Angeles. Last year, Saudi's Islamic Development Bank committed an additional $295,000 for the construction of the Bilal Islamic Primary and Secondary School.

Bilal is just one of many black mosques funded by Saudi. Most of them, including Bilal, are associated with Imam W. Deen Mohammed, head of the Chicago-based Muslim American Society, or MAS...

Though he expressed "shock" at the Sept. 11 terrorism, W. Deen Mohammed didn't categorically condemn the attacks in a statement to MAS members.