US officers recall grenade attack

TAKING the witness stand three months after he was injured in a grenade attack in Kuwait, US Army Captain Terence Bacon said he remembered hearing screaming and seeing blood.

Bacon, who suffered shrapnel injuries to both knees and hearing loss during the attack, recalled the carnage during a military hearing convened for the alleged assailant, fellow US soldier Sgt Hasan K Akbar.

“It was kind of an ugly scene there,” Capt Bacon said.