Fragging. It is a term that has seldom been heard in a generation. It means “To wound or kill a fellow soldier by throwing a grenade or similar explosive at the victim”

During the Vietnam War there were hundreds of so-called fragging incidences.

Last week the term re-entered the headlines when U.S. Army Sgt. Asan Akbar was detained on charges that he threw grenades into tents where his colleagues slept, killing a captain instantly and injuring 15 other members of the 101st Airborne Division, one of whom later died.

• Imam Abdul Karim Hasan, is the imam of the Los Angeles mosque where Asan Akbar worshipped as a teenager.
• Luke Hiken, who is on the steering committee of Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild. He has studied “fragging” cases extensively.
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author and columnist. He is the author of nine books including “The Crisis in Black and Black. He recently wrote the “Army 'Fragging'–Racial Tension Back in Spotlight”

Related link:

• The Hutchinson Report