Persons Involved
Mark Fidel Kools, born in Watts, Los Angeles, California, was renamed Hasan Karim Akbar after his mother remarried and converted to Islam, changing her child's name to a Muslim one as well.
He was admitted in 1988 under the name of Mark Fidel Kools to the University of California, Davis, graduating nine years later with Bachelor's degrees in both Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering. After joining the United States Army, he was assigned to Company A, 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne, assigned as a sapper and eventually deployed to Kuwait.
Army Captain Christopher Seifert was also a member of the 101st Airborne Division. Air Force Major Gregory Stone, a member of the 124th Air Support Operations Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard, was attached to the 101st Airborne Division.
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