  Gonz\'alez et al. (2003) have reported the discovery of an anomalous
radiation component from ~ 1 -- 200 MeV in GRB 941017. This component varies
independently of and contains > 3 times the energy found in the prompt ~ 50 keV
-- 1 MeV radiation component that is well described by the relativistic
synchrotron-shock model. Acceleration of hadrons to very high energies can give
rise to two additional emission components, one produced inside the GRB blast
wave and one associated with an escaping beam of ultra-high energy (UHE; >
10^{14} eV) neutrons, gamma rays, and neutrinos. The first component extending
to ~ 100 MeV is from a pair-photon cascade induced by photomeson processes with
the internal synchrotron photons coincident with the prompt radiation. The
outflowing UHE neutral beam can undergo further interactions with external
photons from the backscattered photon field to produce a beam of
hyper-relativistic electrons that lose most of their energy during a fraction
of a gyroperiod in the assumed Gauss-strength magnetic fields of the
circumburst medium. The synchrotron radiation of these electrons has a spectrum
with vF_v index equal to +1 that can explain the anomalous component in GRB
941017. This interpretation of the spectrum of GRB 941017 requires a high
baryon load of the accelerated particles in GRB blast waves. It implies that
most of the radiation associated with the anomalous component is released at >
500 MeV, suitable for observations with GLAST, and with a comparable energy
fluence in ~100 TeV neutrinos that could be detected with a km-scale neutrino
telescope like IceCube.
