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| Muslim chaplain’s arrest prompts U.S. probe | ||||
| 2003-09-22 | ||||
| I know this is a repeat, I think this has new IMPORTANT info: A military and intelligence investigation into possible security breaches at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is under way following the arrest of a U.S. Army Islamic chaplain, Bush administration sources said. Capt. James Yee, who has not been charged, is being held on suspicion of espionage and treason.
A Diagram and a list? Wonder what that is for? Sounds like someone was planning a jail break? Or maybe some act against the interrogators?
Also he can be beaten by the guards with impunity. He appeared September 15 before a military magistrate, who ruled there was sufficient reason to hold him in pretrial confinement. DUH! Army officials with the U.S. Southern Command, which controls the Guantanamo Bay facility, said that they could not comment on the status of the investigation. However, they confirmed Yee is a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. They said he became an air-defense artillery officer and left the Army some time later. Yee then moved to Syria, where he lived for four years studying Islam and was married, apparently to a Syrian woman. A U.S. State Department document available on the Internet confirms Yee’s time in Syria, saying he "spent four years studying Arabic and Islam in Damascus." The same document quotes Yee as saying, "An act of terrorism, the taking of innocent civilian lives, is prohibited by Islam, and whoever has done this needs to be brought to justice, whether he is Muslim or not."
What’s the screening process for these Chaplains? Religion of peace my ass! Which ones can we trust if someone from West Point can’t be trusted? Seems that young Captain Lee got some serious education while in Syria. For those of you who just joined the program, Syria is the ugly step-sister of Iraq. | ||||
| Posted by:Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) |
| #17 Frankly after reading all about honor/shame, shouldn't the little wifie be killed too? The Religion of Peace™ demands it? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-22 7:05:43 PM |
| #16 Chaplin or not he should be tried and if found guilty shot or hanged. I was at GITMO when camp X-Ray was first built for the Cuban/Haitian Crimelords / Psychos in 1994. First off, good luck trying to make it to Castro. It's alot of swamp with little nasties that typically inhabit the terrain and those other things called ....landmines. When Cuban migrants couldn't take the camps anymore they'd try to flee back to Cuba. Many nights at the outdoor movie theater we'd suddenly hear a "Whoomp!" and know what happened to that last "escapee." Alternatively, they could swim for it. Just don't try to swim upriver on the airfield side. The Cubans have a meat packing factory that drains into it. The sharks like to hang out there. I almost got pulled out of the boat fishing on that river once. Then it may still be Box Jellyfish mating season. Ouch! They're all over the place. Oh yeah, so are the thousands of Barracuda. Then they could simply drown. Then, of course, the last and most deadly predator that they'd have to elude would be the Marine security forces. HAHAHAHA Good luck Achmed! Say "hi" to Allah while you're in hell for me. Thanks. |
| Posted by: Paul 2003-9-22 5:21:54 PM |
| #15 I think a more likely scenario is that he was gathering information to give to a press source. I bet that will be his story. He will say that the incarceration at Gitmo was offensive to his American and Islamic sensabilities and that he was going to bring the info to the Press (NY Times? Al Guardian, Al Jazeera?) so it gets out to the public. If I was his lawyer, that is what I would push for. BTW, I disagree totally with his actions. If convicted, possibly they should behead him. And deport his wife. |
| Posted by: penguin 2003-9-22 4:57:14 PM |
| #14 Alaska Paul - Shemya is nice too. Might even be in your neck of the woods (relatively speaking). |
| Posted by: Dakotah 2003-9-22 4:18:27 PM |
| #13 I almost wish they'd tried a breakout. Gitmo is a major naval base, armed to the teath because its bordering communist Cuba on 3 sides. I'm pretty sure any attempt to liberate the friends in Gitmo would have ended with a lot of Al Queda body bags before they even got close to the prisoners. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-22 3:47:50 PM |
| #12 He may have reported on both interrogation methods and cooperative captives. This is very bad. I have a difficult time understanding why any such Moslem should be entertained by the US military, especially one who left the army to study Islam in Damascus and has "acquired" a Syrian wife. We're at war! What happened to security clearance? Were Nazi theorists invited to visit prisoner camps and boost the morale of German prisoners during WW II ? it looks like someone is still not getting the message that Moslems have declared all-out war on the USA. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2003-9-22 3:20:48 PM |
| #11 Isolation from other suspects is a very key part of an interrogation. What I think we'll find is that the Chaplain was transferring information between prisoners so that the stories matched. Information also might have been transferred on what beans had been spilled to outside sources. I doubt that uprisings or escapes were being coordinated. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-22 3:11:24 PM |
| #10 I don't know about jail breaks, but any intelligence that might have been derived has been compromised. Al Qaeda knows what not to do and, if they were clever, could have planted bad intelligence. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-22 2:02:49 PM |
| #9 If the Gitmo hotel guests stage a break-out, even if they are gunned down and everyone killed, it is a propaganda victory for Al and the Qaedas. Also an American Muslim Chaplin aiding and abetting a breakout or attempted breakout is also a feather in their cap. It is good that we caught this one. We need to be extra vigilant and we need to check into all the military's Muslim |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-22 1:46:49 PM |
| #8 Thule is nice this time of year. They may need chaplains to do other duties as assigned.... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-22 1:33:40 PM |
| #7 In addition, Yee is suspected of having ties to radical Muslims in the United States that are now under investigation, the official said, adding that he couldn’t elaborate. Anyone remember a story about a couple of imams detained in Southern Florida on or around 9-11-03? I wonder if their detention was a side-effect of this arrest... |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-9-22 1:23:49 PM |
| #6 The Independent has it, via Sully. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-22 12:57:41 PM |
| #5 I don't know that you can flush them all out of the service immediately. No, but they could all be assigned to a weather station someplace north of Alaska. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-9-22 12:56:08 PM |
| #4 I haven't seen the whining 'why pick on us' announcement from CAIR yet; nor anyone predicting that this would agitate the Arab street. Is it because the perp is ethnically Asian? Cinthia McKinney call your office. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-9-22 12:48:23 PM |
| #3 Were they going to threaten or kill the interrogators' families? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-22 12:48:23 PM |
| #2 Planning a jail break. Where are they going to go? Who's been flying to Cuba? Is a boat coming from FLA? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-22 12:47:36 PM |
| #1 All military Islamic chaplains have come out of Wahabist schools. I don't think that is very smart. I don't know that you can flush them all out of the service immediately. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-22 12:47:13 PM |