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2003-09-25 Home Front

Probe Into Breaches at Guantanamo Expands

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Posted by Steve White 2003-09-25 12:41:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We already know of the 5th column in this country....it's the 6th - political correctness- that we need to start dealing with forcefully. No doubt in my mind, that PC is the main reason why we are facing this situation.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-9-25 2:49:02 AM|| 2003-9-25 2:49:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Now, let me get this straight. It was American Arrogance (TM) which caused this soldier to turn on his country, and not an act of racist treason.

Right?!?

Posted by badanov 2003-9-25 5:20:44 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2003-9-25 5:20:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Not sure that you can call what the airman did as turning on his country. He was working against our country and for the interests of his country.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-25 8:49:59 AM|| 2003-9-25 8:49:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Think Al-Halabi's "fiance" will be making the trip over for moral support during the trial?
Yeah, me neither.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-25 10:01:23 AM|| 2003-9-25 10:01:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 This is lifted in full from Hit and Run.

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Whenever Pipes repeats his catchphraseâ"Militant Islam is the problem; moderate Islam is the solution"âI say, "Thanks for that glimpse of the obvious, Dan!" But apparently it's not obvious enough. Senator Chuck Schumer's grandstanding over the arrest of Capt. James J. Yee has had the salutary effect of publicizing how the armed services train and select Muslim chaplains.

Yee's chaplaincy was sponsored by the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs Council, a subgroup of the American Muslim Foundation (AMF). U.S. Customs agents, Schumer notes, have investigated the AMF for possible financial ties to terrorism. The AMAF Veterans Affairs Council is one of three Muslim organizations that trains or sponsors military chaplains. Assorted fuckups in this Washington Times story don't inspire a lot of confidence, but it does raise two interesting points: that another of these organizations, the Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences, was raided last year in the same investigation as AMF; and that the Pentagon seems to be indifferent to considering organizations whose pasts are a little less, well, checkered as candidates for the chaplain-sponsoring business:

For months, the Universal Muslim Association of America, which is aligned with Shi'ite Islam, has tried to become an endorser of Muslim clerics in the military and federal prisons. But the group says it has been ignored, despite its warnings that the Wahhabi form of Islam is being propagated to troops and prisoners.

"We would like to become an endorser before any more damage is done," said spokesman Agha Jafri. "The Defense Department should have been aware that there are two main forms of Islam and that it was only Wahhabism that is being represented."

I find that last comment puzzling. (My understanding is that Sunnism and Shi'ism are the two main forms of Islam; within Sunnism there are four schools of jurisprudence, and Wahhabism is a development within one of those schoolsâthe Hanbali.) But it sure seems like there must be better candidates to help with accommodating Muslim practice in the service. Whether you believe Sgt. Hasan Akbar was a little lost lamb or a righteous brother wreaking vengeance on Amerikkka, this is a matter of more than incidental concern.

Posted by growler 2003-9-25 11:56:43 AM|| 2003-9-25 11:56:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 But then again, it may be possible that the military knew all along that Chaplin Yee was a dicey guy. They wanted him in Gitmo as a means of getting messages out from the detainees to the Al-Qaeda types in the rest of the world, and by following those spies, rounding up the terrorists.

The more I read this, it looks like that Yee's arrest burned the operation. It may be that Customs was in on it, but then again, it is possible that Customs, not knowing about the Airman mentioned in the article above this one, arrested Yee and inadvertently spoiled the operation. I don't know. This is going to make for some interesting history in about 40 years.

Posted by Ben 2003-9-26 4:12:02 AM|| 2003-9-26 4:12:02 AM|| Front Page Top

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