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| Is It Wrong to Feel An Army Chaplain Should Be Shot? |
| 2003-09-20 |
| But apparently he can not be executed under the UCMJ...Damn! An Army Islamic chaplain, who counseled al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, has been charged with espionage, aiding the enemy and spying, The Washington Times has learned. Capt. James J. Yee, a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., was arrested earlier this month by the FBI in Jacksonville, Fla., as he arrived on a military charter flight from Guantanamo, according to a law-enforcement source. Agents confiscated several classified documents in his possession and interrogated him. He was held for two days in Jacksonville and transferred to a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., where two Army lawyers have been assigned to his defense. But, Alas, he will not regardless do the Dance with the Looped Rope. Maybe his Syrian Wife? (see below) The Army has charged Capt. Yee with five offenses: sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage and failure to obey a general order. The Army may also charge him later with the more serious charge of treason, which under the Uniform Code of Military Justice could be punished by a maximum sentence of life. It could not be immediately learned what country or organization is suspected of receiving information from Capt. Yee. He had counseled suspected al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo for a lengthy period. Capt. Yee, 35, was a command chaplain for I Corps at Fort Lewis, Wash. The Army dispatched him to Cuba to attend to the spiritual needs of a growing number of captured al Qaeda and members of the Taliban, a hard-line Islamic group ousted from power in Afghanistan. Capt. Yee, of Chinese-American descent, was raised in New Jersey as a Christian. He studied Islam at West Point and converted to Islam and left the Army in the mid-1990s. He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training in traditional Islamic beliefs. He returned to the United States and re-entered the Army as an Islamic chaplain. He is said to be married to a Syrian woman. Do we see the firm hand of the Little Woman behind his little Charade? Capt. Yee had almost unlimited private access to detainees as part of the Defense Department’s program to provide the prisoners with religious counseling, as well as clothing and Islamic-approved meals. The law-enforcement source declined to say how much damage Capt. Yee may have inflicted on the U.S. war against Osama bin Laden’s global terror network. The source said the "highest levels" of government made the decision to arrest Capt. Yee, who had been kept under surveillance for some time. There seems something particularly poisionous about Fifth Columnists, a particularly distastful brand of Evil, a special ring in Hell is already reserved for his likes... |
| Posted by:Traveller |
| #6 From CNN: Army Capt. James Yee was taken into custody by U.S. military authorities September 10 at the naval air station in Jacksonville, Florida, while in possession of classified documents "that a chaplain shouldn't have," an official told CNN, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The official said the documents included "diagrams of the cells and the facilities at Guantanamo [Bay, Cuba]" where about 600 al Qaeda and other "enemy combatants" are being held by the military. Yee also was carrying lists of detainees being held there as well as lists of their interrogators, the source said. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/09/20/chaplain.arrest/ |
| Posted by: Oki 2003-9-20 9:52:49 PM |
| #5 This is a bad joke. Does anyone really think (not believe, but think) that this moron's position as a chaplain should matter one whit in judging his actions? *deep sigh / rolls eyes* Black Cats, Broken Mirrors, Walking Under Ladders, Friday 13th, Pope, Grand Doodah, Grand Dragon, Perfect Hair TV Preachers, Mullahs, Spiritualists, Crystal Balls, Unicorns, Pyramid Power, Tin Foil, Magic Crystals, Chia Pets, Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, Born Again, Saved, Fundamentalists, Clairvoyants, The Psychic Network, Soothsayers, Oracles, Witchdoctors, Palm Readers, Numerologists, Shaman, Phrenologists, Seers, Prophets, Pfeh. People never learn dick. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-9-20 11:03:14 AM |
| #4 From a spiritual standpoint, I think that solitary confinement would be the way to go with this guy. Folks in the Madrassi of Pakistan are lining up for the opportunity to memorize the Koran. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-20 9:29:43 AM |
| #3 hanging is to good for him,drawn and quatered. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-9-20 7:33:12 AM |
| #2 Picture of Yee: Here Or try http://www.kariehamilton.com/photoj/images/yee.jpg |
| Posted by: penguin 2003-9-20 4:11:42 AM |
| #1 You beat me to this by mere minutes. Fred, double post, sorry. |
| Posted by: penguin 2003-9-20 4:07:13 AM |
