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| 2003-09-23 | |||
| A U.S. Air Force enlisted man has been charged with espionage after being taken into custody as part of an investigation at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The senior airman was detained a month ago because he allegedly had classified information about suspected al Qaeda detainees and facilities at the Guantanamo Bay base on his laptop computer. rolling it up over time - sounds like they were under surveillance for a while He was taken into custody about two weeks before Army Islamic chaplain Capt. James Yee was detained for similar reasons, but officials said there currently was no proof that the two cases are linked. He is being held at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Officials said that when the airman was questioned he had no reasonable explanation for possessing the classified material.
Officials also told CNN that there is a possibility of additional arrests soon of other members of the U.S. military. Yee, who also has not been charged, is being held in the brig in Charleston, South Carolina, on suspicion of espionage and treason. U.S. military authorities took him into custody September 10 at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station while he was in possession of classified documents "that a chaplain shouldn’t have," said an official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The official said the documents included "diagrams of the cells and the facilities at Guantanamo," where the military is holding about 600 suspected al Qaeda members and others termed enemy combatants.
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 Anyone seeing a connection between American Mulims and terrorists? Anyone want to bet that this is NOT that last case to come out of Gitmo? Where are the Muslim-American organizations? Why no denouncement of this activity? Note military courts HATE traitors. If they go to trial, they are gone FORVEVER. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-9-23 3:50:36 PM |
| #4 I'd guess the breaches are the result of a concerted assault. I wonder if they have any leads on the controllers for these two... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-9-23 3:44:08 PM |
| #3 Vandenberg is on the CA coast north of Santa Barbara, and about as isolated from Gitmo and Arabs as he can get....interrogation time! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-23 3:41:59 PM |
| #2 WaPo has more: An Air Force airman who worked as a translator at the U.S. prison camp for suspected terrorists has been charged with espionage and aiding the enemy, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi is being held at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, spokesman Maj. Michael Shavers said. Al-Halabi worked as an Arabic language translator at the prison camp for al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Shavers said. The Air Force enlisted man knew the Muslim chaplain at the prison arrested earlier this month, but it's unclear if the two arrests are linked, Shavers said. Al-Halabi is charged with nine counts related to espionage, three counts of aiding the enemy, 11 counts of disobeying a lawful order, and nine counts of making a false official statement. The charges were brought against him at Vandenberg, Shavers said. Al-Halabi was based at Travis Air Force Base in California and assigned to a logistics unit there, Shavers said. Pentagon officials said an investigation into possible security breaches at Guantanamo Bay continues |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-23 3:40:08 PM |
| #1 Sounds like Gitmo's going to git mo' inmates. |
| Posted by: Katz 2003-9-23 3:28:39 PM |