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| Aussie Taliban offered prostitutes for information: ex-chaplain |
| 2005-10-26 |
| EFL: On the book tour maybe, holy man? SYDNEY (AFP) - US soldiers offered prostitutes in exchange for information from an Australian Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay since being arrested in Afghanistan four years ago, a former US army chaplain said. David Hicks, a convert to Islam from the Australian city of Adelaide, has been in US custody since he was captured alongside Taliban forces in Afghanistan in late 2001, and has spent most of that time at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. US Army Captain James Yee, one of the few people given regular access to Hicks, told Australian public television that the Australian told him of being taunted by offers of prostitutes in exchange for information. See, he told me so it's gotta be true. These guys wouldn't lie to me, me being a holy man and all... "On occasion he would talk about, for example, in his interrogations that he was offered a prostitute in return for giving some type of information," Yee told ABC television."But he felt that that was just an insult to him -- it was an insult to being a Muslim, a practising Muslim." Should've offered him a goat. Or a sexy sheep. Yee, who was himself arrested on suspicion of espionage involving Guantanamo Bay detainees and was held in solitary confinement for 76 days, said that Hicks had been studying Islamic law since being placed in solitary confinement months ago pending his trial. I thought Hicks was a borderline veg, according to pops and his lawyers? "He was just really asking that I request to make more visits to him because I was really, essentially, the only one he had contact with," he said."The command only allowed me to go once a week," he said. "They weren't open cells, they were completely closed, he had no access to sunlight." See, no nasty sunburns. Who says we don't care? Yee received an honorable discharge from the service after US authorities eventually dismissed the charges against him in March 2004. Take a hike, holy man. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #3 It bettre be true. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-26 18:54 |
| #2 The horror, the horror. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-10-26 14:42 |
| #1 Hmmm. No mention that Yee is a muslim convert and trained to be an imam in Syria. He is also married to a Syrian woman. He was arrested for returning from Gitmo with classified docs of the interrogations and was going to Syria on "vacation". Eventually the charges were dropped because to go to trial would mean publicly disclosing the contents of those secret interrogations (a huge flaw in our legal system) and he was allowed to resign when he should have been beheaded. http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/19/yee.charges.dropped The only testimony about what Yee may have done wrong came from a U.S. Customs agent, who said Yee was carrying lists with names of detainees and interrogators when he arrived in Florida on leave in September. The agent searched Yee's belongings on a tip from military investigators. Muslim, first, last and always. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-10-26 11:42 |