Islamic chaplain is charged as spy

[Tony]

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030919-105619-9614r.htm ...full article


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.

[Gem]

I'm really curious as to what he can spy in that place. Is Al-queda interested on how meals are served in prisons?

Gem

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Gem
I'm really curious as to what he can spy in that place. Is Al-queda interested on how meals are served in prisons?

Gem

Assuming there's anything to the charge of him being a spy, I would guess that Guantanamo is not where he spied, and Al-Qaida is not who he spied for.

[zakur]

From the article:The United States classifies the detainees at Guantanamo as "enemy combatants," not prisoners of war. The Pentagon will likely hold most of them until the war on terrorism is over. So...like...forever, then.

[Ed]

Whatever happened to that FBI guy who was a moslem who refused an assignment to spy on other moslems a while back?

[pgwenthold]

Originally posted by Abdul Alhazred


Assuming there's anything to the charge of him being a spy, I would guess that Guantanamo is not where he spied, and Al-Qaida is not who he spied for.

It is not clear. All we have been told is that he was caught carrying "classified documents." As far as we know, it may have only been a list of names of people detained at Guantanamo.

This is the problem with the government's approach of "detain with no rights." Someone like a chaplain who is trying to help those being detained gain basic rights would be guilty of treason.

I'm not saying that this is what caused the charges, just that this is the type of thing that _could_ lead to these charges, so until we here details of what the person has done, I consider it a possibility.