Ex-Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Charged

AP via Excite news ^ | Nov 25, 3:58 PM (ET) | PAISLEY DODDS

[leadpencil1]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Muslim chaplain who served at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was charged Tuesday with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer, a U.S. Southern Command spokesman said.

Army Capt. James Yee, who worked at the prison camp for terror suspects in eastern Cuba, was released from custody Tuesday after being served with the additional charges, Raul Duany, a spokesman for U.S. Southern Command in Miami, told The Associated Press.

He was arrested earlier this year in Florida and confined to the military brig in Charleston, S.C.

Military officials brought the additional charges after an investigation, Duany said. The charges include storing pornographic images on his computer, having sexual relations outside marriage, disobeying an order and making a false official statement.

Yee, who also uses the first Yousef, will be sent to Fort Benning, Ga., where he will continue to perform religious duties but will be barred from having any contact with prisoners at Guantanamo, Duany said.

Yee, a Chinese-American who converted to Islam after graduating from West Point, was arrested Sept. 10 in Jacksonville, Fla.

Federal agents said they found the native of Springfield, N.J., carrying sketches of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, where he counseled prisoners accused of links to Afghanistan's deposed Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network.

Once a chaplain at Fort Lewis, Wash., Yee was charged on Oct. 10 with disobeying a general order by taking classified material home and transporting classified information without proper security containers.

His wife, Huda Suboh, 29, lives in Olympia, Wash., with their two young children. She was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday but earlier defended his innocence.

[BlueNgold]

Doh!

[aristeides]

You were wondering about the disposition of this case.

[billorites]

Busted!

[k2blader]

Adultery and porn-storing is wrong, but they made this guy sound like a traitor.

[VRWCmember]

He appears to be a traitor who is also a porn-addicted adulterer.

[leadpencil1]

charged Tuesday with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer

That is a little strange. That must be the only thing they could get him on for the time being.

[Shermy]

Once a chaplain at Fort Lewis, Wash., Yee was charged on Oct. 10 with disobeying a general order by taking classified material home and transporting classified information without proper security containers.

And how many others are guilty of the same violations of "general" orders?

[ElCapitanAmerica]

Yeah, at first weren't they considering charging him with treason? And the initial reports were that he was slipping info on the detainnees to other people?

Now they found porn on his machine, sounds like somebody screwed up and had to charge him with something.

Something stinks here.

[dennisw]

Adultery and porn-storing is wrong, but they made this guy sound like a traitor.

He's probably a traitor but this is the easiest thing to jack him on and to make him crack about his treason. Just my theory. Muslims and their fellow travelers will have a hard time carrying on about their comrade who is up on porno charges.

[xzins]

Pornography and adultery is not spying.

However, my sense is that they had the goods on the spying charge without having the smoking gun proof.

Yee killed himself with the porn and the adultery, in any case. There is nothing he can now do to advance his career in the military chaplaincy.

His major hurdle is promotion to the next grade (major.) If he fails that (which he will), he will be out on the streets as a civilian within months.

[Sacajaweau]

Springfield, NJ.....Fort Lewis...Now where have I heard of those places before??

[Oztrich Boy]

There is nothing he can now do to advance his career in the military chaplaincy.

Well his renouncing Islam might also be a deal breaker

"Ex-Muslim Chaplain"

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for the flag. Adultery and porn? They must've dug deep to pile those charges to him.

[BlueNgold]

That is a little strange. That must be the only thing they could get him on for the time being.

Some insights into military justice: It is normal at courts martial to consider anything and everything that an investigation uncovers that is in fact a chargeable offense under the UCMJ. Remember that part of the 'proof' will be his conduct as 'An Officer and A Gentleman.'

These are simply what we often called the 'add-on' charges. All the little things that came up during an investigation. Within the military courts prosecuters are still more likely to 'throw the book' at an offender than they are to cut a deal. And in those situations where a deal is actually bargained all of the charges will have to be considered for possible maximums against which a proposed sentence is measured.

[mcg1969]

Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, too. It happens.

[T.Smith]

Muslims and their fellow travelers will have a hard time carrying on about their comrade who is up on porno charges

That's sort of what I thought when I read it. Those are pretty serious charges in the Muslim community. Maybe they are trying to discredit him.

[SquirrelKing]

The charges are obviously trumped-up CIA-induced Pro-Bush slander. /sarcasm

[DBrow]

Muslim with porn, suspected of espionage and treason.

Hmmm, hope someone looks at those binary files with an eye to detecting steganography.

Remember back around 9-11 there were news reports of Muslim terrorist cells communicating with stegged info on porn sites?

[mcg1969]

Remember back around 9-11 there were news reports of Muslim terrorist cells communicating with stegged info on porn sites?

So that was the excuse they used when they got caught surfing porn sites!

"But Osama, I was just searching for stegged messages from our brothers infiltrating the States!"

"Oh, I see. Carry on. And send me the link to that site."

[BlueNgold]

People people people ... please read the article again!

ADDITIONAL Charges!!!!!

Above and beyond that with which he was charged Oct. 10.

In his dreams right now he can't even see a deal that would get him a BCD and 10 years confinement at hard labor. (Yes they still use the term but hard labor is not what is used to be.) IMLTHO .. DD + 15-20. No deal whatsoever without singing like a canary.

If he fights? DD and 20-30 years. Life if they can prove actual damage to any national security interest.

[k2blader]

That must be the only thing they could get him on for the time being.

Makes sense. At first glance this is an odd bit of news, but I'm sure there's more to the story than is revealed here.

[wtc911]

There is a much larger issue here. Yee was sponsored as a Chaplain by the Graduate School for Islamic Studies in Leesburg Va. The 14 or so other muslim Chaplains were also sponsored by this school. A recognized Sponsoring Agency is required to become a Chaplain.

Now, here's the problem....

The head of the GSISS is one Dr. Taha al-alwani. He started the muslim Chaplaincy during the Clinton years. He also founded the Muslim World League, a known (now at least) front for financing and recruiting of al-queda. He also is/was closely linked to SAAR Network of what is now known to be over a hundred shell companies headquartered in Virginia too. This web of paper companies and charities is also now known as a front for channeling money and resources to al-queda.

As far as I know all the other muslim Chaplains sponsored by this group with clear links to terroist groups are still serving.

[tiki]

Strange doesn't come near to it.

[DBrow]

Yep, and that means that some analyst at CIA or NSA is tasked with the job of finding such messages out in the vast web.

Hope they have an automated way to do it.

"Honey, what did you do at work today?"

[DBrow]

Wasn't the Clinton's buddy Alamoudi involved in the chaplain schools, too, until he got busted carrying $$$$ from Libya to Syria?

[wtc911]

There is a very inticate and multi-yiered web that ties them all together, including the indicted college professor from Florida. The roots have grown wide and deep.

[TexKat]

Muslims and their fellow travelers will have a hard time carrying on about their comrade who is up on porno charges

I don't think so, because as I understand it they use porn and our sports in order to relay their messages on websites.

[ibtheman]

Question: What do you think he was doing with sketches of the prison grounds and buildingS? Sounds like to me he is a traitor to me!

[GOP_1900AD]

String him up.