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<p>A pro-military group called on the Pentagon yesterday to tighten the security review for Muslim chaplains following the arrest of Capt. James Yee in an espionage investigation.</p> <p>"Here you have a guy who was trained in Syria, which is on the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism, and he comes back over here and is commissioned as an officer," said Michael Waller, a researcher for the Center for Security Policy. The group has previously warned of radical Muslim influences infiltrating U.S. institutions.</p>

Probe of 2 Groups That Train Muslim Chaplains Sought By John Mintz and Susan SchmidtWashington Post Staff WritersTuesday, September 23, 2003; Page A03 [snip] Six months ago, Schumer asked the Pentagon to launch an internal review of the way the military determines the reliability of Muslim clerics in the armed services, but so far no such effort has been undertaken, officials said yesterday. [snip] Schumer previously raised questions about two institutes that train Islamic chaplains for the military: the Leesburg-based Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS); and the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs Council, which helped...

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

Firefighters want chaplains dumpedSay Christian members too influential, file lawsuit to have program disbanded Posted: May 26, 200310:02 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Six California firefighters have gone to federal court in an attempt to have the chaplain program ended at the state agency for which they work, reports the New York Times. The government employees say the chaplains' corps of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention violates the Constitution by mixing church and state. According to the Times report, the mid-level officers brought the suit earlier this year, saying the corps is made up of almost exclusively Christians and...

ABOARD USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, EAST MEDITERANNEAN (BP)--They walk step by step, a hundred men and women, shoulder to shoulder, stretching the width and walking the length of the flight deck, just as the sun rises over the horizon of a pale blue sky. These sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) may look like they're marching in slow motion, their heads down, their voices silent, but they're actually looking for debris that could cause FOD -- foreign object damage -- if sucked into a jet engine, or accelerated by jet exhaust or helicopter rotor wash. The FOD...

Terror Indictments Muslim linked to Al-Arian trained military chaplains WASHINGTON -- An Islamic scholar -- a man court records suggest is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Sami Al-Arian case -- has played a key role in training Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military, prompting a U.S. senator to pursue a Pentagon investigation. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote the Defense Department's inspector general earlier this month to request a probe into a school run by prominent Islamic scholar Taha Jabir Al-Alwani. Al-Alwani and a network of Virginia-based organizations with which he's associated -- including a group accused of funding alleged fronts...

February 13, 2003, 11:10 a.m.The Pious & the WarIraq and justice.By James V. Schall, S. J. ith the exceptions of Archbishops O'Brien and Hannon, both military chaplains, and the generally positive statement of Archbishop Pell in Sydney, we have apparently a worldwide clerical chorus against war. The common theme is, "I don't have enough evidence," a theme echoed by French and German politicians, among others. A sub-theme is that things might get out of hand. Islam might "arise." Or, all preemptive strikes are bad. The main problem is the wicked Americans and their pride. Danger is subjective. Iraq does not...