Guantanamo Chaplain Charged With Porn Offenses (Captain Yousef Yee)

Ananova ^ | 11-25-2003

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Guantanamo chaplain charged with porn offences

A Muslim chaplain who served at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has been charged with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer.

Army Captain Yousef Yee, who served at the prison camp for terror suspects, was released from pre-trial confinement after being served with the additional charges, said Raul Duany, a spokesman for US Southern Command in Miami.

Adultery is a crime under the uniform code of military justice.

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

Military officials brought the additional charges after a lengthy 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, a Chinese-American who converted to Islam after graduating from West Point, was arrested September 10 in Jacksonville, Florida.

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

Investigators have said Yee had documents concerning alleged fighters to whom he had ministered, and their US interrogators.

Yee was charged on October 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, Washington, with the couple's two young children. She was not immediately available for comment today but earlier defended his innocence.

"James wants me to tell you all that he is innocent," Suboh, a Syrian native said earlier this month. "He is going to fight the charges with all his energy."

Major General Geoffrey Miller, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, will preside over an Article 32 hearing, the prelude to a general court-martial.

Senior Airman Ahmed I. al-Halabi, an Air Force supply clerk who worked as an Arabic translator at the prison for about nine months, faces more than 30 charges, including espionage and aiding the enemy. He has pleaded innocent.

A civilian interpreter, Ahmad F. Mehalba, was arrested last month in Boston while returning to the United States from his native Egypt. He's charged with lying to federal agents by denying computer discs he was carrying had classified information from Guantanamo on them. He has pleaded innocent.

Story filed: 21:43 Tuesday 25th November 2003

[tet68]

Sounds like the Doc has been hanging out on Creep street.
That's across Skivvy Bridge for all you folks, Bet this didn't make the latest issue of the Tori Teller.

I loved Iwakuni, had a really sleazy bar to hang at, it was left over from the occupation days, The STAR club, and he's right about it getting cold in Iwakuni, sometimes the momma san and I and the girls would all be huddled up against the little pot bellied stove to keep warm, Drinking rum and playing Kanji.

Had a great place to get fried rice which came packed in these little bento boxes, it was just outside the main gate
and on one side it's sign said "First Chance Grill" and on the other side it said "Last Chance Grill".

Lots of happy memories,why I remember a girl who could......you wouldn't have believed it was possible.

There was a very infamous gal that lived there, I forget her name but everyone who stayed there carved their name and date in her house somewhere, it was awesome.

Of course I never, I NEVER .....I mean I was saving myself for someone, yeah, that's the ticket.

[jackbill]

Is Yee out to prove that Islam is a religion of piece?

[Polybius]

....don't know about now but back in the late 60's and early 70's, it was taken very seriously.

Well, I can tell you that at Guantanamo, in the 1980's, it was not taken seriously at all.

[wtc911]

Once again, the bigger story is missed. Yee, and all Chaplains, needed to be sponsored by an entity within his religion that is recognized by the DoD. He and all the 14 or so other muslim Chaplains were sponsored by GSISS in Leesburg, Va. This "graduate school" petitioned the military via the Clinton WH to allow muslim Chaplains to serve.

The founder of the GSISS is one Dr. Taha Al-alwani. He is also the founder of the Muslim World League, now known to be a recruiting, facilitating and funding adjunct of al-queda. He is also a principal in the SAAR Network, a collection of over one hundred shell companies and charities also HQ'd in Va. SAAR Network was one of the first organizations the Feds went after and shut down post 9/11.

They have been positioning themselves for years while we slept (still sleep). The roots are wide and deep.

[pepsionice]

The only way they charge this guy for porn...is if he loaded the stuff on his laptop or CPU that the government provided. Captain Yee would have been afforded use of CPU...in the local chapel complex there at Gitmo...and might have been given a laptop...although I rarely have seen the Army issue laptops to ministers of faith.

If the porn was found....on his own personal CPU or laptop...then their case is unwinnable. You can browse and download as a military individual on your own time and equipment all you want. If their charges have to do with his privately owned laptop...watch this charge drop by the wayside real quick.

It also is possible...that another individual may have had access to the chapel CPU that Yee had...and downloaded stuff. Again, this would be a difficult case to win if you can't prove that he was in control of the CPU and was the only one to have access to it.

It is surpising that they didn't bring these charges up when they first ran his case up the flagpole weeks ago. It smells of poor investigation activities...it only takes half an hour to scan a CPU to find any images that might be questionable. Surely they did that in the first seven days after his arrest...or did they screw that up too?

[chilepepper]

steganography can be quite difficult to detect particularly if only a very small message is encoded within a big one...

[proxy_user]

True, but I don't believe they'd really go to all that trouble to transmit small messages.

There are much better ways.

[OXENinFLA]

I wonder how his jihadi friends at Gitmo would feel if they found out he had some pr0n on his laptop

How about the people he was (presumably) taking the info to.

I think I heard something about adultery too.

[OXENinFLA]

Al-Queda uses stenography extensively to hide messages inside pictures, mostly porno pics.

Interesting!

[honeygrl]

hah, never thought I'd see the term "pr0n" on FR.