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Former Guantanamo Prison Chaplain Is Transferred to Fort Meade, Md.
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Posted on 03/08/2004 12:04:41 PM PST by chance33_98
Former Guantanamo Prison Chaplain Is Transferred to Fort Meade, Md.
FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) - The Muslim Army chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents from the prison for terror suspects at the Guantanamo Naval Base has been transferred to a base in Maryland, his attorney said Monday. Capt. James Yee is charged with mishandling classified material, failing to obey an order, making a false official statement, adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer for allegedly downloading pornography on his government laptop.
He remains free, but has been transferred from Fort Benning to Fort Meade, Md., attorney Eugene Fidell said. He said he did not know why his client was transferred.
A hearing for Yee, postponed five times after two days of testimony in December, was still scheduled to resume on Wednesday at Fort Benning.
Lt. Col. Bill Costello, spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command in Miami that is responsible for the Guantanamo prison, said he had no immediate information on Yee's transfer or on the status of his case.
Yee had earlier spent 76 days in prison while authorities tried to build a capital espionage case against him.
If court-martialed and convicted on all the current charges, Yee could face up to 13 years in prison.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fortmeade; gitmo; jamesyee; muslimchaplain; muslimchaplains
To: chance33_98
Chaplin... muslim... pornography.... adultry....bad conduct... oh, GOOD GRIEF!
To: chance33_98
Hmm...we have Muslim chaplains. What I wonder is their approach to the preaching of these tenets from the Koran. Which Muslims must regard as coming directly from G-d?
"Christians, Become Muslim Or Be Cursed Like The Jews!"
O you people of the Book! Believe in what we have now sent down, fulfilling that which is with you, before we destroy some of your leaders and turn them on their backs or curse them as we cursed the people of the Sabbath. (Koran 4:47)
The Muslim Bible commands Muslims to murder all non-Muslims:
"O Prophet! Make war against the unbelievers [all non-Muslims] and the hypocrites and be merciless against them. Their home is hell, an evil refuge indeed." (Koran, 9:73)
"When you meet the unbelievers in jihad [holy war], chop off their heads. And when you have brought them low, bind your prisoners rigorously. Then set them free or take ransom from them until the war is ended." (Koran, 47:4)
"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be to be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and genitals cut off, or to be expelled out of the land. Such will be their humiliation in the world, and in the next world they will face an awful horror." (Koran, 5:33-34)
"When we decide to destroy a population, we send a definite order to them who have the good things in life and yet sin. So that Allah's word is proven true against them, then we destroy them utterly." (Koran, 17:16-17)
"In order that Allah may separate the pure from the impure, put all the impure ones [all non-Muslims] one on top of another in a heap and cast them into hell. They will have been the ones to have lost." (Koran, 8:37)
"How many were the populations we utterly destroyed because of their sins, setting up in their place other peoples." (Koran, 21:11)
"Remember Allah inspired the angels: I am with you. Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their fingertips off of them." (Koran, 8:12)
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