Islamic chaplain is charged as spy

Washington Times ^ | 9/20/03 | Rowan Scarborough

[kattracks]

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.

[Jeff Head]

Hopefully, the military already knows and has moved on them as well.

If this is not a case for the death penalty...in time of war...I don't know why not.

[TrueBeliever9]

It documents for me the incredible mistake of our chaplaincy providing organizing opportunities for islam within our own military through the religious programs.

Bears repeating X! A Colonel who just returned from Saudi Arabia told me that he was constantly being indoctrinated by the Muslims during his time there. They gave him a Koran - so he tried to give them a Bible and they absolutely refused - they are forbidden to read the Bible! He returned the Koran! Islam is a one way street - straight to hell!

[Dog]

Jeff you do you make of his being housed in a Navy brig .....and not in an Army prison. Could we be that compromised.

[CatoRenasci]

I know some of the West Point faculty. Islam is taught there as 'comparative religion' and 'know your enemy', so if this bozo got the bug there it wasn't from the way he was taught. Everyone else in his class managed to stay sane, what was it about this guy. I'd love to know what class he was, and what his classmates have to say. I have a cousin who graduated in the mid-90s, I wonder if it was in the same class.

On the point someone made about leaving the army and coming back as a chaplain, that's not rare: one of my Brother Rats (classmates) spent a few tours in 'Nam, including one leading a platoon of tunnel rats (he was 5'2" if he stood on his tip toes, barely tall enough to be commissioned). Highly decorated. Won't talk about it, even with close friends. Left the service and became a Methodist minister. After several years pastoring on civvy street, he became a Navy Chaplain and has close to 30 years in now.

[TrueBeliever9]

HizbAllah has all authority over all Muslims all over the world. There is no allegience - except to Ummah - the universal nation of islam!

[Dog]

He might have got the bug at West Point....by he was flipped while in Syria.....wonder what they used to flip him.

His Syrian wife could be his controller.......and .... is no doubt in custody.

I suspect the FEDS are all over West Point vetting people.

[jonascord]

While I agree, who in the Bush administration, or, for that matter, here in the US, is willing to be the one to take the next logical step and put in an order to Dow for a supply of Zyclon-B pesticide?

While I am sure everyone would be deeply torn, Israel included, it would cut down on chances for another 9-11...

[68 grunt]

You and me both, Ronin!

[hosepipe]

The Prophet Muhammad said, "Lying is wrong, except in three things: the lie of a man to his wife to make her content with him; a lie to an enemy, for war is deception; or a lie to settle trouble between people"

Ah! I see, lie at home, in war, on the street....OK,,

[Servant of the 9]

I'm not playing games. I'm asking a serious question. How would you prove someone's Muslim"ness"?

Give me a break, how do we prove someone is a member of any other criminal conspiracy?
We needed no inquisition to seperate Mafia members from honest Italians, and we will need no inquisition to seperate Muslims from honest Middle Easterners.
We will use standard investigative techniques, scanning the public record, questioning witnesses and suspects, surveilance, phone taps, and then search warrants, followed by Grand Jury Indictment, Trial by Jury and if guilty, imprisonment.

What would you do to Americans like me who refused to cooperate with the Inquisitor?

No problem. There are already laws against obstruction of justice.

So9

[sheik yerbouty]

Don't forget the other essential ingredient; gravity!

[aristeides]

I suspect that this is going to cause major reviews of the U.S. Armed Forces policy on Islamics in uniform -- as well it should.

That should have happened after Sgt. Akbar rolled those grenades. Let's hope it happens now.

[sheik yerbouty]

Nine of thirteen Islamic military chaplains are Wahabites. How was this allowed to happen?

[aruanan]

Capt. Yee, 35, was a command chaplain for I Corps at Fort Lewis, Wash. The Army dispatched him to Cuba to attend to the spiritual needs of a growing number of captured al Qaeda and members of the Taliban, a hard-line Islamic group ousted from power in Afghanistan.

If that in bold were the case then they should have sent someone who could help free them from their Wahabist cult.

[aristeides]

He was almost certainly turned by Syrian intelligence once he got there. Assuming he wasn't a traitor before he got there.

The Ba'athist government of Hafez al Asad was very hostile to fundamentalist Moslems. They shelled the city of Hama (sp?) and killed a lot of people in order to suppress a fundamentalist rebellion. The Asad family and their ruling class are Alawites, a heretical sect of Shiites.

[aruanan]

The law-enforcement source declined to say how much damage Capt. Yee may have inflicted on the U.S. war against Osama bin Laden's global terror network.

In another account, the Voice of America News Service paraphrased Capt. Yee as saying Islam is a religion of peace and the concept of "jihad," or holy war, simply means "to struggle."

Sounds like something someone like him would say while doing what he did. Let's see, who else is feeding folks the same line?

[windchime]

BTT

[aristeides]

And it's also very strange that a Chinese-American Christian would convert to Islam. My understanding is that most Han Chinese regard Moslems with contempt, and I would have thought that attitude would be stronger in Chinese Christians.

[hgro]

Who in God's name is making decisions that put potentional seditionists among prisoners who were trying to kill our troops.

Why in Hell does the U.S.A. worry about spiritual comfort and needs of killers.

[Muabdib]

PhilipFreneau wrote in part:

>> I am not for banning peaceful religions.....just for banning psychotic cults,....<<

Well that sounds reasonable, lets start with religions that have killed the most people in the name of their God. The ones who burned heretics at the stake, enslaved nations and/or killed men, women and children because they were heathens (and, incidentally, to steal their land). There are plenty of those b**t***s out there, easy to recognise. They always claim to be the one, true religion. Like God would setup His creation on the basis of some geological/political crapshoot. Condemning all who by virtue of location on the globe (or existing beliefs native to same) know not of the "one true belief", to eternal torment.

They're probably the same sort who would automatically condemn someone who has been charged (not convicted) of a crime. But of course, our Government (and the press) would NEVER lie to the PUBLIC about something or someone for their own purposes.

How fortunate that members of Free Republic, who respect the basic concept of AMERICAN law which states "innocent until proven guilty", would never do so themselves.

How refreshing........