Posted on 09/20/2003 1:41:55 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
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A true state of emergency would be preferable to Ascroft's 50% off freedom plan for all Americans. A state of emergency would have a termination date, and would focus people's minds on the fact that freedom is worth defending. People would also, properly, question why their freedom has been eroded in other areas.
The United States classifies the detainees at Guantanamo as "enemy combatants," not prisoners of war. The Pentagon will likely hold most of them until the war on terrorism is over.
As I recall, the last time we got into a war with Islam--"we" meaning "the West" or "The forces of Christian civilization"--it lasted for several hundred years. So them boys might be in the slam for quite awhile.
With everything I already know about the 'Religion-of-Peace' I'm STILL shocked.
Bump.
Islam is as toxic an idea as Marxism and it's been around much longer.
And if someone decided that the same should be done for all Canadians, current and former, living in this country then I suppose you would have no problem with that? After all, the Canadian government is no supporter of our actions in Iraq and Afganistan, Peter Jennings has to be the most insidious anti-administration force in the media today, maybe we need to purge our country of a potential 5th column? Begone, ye Caunck menace, and don't darken our door ever again!
The good news: The concept of treason still exists. I've been asking for two years and up to this minute I had no clue.
The bad news: Hanging appears no longer to be an option. Free room and board for life hardly seems like "punishment".
NO! That would dishonor the rank and all of those who wear it honorably doing their duty.
What in the heck?
"Army lawyers have been assigned to his defense" I'd like to hear his defense.
may also charge him later with the more serious charge of treason, Well lets hope so.
" Capt. Yee, of Chinese-American descent, was raised in New Jersey as a Christian. He studied Islam at West Point and converted to Islam and left the Army in the mid-1990s. He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training in traditional Islamic beliefs. He returned to the United States and re-entered the Army as an Islamic chaplain. "
This just screams he had a premeditated reason for rejoining the Army.
" government made the decision to arrest Capt. Yee, who had been kept under surveillance for some time."
Well that a little bit of good news. Maybe will they get more arrests up the food chain.
I got one question. Who set it up for him to serve at Gitmo?
If they can turn a West Point graduate into a traitor, they are too dangerous to be allowed to remain in our nation's armed forces.
The Islamic Chaplain's Corps needs to be disbanded. Muslims on active duty in the United States Armed Forces should be honorably discharged. No exceptions.
Bump to that! This PC crap has to end!! WE ARE AT WAR!!!!!
No, the deadliest weapon is Political Correctness, if the subject is suicide.
What goes around comes around. I love it.
Thanks for the reminder; I had forgotten that one.
"Where's my gun?"
Sounds like he might have been sent there by one of our agencies in an attempt to get inside, then he turned. ... or was on the other side all along.
Why honorably discharged? Why not administrative discharge or a dishonorable?
Ah yes, if you want to plant a mole inside an Arab country then pick a Chinese guy to fill the role. Good plan.
Very true. If the Muslim faith can turn this guy, they can turn "anybody".
Frankly, I would almost trust somebody who had been a Muslim all their life than one who consciously converts as an adult. An adult convert often follows his faith with more passion than somebody brought in it. Somebody brought up in it may be just going through the motions and could be amenable to other influences if not deeply immersed in the Muslim culture.
The red flags should have gone up immediately when Yee returned from religious studies in Syria, a hotbed of Islamic terrorists of every stripe. Why they ever let him back in the Army with this background is beyond me. No doubt it had to do with Political Correctness. They were probably desperately looking for Muslim Chaplins to hire who they felt they could "trust" once they opened up the Chaplaincy to all religions. Being a West Pointer, he would fall easily into that category.
All the red flags were there. Now I'm sure they'll look more closely at other Muslims, which they probably have been doing lackadaisically - if at all - since the 101st Kuwait fragging incident. It's too much like "profiling", doncha know?
Frankly, you will look long and hard to find traitors who graduated from any of the service academies through the years working for the other side. I guess we have now found "one". There may be others, but I am not aware of them.
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