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    Welcome to The USO Canteen FReeper Style   Today's Spiritual Journey takes us to the Navy Chaplain Corps Click on graphic to link to the original sermon.  THE SECOND TEN COMMANDMENTS Most people are familiar with the Ten Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai as recorded in Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:1-21. But have you heard of the second Ten Commandments? The second Ten Commandments are "10 suggestions" of a cardiologist, Steven R. Yarnall, MD, for giving one the edge on being the best you can be.Taking care of ourselves is most often just good, old-fashioned...

Wed October 15, 2003 01:07 PM ET By Greg Frost WORCESTER, Mass. (Reuters) - A civilian translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for al Qaeda and Taliban suspects had hundreds of documents labeled "secret" in his possession when he was arrested last month, an FBI agent said on Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Ahmed Fathy Mehalba last month of lying to federal officials about classified information he was carrying when he arrived in the United States from Egypt, where he had been visiting relatives. The arrest of Mehalba, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Egyptian descent, brought to three the number of...

Alamoudi and Those Bags of Libyan Cash Posted Oct. 13, 2003 By J. Michael Waller Alamoudi faces a laundry list of terrorism-related charges. Federal agents may have ripped the lid off an international terrorist-support network in Washington that operated to finance terrorists inside the United States and abroad, while penetrating the U.S. political system to weaken federal antiterrorism laws. The Sept. 29 arrest of an alleged senior terrorist operative living in Falls Church, Va., has burst open a case that Insight has been following since 2001: an alleged international ring of terrorists, their financiers, propaganda networks and support structures that...

    Welcome to The USO Canteen FReeper Style   Today's Spiritual Journey takes us to the Navy Chaplain Corps Click on graphic to link to the original sermon.  PERSISTENCE -- THE KEY TO SUCCESS?Walter Wintle once wrote:"If you think you are beaten, you are; if you think you dare not, you don't; If you'd like to win, but think that you can't, it's almost a cinch that you won't.If you think you'll lose, you're lost, for out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow's will; it's all in the state of mind.If you think you're...

First 101st On-base Library Opens in Mosul By Pfc. Thomas DaySpecial to American Forces Press Service MOSUL, Iraq, Oct. 9, 2003 - What was once nothing more than a boxed collection of books became Iraq's first 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) library here today. Chaplain (Capt.) Fran Stuart of Derry, N.H., 526th Forward Support Battalion chaplain, opened the Camp Performance Library with a ceremonial ribbon cutting, followed by cake and coffee. "Our library started with about 200 paperback books in boxes, in sand on the side of the chaplain's tent," Stuart said. "Now look at us." Stuart and her...

Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison camp charged with disobeying orders.

President Bush marked the Jewish New Year by telling a roomful of rabbis about his faith and how it helped make him a better man. Some 15 rabbis representing the three main denominations spent an hour at the White House on Monday discussing a range of topics, including Iraq, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, poverty and faith-based initiatives. Rabbi Steven Pruzanski of Teaneck, N.J., said Bush twice became emotional: while discussing his recent trip to the site of the Auschwitz death camp and when he talked about how people pray for him. Bush spoke openly about his drinking problem of years past,...

Guantanamo interviews to be revised in spy scare By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 06/10/2003) A line-by-line review has been ordered of every interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp involving an air force interpreter suspected of espionage and treason. Intelligence officers face the nightmare prospect that Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian-born linguist who served at the camp in Cuba for eight months, may have edited or deliberately distorted information given by al-Qa'eda and Taliban suspects during interrogation sessions. Tapes of those interrogations - some lasting hours - are being freshly translated. "If the subject answered 'five' and [Halabi] told interrogators...

  ...   Welcome to The USO Canteen FReeper Style   Today's Spiritual Journey takes us to:Click the banner to visit the 8th The Eighth United States Army supports deterrence of NK aggression against the Republic of Korea. Should deterrence fail, Eighth United States Army supports Non-combatant Evacuation Operations, transitions to hostilities, generates combat power to support CINC UNC/CFC 's campaign, and provides combat support and combat service support to assigned, attached, and other designated forces within the KTO.  Click here to read the History of the Eighth ArmyEighth United States Army Units 19th Theater Support Command: 19th TSC...

The recent alleged betrayal of his country by Chaplain Yee, an islamic chaplain, prompted this UM List response in defense of chaplains. It reminds me of a real character. I had a great Battalion Chaplain when I was S-1. We were friends and he would show up, unbidden, unrequested and pray for me. Told me God told him to. Oddly enough, would be at the time I really needed same. He would appear at 0200 in some maneuver area while we were on ARTEP, wearing a ghillie suit and full camo to preach to parts of a rifle company. Was...

<p>October 3, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating whether a translator at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave extremist groups the names of al Qaeda operatives who are being exposed by detainees during their interrogations, it was revealed yesterday. Law-enforcement officials confirmed that authorities found the names of dozens of al Qaeda operatives, whose names surfaced in interrogations with the Guantanamo Bay detainees, on a computer disk carried by camp translator Ahmed Mehalba when he was arrested earlier this week.</p>

(Daniel Pipes' Weblog, Visit http://www.danielpipes.org) Dark Days for North American Islamist Organizations? The Islamist establishment in the United States and Canada must be wishing that September 2003 never happened.Evan McCormick shows in "A Bad Day for CAIR" how on a single day, Sept. 10, the Council on American-Islamic Relations took three blows: "It ran away from testifying before an influential Senate panel that heard a barrage of incriminating evidence about the group and its connections. It saw one of its former officials plead guilty to terrorist-related crimes in Federal Court. And, it was stood up by two Department of...

<p>Counterintelligence measures were in place at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp when two translators and a Muslim chaplain who worked there were arrested on suspicion of espionage, the nation's top military officer said yesterday.</p> <p>"But it should not be a surprise that in a time of war, people try to infiltrate this way," Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is investigating a trip by 100 Muslim members of the U.S. armed forces for a pilgrimage to Mecca that was paid for by a Saudi charity accused of financing al Qaeda, The Post has learned.</p> <p>The so-called "Hajj Tour" in March 2001 for Muslim servicemen and chaplains was organized by the Muslim World League, a major charity group financed in part by the Saudi royal family and which is dedicated to the spread of Wahhabism, the extreme form of Islam embraced by Osama bin Laden.</p>

<p>Military officials this week began an internal review of security measures at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp, saying immediate recommendations could be made to reinforce or correct procedures.</p> <p>A spokesman for U.S. Southern Command, which oversees Guantanamo, said the review was prompted by the arrests of two translators and a Muslim chaplain on suspicions of espionage at the prison camp.</p>

Mon September 29, 2003 10:02 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man affiliated with at least two American Muslim groups has been arrested on criminal charges, federal law enforcement officials said on Monday. They confirmed a report by Al Jazeera, the Arabic satellite channel, that Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi has been arrested. They declined to give details of the charges against him. Muslim activists described him as one of the founders of a group called the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs Council and a board member of another Washington, D.C.-based group called the American Muslim Council. The officials said...

<p>A founding member of a U.S. Muslim group that endorsed an Army chaplain now accused of espionage has himself been arrested on criminal charges.</p> <p>Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, 51, who helped organize the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs Council and is a board member of the Washington, D.C.-based American Muslim Council, was taken into custody Sunday by agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI.</p>

<p>The American Muslim leader charged with smuggling $340,000 out of Libya was suspected of funneling cash from Osama bin Laden to blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman in the failed 1993 attempt to blow up New York City landmarks, The Post has learned.</p>

Pierce County prosecutors say a former Muslim cleric who pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in a terrorism investigation molested a girl in his family. Charging documents say the wife of Semi Osman, 33, told investigators that an 11-year-old girl in the family recently disclosed that Osman touched her sexually. Prosecutors charged him with three counts of first-degree molestation. Osman has pleaded not guilty in Superior Court. Judge Sergio Armijo ordered him held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Osman also is being held by immigration officials pending a deportation hearing related to an earlier conviction. In April, U.S. District Judge...

<p>A leading Muslim activist arrested for reportedly violating U.S. sanctions against Libya once helped select and train Islamic military chaplains as part of a Pentagon-approved process being investigated by the Defense Department and Congress.</p> <p>Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, founder of the American Muslim Council and the American Muslim Foundation, was involved with the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council and the Islamic Society of North America, two groups that selected and trained Muslim clerics for the U.S. military, authorities said.</p>