Sunday, September 21, 2003

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This is interesting:

Islamic Army chaplain from New Jersey has been detained by the U.S. military amid an investigation into his role as the spiritual counselor to suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Naval Base in Cuba.

Capt. Yousef Yee, 35, a West Point graduate who grew up James Yee in a Lutheran family in Springfield, was taken into custody at a Jacksonville, Fla., naval station as he returned from Guantánamo Sept. 10, a spokesman for the military's Southern Command said yesterday.

Yee, who has since been held at a military brig in Charleston, S.C., has not been charged. The Washington Times reported yesterday that Yee was under investigation for aiding the enemy, spying and espionage.

After his 1990 West Point graduation, Yee served on active duty as an air defense artillery officer, Crosson said. He left the Army in the mid-1990s and moved to Syria for four years, later returning to the United States and re-entering the Army as an Islamic chaplain.

In November, Yee was assigned to the task force holding prisoners at Guantánamo. Known as Camp Delta, the prison holds about 660 people, the majority of whom were captured in the U.S.-led war on Afghanistan. The detainees include suspected members of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.


This information would most likely not have been revealed if the military didn't have a tight case. I'll keep an eye on this.


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