September 21, 2003


CAPT Yee, another Ashcroft scapegoat?

Been a little while since the Snake-Handling Prude got to go on the TeeVee and let us all know about the latest "threat" to America he's sent to the Navy Brig in Charleston SC. Seems this time, they have sent an Army Captain, who hmmmm, to no one's surprise is a Muslim and had been ministering to the prisoners on GITMO. This one takes the cake even for the 1600 Crew, and their usual paranoia. Captain Yee, the Chaplain is a 1990 West Point Graduate and a convert to Islam. He has been cited for the work he has done ministering to Muslim soldiers.

An Islamic chaplain in the United States Army who ministered to detainees at the camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the military holds captured militants and suspected terrorists is now himself under arrest while the Army investigates his activities, military and law enforcement officials said today.
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Military officials declined to say why Captain Yee, a 1990 graduate of West Point who converted to Islam, was being investigated. But a civilian law enforcement official said that the investigation was aimed at suspicions of espionage, improperly assisting the prisoners or some other breach of military duties.
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Investigators are looking into the possibility that he was sympathetic to prisoners there and was preparing to aid them in some undetermined way.

"That's the fear and the suspicion that the Army is pursuing," the second law enforcement official said.
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Captain Yee was raised in Springfield, N.J. After graduating from West Point, he served on active duty as an air defense artillery officer, a military spokesman told The Associated Press. He left the Army in the mid-1990's and moved to Syria, the spokesman said. He returned to the United States and re-entered the Army as an Islamic chaplain.

Apparently, when they stopped him at NAS JAX, he had some pictures or diagrams on him which were of the GITMO detention areas. Given the remoteness and complete inaccessibility of that base, without the cooperation of Castro to come over by land, you could publish the plans for the whole facility on the internet, and it would do no one any good.

So what's the deal with Captain Yee. Theoretically he has lots of rights, especially the military's 120-day speedy-trial thing. If a military court (should it get that far) doesn't find him guilty of anything, what's Asscrack going to do lock him up in perpetuity like Padilla and Hamdi? That's the style and the substance. It's a shame that the US Army, which is fighting so hard and valiantly to not make horses-asses out of themselves with moderate Muslims just managed to shoot themselves in the foot and provide rhetoric for anti-Muslim bigots and those who would follw the advice of Ann-Thrax.

posted by Jo Fish on 09.21.03 at 08:29 AM





Comments:

Hmmm. Now, why on earth would this man possess a diagram of the detention area? Could it be because his work was primarily in the detention area, ministering to the inmates? Might he have needed to keep track of who was where, as part of his job?

Nah. He's Islamic, and so all his purposes must be nefarious, by default.

I'll bet the Army's just being flooded with chaplains volunteering to replace him.

posted by: Anymouse on 09.21.03 at 10:11 AM [permalink]



It's as bad to say he's a scapegoat as it is to say he should be hung.

Before all the facts are in, that is.

posted by: klaatu on 09.21.03 at 09:59 PM [permalink]



"Hmmm. Now, why on earth would this man possess a diagram of the detention area? Could it be because his work was primarily in the detention area, ministering to the inmates? Might he have needed to keep track of who was where, as part of his job?"

I think it might be because he was planning to blow the whistle on lots of American secrecy. Can't have that, can we?, so we have to accuse him of spying.

posted by: Elayne Riggs on 09.22.03 at 04:13 PM [permalink]



Ashcroft: "Oh, Yee of little faith."

Are confessionals bugged under the Patriot Act?

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 09.22.03 at 04:43 PM [permalink]



How are you going to remember 650 individuals that you serve without taking a little note? The charges sound so trump up and unreasonable!

Starting now, are we going to use electric shock treatment on any personnel leaving Guantanamo Bay - to wipe out their memories on the layout of the barrack?

Just because captain Yee said Islam is a peaceful religion (and he comdemned terrorism and violence, including the Sept 11 attack) does it make him a suspect now?

Captain Yee served his country. He deserves a fair trial in the court of law, not in the military tribunal!

posted by: LYL on 09.24.03 at 12:02 PM [permalink]



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posted by: Francis Mbetu on 11.21.03 at 07:13 AM [permalink]



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I've Been Conntacted Aswell By Mr. Brown.....

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posted by: Leonardo on 05.04.04 at 08:53 AM [permalink]



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Of The E-Mail
I've Been Conntacted Aswell With This Massage.....And Don't Know If Its True Or False

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posted by: Leonardo on 05.04.04 at 08:56 AM [permalink]



Wow, you guys have become totally paranoid. I think we should all start looking at each other as all equal .

posted by: Ted McGilligutty on 05.31.04 at 07:16 AM [permalink]






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