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Old Dec 1st, 2003, 05:27 PM        Guantanamo Chaplain Free- For Now
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news...e/158756.shtml

The Army ordered the pretrial release of a former Fort Lewis Muslim chaplain charged with mishandling classified information Tuesday.
The Army also filed new charges against him Tuesday, including adultery and storing sexually explicit images on a government computer.

Capt. James Yee also faces a military investigation, which will result in a recommendation on whether Yee will face a general court-martial, U.S. Southern Command said. Yee will be stationed in Georgia upon his release.

Yee, 35, a West Point graduate whose wife and young daughter live in Olympia, was arrested Sept. 10. At the time, he was counseling al-Qaida and Taliban suspects detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.

A month later, he was charged with violating regulations that govern safeguarding classified information.

The new charges are: disobeying an order or regulation; providing a false official statement; showing conduct unbecoming an officer; and engaging in adultery, a crime under the uniform code of military justice.

Capt. Tom Crosson, spokes-man for U.S. Southern Command, wouldn't elaborate on the circumstances that brought the new charges.

Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, made the decision to release Yee after reviewing evidence gathered by investigators, Crosson said.

"Miller made a determination that Yee was not a flight risk, and he will not engage in future serious criminal misconduct," he said.

Some of the charges against Yee pertain to allegedly storing pornographic images on his computer and allegedly having sexual relations outside marriage, another spokesman, Raul Duany, told The Associated Press.

Shaheed Nuriddin, a family friend and neighbor, broke the news Tuesday afternoon to Yee's wife, 29-year-old Huda Suboh, after they returned from activities for Eid ul-Fitr, the festival that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

"She was totally stunned. She just broke down crying and looking at her daughter and saying basically, 'How could they be doing this?' " he said. "(She's) glad that her daughter is too young to understand."

He read over the telephone a prepared statement from Suboh that said, "I believe steadfastly my husband is innocent of all these charges, including adultery and downloading pornography. I stand by him. It is clear to me that the U.S. government only wants to destroy his character and his family. They will not succeed."

While pleased by news of his client's release, Eugene Fidell, one of Yee's lawyers, said the "adultery charge is obviously an effort to bolster a failed national-security case."

Officials had said Yee, a Chinese-American and Islamic convert, was being investigated on suspicion of espionage when news of his arrest went public in September.

None of the charges Yee now faces relate to spying.

On Monday, Fidell wrote to President Bush to request Yee's release.

Last week, Muslim and Chinese-American advocates mounted a public campaign that sought the same goal.

Yee will be stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., until charges against him are resolved. He will report to the chief chaplain there for duty, U.S. Southern Command said.

He will be prohibited from having contact with prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, it said.

Yee had been detained at a naval brig in Charleston, S.C.

The Army has until late February to conclude the Article 32 investigation under military speedy-trial rules.

Under the proceeding, investigators will present evidence to a military judge at Fort Benning, who will recommend whether Yee should face a general court-martial for his alleged crimes.

If court-martialed, Yee could face military dismissal and up 14 years in prison if he's convicted on all six counts and receives the maximum penalty for each charge.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Old Dec 1st, 2003, 05:41 PM       
Thanks for posting this, Sam. I tried to do the same earlier, as an addendum to my "Watch this story" thread, but my computer crashed.

They have nothing on this poor son of a bitch, they held him without charges for a month and then for months afterward.

They adultery and porno charges may be real or trumped up, but neither one is a crime unless you're in the military and neither one is what they were seacrhing his computers for.

What are they punishing this guy for? They're own incompetence? Something they thought he might do? What the hell message does this send to other people who actually speak iraqi who might, oh I don't know, actually help US intelligence with interrogation?

Anyone notice that some of the 200 hundred folks we're about to release from Guantanamo we're now saying were kidnapped and handed over to the US for reward money? Imagine getting kidnapped and spending two fucking years of your life in prison, all the time having no contact with a lawyer or family and never knowing if you would ever get out at all. And what, it's just a coincidence we figured out some of thes folks were totally innocent at the exact same moment the Supreme court agreed to hear their cases? Are we trying to get the middle east to be more like us, or are we too busy being more like the middle east?
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