U.S. Army (Islamic Chaplain) Capt. Yee and the charges he may face

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[Happy2BMe]

Capt. Yee and the charges he may face:

* Sedition and Mutiny, violation of Article 94, UCMJ

* Aiding the enemy, violation of Article 104, UCMJ

* Spying, violation of Article 106, UCMJ

* Espionage, violation of Article 106a, UCMJ

* Failure to obey a general order, violation of Article 92, UCMJ

All Punitive Articles

[stand watie]

SADLY, the US military uses the needle, rather than the rope.

free dixie,sw

[af_vet_1981]

I take no pleasure in causing them pain. It doesn't matter to me how they die, only that justice be done. I do want them to talk, well sing, though. We are at war and they are trying to kill more of us.

[blackie]

Hang 'Em High!

[stand watie]

innocent animals get "put to sleep" by the needle, to end their suffering.

CRIMINALS, otoh, deserve something worse, imVho.

free dixie,sw

[Happy2BMe]

"He has a greater loyalty."

As do thousands of others here in this country as we speak.

(And a greater guilt.)

[Happy2BMe]

"I do want them to talk, well sing, though."

We watched this guy over the peiord of a couple of years.

Trust me - we won't hear much more out of him publicly until he spills his guts.

Names, dates, places, and things.

Who, what, where, why and when?

Exactly what HE WAS GETTING FOR THE AL QAEDA!

[HiJinx]

Well, since you asked, I searched...
From the Washington Times of 9/21/03:

"Army Sgt. Asan Akbar is accused in the March 23 attack on his fellow soldiers in Kuwait. Fifteen soldiers were wounded, two of them fatally.

He is awaiting a general court-martial trial. "

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer of 8/28/03:

"Two officers were killed and 14 were injured. Sgt. Asan Akbar, accused in the attack, awaits trial at a general court-martial. "

More as I find it...

[HiJinx]

From the Sacremento Observer on 7/16/03:

"(Headline: U.C. Davis Alum Faces Court-Martial For Attack)
Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 32, is charged with two counts of premeditated murder and three counts of attempted murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, followed the recommendation made by an investigating officer on June 20 at the completion of an Article 32 hearing, which is akin to a civilian grand jury session."

AP Wire via www.timesleader.com (N.E. Pennsylvania) on 6/19/03:

"Command Sgt. Maj. Bart Womack testified Thursday that he took Akbar's rifle from him after Akbar was detained and placed it outside one of the tents at the crime scene.

Staff Sgt. David Maier had previously testified that casings fired from the rifle found at the crime scene matched fragments from Seifert's fatal wound. A medical examiner had testified that Seifert was fatally shot in the abdomen and Stone was killed by grenade fragments.

"I felt that was evidence, no doubt about it," Womack said.

Maj. Shawn Phillips testified Thursday that a sergeant told him that Akbar said he had deliberately targeted the leadership of the brigade because we were "going to rape the women and kill the children of the Muslim faith."

***snip***

Looks like the young man is way in over his head...and will soon have an opportunity to go to Heaven and meet with his appointed 72 Virginians!

[Happy2BMe]

"Looks like the young man is way in over his head...and will soon have an opportunity to go to Heaven and meet with his appointed 72 Virginians!"

Not if CAIR has anything to say about it.

Notice the Command Sgt. Major took Hasan Akbar's weapon from him.

At that time, Akbar still was playing skunk.

If it were to do over, wonder if Sgt. Major Womack would have put that weapon somewhere else?

Thanks, bud - for the update!

Bin Laden's Surprise

After getting nailed by a Daisy Cutter, Osama made his way to the pearly gates. There he is greeted by George Washington.

"How dare you attack the nation I helped conceive!" yells Mr. Washington, slapping Osama in the face. Patrick Henry comes up from behind: "You wanted to end the Americans' liberty, so they gave you death!" Henry punches Osama on the nose. James Madison comes up next, and says, "This is why I allowed the Federal government to provide for the common defense!" He drops a large weight on Osama's knee.

Osama is subject to similar beatings from John Randolph of Roanoke, James Monroe and 65 other 18th-century American revolutionaries. As he writhes on the ground, Thomas Jefferson picks him up to hurl him back toward the gate where he is to be judged.

As Osama awaits his journey to his final very hot destination, he screams, "This is not what I was promised!"

An angel replies: "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you. What did you think I said?"

[Happy2BMe]

The 'Fifth Column' Syndrome
By Frank J Gaffney Jr.
Washington Times | March 26, 2003

The most traumatic loss the U.S. military has suffered to date in the war with Iraq may, ironically, have been inflicted not by Iraqi Republican Guards, regular army units or irregular "Fedayeen." Rather, it may have come at the hands of an American servicemen.

Early Sunday morning Kuwait time, a sergeant assigned to an engineering brigade of the 101st Airborne Division allegedly attacked three tents in which many divisional commanding officers were sleeping on the eve of their unit's jump-off into Iraq.

According to press reports of the incident, Sgt. Asan Akbar rolled three or four grenades into the tents then proceeded to shoot some of those who sought to flee the ensuing fire and carnage. The attack killed Capt. Christopher Seifert and wounded more than a dozen other members of the storied "Screaming Eagles," several so severely they had to be flown to the U.S. military hospital at Ramstein, Germany.

What made this episode so wrenching was not merely that a U.S. soldier would have turned his weapons on his comrades. Such "fragging" incidents have happened before — notably, during the dark days of the Vietnam conflict, when a demoralized and drug-ridden military comprised of significant numbers of conscripts was fighting an increasingly unpopular war. They are always corrosive to the good order and discipline essential for successful combat operations.

The attack for which Sgt. Akbar is being held at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait is sending shockwaves through the national security community for another reason, though: It could be the precursor for a far larger and more dangerous problem, both for the military and for American society more generally. Call it the "Fifth Column syndrome."

While details of Sgt. Akbar's personal history are sketchy at the moment, published accounts indicate that he is a Black Muslim convert.

Exactly when he converted to Islam is unclear, as is the nature of his adherence. (One report says his neighbors in Fort Campbell, Ky., saw beer bottles in his trash; another neighbor, however, told a journalist Sgt. Akbar had declined an offer of a beer at a social occasion, saying he was a Muslim).

What is clear, however, is that in the days leading up to the attack on the tents comprising the 101st's Tactical Operations Center, Sgt. Akbar exhibited unsettling behavior. Evidently, what has been called an "attitude problem" reached a point where his superiors decided the sergeant would be "left behind" when the division deployed into Iraq.

The words Sgt. Akbar is reported by the Los Angeles Times to have uttered when he was seized after the fragging suggest the ominous nature of his "attitude": "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children."

The question occurs: If this account is correct, where would a serviceman get the idea that his non-Muslim colleagues were different from him ("you guys") and that they were determined to do horrible things to the civilians of countries with which he evidently identifies more than with his own?

Since Sgt. Akbar's personal case is, at this writing, under investigation, it is too early to say with precision. Yet what is known of his background is illuminating of the larger problem we must now confront.

Radical Muslim sects and organizations — distinguished from peaceable, nonviolent and law-abiding adherents to Islam by the term "Islamists" — have been making steady progress over the past four decades in establishing a presence in the United States (as elsewhere around the world) and dominating their co-religionists and, in due course, others they consider to be "non-believers." Thanks to the oil-revenue-underwritten largess of the Saudi Arabia's state religion, the Wahhabi sect, this Islamist enterprise has established itself in several places where a man like Asan Akbar could have come under its sway. 

Perhaps, Sgt. Akbar was exposed to Islamist thinking via the Wahhabi-backed Muslim Student's Association, which has a chapter at the University of California, Davis — an institution he reportedly attended from 1988-1997. Or perhaps, it was at the mosque he attended in the South Central section of Los Angeles, the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center. The Center's school (they are called madrassas in places like Pakistan) received funds from the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB), a Saudi-controlled fund headquartered in Jeddah that claims to have capitalized $19 billion worth of projects around the world.

Alternatively, and particularly worrisome, is the possibility Sgt. Akbar could have gotten murderous ideas about America, its armed forces and the Muslim world from a chaplain in the U.S. military. As of June 2002, nine of the armed forces' 14 Muslim chaplains received their religious training from another Saudi-supported entity, the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) in Leesburg, Va. In March of that year, the multi-agency Operation Greenquest raided the offices of GSISS, along with 23 other Muslim organizations.

Agents also raided the homes of Iqbal Unus, the dean of students at GSISS, and Taha Al-Alwani, the school's president. According to search warrants issued at the time, these groups were raided for "potential money laundering and tax evasion activities and their ties to terrorist groups such as ... al Qaeda as well as individual terrorists ... [including] Osama bin Laden."

It may be that last Sunday's attack turns out to be an isolated event. It should, nonetheless, serve as a wake-up call to the Bush administration and all who love this country that there are among us some who do not. They, and organizations that may be fomenting their hatred toward the United States, must be recognized as such and dealt with accordingly.

Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is the president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times.

[MEG33]

Great story ,Lady X!

[Happy2BMe]

	The Chaplain Who Went Into The Cold
The Chaplain Who Went Into The Cold
			Posted by kattracks On 09/23/2003 2:45 AM PDT with 19 comments FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 9/23/03 | Robert Spencer "When I go into the field,” Captain Yousef Yee once said, “I have a copy of the Qur’an and next to it a copy of the U.S. Constitution.” Well, at least two of the documents he was carrying weren’t classified. But when FBI agents arrested this American Muslim Army chaplain recently, much of what he was carrying was. Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo may have seen this material. Yee has been charged with espionage, sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, and failure to obey a general order. Officials are contemplating a treason charge. No one would have guessed it would come to...

[OldCorps]

"You sympathize with Yee, and telling me to "go somewhere else" is a way for you to defend him."

don't put words into my mouth. I don't sympathize with him. I wrote lets see the evidence and that if a GCM convicts him based upon evidence, i'll be happy to join in the calls for his head.

I'm tired of you misrepresenting what I write. didn't you learn anything about how the UCMJ works in basic? Grow up!

What's the basis for your hatred of the army by the way?

[deadhead]

Wow, our very own LadyX involved in catching the Perp! What a story, thank you for sharing. You are an amazing Lady!!

[Dubya]

Job well done Marine. Those jerks need to be keep off the streets.
SEMPER FI.

[Happy2BMe]

"What's the basis for your hatred of the army by the way?"

I for one, love the Army. My son is an officer in the Army (headed for Baghdad). He was in the USMC, but decided he wanted to try a different leadership role. He is a company commander. He had one of his troops die of a massive heart attack yesterday. He had to notify the family. He is only 26 years old. He loves the Army.

My dad was in the Navy. He was in WWII. He loved the Navy. He was a gunner's mate on a destroyer. He was injured during an Japanese Zero attack. The days on his calendar included Dec 7th, 1941 (and you had better damn well mention it if you were over at his house).

My uncle was in the Navy. He was in WWII. He loved the Navy. He jumped off the U.S.S. Hornet and the U.S.S. Wasp just before they sank. He retired a CPO.

My brother was in the Marines. He was in Vietnam. He loves the Marines. He flew over 2,100 (you read it right) USMC Recon missions out of Rocket City from 1966 - 1969. His Heuy was shot down three times, he has 3 DFC, 3PH, 3BS and a buttload of other medals. He retired a Lt. Col.

My other son is in the Air Force. He was in Iraqi Freedom. He personally pumped over TWO MILLION gallons of jet fuel from trucks into our fighters, bombers, cargo, and other various aircraft from different locations inside the theatre. He loves the Air Force. He was personally awarded by General Tommy Franks during the war.

I was in the Air Force.

We never fight about the best branch, except when my USMC brother comes over and starts talkin' shit.

All of us would gladly do it again if we had to.

And at the rate things are going - we may.

[Happy2BMe]

US airman faces death penalty for spying at Camp Delta
By David Rennie in Washington
(Filed: 24/09/2003)

A US airman stationed at Guantanamo Bay has been charged with espionage following a military investigation into a potential radical Muslim cell among its servicemen at the Cuban prison.

Senior Airman Ahmad I al-Halabi, 24, an Arabic language translator, was secretly arrested on July 23, Pentagon officials said last night.

He is being held at an air base in California and faces 32 charges, including espionage, aiding the enemy, bank fraud, disobeying a lawful order and making a false official statement. The charges of espionage and aiding the enemy can carry the death penalty.

The reports came as Americans were still digesting news of the arrest of Capt Yousef Yee, a Muslim US army chaplain assigned to minister to Guantanamo's 660 terrorist suspects, which include suspected al-Qa'eda fighters. His arrest two weeks ago was disclosed last weekend. He faces espionage charges.

CNN television reported that al-Halabi, from Detroit, was found with classified material relating to the prison camp and its inmates on his laptop computer. In an unconfirmed report, Fox News television said yesterday a man serving in the US navy had also been detained a month ago as part of the investigation.

It reported that both men had been under surveillance for some time. Sources told CNN that there was "every reason to believe" more arrests were imminent.

A Pentagon spokesman said that when questioned, al-Halabi had no reasonable explanation for possessing classified material found in his laptop computer.

US officials fear that terrorist groups could benefit greatly from learning exactly who was in the camp, when they were captured and whether they had broken under interrogation.

The US military regards as classified huge amounts of information about Camp Delta, the maximum security prison camp hastily erected last year at Guantanamo Bay, a US naval base on the far south-eastern tip of Cuba.

Military sources at the Pentagon suggested that al-Halabi was one of several translators or linguistic experts of Islamic ancestry drafted into the joint task force at Guantanamo to help with the work of questioning and holding suspects who are mostly from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Arab nations.

Military and civilian investigators are reported to be working to discover if there were any inappropriate links between the air force sergeant and Capt Yee.

The airman's arrest will be another crushing blow to the thousands of Muslims in the US military, already labouring under a cloud of suspicion as to their loyalties. In March, an army sergeant, Hasan K Akbar, a Muslim convert, was charged with murder after a hand grenade was thrown into a tent at a US base in Kuwait, killing two officers and injuring 14 other soldiers.

Capt Yee, 35, faces espionage charges after being found in possession of classified documents when he stepped off a military transport flight at Jacksonville, Florida.

Sources told reporters that those documents included diagrams of the prison and cells, and lists of names of detainees and interrogators.

His name was also reported to have surfaced during an unconnected investigation by civilian law enforcement agencies of radical Islamic groups based in America.

The chaplains programme in the US military and federal prison system is under formal investigation by the Pentagon and Justice Department following complaints that Muslim chaplains were referring their spiritual charges to radical clerics, some of whom advocate jihad against America.

Capt Yee is being held at a naval base in Charleston, South Carolina - the detention place of two US-born terrorist suspects, Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Saudi accused of fighting with the Taliban, and Jose Padilla, accused of plotting to attack America with a radioactive "dirty bomb".

TelegraphNews

[LadyX]

You have to know that at 32 I still was a bit naive, fairly sheltered growing up, but learned quickly on my feet that day..:))

As for what led me to go into The Corps, it was a combination of Super Patriotism from being a child during WWII - plus not wanting to go to the college where my mother graduated and two older sister went - at the time, still For Women Only!
Surely a fate worse than death - LOL

Just wasn't geared to that, although I was an "A" student, and planned to get some college while in and finish afterward.

On the strength of recommendations by my high school principal and my pastor, and their observations of me in my training (was Right Guide for a platoon of 72 women), they sent me straight from Basic Training to the Classroom teaching women recruits.
At just barely 18, instructed 60 to 120 women per class, and loved it!

I was fortunate to have had that experience, during the greatest buildup in Marine Corps History, by the way.

[OldCorps]

Sounds like you have a great family. You must be very proud of your son. I'm sure it gets real hot in Bagdhad. Make sure he keeps pushing water, lol.

[Fred Mertz]

Hi hon. I read your accounts on this thread. Very impressive as always. Yes, I'm doing fine too.