Less than a week after Army Chaplain Capt. James J. Yee was detained on suspicion of espionage, a second U.S. serviceman stationed at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist camp — Air Force translator Ahmad al-Halabi — has been arrested and charged with the same crime.
Moreover, three other military personnel at Guantanamo are said to be under investigation for possessing classified information, and for having improper contact with prisoners.
Al-Halabi is thought by prosecutors to have been spying for Syria.
The possibility of an espionage ring at Guantanamo that makes use of American traitors — and the near-certainty that the accused men had criminal relationships with the Guantanamo detainees — raises two troubling, and not unrelated, questions:
• Why does the Pentagon rely on radical Islamist groups to advise it on the hiring of Muslim chaplains?
• Can America's military presumptively trust its Muslim personnel as it conducts a war against extremist Islam?
Indeed, America presumptively recoils from the notion of group guilt.
As well it should.
But it remains that while all Muslims are not al Qaeda operatives, all al Qaeda operatives uncovered so far have been Muslim.
Meanwhile, simple prudence requires that Washington assume many Muslim nations — especially Syria, Iran and Libya — are running spying operations against America.
And are using American traitors.
The unpleasant fact is that some of these traitors are all too likely to be Arab-Americans or Muslim converts like the presumed-innocent Capt. Yee — or, for that matter, the convicted-in-a-court-of-law John Walker Lindh.
What this means is that the government — especially the military — must not permit political correctness to interfere with the preservation of national security.
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(The New York Post editorial, September 25, 2003)
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I would hope our military would not be that stupid.
Wahhabism is a movement committed to the destruction of Western civilization. It should be treated the same way we treated Naziism and Communism.
Hey, Washington!
This really IS a war against Islam, because Islam has picked a war with US! They've been broadcasting their plans to infiltrate us through legal immigration and Islamization of the host countries.
The First Amendment was not intended to be a suicide pact, and the rights of the adherants of this bastard death-cult to practice their seditious mischief end when they practice treason.
I hope they have one of those cool mass hangings when they get all these GITMO quislings. Right outside the chain link fence where the GITMO prisoners are kept.
In a more enlightened age, a high court ruled that islam was illegal in the U.S. and "religion" in the American Constitution and other official documents refered to Christianity, not those who follow an "imposter such as Mahommet" or anyone who bloddies a chicken over an alter.
Too bad we have given away the country to a "religious" free-for-all in the name of political correctness.
Stupidest thing I"ve ever head of in my life.