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Arab media: U.S. assistance helped uncover Israeli spy ring By Amos Harel, Haaretz Corre spondent Last update - 05:04 14/06/2009 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092561.html American training and technology enabled a breakthrough to crack the alleged Israeli spy ring in Lebanon, media in the Arab world reported. Over 20 suspects, including a high-ranking army official, have been charged with spying for Israel over many years, media reports say. Since 2006, the United States has supplied the Lebanese with $1 billion in assistance, including $410 million to improve the work of the Lebanese police and intelligence services. The value of American assistance can be seen...

China obtained secret stealth technology used on B-2 bomber engines from a Hawaii-based spy ring in a compromise U.S. officials say will allow Beijing to copy or counter a key weapon in the Pentagon's new strategy against China. Details of the classified defense technology related to the B-2's engine exhaust system and its ability to avoid detection by infrared sensors were sold to Chinese officials by former defense contractor Noshir S. Gowadia, an Indian-born citizen charged with spying in a federal indictment released by prosecutors in Hawaii.

Many College Students Have Waken Up 20-something pro-S. Korea college students have started to act. 100 members of 'College Student Association for Nation in Crisis', made up of 200 students from 20 colleges, staged a rally and a performance, titled 'Announce the Demise of Republic of Korea, the Spy Republic' in front of NIA Building near Chonggyechon at Jong-gu. They urged thorough investigation of recently captured N. Korean spies dubbed '386 spy ring,' and demanded to scrap the inter-Korean business project such as Mt. Kumgang Resort and Kaesung Industrial Park. The post at front says, "Mt. Kumgang Tourism, is it...

Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese spy ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.

Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships. U.S. intelligence and security officials said the case remains under investigation but that it could prove to be among the most damaging spy cases since the 1985 one of John A. Walker Jr., who passed Navy communication codes to Moscow for 22 years. The Los Angeles spy ring has operated since 1990 and has funneled technology and military secrets to China in the form of documents...

<p>Sen. Jon Kyl's recent hearing on the radical Islamists' infiltration of the chaplaincy of the U.S. military and prisons provided disturbing insights in two areas in particular: 1) the successes that Islamic radicals have had in assuming control over the selection of military chaplains; and 2) the different levels of decorum and seriousness with which Democratic senators approach a hearing on critical national security matters.</p>

<p>Military officials responding to the espionage probe at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy prison camp in Cuba have ramped up security checks of materials carried off the camp's grounds by prison guards and civilians.</p> <p>Days after the Sept. 29 arrest of a Guantanamo interpreter charged with lying about classified materials in his possession, senior Pentagon officials said counterintelligence measures had been in place at the prison camp to prevent such a case.</p>

Political correctness makes Gitmo a sieve The military prison at Guantanamo Bay is the most secure facility the United States has ever built. At least, it's supposed to be. But it's beginning to look as though Muslim terrorists or their sympathizers already may have figured out how to penetrate it. Army Capt. Yousef Yee, a West Point graduate who converted to Islam and became a Muslim chaplain in Guantanamo, was arrested in September and is under investigation for allegedly aiding terrorists. Ahmad al-Halabi, an Air Force interpreter, is accused of trying to deliver information to Syria, including 180 messages from...

Saudi Arabia has funded the indoctrination of U.S. soldiers and inmates to an ideology adopted by Al Qaida. Research conducted by the Washington-based Institute of World Politics has asserted that Saudi Arabia poured tens of millions of dollars into spreading Al Qaida-related ideology among American soldiers and inmates. The report said the Saudi aim was to form insurgency cells throughout the United States that support a Wahabi agenda. "Islamists terrorists view conversions of non-Muslims to Islamism as vital to their effort," J. Michael Waller, a professor at the institute, said. "U.S. counterintelligence is vigilant against recruitment of American military personnel...

<p>WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) &#8212; An interpreter at the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, who was arrested last month carrying classified documents, had government clearance to access the information, his attorney said in court yesterday.</p> <p>But federal prosecutors, while acknowledging Ahmed Fathy Mehalba was cleared to see classified documents, said he was forbidden to transport any information.</p>

Wed October 15, 2003 01:07 PM ET By Greg Frost WORCESTER, Mass. (Reuters) - A civilian translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for al Qaeda and Taliban suspects had hundreds of documents labeled "secret" in his possession when he was arrested last month, an FBI agent said on Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Ahmed Fathy Mehalba last month of lying to federal officials about classified information he was carrying when he arrived in the United States from Egypt, where he had been visiting relatives. The arrest of Mehalba, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Egyptian descent, brought to three the number of...

To Muslim political groups in Washington, American Muslim Council founder Abdurahman Alamoudi is a respected political leader. To the Clinton administration, Alamoudi was credible enough to be allowed to certify Islamic chaplains for the Pentagon. To the Libyan regime of Muammar Qadhafi, Alamoudi has been a paid agent worthy of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. To the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, Alamoudi is a bankroller of terrorists abroad and here at home. And to U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan, Alamoudi is a danger to society and a flight risk as he awaits trial in jail...

<p>The cards looked innocuous enough. Their heading was bland and uninformative: "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/Royal Saudi Air Forces/Prince Sultan Air Base/ReligionDepartment/Communities Section." Then followed a listing of Web sites, including Islamtoday.com and discoverislam.com. Islamtoday.com describes itself as "a forum to call people to Allah"; Discoverislam.com offers a series of posters that "communicate the beauty of Islam, and yet are gentle enough to sway any heart, Muslim and non-Muslim alike."</p>

SPY GAMES Mark Steyn has the best, clearest, and of course funniest summation I’ve yet read of the Wilson/Plame affair in the current Spectator: Some choice quotes: “[A]n agency known to be opposed to war in Iraq sent an employee’s spouse also known to be opposed to war in Iraq on a perfunctory joke mission. And, after eight days sipping tea and meeting government officials in one city of one country, Ambassador Wilson gave a verbal report to the CIA and was horrified to switch on his TV and see Bush going on about what British Intelligence had learned about...

Espionage probe looms over base where terror suspects held Saturday October 11, 2003 By PAISLEY DODDS Associated Press Writer GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba (AP) This quiet outpost hastily turned into a prison for terror suspects looks like a surreal slice of Americana families gather at an outdoor movie theater, kids play baseball on tidy fields and pieces of apple pie swirl around dessert carousels to the crackle of ``The Star-Spangled Banner.'' But whispers of espionage have disturbed the peace at this U.S. base where three workers a Muslim chaplain and two Arabic translators have been charged with crimes ranging...

<p>A Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Army being held in the investigation of possible espionage at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was charged yesterday with disobeying a general order for improperly handling classified information.</p> <p>Capt. James J. Yee was charged with "taking classified material to his home and wrongfully transporting classified material without the proper security containers or covers," said the Defense Department's U.S. Southern Command, which oversees activities at Guantanamo.</p>

Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison camp charged with disobeying orders.

The Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba Oct. 9 — Investigators are searching for security breaches at the U.S. prison for terror suspects, officials said Thursday at the camp where espionage charges have heightened tensions. There were indications that more arrests were possible. A Pentagon official said a member of the Navy working at Guantamano was being closely watched. A lawyer for some of the detainees and a former U.S. intelligence officer said two arrests were imminent. The sources spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Nearly two dozen investigators from the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command reported...

[Pg. 3]... Capt. James Yee, the Muslim chaplain caught with documents from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, will be charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and violating general orders. So far, Yee has not been implicated in espionage, although investigators are still trying to determine how he got maps and diagrams of Camp Delta, which holds about 660 detainees...

WASHINGTON - Army investigators are leaning toward filing slap-on-the-wrist charges versus a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who was investigated for espionage, a military source told the Daily News yesterday. The "handful" of minor charges against Capt. Yousef Yee could be leveled by next week and are not expected to include the more serious allegations of spying, sedition or aiding the enemy, according to the source familiar with the probe. "It's very weak," the military source said, saying the charges are likely to be related to dereliction of duty and disobeying a general order. "It's nothing compared to espionage or...

The current spy scandal among Arab translators at Guantanamo was waiting to happen. Currently, the Department of Defense only has about a third of the Arab speaking translators it needs, and it has been frantically searching for other sources. Civilian translation firms are a good source, but these translators are usually not willing to work in Guantanamo or a combat zone. Moreover, many of the captured al Qaeda suspects speak a wide variety of Arab dialects, and many do not even speak "Standard Arabic" as a second language. It takes a highly experienced translator to deal with the dialects, and...

ASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — American interpreters at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who are under suspicion of espionage may have sabotaged interviews with detainees by inaccurately translating interrogators' questions and prisoners' answers, senior American officials said on Monday.It is unclear in how many cases, if any, this may have happened, the officials said. But military investigators are taking the issue seriously enough to review taped interrogations involving the Arabic-language interpreters under scrutiny to spot-check their accuracy.If the investigators' worst fears are realized, officials said, scores of interviews with suspected Qaeda or Taliban prisoners at the Cuban detention center...

<p>The Muslim organizations that certify chaplains for the U.S. military have come under renewed scrutiny since the arrest of Army Chaplain Yousef Yee and two Muslim translators who worked with al Qaeda prisoners in Guantanamo Bay — and that's all to the good. The Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences (GSISS) and the American Muslim Foundation (AMF) were already being investigated, and it may well be that somehow Mr. Yee picked up his radical Islam from some contact with these groups. But so far another possibility has been overlooked, perhaps because its political incorrectness quotient is positively off the scale: The possibility that Yee was sincere when he denounced the September 11 attacks, and that his mind was changed by the Guantanamo prisoners themselves.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP)--An Air Force officer has made a secret recommendation of what charges should be pursued against a translator accused of espionage at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorist suspects, the translator's lawyer said Tuesday. The report from Col. Anne Burman suggests to Air Force officials which of the 32 charges against Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi should go to trial. Air Force generals will decide whether al-Halabi will face a court-martial on the espionage and other charges--and whether military prosecutors can seek the death penalty if al-Halabi is convicted of the most serious counts. Burman's entire report is...

Guantanamo interviews to be revised in spy scare By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 06/10/2003) A line-by-line review has been ordered of every interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp involving an air force interpreter suspected of espionage and treason. Intelligence officers face the nightmare prospect that Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian-born linguist who served at the camp in Cuba for eight months, may have edited or deliberately distorted information given by al-Qa'eda and Taliban suspects during interrogation sessions. Tapes of those interrogations - some lasting hours - are being freshly translated. "If the subject answered 'five' and [Halabi] told interrogators...

WASHINGTON Oct. 3 — Pentagon officials said Thursday they worry that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the U.S. military and may have done so at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Three workers at the prison, including two members of the military, have been arrested on suspicion of espionage at the high-security base. It is unclear whether the men were connected to or part of any terrorist plot, the commander in charge of homeland security said. "I'm hoping we're going to find these are unusual, these are few and far between, that this isn't some large cell," said Gen....

Upcoming Kyl Hearing To Examine Terrorist Infiltration in MilitaryWASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) today issued the following statement in response to the arrests of a third suspect connected to the Guantamano Bay espionage probe and Abdurahman Alamoudi, a founder of the military’s Muslim chaplain program, on charges of illegal dealings with Libya: "On October 14, I will chair a Senate hearing that closely examines to what extent Islamic radicals have infiltrated the military and other key U.S. institutions and recruited Americans to their cause. These recent arrests - particularly the arrest of Abdurahman Alamoudi, a chief architect...

WASHINGTON - The name of the US detention center for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba - Camp X-Ray - has acquired a new meaning in recent days. Officials are now holding up the camp's operations to the light and scrutinizing them carefully for evidence of trouble within. Three government employees who worked there have been detained on suspicion of espionage, hinting at unexpected trouble within the concertina wire."The arrests point in the direction of some broader counterintelligence problem, or even conspiracy at its worst in terms of infiltration of the Army," says Jim Walsh, an expert on international security...

<p>October 3, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating whether a translator at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave extremist groups the names of al Qaeda operatives who are being exposed by detainees during their interrogations, it was revealed yesterday. Law-enforcement officials confirmed that authorities found the names of dozens of al Qaeda operatives, whose names surfaced in interrogations with the Guantanamo Bay detainees, on a computer disk carried by camp translator Ahmed Mehalba when he was arrested earlier this week.</p>

Printer-friendly version Email this article to a friend The Guantánamo Arrests – What Do They Mean? Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor September 30, 2003 O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly. In the "FACTOR Follow-Up" segment tonight, there are currently 12 Muslim chaplains on active duty in the U.S. armed forces, ministering to about 4,200 American-Muslim military personnel. That's causing some controversy because of the arrest at Guantánamo Bay, which we mentioned earlier in the broadcast. The arrest of a man named Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was authorized by the Pentagon to nominate Muslim chaplains, has now been charged...

<p>A whole lot of people are proclaiming themselves to be stunned that a former resident of Springfield [NJ] who spent four years in Syria somehow ended up having the political and religious beliefs common to Syrians.</p> <p>The former James Yee is a 35-year-old U.S. Army chaplain who grew up in Springfield and who is being held on unspecified charges stemming from his work among Muslim combatants captured in Afghanistan and being held in Guantanamo Bay. Yee has an interesting life story. After graduating from Jonathan Dayton High School, he won an appointment to West Point. After graduation, he left the Army and decided to go to Syria, a country that was then and is now on the list of nations supporting terrorism. He converted to Islam, changed his first name to Yousef, married a Syrian woman, and returned to the United States.</p>

With a Muslim army chaplain imprisoned in a Navy brig as an alleged terrorist spy, the military must rethink how it recruits and screens Islamic clergy, according to a key Senate ally of the administration's counterterrorism policies. "I'm gratified that military authorities have taken action to investigate what may be an alarming breach of security in our armed services, and I strongly recommend that the Pentagon review its policies in regard to the recruitment of clerics," says Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), chairman of a subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security. Following news that the chaplain and an Islamic Air Force...

<p>September 29, 2003 -- THE news last week that two Muslim military personnel, James Yee and Ahmad al-Halabi, had been arrested on suspicion of aiding Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantnamo Bay (with another three Muslim servicemen under watch) seemed to prompt much surprise. It should not have.</p>

<p>The government is trying to determine whether Syria is engaged in espionage against the United States in light of an investigation of security breaches at a prison camp in Cuba, a top White House aide said yesterday.</p> <p>"We're looking into it, and we'll see what's there," said Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser.</p>

or the last five years, Qaseem A. Uqdah, a Marine Corps veteran, has been visiting military bases around the world in search of Muslim officers and enlistees who might make suitable chaplains.In his role as a recruiter, Mr. Uqdah is not employed by the military. Instead, he is an independent middleman who runs a group that is authorized by the Pentagon to nominate Muslim chaplain candidates. He said he is paid nothing for his efforts and is motivated by his belief in Islam.One of the clerics Mr. Uqdah recommended to the Pentagon — Capt. James J. Yee, a Chinese-American convert...

WASHINGTON -- The spying charge against an Air Force translator at the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, underscores the U.S. government's shortage of Arabic language specialists at a time when the war on terrorism demands their skills.To offset the shortage of U.S.-trained Arabic translators, U.S. intelligence officials were relying on Syria-born airman Ahmad al-Halabi to carry out sensitive assignments involving the terrorism suspects.Al-Halabi, 24, who emigrated from Syria to Dearborn, Mich., in 1996 and joined the Air Force after high school graduation in 1999, faces 32 military charges, including some that could involve the death penalty, for alleged...

ON CAPITOL HILLSenate panel probes Muslim subversion Investigation to look at recruitment of Islamic chaplains for military Posted: September 27, 2003 By J. Michael Waller© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com With a Muslim army chaplain imprisoned in a Navy brig as an alleged terrorist spy, the military must rethink how it recruits and screens Islamic clergy, according to a key Senate ally of the administration's counterterrorism policies. "I'm gratified that military authorities have taken action to investigate what may be an alarming breach of security in our armed services, and I strongly recommend that the Pentagon review its policies in regard to the recruitment of...

Many Chinese Americans are feeling dread in the wake of the arrest of Capt. James Yee, a Muslim chaplain stationed at Fort Lewis Army Base, Wash. The case brings back memories of the prosecution -- some would say persecution -- of Dr. Wen Ho Lee. Lee, the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, was arrested by the FBI in 1999 on espionage charges and found not guilty after months in solitary confinement. President Clinton later apologized to him, though Dr. Lee's career as a scientist was already ruined. Yee's arrest is as troubling as Dr. Lee's, says Ling Chi Wang, a...

The arrest of two Muslim-American servicemen based at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (a developing story originally broken by this newspaper), raises some complex questions about the conflicting loyalties of Muslim-American soldiers in the war against radical Islamic terror. Dueling it out are two policy imperatives dear to our tradition of government: equal treatment of all regardless of race and religion, and the need to guarantee national security. The threshold must be high for a policy to curtail one of these fundamental values in favor of defending the other — but it is a threshold that can be met in extreme cases....

<p>WASHINGTON -- The probe into alleged spying by U.S. troops assigned to a high-security camp in Cuba that houses al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners now includes two new suspects, Pentagon and FBI officials said Thursday.</p> <p>Navy and Air Force investigators are closely watching a Navy cook and an airman who once were assigned to Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Neither has been detained or charged, military officials said, but their activities raised suspicion among investigators in the wake of the recent arrests of a senior airman and an Army chaplain who had contact with detainees at the camp.</p>

<p>September 26, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The Air Force translator accused of espionage at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was likely working for Islamic extremists connected to al Qaeda, The Post has learned. U.S. officials said yesterday that investigators have traced e-mail communications from senior airman Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian-born translator from Detroit, to a handful of "individuals" in Syria, including one man - whom they would not identify - suspected of ties to Osama bin Laden's terror network.</p>

This ought to shut up our European detractors who've been screaming that we are torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not only do we provide the inmates there with medical care, surgery, dentistry, reading matter, familiar and religiously permitted foods, copies of the Koran and religious services -- we've also provided spies. Two, at least -- and counting -- to judge from news reports. The first is Capt. James Yee, 35, who served as a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo. Yee is a Chinese American who was raised a Lutheran but converted to Islam while in the military. After converting, he resigned...

The Air Force translator charged with spying at the U.S. military's prison camp for terrorists was under investigation even before he arrived at Guantanamo Bay, court records show. Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi, 24, who was born in Syria, had been under scrutiny since November 2002, apparently days before he began an assignment as a translator at the prison camp for some of the world's worst terrorists. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations began investigating al-Halabi "based on reports of suspicious activity while he was stationed at Travis Air Force Base and while deployed to Kuwait and Guantanamo Bay," a...

<p>September 25, 2003 -- 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.</p>

<p>September 25, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - An Air Force translator at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was caught downloading secrets from the military's ultra-secure computer network and e-mailing the files to Syria, Pentagon officials revealed yesterday. The brazen act of betrayal by Syrian-born Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi, 24, was among new details that emerged in the spy scandal at the high-security prison that could involve four other officers.</p>

<p>The case of the Guantanamo Bay Arabic-language translator arrested for espionage yesterday illustrates the inevitable consequence of the critical shortage of reliable, American-born interpreters reported extensively by WorldNetDaily over the past year.</p> <p>Syrian-born Air Force airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, who served at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba holding suspected al-Qaida terrorists, has been accused of trying to give Syria information about the detainees.</p> <p>He could face execution on charges of espionage and aiding the enemy.</p>

MIAMI - (KRT) - Soldiers who knew Army Capt. James Yee at Fort Lewis, Wash., say they are baffled by the Muslim chaplain's detention on his return from a prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. ``We can't figure it out. He would be compassionate with prisoners - but not a traitor. A lot of us feel we know him well. He cares a lot, but he plays by the rules,'' said a sergeant from the 29th Signal Battalion, where Yee was a Muslim chaplain before going to Guantanamo. The soldier asked to remain anonymous because the Miami-based U.S. Southern...

<p>Ahmad al Halabi liked to fiddle with robots in high school. He grew up in one of America's biggest Arab communities, and went straight into the Air Force after graduation.</p> <p>He planned to marry his fiance days after his tour as an Arabic translator ended at Guantanamo Bay.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Military investigators were looking Wednesday for links between a Syrian-born U.S. Air Force airman accused of espionage and a U.S. Army Muslim chaplain who has personal ties to Syria and is being held in detention.</p> <p>The U.S. military was also searching for other service members who may be part of a suspected espionage ring operating at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where about 660 suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members are currently imprisoned.</p>

Ahmad I. al-Halabi liked to fiddle with robots in high school. He lived in one of the nation's biggest Arab-American communities, and went straight into the Air Force after graduation. He planned to marry his fiancee days after his tour as an Arabic translator ended on Guantanamo Bay. But now al-Halabi, a senior airman — once honored as "Airman of the Year" — is in custody at an Air Force base in California, facing allegations of espionage that could bring the death penalty for the 24-year-old son of Syrian immigrants. The supply clerk-turned-translator is the second member of the U.S....