Syria Denies Link to Charged Translator

[Snellius]

DAMASCUS, Syria Sept. 24 — Syria denied Wednesday it had any links to a U.S. Air Force translator of Syrian descent who has been charged with espionage during an assignment at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.

Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, 24, has been detained for allegedly sending e-mail with information about the prisoners at Guantanamo "to unauthorized person or persons whom he, the accused, knew to be the enemy," according to the U.S. military. The U.S. Air Force indictment does not say who "the enemy" is.

Al-Halabi is also accused of planning to give classified information about the prisoners to a person who would then go to Syria.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030924_836.html

[Minstrel Boy]

1. of course Syria had no ties

to the translator.

Here's what I think happened: a Syrian detainee said "Please, contact my government. Let them know I'm here." Just as Americans detained in isolation in a foreign land would want the United States to know their fate.

"Classified information" about prisoners includes their fucking names.

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