The Strange Case of Captain Yee

[Scairp]

This is news, though not late-breaking, and is the type of article about this case that one will probably never see in the American mainstream media. And how utterly sad that is.

'He is not guilty and he is not innocent'

When Guantánamo chaplain Captain James Yee was arrested allegedly with secret documents about the prison, he was threatened with execution and branded a traitor. So why after 200 days in jail was he only charged with adultery and quietly released? Oliver Burkeman on a strange and troubling tale from the new American era of homeland security.

Captain James Yee became a prime target in the war against terror one morning last September, although nobody deemed it particularly important to inform his wife, Huda Suboh, who drove to an airport outside Seattle later that day to meet a plane her husband had never actually boarded. Yee had been due home on leave from his job as a Muslim army chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, but several days would pass before Suboh found out why he never showed up. He had been arrested and detained en route, suspected of espionage and aiding America's enemies. According to military officials, a search of his bags had revealed pages and pages of classified information - detailed maps of the base, diagrams of the cells, and notes on individual inmates. The implication was clear. Yee was up to no good, and may have been plotting a jailbreak of barely comprehensible audacity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1180772,00.html

[izzie]

1. My feeling it was his religion.Bush plays to his Base.

Someone big in the Christian right wanted it. It is just a feeling I get.

[Scairp]

2. I don't know

The U.S. Army can be a strange organization. It will be very difficult to ever find out what really happened.

[BR_Parkway]

3. Sounds like they didn't want him anywhere near a

witness stand under oath. Wonder what he would have had to say about the situation that ShrubCo wanted swept under the rug.

[Sinistrous]

4. It was nothing that noble.

The Army got egg on its collective face with the bogus charges against him and the ineptness with which they pursued his perse ... er, prosecution. His article 15 was merely face-saving by the Army, perpetrated so they could point to at least some kind of "conviction" of alleged wrongdoing, and make it easier to label Yee as a bad guy.

[Scairp]

5. Bump n/t

[Scairp]

6. I can't believe this

I was fascinated by this story from a UK newspaper but it seems not everyone is.