Infiltration of the US military: Arrests of terrorist spies validate Center’s concerns

A Muslim US Army chaplain in an extremely sensitive post has been arrested as an alleged terrorist spy, and a senior Air Force enlisted man is being held on similar charges, with more arrests expected.

Capt. James “Yousef” Yee had been assigned to minister to captured al Qaeda terrorists under detention at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to the US Southern Command, Yee was also the “Muslim adviser to the commander of the joint task force at Guantanamo.”

Yee reportedly was caught with classified documents about the al Qaeda detainees and their American interrogators, including their identities. He also had sketches of the detention camp, raising fears he was helping plot the terrorists escape.

The officer, a former Lutheran who reportedly converted to Islam at about the time of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, was arrested September 10 for “sedition, espionage, aiding the enemy, spying and failing to obey a general order,” according to the Washington Times.

The Center for Security Policy has been warning for years that the Armed Forces’ program for Muslim chaplains, as structured under the Clinton administration, is a means for terrorists to infiltrate the US military. A senior White House political operative, working with the founder of a Wahhabi-funded pressure group, has been discouraging investigations into these and related matters.

News reports, some of which conflict in the early stages of the story, say that Yee had quit the US Army after his conversion to Islam, and spent four years in Syria to learn Arabic and undergo Islamic indoctrination. The US recognizes Syria, a totalitairan regime led by a Ba’ath party like that of Saddam Hussein formerly in neighboring Iraq, as a state sponsor of terrorism. After returning from Syria, Yee re-joined the US Army, which made him a chaplain.

Yee’s detention validates concerns about poor security procedures concerning ideologues who infiltrate the US military for treasonous purposes, and about how political correctness and pandering to certain favored ethnic and religious groups has damaged the war on terrorism. The Pentagon’s Inspector General reportedly is investigating the chaplain problem.

News of the Yee case follows arrests and guilty pleas by alleged terrorists who held or hold leadership positions in some of the largest “mainstream” Muslim pressure groups, like the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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