Who are the real terrorists? ================ The lecture desecration : ================ Chaplain James . Yee, a former U.S. Army Chaplain and graduate of West Point served as the Muslim Chaplain for the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. =============== Captain Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a naval brig before being cleared of espionage. =============== Chaplain Yee talks about his experiences and treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. =============== Chaplain Yee biography =============== James J. Yee (Chinese: 余百康 or 余优素福, also known by the Arabic name Yusuf Yee) (born c. 1968) is an American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain. He is best known for being subject to an intense investigation by the United States, but all charges were later dropped. Yee, a Chinese American, was born in New Jersey and raised in Springfield Township, where he attended Jonathan Dayton High School. Yee graduated from West Point in 1990. Shortly afterward, he converted from Lutheran Christianity to Islam in 1991, ============= Contents ============= 1 Guantanamo 2 After Guantanamo ============= 01 Guantanamo =========== In his appointed role as chaplain, Yee ministered to Muslim detainees held at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and received commendation from his superiors for his work. When returning from duty at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, he was arrested on September 10, 2003, in Jacksonville, Florida, when a U.S. Customs agent found a list of Guantanamo detainees and interrogators among his belongings. He was charged with five offenses: sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage, and failure to obey a general order. These charges were later reduced to mishandling classified information in addition to some minor charges. He was then transferred to a United States Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina. The government did not name the country or entity for whom it suspected Yee was spying. All court-martial charges against Yee were dropped on March 19, 2004, with Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller citing national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence, He was released to resume his duties. He left the US military with an honorable discharge in January, but he is still seeking an apology. Yee was a sometime supervisor of a former US Air Force Airman, who was subsequently court-martialed for his misconduct, but charges were dropped against him. ============= 02 After Guantanamo ============= In October 2005 Yee published his book, For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire. In it, Yee writes that he was kept in solitary confinement for seventy-six days, and that he was forced to undergo sensory deprivation. He also wrote that General Geoffrey Miller routinely incited the guards to hate the detainees. He alleges being told of mistreatment of prisoners. Yee argues that most of the detainees had little or no intelligence value about Osama bin Laden or al-Qaidas inner circle: The people down in Guántanamo probably know as much about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida as any private in the military would know whats going on inside the Pentagon. In July 2006, Yee was stopped at the border while returning from a trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, to see Cirque du Soleil. It was Yees first trip outside the U.S. since he was discharged from the army. He was detained at the border for 75 minutes. Yee commented, Perhaps this is an indication Im still of interest to the federal government. Yee has spoken about what he witnessed at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to audiences around the world. ====================================== https://youtube/watch?v=mCCLvuXHock ======================================
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