(Washington Times) Rowan Scarborough - An Army Islamic chaplain, who counseled al-Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, has been charged with espionage, aiding the enemy, and spying. Capt. James J. Yee, a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, arrested earlier this month by the FBI, was raised as a Christian, studied Islam at West Point, and converted to Islam and left the Army in the mid-1990s. He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training, then returned to the U.S. and re-entered the Army as an Islamic chaplain.
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