Why has the US government imprisoned Captain Yee?

[IndianaGreen]

Why has the US government imprisoned Captain Yee?
By Bill Vann
23 September 2003

A previous commander of the Camp Delta prison camp, Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus, was relieved of his post, reportedly for attempting to mandate humane treatment of the detainees and posting International Committee of the Red Cross posters spelling out the rights of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

The Bush administration has maintained—in defiance of international law—that as “enemy combatants” the detainees are entitled to none of the rights afforded to POWs. At the same time, by imprisoning them at the US base in Cuba, it has denied them any rights under the US Constitution.

Why has the government thrown Yee into the navy brig reserved for those US citizens alleged by the Bush administration to be “terrorists”?

Certainly many hundreds of Muslim and Arab immigrants have been rounded up and imprisoned in the US for lengthy periods without charges and subjected to physical and psychological abuse over the past two years as part of the “global war on terrorism.” People visiting the country, including a recent incident involving a Yemeni delegation of officials and businessmen carrying personal invitations from the US ambassador, have been detained and put in manacles for the sole crime of coming from one or another Muslim country.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/yee-s23.shtml

[realFedUp]

1. Inquiring minds want to know.

Does Yee get legal representation or just an assigned army lawyer?

[Beam Me Up]

2. I am struck by this paragraph:

Yee, a 1990 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, served in Saudi Arabia during the first Persian Gulf war with a Patriot missile battery and reportedly converted to Islam at that time. The officer left the army and lived in Syria for four years, learning Arabic and studying Islam. He rejoined and was appointed as the prison camp’s chaplain last November.

I'm reminded of Oswald's tenure in the USSR.

The man is obviously a mole. The question is, who is his 'handler'? The handler would have to be fairly well positioned to be given that particular appointment.

Also, see this thread in DU LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=128718