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Gitmo GIs converting Posted: September 25, 2003
In the wake of the arrest of two U.S. Muslim
troops at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on espionage charges, an Algerian
lawmaker is claiming the terror-related detainees at the facility have
convinced several of their guards to convert to Islam. Hassan
Aribi says eight Algerian arrestees whose freedom he negotiated told him of the
development, reports Islam Online. "They
told me that the American guards were very sympathetic with them to the extent
of buying the detainees' needs [out] of their pocket money," the Algerian
lawmaker told a seminar in Cairo, the newssite reports. The
official maintains the freed Algerians reported some of the American guards had
embraced Islam due to "daily interaction with Muslim prisoners for the
past two years." Aribi did not indicate how many of the guards converted. The
newssite reported Aribi claimed 90 percent of those held at the camp have no
connection to al-Qaida or the Taliban. "They
were working with humanitarian relief agencies and were only arrested as part
of an American campaign against possible suspects," Aribi said, according
to the report. As
WorldNetDaily reported, Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, an enlisted
Arabic-language translator at the base, was arrested this week and charged with
espionage and aiding the enemy. On Saturday, Muslim
Army chaplain Capt. James Yee was arrested and charged with charged with
espionage, aiding the enemy and spying. Al-Halabi
allegedly tried to give Syria information about the detainees at Guantanamo
Bay. Fox
News reports today two more U.S. military personnel are under investigation for
espionage in addition to al-Halabi and Yee. Charles Mims |
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