Guantanamo Chaplain’s Hearing Delayed Again
The U.S. military has postponed for the fifth time in three months a hearing for a Muslim Army chaplain accused of mishandling classified material at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
A spokesman for the U.S. military’s Southern Command declined to give a reason for the latest delay in the hearing to determine whether Capt. James Joseph Yee should face a court-martial. Yee’s lawyer said the military’s case was in disarray.
Previous delays since December at Ft. Benning100 miles southwest of Atlanta were granted to give the Army and defense more time to review evidence, including some classified documents.
Yee, a New Jersey-born Chinese American who converted to Islam in the 1990s, was arrested in September on suspicion of being part of a spy ring at Guantanamo, where he had contact with some of the people being held at the base as suspected terrorists.
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