Video: James Yee says Korans were desecrated at Gitmo
posted at 2:12 pm on November 20, 2007 by Bryan
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Thanks to MEMRI, we get to watch former US Army chaplain James Yee trash the United States and all of his fellow soldiers who served alongside him at Guantanamo. But pay close attention to whose word is supreme in Yee’s world. He ticks off accusation after accusation coming from the detainees and never ever countenances the possibility that they could be lying to him. He never so much as hints that they have been trained to smear their guards for propaganda purposes. He never acknowledges that there might be information that refutes what the prisoners have told him. He just passes off the terrorists’ propaganda as fact, and adds his own anti-American feelings to the brew.
America is full of racists and “Islamophobes” in Mr. Yee’s world, but those detainees at Gitmo are just as right as rain 24/7.
A real piece of work, James Yee. Click to play.
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I’m sure our military is highly sensitive to these type of smears and are very, very careful NOT to “desecrate” Korans.
gmoonster on November 20, 2007 at 2:13 PM
There need to be consequnces to such traitorous activities from a former soldier. Strong consequences.
Frozen Tex on November 20, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Whoops.
Frozen Tex on November 20, 2007 at 2:19 PM
This james yee?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yee
Yee graduated from West Point in 1990. Shortly afterward, he converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991, undergoing religious training in Syria and meeting his wife, a Palestinian Arab, with whom he now has two children
lorien1973 on November 20, 2007 at 2:20 PM
And this james yee?
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.[2] 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.
lorien1973 on November 20, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Yeah, that James Yee.
Bryan on November 20, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Okay, how ’bout stronger consequences?
Frozen Tex on November 20, 2007 at 2:24 PM
I don’t understand why charges got dropped. I thought military courts were secret, so there would be no public airing of classified info?
lorien1973 on November 20, 2007 at 2:25 PM
What a dirt bag. Has there been any corroboration of his claims regarding statements made by the commanding officer regarding the “creativity” of female interrogators?
peski on November 20, 2007 at 2:28 PM
I can not express great enough how much I wouldn’t care if crate loads of Korans were systematically desecrated. On purpose.
Even if there was irrefutable proof… wouldn’t care.
Hoodlumman on November 20, 2007 at 2:29 PM
So, he actually saw this with his own eyes?
I can’t watch the Memri video, my computer won’t play it.
To korans being ‘desecrated’ in whatever way, I say get over it! So what if a couple of books saw the inside of a toilet! It’s just a way for these POS muslims to pull the heartstrings of the libs, whilst plotting the next bloody bomb detonation. Get a life libs, you have no idea what torture is if you think it entails a book being thrown in a toilet or whatever they did to it!
4shoes on November 20, 2007 at 2:29 PM
No, he didn’t see anything with his own eyes. He’s trusting the detainees for all of it.
As to the espionage charges, they fell apart and iirc there wasn’t a very good explanation for it.
Bryan on November 20, 2007 at 2:36 PM
Who gives a spit other than Jerry Rivers?
Wade on November 20, 2007 at 2:38 PM
I wonder whether Yee was Hosenkoff and Isenball’s original source for their Crapperquidick story.
see-dubya on November 20, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Spy
pat on November 20, 2007 at 2:47 PM
These people really need to start being held accountable.
4shoes on November 20, 2007 at 2:48 PM
He should be forced to suck dog food through a straw.
Grrr…..
jdawg on November 20, 2007 at 2:52 PM
The appropriate response to Mr. Yee is to remove the Koran from the toilet with your left hand, while using your right hand to shove his head into the space then left by the removal of the Koran. One must then use ones left foot to depress the “cleansing” lever found on the left side of the toilet, so as to properly “cleanse” the sh&% from Yee’s head.
commonsensehoosier on November 20, 2007 at 2:53 PM
All well and good, except for one thing:
1. Evidence.
He didnt’ see it. Evidence from investigations all show that it didn’t happen. Evidence shows that if it did happen it was done by detainees themselves.
Lawrence on November 20, 2007 at 2:53 PM
Strong evidence to support the theory that the best way to deal with these creeps is to kill them.
Griz on November 20, 2007 at 2:59 PM
The case falling apart aside, unless things have changed over the last 20years, if he was courtmartialed, he would have a right (under the UCMJ) to retain a civilian lawyer.
Catseye on November 20, 2007 at 3:00 PM
That is a very good question.
Bryan on November 20, 2007 at 3:02 PM
B.F.D.
Mr, Yee. Did you know that coalition soldiers have died on the field of battle to achieve a free democratic Iraq? Did you know that some of those dead soldiers were mutilated, burned, and drug through the streets of fallujah & baghdad by the islamo-fascists?
Mr. Yee. I don’t give a damn about their koran.
locomotivebreath1901 on November 20, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Actually, I believe the term you’re searching for is hearsay. He’s making these statements about what happened not based on what he actually saw, but on the words of those incarcerated at GitMo, who are trained in deception and who lie regularly about the conditions, etc.
But, for propaganda purposes, hearsay is more than sufficient.
lawhawk on November 20, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Boo friggin who. “They desecrated my Koran.” Gimme a break. Someone please send me a few copies. I’m running low on TP.
Hammerhead on November 20, 2007 at 3:08 PM
I’m feeling rather traitorphobic towards Mr. Yee.
NellE on November 20, 2007 at 3:11 PM
Perhaps the sort of consequences this guy would come up with, organize, and
executemake happen.Frozen Tex on November 20, 2007 at 3:12 PM
I don’t see how his personal religious beliefs are in any way relevant to this story.
/sarc
saint kansas on November 20, 2007 at 3:12 PM
In Saudi Arabia, bibles are banned.
If some non-citizen of America is suspected of terrorism and being held, and their goddamn book gets wet, GO CRY TO MUHAMMY.
I am so tired of this.
MadisonConservative on November 20, 2007 at 3:13 PM
James Yee, former Muslim Chaplain.
Current Muslim Chump.
Michael Isikoff, former Newsweek Journalist.
Current Newsweek Propagandist.
…… both of these traitors should be ignored.
fogw on November 20, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Can we get a better reference than Wikipedia for this guy’s past?
Another person that didn’t have the guts to slam the U.S. on U.S. soil.
RMCS_USN on November 20, 2007 at 3:17 PM
I’m ashamed that this useful idiot came from my almer mater.
BohicaTwentyTwo on November 20, 2007 at 3:19 PM
I gotta be honest I really don’t care if one was “desecrated”.
bj1126 on November 20, 2007 at 3:19 PM
I have a hard time believing women integrators stripped naked and fondled the detainees. That’s way to far fetched.
I’m guessing he’s out of the country when he did this interview.
Is he returning to the states? Can he be brought up on charges?
He has no evidence, nothing but hearsay.
Kini on November 20, 2007 at 3:27 PM
This guy is a POS and not worth the light of day to listen too or even begin to understand how he is braindead
bones47 on November 20, 2007 at 3:37 PM
Yee Olde Douche
Hening on November 20, 2007 at 3:44 PM
Even the innocent ones? Even the ones who’ve been cleared of all wrong doing?
AJB on November 20, 2007 at 3:50 PM
I misread the headline as “Koreans were desecrated at Gitmo”.
Mindcrime on November 20, 2007 at 3:50 PM
He didn’t actually see the supposed desecration.
The obvious solution is to send him back to Gitmo so he has the opportunity to see for himself… from behind the cell doors.
Hollowpoint on November 20, 2007 at 3:51 PM
This is the real definition of the Ugly American
Kini on November 20, 2007 at 3:59 PM
As a retired Army officer, I am troubled by the thought that West Point could graduate someone so susceptible to muslim mind control. Most of the ring-knockers I encountered over the years were nothing if not strong-minded. Of course, he could just be “whipped” by his palestinian wife.
Still and all, a West Pointer going on Syrian tv and spouting hearsay and lies as gospel makes me sick.
Longhorn Six on November 20, 2007 at 4:21 PM
James Yee isn’t worth the electron it takes to post about him.
Think about the REAL issue here: If a Hindu police officer in Guiana had taken the Lord’s name in vain at Jim Jones in an attempt to save innocent lives, would Christians around the world have rallied in outrage over THAT violation of our Commandments and its possible effect on the delicate religious sensibilities of a mass murderer?
But Muslims around the world do just that sort of thing on a routine basis, and on a massive scale. Is it just me, or does anyone else find that to be just a tiny bit - I dunno - PSYCHOTIC?
logis on November 20, 2007 at 4:38 PM
This is the reason a spy should be hanged by the neck until death.
TheSitRep on November 20, 2007 at 4:54 PM
TexasDan on November 20, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Umm…to which I thought I added:
And an even harder time believing they’d complain. It stretches believability to the breaking point in several directions all at once.
TexasDan on November 20, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Hmmm, Islamic TV broadcast, Islamic traitor to the US and no witnesses…. yep! True muslim scenario.
MNDavenotPC on November 20, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Who is that b*tch that does the interview ?
SIJ6141 on November 20, 2007 at 5:43 PM
I’m so sick of these LIES. A buddy of mine was a guard at GTMO when this supposedly happened and no Koran EVER saw a toilet. END OF STORY.
NTWR on November 20, 2007 at 5:59 PM
I thought, and agree, that it was yee he was talking about.
peacenprosperity on November 20, 2007 at 6:10 PM
Yee….A Durbin plant!
gary on November 20, 2007 at 6:42 PM
Yee = Tool
Wind Rider on November 20, 2007 at 8:29 PM
Instant Hero.
Seixon on November 21, 2007 at 3:40 AM
Here’s wishing that the Army, CIA and Bush Administration were half as evil and murderous as the left says they are. I wouldn’t be reading about this POS any more.
Jaibones on November 21, 2007 at 8:29 AM
I was in a PX the other day, and saw a bible with some torn and dogeared pages.
I know the military desecrates religious books, I saw it for myself.
(and one looked like it has a blood stain…maybe ketchup)
right2bright on November 21, 2007 at 1:01 PM
A nephew of mine, ended up as an interrogator at Gitmo. They were treated like gold. Treat them nice, and they rolled over, the fear they had implanted in the minds by their government was all the fear needed for the to be fully co-operative.
All he had to say was “there are alternatives to our talking on a regular basis, give me the information you are comfortable in giving”. And he could see,in their eyes, the visions of what the prisoner had left behind. The prisoners knew how lucky they were, and responded in kind. No torture, or even a mild brow beating was ever necessary. The just let them save face by not gaining too much information to fast.
All of us, this Thanksgiving, should be thankful of what information we gained from Gitmo. We will never know the thousands of lives our men at Gitmo saved.
right2bright on November 21, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Ha! Me too. :::more coffee:::
baldilocks on November 21, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Hmm. I wonder if we can bring this dirt bag back onto active duty and send him to the chair….
warriorlawyer on November 21, 2007 at 5:37 PM
If it is true who cares? Where is the outrage against piss christ? Elephant dung mary? Christans, the only minority open for assault and derision. Why don’t the protestors take to the streets of Iran? Venezuala? It is easy to complain about government where you are afforded the right of free speech by American patriots.
chicken thief on November 21, 2007 at 8:38 PM
I’m sure there were a few Korans in the World Trade Center and on the planes used to take them down.
Anyone know if the Col. Gordon Cucullo (sp?)address to Gitmo has changed to send cards and packages to?
I’d like to remind folks again this year to remember our guys in Gitmo.
HonestConservative on November 21, 2007 at 8:43 PM
The only way a Koran can be desecrated is if it is printed accurately.
Because Mohammad’s words desecrate the idea of a sane Deity.
But none of these playbooks for theocratic terrorism should have been handed out in the first place.
Strengthening the enemy is the last thing you want to do in a war.
The Koran is a jihad morale boost.
And should be verboten for prisoners.
Which would prevent any accusations of defacing, et al.
profitsbeard on November 22, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Good point. Besides, I thought all good Muslims memorized the Koran. That would remove the need for having them at Gitmo.
oldleprechaun on November 22, 2007 at 6:04 PM
I have a prayer mat on my bathroom floor… is that bad? I had it at the front door but it really isn’t that durable. Yee is a traitor to America and deserves to live the rest in his life under sharia law… I just hope that it is a city we are going to nuke soon.
m1a1usmc on November 22, 2007 at 8:25 PM