Islamists at Gitmo
Charles Johnson
Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 5:55 pm PDT • Views: 162
The Guantanamo Bay investigation keeps getting more disturbing. The latest person arrested, civilian translator Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, tried twice to qualify as a military intelligence interrogator.
The latest man arrested was identified as Egyptian-American Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, 31. He is a civilian who formerly served in the Army and twice started but failed to complete a military intelligence course to become an interrogator, two defense officials said on condition of anonymity.
Mehalba was medically discharged from the Army in May 2001 and later hired by a private defense contractor to be a translator at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, they said.
Officials said they had no further information on why he didn’t complete the courses, nor what the medical discharge was for.
It’s becoming clear that Islamists have been making a concerted effort to infiltrate our military and security organizations.
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