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Old September 13th 04, 01:31 AM
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Air Force Spy Trial to Proceed Despite Modified Evidence

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{EXCERPT} By Charles Lane Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday,
September 12, 2004; Page A09

With a military espionage trial against a former Air Force translator
at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, set to begin
Tuesday, the Air Force has backed off from much of the evidence
against him.

In a statement last week, the Air Force acknowledged that only one of
the more than 200 documents it had accused Senior Airman Ahmad al
Halabi of plotting to smuggle into Syria was classified.

The concession is the latest government retrenchment in a series of
cases that last year led investigators to suspect a possible spy ring
at the prison for alleged al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, and resulted
in the arrests of two U.S. servicemen and a contract translator, all
of them Muslim.

Earlier this year, the government dropped all charges against Capt.
James Yee, a Muslim Army chaplain. He had been threatened with the
death penalty for sedition and espionage w...

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