Army warden charged with ‘aiding the enemy’

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

A busy fella'. "...relationships involving an interpreter and another Iraqi female"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18311404/

WASHINGTON - NBC News has learned that the commander of Camp Cropper, the massive U.S. Army detention center in Baghdad, has been charged with aiding the enemy.

The Army tells NBC News that military police arrested Lt. Col. William H. Steele several weeks ago and that he is being held at a detention facility in Kuwait. He now faces an Article 32 hearing, the military's equivalent of a grand jury investigation, to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute him.

An Army statement listed these charges against Steele: "One specification of a violation of Article 104, aiding the enemy; one specification of a violation of Article 134, retaining classified material; two specifications of violations of Article 133, conduct unbecoming an officer, for relationships involving an interpreter and another Iraqi female; five specifications of a violation of Article 92, failure to obey lawful orders for wrongfully storing classified materials, improperly marking classified materials, failing to obey an order from a superior officer, possession of pornography and dereliction of duty as an approving official for the expenditure of government funds."

Camp Cropper, located near Baghdad International Airport, is the Army's main holding facility for Iraqi insurgents and detainees. Several thousand people are held there now. Saddam Hussein was held there prior to his execution in December.

[cassiepriam]

1. We are going to be hearing more stories about this kind of thing....

Americans getting into all kinds of trouble.
They have been there a long time now.
Facing death with a lot of time on their hands.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. I wonder...

Could he have been getting ready to blow his whistle?

[gratuitous]

4. A very good question

As a young priest, so the story goes, Martin Luther visited a holy cathedral. The litany was to proceed up the steps, one at a time, saying a prescribed prayer until you reached the top step. The more Protestant version has Luther getting to the top step and proclaiming "Sola fides," that is, by faith alone, the Protestant doctrine of salvation. The more likely version of the story has Luther finishing his pilgrimage, designed to release a captive soul from Purgatory to Heaven, and remarking to himself, "But who can say whether it is so?"

I read a story like this, and I just plain don't know what to think. And that alone should be sufficient grounds for impeachment, conviction and removal from office of this whole criminal cabal.

[Roland99]

3. What'd he do? Speak badly of King George?

[happyslug]

5. Sounds more like sex with his female interrupter.

n/t

[Roland99]

6. If it was JimmyJeff it would have been ok....

[NNN0LHI]

7. What is going to become of the Iraqi/American children when this all is over with?

No one ever mentions this but we know it is happening. The Vietnamese children of American GIs (Amerasian) were treated cruelly when we left there.

Don

[oberliner]

8. Does "fraternized" mean "slept with" ?

He allegedly "knowingly and wrongfully" fraternized with the daughter of a detainee in late October and late February and he had an "inappropriate relationship with an interpreter around Dec. 1, 2005, and Dec. 11, 2006, the military said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_soldier_charged;_ylt=AlBvg7m9x5mnfdv95VuxodNvaA8F