A Muslim chaplain who served at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has been charged with adultery and storing pornography on a US government computer.
Army Captain Yousef Yee, who served at the prison camp for terror suspects, was released from pre-trial confinement after being served with the additional charges, said Raul Duany, a spokesman for US Southern Command in Miami.
Adultery is a crime under the uniform code of military justice.
He was arrested earlier this year in Florida and confined to the military brig in Charleston, South Carolina.
Military officials brought the additional charges after a lengthy investigation, Duany said.
The charges include storing pornographic images on his computer, having sexual relations outside marriage, disobeying an order and making a false official statement.
Yee, a Chinese-American who converted to Islam after graduating from West Point, was arrested September 10 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Federal agents said they found the native of Springfield, New Jersey, carrying sketches of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he counseled prisoners accused of links to Afghanistan's fallen Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network.
Investigators have said Yee had documents concerning alleged fighters to whom he had ministered, and their US interrogators.
Yee was charged on October 10 with disobeying a general order by taking classified material home and transporting classified information without proper security containers.
His wife, Huda Suboh, 29, lives in Olympia, Washington, with the couple's two young children. She was not immediately available for comment today but earlier defended his innocence.
"James wants me to tell you all that he is innocent," Suboh, a Syrian native said earlier this month. "He is going to fight the charges with all his energy."
Major General Geoffrey Miller, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, will preside over an Article 32 hearing, the prelude to a general court-martial.
Senior Airman Ahmed I. al-Halabi, an Air Force supply clerk who worked as an Arabic translator at the prison for about nine months, faces more than 30 charges, including espionage and aiding the enemy. He has pleaded innocent.
A civilian interpreter, Ahmad F. Mehalba, was arrested last month in Boston while returning to the United States from his native Egypt. He's charged with lying to federal agents by denying computer discs he was carrying had classified information from Guantanamo on them. He has pleaded innocent.
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