Concerning this story about a US Army Muslim chaplain being detained for possible spying:
Yee left the Army for Syria, where he received religious training. He returned to the U.S. military soon after.
(I also commented further here.)
Update: via Kathy Kinslet, this article in the Washington Post, which has further details Yee's conversion to Islam:
He converted to Islam about the time he served a stint in Saudi Arabia after the Persian Gulf War. After quitting the military, he spent four years studying Islam in Damascus, Syria, and returned to the United States a trained imam.
And we know what sort of Islam is practiced in Saudi Arabia. It's getting more and more difficult to ignore that imam behind the curtain...
Posted by Andrea Harris at September 21, 2003 09:30 AMI don't really have an answer to why he studied in Syria except that maybe that was just his advanced courses?
See the bottom of the post on the trackback I sent you to find out where he was stationed before he left the army. I suspect you'll find it velly intellesting...