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To: LindyBill who wrote (9062)	9/24/2003 2:33:47 AM
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This is getting to the meat of it. Good for Schumer. This is a Wahabi organization. cnn.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York told reporters Tuesday that the group the military relies on to train Muslim chaplains such as Yee is under investigation by the Justice Department for allegations of supporting terrorism. He said Yee was trained by the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, a subgroup of the American Muslim Foundation, which is under investigation, along with the Graduate School for Islamic Social Sciences. The Pentagon uses the two groups to certify and train Muslim chaplains for the military, Schumer said. A government official confirmed to CNN that the two groups are under investigation as part of a probe into whether they and other groups supported terrorism. "I fully support the teaching and worship of Islam in the military, but I think it is common sense that the groups in charge of vetting people don't have links to terrorism and are fundamentally pluralistic," Schumer told reporters. The government official confirmed a relationship between Yee and the group, but he did not know its nature. Schumer said the Justice and Defense departments opened a probe into the two groups six months ago at his urging. But he said their inspectors general have dragged their feet. He said Yee's arrest underscored the need to pick up the pace. "You would think that a chaplain who was detained for supposedly stealing classified documents and was also trained by a group under investigation for terrorism would set off alarms at the highest levels," the senator said. "But it is business as usual and we are going to pay a price for it." Schumer said he would like to see the Pentagon use a broader range of groups to certify clerics than just the two under investigation.

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