U.S. to Drop Charge Against Accused Spy (Airman Halabi)

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KIM CURTIS
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - Military prosecutors agreed to drop an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his defense attorney said Wednesday.

Senior Airman Ahmad Al Halabi has pleaded guilty to four "minor infractions," his lawyer Donald Rehkopf Jr. said. He admitted to taking two photos of his workplace and lying about taking those pictures.

He also brought a classified document home without locking it up, which led to a fourth guilty plea, to a charge of "conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline."

... Al Halabi, a naturalized American who was born in Syria, was accused of trying to deliver messages from detainees at Guantanamo to his homeland. He was arrested last July as he headed to Syria to get married.

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