<p>A Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified information from the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo, Cuba, was detained after he was found with a paper about Syria and two pocket-sized notebooks in his backpack, a U.S. Customs agent testified Monday.</p><p>Army Capt. James Yee, 35, is charged with taking classified documents home with him on a flight to Jacksonville, Fla., where he was detained Sept. 10. He was charged with disobeying an order by taking the material and with transporting classified documents improperly.</p><p>Yee served 67 days in a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., before the Army released him. The government then filed additional charges of making a false statement, storing pornography on a government computer and adultery _ a criminal offense under military law.</p><p>Mondays preliminary hearing will determine if there is enough evidence against Yee to warrant a court-martial.</p><p>Special Agent Sean Rafferty, who works as a U.S. Customs inspector in Jacksonville, Fla., said he was tipped off to watch for Yee at the airport there as Yee returned from the Cuba base.</p><p>Rafferty said he stopped Yee and found two pocket-sized notebooks, a paper on Syria and a typed list of names and numbers with the top torn off in the backpack Yee carried off the plane.</p><p>I found numerous notes of a suspicious nature, Rafferty said during a conference call to the courtroom, being careful not to describe the papers. It was determined the documents were of interest to national security.</p><p>When questioned by Yees attorney, Eugene Fidell of Washington, Rafferty said none of the material was marked secret or classified. Fidell also said the paper on Syria was part of Yees work as a graduate student in international studies.</p><p>Rafferty refused to say who in federal law enforcement told him to look for Yee.</p><p>The first witness to testify Monday was Navy reserve officer Lt. Caren Wallace, who said she had sex with Yee at his quarters in Guantanamo, Cuba, and at a motel in Orlando, Fla., where he was attending a conference.</p><p>Wallace, now assigned to San Diego, is being given immunity from prosecution for her testimony. Photographs of the two were entered into evidence, including one showing Yee and Wallace hugging.</p><p>Yees wife, Huda Yee, who arrived at the courthouse Monday along with her 4-year-old daughter and Yees parents, sat stone-faced during Wallaces testimony. But during a break, she sat on a bench outside the courtroom and dabbed at her eyes with a tissue. Yees mother comforted her.</p><p>She later confronted Wallace outside the courtroom.</p><p>You happy now? You broke up a family, Huda Yee yelled at the woman.</p><p>Wallace responded: Youll have to speak to him (Yee).</p><p>Mondays hearing had been delayed for a week after prosecutors discovered the legal staff at Guantanamo had mistakenly released a classified document to the hearing officer and to Yees attorney.</p><p>During a break in the hearing, Fidell was given the papers granting him security clearance to examine the documents used to prosecute Yee. Although the clearance was delivered Monday, it was dated Dec. 1 and Fidell questioned why there had been a delay.</p><p>Yee is a 1990 West Point graduate who left the military for four years to study Arabic and Islam in Syria. After his return to the Army as a chaplain, he counseled some of the 660 suspected terrorists from 44 nations being held at the remote base on the eastern tip of Cuba.</p><p>He is one of four who served at Guantanamo facing charges.</p><p>Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, a Syrian-born Arabic translator, has pleaded innocent to charges of espionage and aiding the enemy.</p><p>A civilian interpreter, Ahmad F. Mehalba, was arrested last month in Boston and charged with lying to federal agents by denying computer discs he was carrying had classified information from Guantanamo. He also has pleaded innocent.</p><p>On Nov. 29, Col. Jack Farr, an Army Reserve intelligence officer on six-month assignment to Guantanamo Bay, was charged with transporting secret documents without proper containers and with lying to investigators.</p>
