Camp Delta translator faces spy charges

MILITARY officials have charged a US Air Force translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with espionage and aiding the enemy for allegedly trying to send information about detainees to Syria.

The Pentagon’s disclosure of the case against Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi comes three days after officials said a Muslim chaplain at the Cuban base had been arrested. The chaplain, Army Capt Yusef Yee, has not been charged.

The two men knew each other, an Air Force spokesman said, but officials said they did not know if there had been any conspiracy to breach security at the prison camp.