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2008-10-14 Iraq

British interpreter accused of espionage

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I don't guess they have the gallows anymore in Britain. A pity.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-10-14 07:30|| 2008-10-14 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 sounds like a George Galloway protege.

Posted by Hammerhead 2008-10-14 08:54|| 2008-10-14 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Corporal Daniel James sent a coded message to an Iranian military attache in Kabul, telling him, "I am at your service."

Are Iranian military attachés in the habit of handing out secret codes to just anybody? Or, contrariwise, did Cpl James send the message off in his own code, hoping the recipient would 1)know that it was in code, and 2)figure out immediately which code he'd used?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-14 10:01|| 2008-10-14 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 You can bet your shepherd's pie this is not an isolated incident considering he's a British raised subject and infiltrated the Army.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-10-14 10:55|| 2008-10-14 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The accused traitor is said to be Iranian born, yet he answers to a Chrisitian name: Daniel James.

Can anyone offer an explanation for that? Odd.

I for one would like to see more and more young non-muslims learning the languages of the middle east and south east asia. I would prefer to rely on non-muslims for tranlation work. Put another way, if a muslim and non-muslim are equally qualified for the translation job, then the job goes to the non-muslim.

Discriminatory? Yeah. Sue me.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-10-14 11:40|| 2008-10-14 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 He must have been so useless they "burnt" him instead of using him as a false info conduit.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-14 11:46|| 2008-10-14 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 yet he answers to a Chrisitian name: Daniel James.

That would be his English name, so that he didn't have to keep explaining how to pronounce the Iranian one, MarkZ. Much like the Help Desk people answering the phone in India will give their name as Dave or Susan instead of Velmurugan (the real name of the nice man who helped me today) or Nandita.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-14 17:19|| 2008-10-14 17:19|| Front Page Top

#8 New last name: "Deever"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-10-14 17:28|| 2008-10-14 17:28|| Front Page Top

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