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2005-11-08 Home Front: WoT

Arabic translator made calls to insurgent safe houses

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-11-08 00:39|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
-Henry David Thoreau

Posted by .com 2005-11-08 02:39|| 2005-11-08 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Developed ties to "Sunni sheiks" round them up and see that they stop breathing soon. We know what side their tribe is on.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-11-08 04:35|| 2005-11-08 04:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a candidate for Club Gitmo!

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-08 07:56|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-08 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Sigh. Our government is made up of a bunch of Special Ed dropouts.

Posted by ed 2005-11-08 08:00|| 2005-11-08 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Seems to me employing non-native citizens in positions with access to classified information (in either governmental or private industry positions) needs some rethinking.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-08 10:39|| 2005-11-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 ditto Rama.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-08 10:44|| 2005-11-08 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Forget the lied to gain US citizenship angle and treat him as a citizen. The punishment for treason is...

Posted by rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-11-08 11:18|| 2005-11-08 11:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Remember that after 9/11 the Persian-Jewish community (who were all US citizens of long standing) volunteered en masse to work as translators for the FBI, but none were hired, lest the Muslim translators be upset by having to work beside Jews.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-11-08 16:18|| 2005-11-08 16:18|| Front Page Top

#9 The more one hears about the endless stream of Muslim complaints, the more difficult it is not to develop a healthy dislike for the religion and a lot of its adherents.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-08 16:57|| 2005-11-08 16:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Trailing Wife, I guess it never occured to anyone in the gov to have two buildings and not let them talk to each other? THey should do that as a matter of course and have some things translated by both groups for a compare and contrast on the quality levels.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-11-08 16:58|| 2005-11-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 The more one hears about the endless stream of Muslim complaints, the more difficult it is not to develop a healthy dislike for the religion and a lot of its adherents.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-08 16:57|| Front Page|| Comment Top

Rama: Most of my friends and family have already arrived!

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-08 17:01|| 2005-11-08 17:01|| Front Page Top

#12 The man's lawyer, Mildred M. Whalen, acknowledged during the hearing that her client had become a citizen based on false statements. But she said that he had spoken to the Sunni sheiks as part of their negotiations to get contracts with the United States military and that the conversations had developed into social relationships. "He would receive calls from them, he would call them to simply ask how they were," Ms. Whalen said

Mildred, that is weak. Very, very weak. I mean that is SO lame, Leno could use it.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-08 20:31|| 2005-11-08 20:31|| Front Page Top

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