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US puts Iraqi documents on the Web ~ MSM acknowledges ...Goal is to speed up translation of files
Boston Globe ^
| March 18, 2006
| Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff
Posted on 03/18/2006 10:24:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All
I'm putting all the links, quotes, etc., I find on this here:
The Iraq Documents
...but note this little nugget I found, and the date:
Stephen Hayes most recent article in the Weekly Standard is a real eye-opener too.
In the minutes to come, we regained composure, biting our lips as Amir worked away at the rest of the document with the knife blade, as if performing open-heart surgery. A second blob of corrective fluid came off, revealing another "bin Laden." And then a third.
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posted on
03/18/2006 10:56:22 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: jveritas
You are doing a great service for our country.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have mixed thoughts on the issue of just who should provide the translation services. Language translation is a science in some respects. With all the various forms of written and spoken Arabic, unless one is very well studied in this field one could easily let important things go un-noticed.
Plus, unlike say an US Army translator, who one would assume is pretty well vetted, one would have to assume the translations and interpretations are honest presentations of what is written. Things could get royaly out of hand in no time.
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posted on
03/18/2006 10:57:59 AM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: Spunky
Wide dissemination. "Real smart move."
On the 16th I read an FR post entitled "Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden." This had been translated and posted. I suggested that the translator send it back to the source (Foreign Military Studies Office: Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
so it could be posted by them in English as well as Arabic, but when he tried he could not do it. Is this more incomplete planning by the Administration, or his lack of computer skills?
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:03:07 AM PST
by
gleeaikin
(Question Authority)
To: Freee-dame
I and others are doing the translation for free and I do not intend to charge for translations when it is my duty to help our great nation in time of war by revealing the truth about Saddam regime and Al Qaeda. It took me little effort to translate some of the documents from Arabic to English, however the great efforts and great sacrifice are being done on a daily basis by our brave troops to whom we should send our immense thanks and gratitude.
God bless our troops.
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:03:09 AM PST
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: Marine_Uncle
Well the documents are not being altered....and the "
GOOD STUFF" will get a lot of eyes looking at it.....
To: johnny7; Marine_Uncle
Right....SADDAM nailed!!!
To: backhoe
Thanks for your excellent efforts....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Someone could unearth photos of Sadaam and Bin Laden exchanging money and the MSM would yawn. It's just too darn bad that Bush lacks Reagan's rhetorical skills, because selling a policy has become as important as having a policy.
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:06:36 AM PST
by
veronica
("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
To: jveritas
Thank you for your efforts and your great attitude!
To: ARealMothersSonForever
Thank you, the translations that I made really pale in comparison to the great sacrifice of our brave troops.
God bless our troops
God bless America.
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:09:36 AM PST
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: Dog Gone
I suspect the WH knows what is in most of this stuff.
To: Elsiejay
President Bush explicitly and affirmatively ordered the release of the contents of this document dump, Thank you for saying this. I said the same thing a day or two ago and provided the links. Of course, I received no reply. ;*)
After the President began calling for the release, a couple of critters jumped on the band wagon and "made it happen" dontchaknow
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:11:10 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Well the documents are not being altered....and the "GOOD STUFF" "will get a lot of eyes looking at it....."
Fair enough E. I hope what I mentioned does not become a key note by the L/MSM to discredit any important revelations.
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:12:48 AM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: jveritas
I haven't taken the opportunity to thank you yet, so.....
Thank you for this great service to our country!
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:12:56 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
To: backhoe; Cindy; Peach; Mo1; onyx; Brad's Gramma
Stephen Hayes most recent article in the Weekly Standard is a real eye-opener too.We have got to highlight that for our readers:
************************************
SEE THIS:
Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection
And other revelations from the Iraqi regime files.
by Stephen F. Hayes 03/27/2006, Volume 011, Issue 26
***************************************AN EXCERPT *********************************
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.
The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. Now the proverbial dam has broken. On March 16, the U.S. government posted on the web 9 documents captured in Iraq, as well as 28 al Qaeda documents that had been released in February. Earlier last week, Foreign Affairs magazine published a lengthy article based on a review of 700 Iraqi documents by analysts with the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Plans for the release of many more documents have been announced. And if the contents of the recently released materials and other documents obtained by The Weekly Standard are any indication, the discussion of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq is about to get more interesting.
To: Justanobody
Thank you :) I am just doing my duty.
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:16:09 AM PST
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: Recovering_Democrat; backhoe; Justanobody; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone; ...
This is starting to look like a tidal wave heading for the Main Stream Media....
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
it's a duty for people who know Arabic [
and English, BTW]
to translate the documents.One or two Israelis might fit that bill . . .
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:22:23 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
To: jveritas
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posted on
03/18/2006 11:22:26 AM PST
by
M203M4
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