Posted on 11/07/2005 3:59:48 PM PST by jmc1969
NEW YORK -- An Arabic interpreter for the Army may have secretly helped Iraqi insurgents by improperly taking classified documents from Iraq home to Brooklyn, where he made dozens of phone calls to numbers linked to the insurgency, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
The man's attorney said he simply had been maintaining innocent relationships with Iraqi contacts approved by his military supervisors.
After returning to the U.S. earlier this year, the man had more than 100 cell phone conversations with numbers directly involved with the insurgency, Buretta said, including numbers found at suspected safehouses for Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
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OMG.....we will never learn.
Don't they do background checks on interpreters???
Sounds like a spy to me, shoot him.
I think we were so desperate for Arabic translators, we would have taken anyone but OBL.
OMG he had the cell phone number for Zarqawi.
If he's guilty,he deserves a 21 gun salute...aimed at the bridge of his nose.
launch him from a catapult on the jersey shoreline pointed towards mecca.
What's the problem?
Charge him, try him and if guilty -- shoot him.
Semper Fi
Take him outback and put six in his head......NOW!
"If he's guilty,he deserves a 21 gun salute...aimed at the bridge of his nose."
No, he is a traitor and a spy. Shooting is too good. He needs to be hung like a common criminal.
And after 911, the story is that the FBI translators--Arabs--had a little celebration in their office in Washington.
Later, when the FBI advertised for Arabic speakers in New York, some 90 Yeminite Jews responded. They knew the language and the culture and the idioms, etc. But the FBI wouldn't hire one of them. (I guess the Saudis would object.)
So we are stuck with double-minded translators.
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Its pretty damn sad that Zarqawi has been getting military updates from inside the US and from classified coalition documents.
Learn what? Remember the Moslem chaplain at Guantanamo the Army charged with stealing classified documents, who turned out to be innocent? How about learning that 'charged' isn't 'proved'?
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OK, this isn't good, but the FBI dodged a bullet. Imagine what could have happened if they'd hired Jews!
Yes, of course. See post 17. That's why we don't hire arabic speaking Jews.
No, we wouldn't. We turned down Jewish translators by the hundred. See post 17.
Farah Aideed of Somalia had a son who was a city clerk in LONG BEACH, CA. This son was also a USMC reservist. The son was called to duty when his unit was sent to Somalia, and he did desert his MC duties, joining one of the local warlord clans...
Just some related trivia for you, there...
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