recruit her into that organization, and insisted that Dickerson be the only one to translate the FBI’s wiretaps of that Turkish official. …Edmonds says that when she reviewed Dickerson’s translations of those tapes, she found that Dickerson had left out information crucial to the FBI’s investigation–information that Edmonds says would have revealed that the Turkish intelligence officer had spies working for him inside the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon. These spies sneak in because the U.S. has a huge shortage of Arabic translators. The General Accounting Office documented last year that the U.S,Toms Shoes Outlet Store Sale. Army’s efforts to recruit Arabic-language interpreters fell short by 50 percent in FY 2001.This shortage has already hindered America’s war effort in Iraq. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer notes that “[t]he Bush administration now blames the shortage of translators for part of the delay in the search for alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.” There are thousands of documents in Arabic to read and not enough people able to read them.The man now in charge of our troops in Iraq, Lt. General John Abizaid, is a graduate of West Point who holds a master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard and is fluent in Arabic. Americans like Abizaid are rare.Since 9/11, more Americans are studying Arabic, but there aren’t enough to make a difference.This leaves the translation field to either Arab Americans, who are predominantly Christian refugees from the Middle East, and Muslims, since learning the Arabic language is required to properly read the Koran.Outside recruitment agencies do their best to screen out bad guys, but as Lora Owings of Worldwide Language Resources admits, “People lie.”Arab Christians have been finding the doors of translation employment barely ajar to them because of their supposed inadequate understanding of Islam.Accordingly, the largest pool of available Arabic translators are Muslims, who vary in their devotion to their faith.While not all Muslims are opposed to America’s foreign policies, some are. A Zogby poll of Muslim Americans asked them to choose how best to wage the war against terrorism found that 67 percent picked “Changing America’s Middle East policy” while just seven percent picked the second most popular option, “Using U.S. military covert/Special Forces.” More moderate Muslims are also subject to constant pressures from their more militant colleagues.What if someone opposed to American policies is given a place where he or she might directly affect them,toms shoes online?Consider Ana Belen Montes, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in October 2002, after admitting to spying for Cuba since 1985.Montes exposed four U.S. agents working in Cuba and sent numerous classified documents to Fidel Castro. But her greatest success, noted the Wall Street Journal on November 1, 2002, may have been as the “key drafter” of a 1998 Defense Department report that Cuba posed no military risk to the United States and was unlikely to have either biological or chemical weapons.It is reasonable for anyone to ask why it takes the United States years or even decades to identify spies like Montes. The answer is that accused spies in these politically correct times will claim discrimination, a charge likely to destroy any investigator’s government career.In addition there are many organizations determined to make reasonable security precautions impossible to conduct,cheap toms.The Washington Post reported on September 18th that the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee actually objected to an effort to identify a bearded individual who took pictures of the structure of Baltimore’s baseball stadium with his back to the field and then left before the game started. “If it’s someone taking a picture and leaving, I just don’t think that should be seen as suspicious,” said Hussein Ibish.Just wait until the ACLU and the EEOC find out that one of the accused Arabic translators, Ahmad al-Halabi, has been forbidden to speak to any Related articles:

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