Posted on 03/31/2009 8:54:15 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "The CIA is attempting to recruit more spies by advertising on the internet, radio and television, and by holding meetings with American Muslims to make up a severe shortage of Arabic speakers....
Leon Panetta, the new CIA director, will meet Muslim groups in cities such as Detroit to spearhead personally the new drive to recruit Arabic speakers. He recently lamented the fact that only 13 per cent of CIA officers speak a foreign language, and just 22 per cent come from minorities.
"In order to accomplish our vital intelligence mission we want to market our employment opportunities to speakers of Arabic, Russian, Korean, Pashtu and Urdu," George Little, a CIA spokesman, told The Times....
Earlier this month Scott White, third in command at the CIA, held meetings with Arab-American and Chaldean-American representatives in Detroit, which has heavily populated American Muslim suburbs. He told the groups that he would bring Mr Panetta to a future meeting...."
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
Panetta recruiting Muzzies to be in the CIA.
Why do I not have a warm-fuzzy feeling about this?
If the CIA is going to infiltrate Muslim extremist groups, they need a good supply of native Arabic speakers of the right ethnicities, who can pass for the jihadist version of “good ol’ boys”. They can start out the trainees by having them surf the internet, zipping through the reams of extremist stuff posted in Arabic. We are screwed if we don’t have enough native Arabic speakers in the CIA to cover all this stuff.
The shortage of Arabic and Farsi interpreters is the fault of the Government. Shortly after 9-11 the Government was recruiting Arabic and Farsi interpreters. The only catch was that one had to have a Masters Degree to be considered. Unfortunately for the Government they didn’t have many takers. Then there were the Arabic speaking Jews that applied. They were not considered at all.
I finished watching NCIS 5 minutes. Something was mentioned during the show that I wondered about. Are Homeland Security & CIA the only agencies that can confiscate funds suspected for use in terrorism or illegal activity like drug trade? Any freeper know this?
“Why do I not have a warm-fuzzy feeling about this?”
I don’t know. Exactly how would a white non-Arabic-speaking, non-Muslim guy infiltrate these groups?
With a bunker buster.
The whole cunning linguist thing is just easy...
Many American contractors that had been in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere are pretty good at speaking Arabic and Farsi. Some did live in American compounds while many lived among the general populace. Learning the language, dialect and customs were a matter of survival.
I was there during the ousting of the Shah. It was something else.
I sure hope so.
I agree. The variant in the inflection of some tones changes the entire meaning.
> Exactly how would a white non-Arabic-speaking, non-Muslim guy infiltrate these groups?
Beats me. Just be prepared (or pretend) to face Mecca and bow down 5 times in a day, plus have a wicked prayer rug handy.
You know, the CIA has already spent millions and millions of dollars recruiting and arming Muslims around the world. The armed forces have done the same. That give you a warm-fuzzy?
Will the govt. consider funding the classes in return for a commitment to work for them?
Cheers!
“The shortage of Arabic and Farsi interpreters is the fault of the Government. Shortly after 9-11 the Government was recruiting Arabic and Farsi interpreters. The only catch was that one had to have a Masters Degree to be considered. Unfortunately for the Government they didn’t have many takers. Then there were the Arabic speaking Jews that applied. They were not considered at all.”
And those Arabic and Farsi speaking Jews are people the U.S. can actually trust and trust well to be acting in the best interests of the U.S., rather than as a fifth column in the CIA and FBI. Many of these Arabic and Farsi speaking Jews are the children and grandchildren of the 850,000-900,000 Jews whom Islamic regimes expelled and forced to flee with only the clothes on their backs. These Jewish families had been living in these places for thousands of years. The Babylonian Empire was not yesterday.
Among all the bogus Islamic claims about Muslim refugees from Israel, one doesn’t ever hear the Islamic countries admitting that they themselves actually expelled Jews from their own lands and their numbers exceeded the number who fled from the Holy Land at the direction of their leaders who promised them they’d come back and take everything that was Jewish.
Persian, Egyptian, Syrian, Yemenite, Moroccan, Tunisian and Israeli Jewss love the U.S. and hihgly well-suited recruits could be found among them. The U.S. intelligence community needs to bring in Arabic and Farsi speakers it can trust with the greatest degree of certainty. They need to remove their brains from where the sun doesn’t shine and stop blacklisting Jews withe these languages skills from these positions.
It was more a comment on PANETTA than the muslims.
Somehow I can envision a complete trainwreck coming when CAIR operatives get these intelligence positions.
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