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Volunteers on US’s Syria ceasefire hotline can’t speak Arabic
The Times of Israel ^
| 3/2/16
| AFP
Posted on 03/02/2016 4:11:53 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON, United States — The United States is to review staffing on a hotline to report ceasefire violations in Syria after some volunteers had trouble understanding Arabic speakers.
State Department personnel in Washington are manning a line to allow witnesses in Syria to report breaches in a tentative truce between rebels and regime forces.
But in recent days reports have surfaced that callers from the Middle East have found it hard to explain the details of alleged air and artillery strikes.
According to non-profit news organization “Syria Direct” one US official mistook “Harbnifsah” — a frontline village — for “Harb Bebsi” or “Pepsi War.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabic; hotline; syria
Stuff you can't make up.
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:11:53 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:12:56 PM PST
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:13:50 PM PST
by
Lera
(1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
To: Nachum
Push “1” for Arabic, “2” for Farsi,.”3” for Ebonics..”4” for English....etc.
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:14:33 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Nachum
Shoulda outsourced it to India.
-PJ
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:17:39 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Nachum
but, are they the CORRECT SKIN COLOR (Black).
After all, isn’t that ALL that really matters in Democrat World?
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:22:48 PM PST
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Jim, his crew, and every other FReeper thanks you.
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:24:01 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: tcrlaf
At least, the caller’s aren’t being put on terminal hold.
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:34:03 PM PST
by
Sasparilla
(Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
To: Nachum
...wanna bet they pass the race and gender hurdles ??
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:46:31 PM PST
by
ptsal
To: Nachum
Russians are just asking for Tweets of bad guys locations so they can airdrop a cure ...
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posted on
03/02/2016 5:00:23 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Nachum
Good bet they were recently RIF’d from the Obamacare Hotline.
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posted on
03/02/2016 5:50:37 PM PST
by
moovova
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