[Myrddin]

It's a great "work at home" business. As you correctly point out, a paycheck might well be issued from an obscure company for "stuffing envelopes" or similar nonsense.

[txhurl]

I wonder often what is the best fast-track to learning Arabic.

[BobS]

You don't know. I heard before I left Europe in the late 80's from a buddy in the ??? is that agents got paid from any place because they cut a check from cash provided to the owner plus 5%.

It's not a secret anymore. We were just better at it than the old Soviet Union. There are books written about that stuff. Even books in Russian. I would like to know scribbled Arabic and sit around in my underwear and a bathrobe and a coffee cup unshaven and do this job:) It must be a GS-13 job.