http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_recruiting_immigrants
(AP)
“Intel agencies seek help recruiting immigrants”
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
11 minutes ago
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “McLEAN, VA - The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are telling intelligence officials. The government’s policies raise suspicions and fear in the immigrants’ home countries and disturb potential recruits here who might otherwise want to help.
The U.S. knows it needs the help. At the heart of a Friday summit with immigrant groups was a stark reality: The intelligence agencies lack people who can speak the languages that are needed most, like Arabic, Farsi and Pashtu. More importantly, the agencies lack people with the cultural awareness that allows them to grasp the nuances embedded in dialect, body language and even street graffiti.
At the suburban Virginia summit, not far from the CIA and National Counterterrorism Center, officials gathered more than a dozen representatives of recent immigrant and other ethnic groups to get their recruiting assistance.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2009929/posts?page=547#547
Hmmm...what to do; what to do??!!!
This is a good time to wonder what Tom Clancy (or even the FBI, CIA, etc.) would do.
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blog:
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=385
“Islamist Forum Seeking People Proficient in Languages”
BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: “The languages listed in members’ responses included Albanian, Bengali, Berber, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Kurdish, Malay, Norwegian, Pashto, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Uzbek.
Currently, jihadist material on Al-Ikhlas is translated into English, French, Italian and Turkish.”
(Posted May 13, 2008)
547 posted on May 14, 2008 1:55:37 PM PDT by Cindy