Iraq: Lost in Translation

Issandr El Amrani, writing in The Arabist, links to a story about the recruitment of someone who barely spoke Arabic to work as a translator in Iraq.
“Yet another story of greed, corruption and incompetence in the privatization of the US occupation of Iraq,” he exclaims.

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