Saturday, October 14, 2006

"Terrorism" yani e?

The latest on where all those Homeland Security dollars are not going:

FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills (washingtonpost.com)

This one speaks for itself, or should anyway. And we're talking about the FBI, not Rumsfled's crew or the CIA. The FBI is the only agency that might actually stand a chance in hell of hiring any Arabic-speakers. The FBI should have been out for the last 5 years at least, looking for anyone who could say khara convincingly. They should have even called people like me, if nothing else worked. (And no, I'm not interested, and you really don't want me anyway).

Starting bloodshed and drama in other people's countries will make bad guys go away, but hiring a few Arabic-speakers to look for all those bad-guy-cells-among-us is too difficult? This war-on-terror being a front for other things, however, it makes perfect sense. I wonder if any Houston-based companies have any Arabic-speakers working for them? Or maybe Wolfowitz's friends could find some. The FBI should try asking around.

Doh!

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