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October 10, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35018

FBI: Jews Need Not Apply for Arabic Linguist Jobs

(WorldNetDaily) Paul Sperry - Despite a shortage of Arabic translators, the FBI turned down applications for linguist jobs from nearly 100 Arabic-speaking Jews in New York following the World Trade Center attacks. Some of the more than 90 applicants had helped translate Arabic for Israeli radio and TV news stations and the Israeli army before coming to America, said Doug Balin, director of the Sephardic Bikur Holim, a Jewish social-services agency in Brooklyn, N.Y. The FBI has been hard-pressed to clear a large backlog of untranslated documents and recorded dialogue in Arabic, information that could produce clues to terrorist plots in the U.S.

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