A September 2001 article in The Atlantic Monthly quoted a former CIA Near East Division operative, who said: ” ‘The CIA probably doesn’t have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years of his life with shitty food and no women in the mountains of Afghanistan. …We don’t do that kind of thing.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 109