9/15/2003

“…in a typical U.S. Army ‘comedy of errors,’ its intelligence officers were shocked to discover that many of the cryptologic linguists that they had in Iraq could speak Korean, French, Spanish, and other languages–but not Arabic. How they ended up in Iraq in the first place remains a question that army intelligence officials do not seem to want to answer. As of September 2003, many of these ‘misplaced persons’ were still in Iraq doing jobs that had nothing to do with intelligence, such as pulling guard duty, manning traffic checkpoints at base gates, or working as administrative clerks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Pages 267-268