Afghanistan

Whistleblower Says Interpreters Stationed In Afghanistan Can't Speak Local Languages

Ryan J. Reilly | September 9, 2010, 9:06AM

A U.S. Marine in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.

As if the U.S. wasn't facing enough problems in Afghanistan, a former employee of a government contractor that supplies interpreters to the U.S. Army said in an ABC News report that more than one quarter of the translators working in the country had failed language proficiency exams, but they were sent onto the battlefield anyway.

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