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Afp Some Translators Quitting After

Juan Cole 11/06/2003

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AFP: Some Translators Quitting after Death Threats

AFP is reporting that some translators working for the Coalition have received death threats accusing them of being collaborators, and have quit their jobs as a result.

The US civil and military administrators in Iraq seldom know Arabic and lack of Arabic has been a major contributor to misunderstandings that have turned deadly in cities like Fallujah. Depriving the Coalition of its translators would blind it further.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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