Six of 1,000 speak Arabic fluently at U.S. embassy in Iraq
After more than three years in their country, the U.S. military still can't understand Iraqis.
The Iraq Study Group said the lack of Arabic speakers has hurt U.S. intelligence collection and analysis. The bipartisan panel said the U.S. military and government rely too much on non-U.S. translators, who fail to provide context.
"As an intelligence analyst told us, 'We rely too much on others to bring information to us, and too often don't understand what is reported back because we do not understand the context of what we are told,'" the...
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