Pentagon IG has just ONE Arabic-speaking auditor

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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/11/pentagon-ig-has-just-one-arabic-speaking-auditor/

Pentagon IG has just one Arabic-speaking auditor.

In a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing today on waste, fraud, and abuse, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) questioned two Iraq watchdogs on how many of their auditors speak Arabic. Pentagon Inspector General Claude Kicklighter responded that of 196 auditors, just one speaks Arabic. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen said that his team has only four.

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Last year, the New York Times reported that just “29 of the 610 people deployed in Iraq as part of the provincial reconstruction program have extensive knowledge of Arabic culture, history and language.”