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2010-11-13 Arabia

Lawyer Cori Crider, "Sharif Mobley was tortured in Yemeni Prison."

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Posted by Fred 2010-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1 More likely the interrogators told him that they would confine him to a cell with his mouthy wife, after which he sang like a canary ...

That's a new keyboard you owe me, fella. :)

Also wanted to mention that it ain't hard to learn Arabic here in the states - a young man working for me is a convert to Islam and he speaks it quite well with nothing more than books you can buy at just about any decent bookstore. I've looked at 'em - quite reasonable, they are, teaching you how to learn phrases that will enable you to buy groceries, ask for a doctor, carry on an intelligent conversation, that sort of thing. I'm guessing those Yemeni books were needed to learn that green wire/red wire stuff.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-11-13 09:26|| 2010-11-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr. Wife studied Arabic with a tutor provided by Inlingua, a competitor of Berlitz (in Cincinnati the two companies are within walking distance of one another). While the nice Palestinian university student and the textbook provided was very useful for daily conversation, reading menus and shop signs (Mr. Wife greatly impressed his colleagues in India by reading the Urdu shop signs, written in Arabic), the teaching clearly would not have been adequate for studying the Koran, written in the classical dialect, any more than English as a Second Language classes would prepare one for Shakespear and Chaucer.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-13 11:40|| 2010-11-13 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Chaucer is in English?

:p

Posted by Pappy 2010-11-13 13:17|| 2010-11-13 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Pappy, my mother found it helpful to read Chaucer as if it were in modern Dutch instead of Middle English. Her professor praised her pronunciation, and she had no trouble with the vocabulary or grammar. In fairness, though, it must be remarked that her first reading assignment in the English language was Romeo and Juliet, so perhaps her feel for the language was a bit skewed.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-13 13:37|| 2010-11-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Mike,
carry on an intelligent conversation, that sort of thing.
In Arabic? Didn't know it was even possible.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-13 16:58|| 2010-11-13 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 "Dirka dirka jihad jihad"

how'd I do?

Posted by Frank G 2010-11-13 17:05|| 2010-11-13 17:05|| Front Page Top

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