FBI Faces Challenge in Iraq Bombing Probe

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-fbi-iraq-bombings,0,63729.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

WASHINGTON -- The FBI is facing one of the most dangerous, difficult challenges in its history as agents and analysts try to solve a string of deadly bombings in Iraq.

In a telling sign of the peril, FBI agents must be accompanied by American troops whenever they leave their secure compound at the Baghdad airport. Further complicating their job is the lack of a cooperating foreign government to help them and the paucity of high-quality intelligence from either informants or technological surveillance.

"We don't have the intelligence as of yet to keep events from occurring and, postblast, the intelligence to prove who's behind them," FBI counterterrorism chief John Pistole told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "We are making progress, both forensically and in developing sources. It's just a much greater challenge than any place we've been."

The FBI is involved in about a dozen bombing investigations in Iraq, focusing on those that involve civilian or government targets rather than attacks directly on U.S. or coalition military forces.
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I guess now that Tommy Chong is behind bars and we are safe from glass bongs, we have enough free FBI agents to take on another country's evildoers as well.

[bobbieinok]

1. How many agents on this job speak arabic?

Do they work through translators?

If so, how do they know the translations are accurate?

[J B]

2. Not many, yes, and they don't.

That answer your questions?

(I'm a Japanese translator myself)