U.S. Army To Pay $4.6 Billion For Translators In Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005940118

U.S. Army To Pay $4.6 Billion For Translators In Iraq

Washington, DC (AHN)-The United States Army has upped its efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces, recruiting thousands of translators to facilitate effective communication with the Iraqi people.

The U.S. army has granted a contract management of translation and interpretation services in Iraq to Global Linguistic Solutions (GLS) worth a maximum value of $4.645 billion over 5 years.

Global Linguistic Solutions (GLS), which is a joint venture formed by security contractor DynCorp International and McNeil Technologies, will reportedly embed up to 6,000 Iraqi translators and up to 1,000 Iraq-speaking U.S. citizens with U.S. forces beginning in March 2007.

[Posteritatis]

1. With this new lock, that horse will never be stolen again! (n/t)

[Disturbed]

5. Almost a $Billion per year for 7K Translators?

Fuzzy math anyone?

[GreenTea]

2. Another 4.6 billion of our tax dollars, no wonder why these neocon corporate fucks want to keep this

war going forever.

[sabra]

3. seems like DynCorp hit the mother load

plus, why are we doing this 4 years later?

[MadMaddie]

4. So lets get this straight this administration pursued kicking out

US trained and qualified military translators because they were gay....

And now they have decided to give another (I am assuming) no bid contractor to a translation company....We truely are in Bizzaro world...

[mooseprime]

6. "iraq-speaking U.S. citizens"?

with linguistic knowledge on this level i'm not sure 4 and a half billion is going to be anywhere near enough.

[Bluebear]

7. 'Iraq-speaking U.S. citizens'? What moron wrote that? nt