Word: pashto
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...Shervington sighs. He has learned a lot of Pashto during his six weeks in Afghanistan, but the phrase he uses most often is yao wradz, meaning...
...leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and a suspected confidant of bin Laden's, commands some Uzbeks, Chechens, Arabs and local fighters from his base in the borderlands. "We know they are al-Qaeda," says Khan. "They are foreigners, they have different faces, and they don't speak Pashto." He claims that "their camps are easy to find. Even a child could show...
...army in the 1980s says the Taliban now has a dedicated propagandist who furthers the cause by perpetuating and promoting rumors of police graft and government failures. The Taliban even maintains a website that lists occurrences of police corruption and reports of coalition attacks on innocent civilians www.alemarah.org in Pashto and Arabic...
...9/11 panel that while the FBI knows "10 times" more about Islamic militants in the U.S. than it did before 9/11, "its knowledge is at about 20 on a scale of 1 to 100." Despite its recent hiring boom, the bureau still lacks sufficient Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Pashto linguists. In a preliminary report, the commission said the FBI fails to translate "thousands of hours" of audio-surveillance tapes "in a timely manner." When conversations of suspected terrorism-related subjects are translated, the commission concluded, they are "usually not disseminated broadly, not uploaded into a searchable database and not systematically...
...Pashto makes sense - it?s the language of Afghanistan and the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, where al-Qaeda training camps and safe houses may still exist. Arabic is spoken by many of the tens of thousands of men who went through the camps and are now scattered around the world. But Uigur? Margaret Gulotta, chief of the FBI?s language services program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language...