At this checkpoint, English speaking people, will expect to be sniffed by a dog looking for traces of explosives. However if you are an Arabic speaker, you will send your dog to be searched.I finally managed to snap a pic of this sign that what obviously lost in translation. And this won't be the only translation problem one will have at this particular checkpoint. Spanish speakers will go through much faster as they will be able to communicate with the soldiers manning it: mostly Peruvian personnel who can barely say three words in Ingles...
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hey buddy, well one can characterize your posts as you looking to the empty half of the cup, why don't you try to notice things which gives hope to this nation rather than cracking them down by saying that a foreigner needs to escort an iraqi to his very own down town!! this is true and we know it but when u say it and publish it this is something else it becomes more painful to us.
dear, i know that you feel as bad as we feel, but i think that as a freind to the iraqi people you have to give us hope and this is not happening when we read your posts.
you've certainly met lots of iraqis, tell us what's your overall opinion of the iraqis? merits, positives, advantages over other arab nations,... etc. tell us of what you think of the government, the political system in iraq, ....etc
i bet that your next post gonna be about baghdad's international airport and how it looks like everything but an airport. comeone man.
with respect,
Hashem
Rest in Peace Serge
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