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Washington Monthly, April, 2007 by Charles Peters
"Chris" (he doesn't want his real name to be used) started studying Arabic at Middlebury College in 2003. "After the 2003-2004 academic year, I studied Arabic at a very intense level at the Middlebury College Summer Language School," he tells John McCaslin of the Washington Times.
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"I then spent the entire 2004-2005 academic year studying at the American University in Cairo." There, Chris took five Arabic language courses. He then spent the summer of 2006 in Yemen studying Arabic on a State Department fellowship, and now is a highly regarded employee of the Peace Corps. He also had applied to the National Security Agency, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the CIA. "I never heard back from any of these agencies," he says, adding that none of the other seventeen students on State Department fellowships in Yemen were subsequently contacted by the State Department.
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