{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. Pays $237,000 for Pashto Translators","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article99927.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article99927.html'\u003EU.S. Pays $237,000 for Pashto Translators\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a little noticed Internet advertisement, Virginia-based Veritiss, LLC, is promising a $7,000 - $12,000 signing bonus, plus annual salaries of up to $237,000, plus living expenses, for anyone who can translate Pashto (the language of the Taliban) into English.  The posting are for Afghanistan, and Qatar, where Veritiss is apparently under contract to the National Security Agency to supply translators for intercepted conversations between the proposed Taliban office in Qatar and Taliban (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}