American interpreter takes a stand in Afghanistan
MARJAH, Afghanistan — Maybe the last person you'd expect to see arguing with an Afghan soldier in a goat-filled bazaar is the former manager of a Los Angeles-area Victoria's Secret.
But there was Heela Nasseri, in full battle rattle and mad as hell.
"I'm not going on this [expletive] mission if that [expletive] guy goes," she told the Marines she was accompanying as their translator.
Female Engagement Team leader Cpl. Kimberly Martin and Sgt. Ryan Kirkham, the squad leader providing security, asked Nasseri what was wrong. Only seconds before, she had been laughing and talking, in Pashto and Dari, with clearly delighted Afghan children, asking them their ABCs and giving them candies — just as she had on many other missions.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
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