What's The Connection?

mw has sent a link to this article about Abu Ghraib civilian translator Adel Nakhla:

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Adel L. Nakhla, an Egyptian-American computer technician, found himself at Abu Ghraib prison last fall, working as a translator for the first time in his life. ...

Interviewed by Army investigators in January, and reported in documents obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Nakhla at first said he was embarrassed for the prisoners, adding, "I tried to help them." But when investigators reinterviewed him a few days later, Mr. Nakhla amended his story and admitted that he had helped. He acknowledged holding down a prisoner who was lying on the floor during one session "so he would not run away."

Mr. Nahkla [sic] is one of several thousand Arabic translators hired in a great rush last year, under a contract the Army awarded to the Titan Corporation, a San Diego company. On Friday, the company said it had fired him.

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Mr. Nakhla's resume, posted on a Web site for the Unification Church, does not show that he held any sort of previous job that would have given him a security clearance, although his job in Iraq was to translate as interrogators tried to extract sensitive information from detainees.

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His resume shows that, before Titan hired him, Mr. Nakhla held at least four jobs over the previous seven years, all as a salesman or a computer technician or both. Officers from the last two companies listed declined to discuss him.

The resume shows that he held his last job, with Abacus Enterprises, a computer networking company, for 17 months, until May 2001. Whether he was unemployed after that or failed to update his online resume could not be determined.

The Army report lists Mr. Nakhla as a suspect, the same designation it gives to several of the soldiers who have been charged in the case. But the Army has no legal jurisdiction over private contractors.

Mr. Nakhla has hired a lawyer, but he has not been charged with any crime. The lawyer, Francis Q. Hoang, an associate with the Williams & Connolly firm, did not return phone calls.

Hoang was a Platoon Leader for a U.S. Army M.P. Company in the former Yugoslavia just a few years ago. Even with the good money Nakhla must have made in Iraq, it seems unlikely he can afford a Williams & Connolly mouthpiece (even a first-year associate). I haven't found any connections between Titan and W&C and the Moonies. But there's got to be a story in there somewhere.

Update (5/24): John Gorenfeld tracks down the Nakhla resume which was disappeared from the Moonie website.