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Somali Refugees Built the Pentagon's Electronic ear... Unintentionally.

Ismail fled Somalia as a child. He ended up in Kakuma, a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, so remote that his name means in Swahili “nowhere.” There he found work. His task was to transcribe Somali-language voice files for an Australian technology company called Appen. What no one told him was that part of that work could have gone to the U.S. army, the same one that has been intervening in the conflict he had to escape for decades. History ha…
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Ismail fled Somalia as a child. He ended up in Kakuma, a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, so remote that his name means in Swahili “nowhere.” There he found work. His task was to transcribe Somali-language voice files for an Australian technology company called Appen. What no one told him was that part of that work could have gone to the U.S. army, the same one that has been intervening in the conflict he had to escape for decades. History ha…

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