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27-11-2006
$40,000 bounty by Taliban for Afghan interpreters
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Kandahar, Afghanistan (Oregon): Since Mike Manaton doesn't speak Farsi, he took an interpreter on his frequent missions. That's how he met Farhad. The Americans hired a number of interpreters, but Farhad stood out. First of all, he was just 17. Farhad had negotiated a job that allowed him to go to high school in the morning and work as a translator in the afternoon. "A good thing about the coalition forces is they loved education," Farhad says today. "Serving as an interpreter is dangerous," Mike says, calling Farhad "very brave. While I worked in Kandahar, the Taliban bounty for any Afghan supporting the coalition was $40,000."
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