a captain attached to the third armored cavalry regiment and we were amongst the first trips into fallujand it was my job i did some civil affairs and site operations to get the local government going until we could have a functioning government so i was the de facto mayor of falluja and to do that job we needed local translators because i don't speak arabic. i learned from stan who taught me somewords but we needed local translators to work with u.s. army . other teams that were doing the jobs though sam was one of the first interpreters we hired in fallujah. he was good at translation between arabic and english, he had a good sense of humor which is important in working with us soldiers. you have to have thatin the army so he was a good fit and we hired him initially . >> take me back to the day you said yes to the united states government,i'm going to be an interpreter . whendid you suck decide to be an interpreter ? >> one of the reasons is i hate the regime. they locked me up and jailed me in 98. and i was to be executed. if they proved anything against me they would have finished me

as a cashier at a mcdonald's and falluja.ople in six midwestern states got infected by their pet prairie dogs after the critters got the proxim animals imported from africa. now did the spread occur an anonymous group party like much of the monkeypox was originally thought to have spread? no one knows if it was anonymous because most witnesses say was mostly doggy style. [laughter] the long way for that pun. it rages the question who has a pet prairie dog? and why did my parents get me one? but also wise to call the monkeypox when it was a rodent parks? turns out scientist discovered in the 1950s to monkey species that's why the name stuck. and after that, monkey see monkey do. [laughter] monkeys finally vindicated since rodents can spread the disease? well, of course which the world's foremost expert for comment. [background noises] dr. kagan doctor kim we still call it monkeypox? that's a pretty cool name. >> and doctor, i have a pet hamster should i kill him to avoid getting the pox? [background noises] yes a doctor what i