Nor do they usually get the news from their in-house Iraqi translators.
An official at a local hospital said an Iraqi translator had been killed in the same incident.
An American soldier and an Iraqi translator also died, and six more soldiers were wounded in the attack.
If we had gone with the story, I was sure he would have responded by killing the Iraqi translator who was the only other participant in the meeting.
The violence in Iraq is continuing, with three American soldiers and an Iraqi translator killed by roadside bombs late on Monday.
Her family tracked her down, through a local Iraqi translator at the base, and showed up one day to take her back.
This article argued that Iraqi translators shouldn't be given asylum as they were collaborators who deserved to die.
In Baghdad, Iraqi translators blanched at having to render ex-pluperfect past tense into Arabic.
They had been persuaded to pick up their rifles and work by the Iraqi translator who works with the marines.
I was with my Iraqi translator one day in Baghdad, trying to enter the office of the Governing Council.