The Problem With Translations
And John Gruber points out a fairly egregious translation error. This is why I am always skeptical of reportage of events that happened in another language. I sometimes wonder if a big part of the problem in the Middle East isn’t the difference between what is said by the same person in different languages.
This seems less like a translation problem than a clueless news reporter problem. Many reporters want so much to hear what they already think that when an interviewee expresses a different viewpoint it is written up in the media reflecting the writers view instead of the view of the person interviewed.