A story about efforts by federal agencies to find persons fluent in Arabic languages as interpreters and government operatives includes a comment by Mahmoud Abdalla, WSU professor and director of the Arabic Summer School in Vermont . He pointed out that the FBI, CIA and NSA recruit heavily in the Dearborn area, which has a large population of Arab Americans. "People are very scared to be accused of working with a particular agency, like the FBI or CIA," he said. "People are also very aware that they have to help their country."