Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: A U.S. defense contractor has barred its employees from leaving Army posts in Kuwait after local police issued arrest warrants for the group, a bizarre turn in a monthslong dispute between the company and a Kuwaiti subcontractor. 
  
 Nearly 100 American civilians working as Arabic linguists on camps Buehring and Arifjan, two major Army bases in the Middle East, say that since May 31 they’ve been unable to leave either post for medical appointments, personal time or even emergency matters. 
  
 All are at risk of being deported by Kuwaiti police, who have no authority inside base gates. The deportation threat stems from a legal dispute between their employer, U.S.-based defense contractor Global Linguist Solutions, and the Kuwaiti company it hired to manage its employees locally. 
  
 Before the ban, as many as nine linguists were detained outside the gates, held in Kuwaiti cells and flown back to the U.S., according to linguists interviewed and their employer. 
  
 Both the State Department and the Army say they are powerless to move the linguists out of the country or prevent arrests. 
  
 “It comes back to us being fugitives,” said one linguist reached at Camp Buehring, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “That’s our status in the state of Kuwait.” 
  
 Kuwaiti law requires all foreign workers be placed on the rolls of a local firm, or “sponsor,” which applies for working visas on behalf of employees and manages some aspects of payroll. 
  
 The actual employer is required to hire the services of the local firm. 
  
 Global Linguist Solutions re-bid its sponsorship contract earlier this year, selecting a new Kuwaiti company instead of the one it previously worked through, Al Shora International General Trading & Contracting company. 
  
 GLS and Al Shora dispute what happened next. Al Shora claims linguists canceled their residency under the company. It charges GLS with using Al Shora to remain legal in the country while trying to transfer linguists to the new sponsor. 
  
 GLS says it was eager to move employees off Al Shora rolls but was repeatedly rebuffed by Al Shora. The company has accused Al Shora of lashing out after failing to win the new contract. 
  
 In March, Al Shora turned over the names of GLS employees to Kuwaiti authorities and declared them absent from work and in violation of their working visas. Curbing immigration violations is a preoccupation in Kuwait, where foreigners account for nearly half the population, many working in the service industry. 
  
 After the Army initially forced linguists to stop work on the post in March, GLS lawyers were able to get them working again weeks later through negotiations with Kuwaiti ministries, according to company President Charles Tolleson. He said he had a plan to move the linguists to the new sponsor in the following weeks. 
  
 Instead, employees’ names began to return to Kuwait’s so-called “blacklist” for deportation, a move Tolleson blames on Al Shora’s connections. 
  
 “My linguists were being charged as runaways and absconders, which is ridiculous because they live and work on the post,” he said. 
  
 Police detained Majdi Abdulghani on May 9 as he prepared to board a flight for an approved trip to Jordan to visit his ailing mother. A former linguist in Iraq, he spent seven days in jail before he was flown to the U.S. 
  
 “I tried to explain to them I don’t work for the sponsor company, I work for GLS, the American company,” he said. 
  
 Ramzi Zinnekah, a former Navy Riverine, was stopped with another linguist at a checkpoint outside the base on May 30. The two spent seven days in what Zinnekah described as a crowded, filthy jail. 
  
 “Nothing in there is cleaned, ever,” he said. “You’re using mattresses that 100 people used before you, blankets that you don’t want to even think about.” 
  
 In late May, Al Shora published an ad in a local newspaper warning residents from employing or sheltering the Americans, who were wanted for “avoiding contact” with the company, according to a copy and translation provided by the linguists. 
  
 On May 31, days after GLS notified linguists that all of them potentially face deportation, it ordered employees to remain on base unless authorized by managers to leave. The Army told linguists it couldn’t prevent the arrests. 
  
 “The U.S. Army cannot protect you from the Kuwaiti government off post,” stated an email sent to linguists by a noncommissioned officer with one unit and obtained by Stars and Stripes. “Even if your battalion is willing to provide you with an escort, ask yourself what actions can they reasonably take against the local law enforcement apparatus?” 
  
 A spokesman for the State Department called the situation a legal dispute between two companies, and said it couldn’t intervene. The Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, which oversees the linguist contract, also said the matter was between GLS and Al Shora due to the private nature of the dispute. 
  
 The linguists on the bases say they are still being paid, but are no longer working after the military suspended use of their services in light of the dispute. Several who spoke on condition of anonymity said they felt caught in the middle of a disagreement they knew little about, and all said they feared arrest. 
  
 “The main issue is our safety in this country and our safe return home,” one contractor said. 
  
 Abdulghani and Zinnekah, both now in the U.S., say GLS has placed them on leave without pay. 
  
 Tolleson said the company’s contract requires them to stay that way until they return to theater, a process he said he’s working on. 
  
 He said rumors among the linguists that they will not be allowed to re-enter the country are untrue and that he’s already returned five of the deported linguists to the country under the new sponsor. Tolleson hopes to transfer the remaining linguists by continuing to work with Kuwaiti ministries and by pressuring the State Department and the Army to intervene. He said he’s hired no new linguists to replace those who aren’t working. 
  
 Reham Aljelewi, the owner of Al Shora, said in a Tuesday interview that she no longer wanted to work with GLS. The American company had filed complaints against Al Shora to several Kuwaiti ministries. She said the complaints were based on false allegations. 
  
 A spokesman for the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, which oversees the linguist contract, said federal regulations prohibit the command from commenting on GLS’ performance. 
  
 GLS, a joint venture between DynCorp International and AECOM National Security Program, is one of several vendors for the military’s broad Defense Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise, a $9.7 billion contract for linguist services in the Middle East. The GLS task order is good for one year with an option to renew for three years, according to the INSCOM spokesman. 
  
 beardsley.steve@stripes.com 
  
 Twitter: @sjbeardsley 
  
  ||||| At least 100 American citizens have been trapped for months on two U.S. bases inside Kuwait after local police unjustly issued warrants for their arrest, a U.S. defense contractor told FoxNews.com. 
  
 Most of the Americans were working as Arabic translators for Global Linguist Solutions, which ended a lucrative deal with its sponsoring Kuwaiti subcontractor, Al Shora International General Trading & Contracting and signed on with another company. Sources told FoxNews.com Al Shora's managing director is the sister-in-law of the Kuwaiti prime minister. 
  
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 When the contract ended Feb. 17, Al Shora refused to transfer the employees' visas to the new Kuwaiti subcontractor and falsely accused the Americans of being "runaways and absconders," according to Charles Tolleson, president of Global Linguist Solutions. His company has barred workers from leaving the bases since May 31 to protect them from arrest and imprisonment. 
  
 "We don’t see any hope. We’re dealing with a corrupt company in Kuwait that has fabricated charges against us." - American citizen trapped on U.S. base in Kuwait 
  
 "My biggest concern is the safety and security of my employees in Kuwait," he said. 
  
 One of the employees, who contacted FoxNews.com Tuesday morning from Camp Buehring, said, "If we leave the base, we could be arrested by the Kuwaiti authorities, jailed or deported." 
  
 "We cannot see the doctor even for an emergency," said the woman, who asked that her name not be used. "Everybody here is under stress because a lot of us here need to go home. Our families are worried about us. We need to see our kids... We don’t see any hope. We’re dealing with a corrupt company in Kuwait that has fabricated charges against us." 
  
 She said the Al Shora's managing director "cancelled all of our visas here, so we became illegal." 
  
 Camp Buehring is in the Kuwaiti desert, about 25 miles south of the Iraqi border. Other employees of Global Linguistics are similarly stuck at Camp Arifjan, another U.S. Army base inside Kuwait. 
  
 Al Shora is demanding $22 million from Global Linguistics in order to transfer the employees' visas to the new company, Kuwaiti Resources House, sources said. Under Kuwaiti law, foreigners cannot work in the country unless they are under the sponsorship of a private Kuwaiti company. 
  
 After his company re-bid its contract several months ago and opted to chose the new Kuwaiti company, "Al Shora basically embarked on a campaign to destroy my company," Tolleson said. 
  
 "There’s no contract dispute. I don’t even have a contract with them anymore," he said of Al Shora. "If a sponsor is no longer a sponsor, they are required to simply transfer [the visas] to the new sponsor. This happens all the time. They won’t do that, and that violates the terms of their former contract." 
  
 A representative from the Kuwaiti prime minister's office said he was not aware of the situation. 
  
 "This is the first time I heard about this," the representative, who declined to give his name, told FoxNews.com. "This kind of behavior has never happened." 
  
 He had no comment when asked if the Al Shora's managing director was related to Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah 
  
 Tolleson said that when he approached the U.S. military about the situation, "I was told this is my problem." 
  
 The office for the U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait referred all inquiries on the matter to the U.S. State Department. 
  
 “The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait is aware of the commercial dispute involving a Department of Defense contractor and a local Kuwaiti company," Beth Gosselin, as a State Department spokeswoman, told FoxNews.com. "That dispute has had an impact on a number of private U.S. citizens working in Kuwait. 
  
 "The protection of U.S. citizens overseas is one of our highest priorities," Gosselin added. "The U.S. Embassy is working with the private U.S. citizens and is providing them with appropriate consular assistance. The Embassy continues to monitor the situation closely and is encouraging an immediate resolution to this difficult issue." 
  
 At least three of the linguists reportedly spent seven days in a crowded, filthy jail after being caught outside their base. Majdi Abdulghani was detained by police May 9, as he prepared to board a plane on an approved trip to Jordan to visit his sick mother, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported. He spent seven days in jail before being flown back to the U.S., according to the newspaper. |||||
Student:
Well this is one way to handle a corporate dispute. US military translation contractor Global Linguist Solutions ended its contract with its sponsoring Kuwaiti subcontractor, Al Shora, in February. So Al Shora—which just happens to be run by the Kuwaiti prime minister's sister-in-law, sources tell Fox News—refused to transfer the visas of GLS's US translators to a new subcontractor and told authorities they had violated their visas by not showing up to work. Now around 100 US citizens are stuck inside two US Army bases in Kuwait, with warrants out for their arrests and their names blacklisted for deportation, Stars and Stripes reports. And Al Shora wants $22 million to transfer the visas, reports Fox. "If we leave the base, we could be arrested by the Kuwaiti authorities, jailed, or deported," says one American stuck at Camp Buehring. "We cannot see the doctor even for an emergency ... A lot of us here need to go home. Our families are worried about us. We need to see our kids." But GLS has banned its workers from leaving the bases since May 31 to safeguard them; of three who were caught beyond a base earlier that month, two were jailed for a week and one was deported. Both the US Army and State Department say they can't do anything to stop arrests or deportations. The Kuwaiti government denies any knowledge of the situation. "It comes back to us being fugitives," another translator at Camp Buehring tells Stars and Stripes. "That’s our status in the state of Kuwait."