They were speaking Aramaic !!

San Antonio EXPRESS-NEWS special, "Breaching America," Wednesday, May 23, 2007.

"Attorney Paul Hajjar, a Lebanese American hired as a defense interpreter for the proceedings, recalled overhearing the Iraqis talking among themselves in a dialect that was not Arabic.

"He recognized it as a contemporary derivative of the ancient Aramaic language dating to the days of Jesus Christ.

"It is spoken only by Middle East Christians.

"Hajjar asked Piuz [one of three Iraqis who had crossed the Rio Grande six miles east of Los Indios, up river from Brownsville, Texas and who had then told the Border Patrol they wanted "political asylum."] about the language.

"Just then, the Iraqi broke out with a heartfelt rendition of the Lord's Prayer in Aramic, loudly enough for all to hear.

"The display wouldn't help the group.

"It wasn't included in the report that would go to the judge.

"And the FBI still hadn't shown up."