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...past, says an FBI veteran, "They've used people who are expendable" - and amateurish. During the Persian Gulf war, two Iraqi students blew themselves up trying to bomb a US Information Service building in Manila. FBI laboratory scientists who examined an unexploded bomb recovered in 1991 from the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Jakarta, a second device intercepted by Turkish authorities and a third bomb seized in April, 1993, by Kuwaiti police when they arrested 10 Iraqis for plotting to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush determined, says a retired FBI agent, that "the wiring board was done...
...while he was in prison, but Ibrahim says he harbors no bitterness. He delights in telling how his guards panicked one day last September when he fell and broke his foot two hours before receiving a visit from the U.S. envoy. "They got mad at me," he laughs. "The ambassador was stunned to see me in a wheelchair and in pain. I assured him it was an accident." Nobody will be shocked if he is sent back to prison again. But many Egyptians realize that both Ibrahim and Egypt will enjoy a healthier future if he is allowed...
...citywide anti-Thai riots that ripped through Cambodia's capital last week, far more destructive and dangerous acts were committed yet none were as freighted with symbolism. Apart from the embassy, scores of hotels and businesses with Thai connections were vandalized, and more than 700 Thai nationals, including Ambassador Chatchawed Chartsuwan and his staff, were forced to flee for their lives. But for stunned Thais watching the riots on TV back home, these acts paled beside news of their revered monarch's image defiled inside their own embassy in Phnom Penh while police stood watching from the lawn. "If Cambodians...
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Stephen W. Bosworth said the Bush administration’s current practice of name calling and “simply waiting” was irresponsible. Currently, Bosworth is dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University...
Sung Chul Yang, the South Korean ambassador to the U.S., spoke of a “consistent signal” from North Korea that he said indicated the nation’s desire to emerge from isolation and gain international respect. Yang said these signals included a failed attempt last summer to introduce market systems in the communist country and formal, amicable communications with regional powers...