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...gate waiting to see the press counselor (who never was located) I saw dozens of Afghans drop off job applications, letters chronicling how a member of their family had been jailed for years by the Taliban suspected of being a CIA spies, and handwritten demands to see the ambassador...
...plans to call as witnesses some key Western leaders, such as President Bill Clinton and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, in an attempt to show they were aware of the situation on the ground from a much earlier stage than they acknowledged. He'll claim they acknowledged to him that the region faced a threat of Islamic terrorism. Here he's referring to the fact that more than 1,000 fighters from all over the Arab and Muslim world came to help the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs. They called themselves "mujahedeen," and many of them were itinerant veterans of the anti...
...United States must keep international trade a top priority even amid worries about border security following the Sept. 11 attacks, former Mass. Governor and current U.S. Ambassador to Canada A. Paul Cellucci said yesterday in a speech at the Faculty Club...
...moved to Harvard’s Japan Institute and maintained a close relationship with the center’s founder, Edwin O. Reischauer, a former ambassador to Japan who worked at the center until his death...
...been expelled from other parts of Kosovo made a last stand in the city. Mitrovica, which lies only two dozen kilometers from Serbia, is highly prized because of its massive Trepca coal mine. Clashes between Albanians and Serbs have left dozens killed and many more wounded. Former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke once called Mitrovica "the most dangerous place in Europe." In many ways, it still...