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...helps too that he has powerful backers in Washington. A protégé of Vice President Dick Cheney, Khalilzad speaks frequently to Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "He certainly has a freedom of action that others do not," says a U.S. diplomat involved in Middle East issues. During last summer's negotiations over a new constitution, Khalilzad took cell-phone calls from Rice in the presence of Iraqi leaders, giving her updates and assessments, according to a U.S. consultant who observed him. It showed Iraqis he had a direct line to Washington and enhanced trust that...
...national economic interests, and it's not immediately clear exactly what outcome the U.S. - which currently holds the rotating Security Council chair - would seek from a Council discussion on the Iran issue. While U.S. ambassador John Bolton warned that Iran will face "tangible and painful consequences," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stressed that sanctions were unlikely to be an immediate option. So, even if the matter does get to the Security Council in the coming weeks, Iran will likely be given a new deadline to comply with a more forceful international demand...
...surprise visit, however, was in some ways inevitable. For weeks, there had been speculation that Bush would use the occasion to visit Afghanistan - a country that the president had never visited but that his wife, Laura, had, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. At some point it probably would have become embarrassing for the White House if the President were the only top-ranking official not to visit the country to which he had dispatched thousands of American troops. Eventually Bush?s absence would only have highlighted the fragile...
...other businesses with ties to the Sudanese government, including the oil companies Sinopec and Royal Dutch Shell. The Khartoum government has helped fund militia groups responsible for over 200,000 deaths in Sudan over the past three years, according to the U.S. government. Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice labeled the atrocities a “genocide.” Rebecca J. Hamilton, director of the Political Advocacy Committee of Harvard’s Darfur Action Group, welcomed Capuano’s call for divestment. “I was thrilled to hear Rep. Capuano support our efforts...
...latest tit-for-tat spat appears to be the aviation equivalent of diplomatic expulsions. As Chavez?s cult of personality grows inside Venezuela and Latin America, the Bush Administration is increasingly trying to paint him as a region-destabilizing dictator. This month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. needs to form a "united front" against Chavez as he seeks re-election later this year. Statements like this one have given Venezuela even more impetus to regard the FAA?s continued stance as political. And this latest fiasco may just be indicative of larger conflicts ahead...