Word: diplomat
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...Help will not come easily. "You can't have burden sharing without power sharing," a diplomat told me. The U.N. was humiliated, and its weapons inspectors denigrated, by the Bush Administration before the war. Some public groveling from the President may now be in order. Indeed, Bush also owes the American people a speech explaining just how difficult the situation is, how long it's likely to remain that way and how much it will cost. Last week he took "responsibility" for the war. Now he must take responsibility for the peace...
...proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But amid a growing outcry over faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, Blair can ill afford to go along with Bush on this matter. In his appearance before Congress, Blair is expected to "speak truth to power," says a U.S. diplomat, if only for the benefit of the folks back home. --By J.F.O. McAllister, with reporting by Viveca Novak
...alleged incursions trashed the Pakistani embassy in Kabul last week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is vexed by the refuge Taliban leaders have found in Pakistan's northwestern provinces. "The Afghans are convinced that the Pakistanis know where these Taliban leaders are--but they won't catch them," a diplomat explains. It was only after Karzai and Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf spoke on the telephone last Thursday--prompted by U.S. pressure, say diplomats--that the border crisis was defused. According to sources in Kabul and Islamabad, military operations against suspected al-Qaeda hideouts have resumed. --By Tim McGirk
...name the two nations he said provided the U.K. with its yellowcake evidence, British press reports identified them as France and Italy. Both nations loudly begged to differ. The French were indignant. "No French service or administration was in any way connected to this bogus information," snaps a French diplomat, noting that France's foreign intelligence service issued a rare public denial. "We resent being made a scapegoat for this politicized intelligence crap." - BRUCE CRUMLEY/Paris...
...Pakistan into giving him billions of dollars of support and arms during the Soviet occupation. In May 2002, however, the U.S. tried to kill him with a Hellfire missile strike, and coalition soldiers have launched several operations in his traditional strongholds of Nangarhar and Kunar provinces. A diplomat in Kabul believes Taliban leaders don't trust Hekmatyar, whose treachery is legendary even by the spectacularly duplicitous standards of Afghan warfare. But a former Taliban financier in Chaman says Hizb-i-Islami has forged ties with "mid-ranking commanders and ordinary Taliban," providing cash and motorcycles for cross-border attacks...