Word: diplomat
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...dictator whose rule is premised on the idea of fearsome, unlimited power has to contend with the spectacle of being forced to open his front door at any hour of the night and allow his home to be searched by an unprepossessing, bespectacled 74-year-old Swedish diplomat and his team of arms inspectors. Iraqis could start getting ideas...
...looking for a new deal." Proof of that pragmatism came when Erdogan sent his two daughters to study at Indiana University in the U.S., in part to avoid Turkey's prohibition against wearing Muslim headscarves in public buildings. "He could have sent his daughters to Tehran," notes a Western diplomat. "That says a lot." Erdogan's biggest challenge now is balancing the requirements of Turkey's secular establishment against the demands of the estimated 8% of Turks who would welcome the imposition of Islamic law, or Shari'a. The AK party also faces huge challenges once it takes office, including...
...center already exists in Saudi Arabia, but the regime there is hesitant to let the U.S. use it in a new confrontation, for fear that anti-American sentiment would rebound against them. Qatari officials, on the other hand, are eager "to handcuff themselves to the U.S.," as a Western diplomat puts it. The emir is gambling that, in return, Washington will provide protection for the country against a resurgent Saddam, a shaky Saudi Arabia or an irate Iran. "We in Qatar think we need the United States," Foreign Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al Thani says...
...hiding weapons of mass destruction and that it was his job to get in Saddam's face and alert the international community to his non-compliance. One can only speculate on how Vice President Cheney, for example, might have greeted the news that the 72-year-old Swedish diplomat had subjected his inspectors to a program of "cultural sensitivity" training so as to avoid them unnecessarily offending the Iraqis. But Blix is unmoved by any criticism of such choices. "We are not coming to Iraq to harass or insult or humiliate them," he told the BBC last month. "That...
...were arrested. Though radical groups make up a tiny minority of the population, there is the possibility that they could further undermine the authority of the central government, making Indonesia even more hospitable to terrorists. "Al-Qaeda is already here and capable of launching more attacks," says a Western diplomat in Jakarta. "It's obvious there don't have to be many of them to do damage." --Reported by Simon Elegant, Zamira Loebis and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta and Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington