Word: diplomat
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...conduct and tempo of the war in Afghanistan to his military advisers and then getting out of the way. The Bush team as if by magic seemed to coalesce in September after months of intramural bickering: Cheney became a behind-the-scenes adviser, Powell finally took over as chief diplomat, and Rumsfeld stopped skirmishing with his generals and led them over the top into battle...
...swift - but not in the way the Egyptians expected. That night the Pakistani security forces never turned up. Instead a car with diplomatic plates roared up to the Peshawar house. As the Egyptians watched, a gang of Taliban spilled out, grabbed Khadr and then drove him over the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan, beyond the Egyptians' reach. The Pakistani spy agency, known as Inter-Services Intelligence, had betrayed the Egyptians. "The next day the ISI called up and said, 'So sorry, the man gave us the slip,'" a diplomat recalls...
...quite pleased with the cooperation we've got from them," says a U.S. official in Washington. A Western diplomat in Islamabad says, "There's grudging compliance. They're saluting Musharraf and obeying...
...dispute erupts in crisis, as in Israel's latest incursion into Palestinian territories after another round of Palestinian suicide bombings, a wave of Arab anger is sure to follow. In the past, most of the rants and threats turned out to be just that - empty talk. But some Western diplomats and Middle East analysts worry that, this time, the Arabs might mean it. The new element, they say, is a hardening Arab belief that despite years of peacemaking, Israel will never allow an independent Palestinian state and that the U.S. will support Israel no matter what - and the Arabs cannot...
...beefing up the peacekeeping force, preferring to concentrate on building a new Afghan national army. Turkey, which takes over ISAF leadership from Britain in the next month, agreed to the role only after the U.S. agreed to pick up the tab. "It's a dead issue," says the European diplomat of an expanded mission. "ISAF countries just don't want...