Word: diplomat
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...figures, expressing "a cold fury" at what they interpreted as American arrogance and insensitivity. "To them, the fact that [U.S. Ambassador Zalmay] Khalilzad didn't pick up the phone and tell [Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri] al-Maliki shows the Americans simply don't care about Iraqi opinion," says the diplomat. "If Abu Ghraib was a p.r. calamity, then this is Part II-another disaster...
...Israel would have rather avoided the events of this summer,” she said. Lebanese student Nour Kibbi ’10 asked Shlein-Michael after her talk about strategic mistakes that Israel had made during the conflict. “I am but a humble diplomat,” Shlein-Michael answered, assuring the audience that the government will look into any mistakes it finds were made. Shlein-Michael started her speech by making it clear that she represented only Israel’s point of view. “I am an Israeli diplomat. I am going...
...besides, says a senior European diplomat, Iranian politicians are using the nuclear issue "as a sort of litmus test of the revolutionary spirit." Privately, he says, key Western officials have concluded grimly that, for the present, "sanctions are not a strategy" because as long as compromise means appeasement, no aspiring Iranian leader is likely to embrace it. No surprise, then, that Iran's government news agency, ISNA, reported Friday that nuclear scientists have begun feeding uranium gas into a second 164-machine cascade of centrifuges...
...Pyongyang is considered even less vulnerable to outside pressure than Tehran because Kim Jong-il and his inner circle are thought to be utterly insensitive to the suffering of the populace. "They're closer to Al Capone than a state," says a top European diplomat involved in the multinational negotiations...
...frustration among U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad that every time they strike against the Mahdi Army, they are publicly scolded by the Iraqi prime minister. "Every time he does one of these about-turns, he makes the Madhi Army stronger and the government weaker," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. "And of course, it drives the [Americans] up the wall...