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...mission to Niger. It had been written by the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research at the request of former Under Secretary Marc Grossman after the New York Times and Washington Post began reporting on an intelligence-gathering trip to Niger by a former U.S. diplomat, without naming Wilson. Sending it to Powell "was directly in response to Wilson going public," says a senior Republican Hill aide familiar with the document. "[It was] ... one of those what-the-hell-is-this-guy-saying-and-what-is-he-talking-about? memos...
...think of poets as private people, souls tending their own gardens. But the founding father of English literature was a man of the world. A diplomat and customs official, Chaucer was captured in battle, sued for debt and indicted for rape--a charge that was apparently dropped. In this robust account of his life, Ackroyd, a noted British novelist, points out that the author of The Canterbury Tales was not foremost a poet: "He was a government official and diplomat who, in his spare time, happened to write poetry...
...circumstances of al-Sharif's killing have some puzzling elements. Why, for instance, was the Egyptian diplomat--who was abducted by as many as eight gunmen while driving in his jeep in western Baghdad--traveling alone in a city where foreigners of his importance are usually accompanied by heavily guarded caravans? One possibility is that al-Sharif was trying to hold secret talks with insurgents. Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, lent that theory some credence at a press conference. "Some [diplomats] go to places on their own in order to meet some insurgents," he said. "We warned about doing...
...Downing Street, the British Treasury and the activists - though they don't always see eye to eye - is constant and intense. Geldof came up with the idea for the Africa Commission that Blair enthusiastically implemented, laying out a detailed program for reform. With the precision of a wizened diplomat, Bono has learned to modulate between gut-wrenching appeals to conscience and public back-pats for leaders like German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who face flak for coughing up too much for Africa. This co-dependency is getting practical results: to start with, some $40 billion in debt relief...
...bombing attacks on the U.S. and French embassies--a long-standing condition for freeing the U.S. hostages. While the Americans in captivity seemed bitter, the Frenchmen sounded desperate. Kauffmann told his family, "It is horrible to say perhaps I will never see you again, but it is the truth." Diplomat Marcel Fontaine warned, "I cannot stand anymore." In Paris, Kauffmann's wife Joelle called on French officials to "show proof they are capable of saving the innocent...