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...really cannot understand why I'm being denied access." RAZALI ISMAIL, UN special envoy to Burma, on the refusal of the country's hermetic, repressive military junta to grant him a visa for the past six months...
...Fighting Purity From Bosnia to Afghanistan, Lévy has sought to halt the spread of extremism THE ENVOY: At the request of French President Jacques Chirac, Lévy traveled to Afghanistan in February 2002 to gauge the needs of the Afghan people, and plot France's role in rebuilding the country following the fall of the Taliban THE INQUIRER: Prompted by the murder of Daniel Pearl, above, Lévy traveled widely to expose the role of Islamic militants in Pearl's death. Lévy claims that Pearl - "a refutation of his killers' view of a clash...
...Otto Reich, U.S. special envoy to Latin America, has affirmed that “Castro has supported terrorist groups in every country in this hemisphere...
Decorum was shattered at the Arab summit in Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform...
...Smacked down: Despite Izzat's tirade, Kuwaiti envoy Sabah al-Salem, above, kept a stiff upper...