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...Iraqi offers have mounted, U.S. war rhetoric has become only fiercer—exactly the opposite of what one would expect if Bush truly desired a diplomatic solution. In early August, an Iraqi envoy invited U.N. officials to Baghdad to discuss the resumption of weapons inspections. Within hours, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other White House hawks raced each other to the television cameras to promise that the U.S. would invade Iraq whether or not U.N. inspections were allowed to resume. Even as Iraq agreed on Tuesday to the unconditional readmission of weapons inspectors...
Russia may be a shadow of its former superpower self, and its economy today is smaller than Portugal's. But it does still have the same power as the U.S., Britain, France and China to veto UN Security Council resolutions. That's why President Bush on Thursday sent an envoy to Moscow in an effort to persuade President Vladimir Putin to back a tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long...
During his three-year stint as Swiss envoy to Berlin, Borer, 45, did just that. He and his wife Shawne Fielding, 34, a former Texas beauty queen, became fixtures on the German capital's party circuit and in the popular press. Establishment figures back home may have been perturbed by Fielding's appearance in a German magazine photo spread, but Borer makes no apology for the shots of his glamorous blonde wife in a strapless gown astride a horse and toting toy guns in a red miniskirt - a dollar sign above her cleavage - on the roof the newly refurbished embassy...
...late June, he was joined in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, by Abdul Haq, a leading Pashtun, based in Dubai, who was opposed to the Taliban. Haq was accompanied by someone Massoud knew well: Peter Tomsen, a retired ambassador who from 1989 to '92 had been the U.S. State Department's special envoy to the Afghan resistance. Also present was James Ritchie, a successful Chicago options trader who had spent part of his childhood in Afghanistan and was helping bankroll the groups opposed to the Taliban. (Haq was captured and executed by the Taliban last October while on a quixotic mission to Afghanistan...
...AFGHANISTAN A Cabinet for Kabul Hamid Karzai was formally sworn in as Afghanistan's head of state in front of a 2,000-member loya jirga, or tribal council, meeting near the capital Kabul. Earlier Karzai announced the key appointments to his new cabinet - after the U.S. special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, insisted that the loya jirga had its say on the posts as laid down by international peace accords. The defense and foreign affairs portfolios were retained by the mainly Tajik Northern Alliance, while the Interior Ministry went to a Pashtun regional governor, Taj Mohammed Wardak. When Wardak sought...