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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Apr 13, 2004 01:47pm |
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| Media | News Service - Associated Press |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Negroponte Possible Ambassador to Baghdad
The Honolulu Advertiser
John D. Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who played a central role in trying to win support for war with Iraq, is emerging as the leading candidate for the sensitive job of Ambassador to Baghdad - upon Paul Bremer's leave as Administrator of the Iraq. Several Bush administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Negroponte's nomination would be announced soon. The administration plans to restore Iraqi self-rule by July 1, though will keep U.S. soldiers there. The U.S. Embassy will be housed temporarily in a palace that belonged to deposed President Saddam Hussein and when fully manned will be the largest in the world. Negroponte, 64, is a career foreign service officer whom President Bush recruited from the corporate world to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Besides Negroponte, the administration was understood to be considering Robert Blackwill, a former ambassador to India and now director of Iraq policy at the White House, former NATO commander George Joulwan and two retired U.S. ambassadors, Thomas Pickering and Frank Wisner, for the post. |
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