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Thursday, October 21, 2004

The Most Dangerous Person in Baghdad

On April 19, 2004, John Dimitri Negroponte was nominated by US President George W. Bush to be US ambassador to Iraq after the June 30 handover. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 6, 2004, by a vote of 95 to 3, and was officially sworn in on June 23, 2004, replacing L. Paul Bremer as the country's head American civilian official.

Please, take a few moments to know this person through the following links.

John Negroponte - Dorian Gray goes to Iraq
by Toni Solo, ZNet


Negroponte, a Torturer's Friend
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive


Noam Chomsky on John Negroponte's Career From the Death Squads of Honduras to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad - Democracy Now!

Bush's New Iraq Viceroy
by David Corn, The Nation