Zalmay Khalilzad to replace Bolton?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901185.html

Bolton May Not Return As U.N. Envoy

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 10, 2006; Page A03

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If there is no confirmation, "we assume he'll probably resign," the official said. Several administration officials speculated that Zalmay Khalilzad, the ambassador to Iraq, could be a candidate to replace Bolton.

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1. Is he a US Citizen?

I know he hase BFEE connections from way back.

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2. If he's an Ambassador, he has to be n/t

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3. Zalmay Khalilzad

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.Dr. Zalmay M. Khalilzad (Persian:زلمی خلیزاد) (born 22 March 1951) is an American diplomat, and is currently the highest-ranking native Afghan and Muslim in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. He is the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, having been sworn in on June 21, 2005. Khalilzad's previous assignment was as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan.

He is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to President Bill Clinton. Khalilzad is also a former board member of Friends of Afghanistan, which received extensive U.S. funding.

Contents
1 Early history, education and personal life
2 Career history
3 Time as an Ambassador
4 Writing on U.S. leadership
5 External links


Early history, education and personal life
An ethnic Pashtun, he was born in the city of Mazari Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. He began his education at the private Ghazi Lycée school in Kabul. He emigrated to the United States as a high school exchange student, but attained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Khalilzad received his doctorate at the University of Chicago, where he studied closely with strategic thinker Albert Wohlstetter, who is a prominent nuclear deterrence thinker and an opponent to the disarmament treaties.

From 1979 to 1989, Dr. Khalilzad was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. During this time he worked closely with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter administration's architect of the policy supporting the Afghan Mujahadeen resistance to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

His wife, Cheryl Benard, is a political analyst with the RAND Corporation. They have two children, Alexander and Maximilian.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad

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4. And he worked for UNOCAL. Ooo, big surprise.

"Khalilzad was an advisor for the Unocal Corporation. In the mid-1990s, while working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad conducted risk analyses for Unocal for a proposed 1,400 km (890 mile), $2-billion, 622 m³/s (22,000 ft³/s) Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project which would have extended from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. "

For those who don't know, UNOCAL was the company begging CLinton to invade Afghanistan in 98, so they could build a pipeline through Afghanistan. Months before 9-11, many people in the region were predicting that Bush would invade Afghanistan by early October, to help UNOCAL. The India Times even reported they had evidence of such. 9-11 happened, and we invaded in early October.

Hamid Karzai, the man Bush appointed as head of Afghanistan when the Taliban were first thrown out, was a former board member of UNOCAL. One of his first acts was to begin negotiations for the pipeline.

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5. that's just a coincidence...

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7. I agree that was more coincidence,

if I remember correctly from Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars", Khalizad was approached by someone from Unocal way before (either Reagan or Bush Sr.) concerning the Trans-Afghan pipeline project because of his heritage. The pipeline was to go through the area that was mainly Pashtun (of which Khalizad is born to) and given his knowledge of both the people and the region he became a natural conduit.

Same type of scenario for Harmid Karzai.

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6. right on cue... Khalizad is leaving his post...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2640276

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8. When did he become a citizen?

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9. PNAC - lol!!!!!!!!!

Why on earth am I NOT surprised by this? If anyone thinks the PNAC plan has been thrown off course, forget it.