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STREAMING LIVE TODAY: US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad
thewashingtonnote.com - 1/14/2009
STREAMING LIVE TODAY: US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad
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I will be hosting a live discussion with US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad at a meeting at the New America Foundation today between 12:15 and 1:45 pm EST. The session will stream live here at The Washington Note in the box above, and a digital recording will be ...

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Condi Rice Calls Olmert's Story "Fiction"
TPMCafe — A lot of Middle East watchers have been stunned by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's snotty depiction of both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President Bush with regard to UN Security Council Resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. While the US abstained when the vote was taken, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told me today that the US does support the resolution and only had some minor concerns about the timing of the vote. My colleague and New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force co-director Daniel ...

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