http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4308046,00.html Peres sidelined as US envoys begin mission Suzanne Goldenberg in Jerusalem Tuesday November 27, 2001 The Guardian
Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, greeted a US peace mission yesterday by shunting aside the Jewish state's most seasoned negotiator, and replacing him with a battle-hardened general. (...) For his part, Mr Sharon has made it clear in the appointment of Gen Dagan to head his three-member negotiating team that he has no intention of budging. In many regards the former paratrooper is cut from the same mould as the Israeli prime minister.
A former commando, like Mr Sharon, in the 1970s he headed a unit in Gaza that assassinated dozens of wanted Palestinians, forming the model for the death squad units of the Israeli army who have gunned down or blown up Palestinian militants during this uprising. During Israel's war in Lebanon he helped to create its proxy militia, the South Lebanese Army. On retirement from the army in 1995 he served as an adviser to several governments. _______________________
Have Sharon and Dubya made a private wager as to who can appoint the largest number of dirty warriors to key diplomatic and human rights posts? If so, Dubya has the lead with ex-Contra terror chief Negroponte at the UN, Contra conspirator Elliott Abrams at the NSC Office for Democracy and Human Rights, and the top nominee for assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, Otto reich, whose career is studded with capers like setting up an "interrogation" unit at Grenada and sponsoring Cuban émigré terrorists in Venezuela.
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