[lbo-talk] Britain sends diplomats to Iraq with the appropriate experience

[Stephen E Philion]

Britain appoints new envoy to Iraq as Negroponte moves in
By Anne Penketh and Kim Sengupta
23 April 2004

Britain is appointing a senior diplomat, who was once kidnapped at 
gunpoint while posted to Iran, as the British ambassador to Iraq.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=514281