May 4, 2004: Headlines: Iraq: Diplomacy: Country Directors - Morocco: Tom Paine: Former Morocco Country Director David Fredrick, joins U.S. diplomats who applaud our 52 British colleagues who recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair criticising his Middle East policy and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States

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By Admin1 (admin) (151.196.44.226) on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 4:52 pm: Edit Post

Former Morocco Country Director David Fredrick, joins U.S. diplomats who applaud our 52 British colleagues who recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair criticising his Middle East policy and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States

Former Morocco Country Director  David Fredrick, joins U.S. diplomats who applaud our 52 British colleagues who recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair criticising his Middle East policy and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States

Former Morocco Country Director David Fredrick, joins U.S. diplomats who applaud our 52 British colleagues who recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair criticising his Middle East policy and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States

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Dear Mr. President:

We former U.S. diplomats applaud our 52 British colleagues who recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair criticising his Middle East policy and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States.

As retired foreign service officers, we care deeply about our nation's foreign policy and U.S. credibility in the world.

We also are deeply concerned by your April 14 endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral plan to reject the rights of three million Palestinians, to deny the right of refugees to return to their homeland, and to retain five large illegal settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.

This plan defies UN Security Council resolutions calling for Israel's return of occupied territories.

It ignores international laws declaring Israeli settlements illegal.

It flouts UN Resolution 194, passed in 1948, which affirms the right of refugees to return to their homes or receive compensation for the loss of their property and assistance in resettling in a host country should they choose to do so.

And it undermines the Road Map for peace drawn up by the Quartet, including the United States. Finally, it reverses longstanding American policy in the Middle East.

Your meeting with Sharon followed a series of intensive negotiating sessions between Israelis and Americans, but which left out Palestinians.

In fact, you and Prime Minister Sharon consistently have excluded Palestinians from peace negotiations.

Former Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo voiced the overwhelming reaction of people around the world when he said: "I believe President Bush declared the death of the peace process today."

By closing the door to negotiations with Palestinians and the possibility of a Palestinian state, you have proved that the United States is not an even-handed peace partner.

You have placed U.S. diplomats, civilians and military doing their jobs overseas in an untenable and even dangerous position.

Your unqualified support of Sharon's extra-judicial assassinations, Israel's Berlin Wall-like barrier, its harsh military measures in occupied territories, and now your endorsement of Sharon's unilateral plan are costing our country its credibility, prestige and friends.

It is not too late to reassert American principles of justice and fairness in our relations with all the peoples of the Middle East.

Support negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, with the United States serving as a truly honest broker.

A return to the time-honored American tradition of fairness will reverse the present tide of ill will in Europe and the Middle East—even in Iraq.

Because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the core of the problems in the Middle East, the entire region—and the world—will rejoice along with Israelis and Palestinians when the killing stops and peace is attained.

Andrew I.Killgore, Ambassador to Qatar, 1977-1980

Richard H. Curtiss, former chief inspector, US Information Agency

Colbert C. Held, Retired FSO and author

Thomas J. Carolan, Counsel General Istanbul, '88-'92

C. Edward Bernier, Counselor of Embassy, Information and Culture, Islamabad, Pakistan

Donald A. Kruse, American Consul in Jerusalem

Ambassador Edward L. Peck, former Chief of Mission in Iraq and Mauritania

John Powell, Admin. Counselor in Beirut, '75-'76

John Gunther Dean, U.S. Ambassador to India

Greg Thielmann, Director, Office for Strategic Proliferation and Military Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research

James Akins, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Talcott Seeyle, Ambassador to Syria

Eugene Bird, Counselor of Embassy in Saudi Arabia

Richard H. Nolte, Ambassador to Egypt

Ray Close, Chief of Station Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 1971-1979

Shirl McArthur, Commercial Attache, Bangkok

David Fredrick, Country Director Peace Corps Morocco 1986-1990

Bill Rugh, Ambassador to UAE and Yemen

James Curran, Deputy Chief of Mission Togo 1973-1975

Joseph Cheevers, Office of Inspectors General 1987

Robert L. M. Nevitt, Minister for Press Affairs for the U.N.

John Brady Kiesling, Political Counselor, Greece

E. William Tatge, Counselor for Commercial Affairs, France

Henry Precht, Deputy Chief of Mission, Egypt

John O. Sutter, FSO, The Asia Foundation's Representative for Indonesia, 1982-1984

James J. Halsema, Counselor for Public Affairs, Egypt

Nancy LeRoy, Public Affairs Officer, Mexico

Thomas M. Martin, USIA Congressional Liaison Officer

Robert C. McLaughlin, USIA Madrid

Edward Alexander, Counselor for Public Affairs, East Berlin, 1976-1979

Roman Lotsberg, Admin. Officer, Office of European Affairs

Dr. Shirley Hill Witt, Cultural Affairs Officer, Zambia, 1994-1996

Arthur L. Lowrie, Political Advisor to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command

Carleton Coon, Ambassador to Nepal 1981-1984

Jane Coon, Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1981-1984

George B. Roberts, Ambassador to Guyana, 1979-1981

Robert V. Keeley, Ambassador to Greece

John E. Marsh, First Secretary, Embassy Kuwait, 1971-1973

Thomas W. Fina, Consul General, Milan, 1973-1979

Harland H. Eastman, Consul General, Tangier, Morocco, and Tel Aviv, Israel

Arthur Mudge, Director, USAID Mission to Sudan, 1980-1983

Ronald I. Spiers, Undersecretary of State for Management

Albert L. Seligmann, Director, Office of Japanese Affairs, 1981-1983

Orin D. Parker, President, America-Middle East Educational Services, 1979-1988

Robert C. Amerson, Counselor for Public Affairs, Italy

Christian Freer, Colonel, AUS ret., former chief of CIA stations and War Plans staff

Thomas J. Hirschfeld, Deputy U.S. Rep MBFR Negotiations

Edward R. M. Kane, Deputy Chief of Station, CIA, Iraq

Col. Richard Hobbes, US Army Retired, Politico-Military Adviser to NEA 1974-1977

Col. David Antoon, US Air Force, Retired

Brig. General Augustine A. Verrengia, USAF Ret.

Greg Thielmann, Director, Office for Strategic Proliferation Military Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Robin Berrington, Cultural Attache, Japan

Gary S. Usrey, Deputy Chief of Mission, Morocco

Owen Roberts, Ambassador to Togo

Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1993-1994

Edwin Paul Kennedy, Jr., Regional Affairs Officer for N. African, Near Eastern, and S. Asian Affairs, USIA

Thomas J. Scotes, Ambassador to Yemen, 1975-1978

Michael Mennard, Ph.D., Regional Public Affairs Officer, India

Francois M. Dickman, Director Arabian Peninsula Affairs 1972-76, Ambassador to UAE 1976-79 and Kuwait 1979-83

Terrell E. Arnold, Former Deputy Director Office of Counterterrorism and Consul General, Brazil




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Story Source: Tom Paine

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By Anonymous (ip2-69.eyrkonaeac07.dialup.ca.telus.com - 209.29.93.69) on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 12:46 pm: Edit Post

Did you hear about the new bar the American Diplomat just opened in Morocco? I heard it is really nice.

Why do all the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from Morocco all end up in intelligence?

Rick's Last Resort is the name or something along those lines.....


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