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Subject: State Dept worried about Russia

Date: Apr 16, 2008 5:08 AM

Worried that Russian diplomats will be more welcome in the Middle
East, especially
since Putin told Bush off in Maine re 9/11. Imagine how much more
welcome Russia
will be in the Middle East once everyone finds out 9/11 was an inside
job involving
the CFR-bankers' CIA and the Mossad:
* w w w .actionlyme.org/070426hometemp.htm
* w w w .actionlyme.org/911_HOAX.htm
The pre-announced WTC 7 collapse:
* w w w .actionlyme.org/CHENEYMO_PSYCHOANALYSIS.htm

State wants them there so that they can be human shields.

KMDickson
===================================
courant . com /news/nationworld/ats-ap_top14apr16,0,3267875.story
Courant . com
State Department warns diplomats of compulsory Iraq duty

By MATTHEW LEE

Associated Press Writer

April 16, 2008

WASHINGTON

The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to
serve in Iraq
next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for
jobs at the
Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained
by The Associated
Press.

A similar call-up notice last year caused an uproar among foreign
service officers,
some of whom objected to compulsory work in a war zone, although in
the end the
State Department found enough volunteers to fill the jobs.

Now, the State Department anticipates another staffing crisis.

"We face a growing challenge of supply and demand in the 2009 staffing
cycle,"
the cable said, noting that more than 20 percent of the nearly 12,000
foreign service
officers have already worked in the two major hardship posts -- Iraq
and Afghanistan
-- and a growing number have done tours in both countries.

As a result, the unclassified April 8 cable says, "the prime candidate
exercise
will be repeated" next year, meaning the State Department will begin
identifying
U.S. diplomats qualified to serve in Iraq and who could be forced to
work there
if they don't volunteer.

The prime candidate list will be comprised of diplomats who have
special abilities
that are needed in Iraq, such as Arabic language skills, deep Mideast
knowledge
or training in specific areas of reconstruction.

"We must assign to Iraq those employees whose skills are most needed,
and those
employees should know that they personally are needed," Foreign
Service Director
General Harry Thomas said in the cable sent to all diplomatic
missions.

The cable describes how the department will fill upcoming vacancies at
hardship
posts like those Iraq and Afghanistan -- although it doesn't plan to
force any
Afghanistan assignments. Diplomats will "bid," or apply, for positions
in the war zones that will be advertised in May. After that, the
department expects
to begin identifying prime candidates for about 300 Iraq jobs that
come open next
summer, Thomas wrote.

The cable said more details will be announced next month, but
identification of
prime candidates is the first step in implementing so-called "directed
assignments."
That means ordering diplomats to work in certain locations under
threat of dismissal
unless they have a compelling reason, such as a health condition, that
would prevent
them from going.

Last year, after prime candidates were identified for 48 Iraq jobs
that come open
this summer, enough qualified volunteers came forward to avoid what
would have been
the largest diplomatic call-up since the Vietnam War -- but not before
the uproar
over the prospect of forced tours made national headlines.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that she had been
personally offended
by the critical comments of some diplomats who questioned the ethics
of sending
people against their will to a war zone. One diplomat, during an
October session
held at the State Department to explain the policy to employees,
called the forced
assignments a "potential death sentence" to loud applause.

"I was deeply offended myself, and deeply sorry that these people who
had self-selected
into this town hall went out of their way, to my view, cast a very bad
light on
the foreign service," Rice told a House panel.

Rice said the comments were isolated and prompted a visceral response
by the rest
of the diplomatic corps, including those serving in dangerous posts
outside Iraq
and Afghanistan. "I will tell you, the blogs were lit up in the
Department
of State by people who were offended ... who were absolutely offended
by those comments,"
she said.

She added that she had not needed to "direct assign" diplomats to Iraq
last year, but she stressed that she reserved the right to do so in
the future.

The State Department is hoping it can fill all of next year's Iraq
vacancies
with volunteers as it did in 2008.

"We hope to accomplish the same in 2009," the cable says. "A willing,
qualified volunteer is always preferable to an employee sent
involuntarily."

The union that represents U.S. diplomats shares that view.

"Unless there is some huge upward change in the number of positions, I
think
it's quite possible to staff the Baghdad embassy with volunteers,"
said
John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association.
"The foreign
service has done it for the past five years and I believe the foreign
service will
do it again."

Yet, there are serious concerns that the pool of those willing to go
is dwindling.

Some diplomats have privately expressed unease about volunteering for
Iraq duty
amid deep uncertainty over how the administration following President
Bush will
deal with Iraq, and how that might affect security or change
Washington's focus
on the country.

While presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has
vowed to
stay the course, both Democratic hopefuls, Sens. Hillary Rodham
Clinton and Barack
Obama, have made clear they oppose the war and have pledged to reduce
the number
of American troops there.

Such a move could have an impact on State Department operations and
security, some
diplomats fear.

Naland said he was not aware of such concerns. He added that security
worries could
be allayed by the fact that the State Department on Monday finally
took possession
of the new, heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after months of
delay caused
by constructions problems.

Diplomats are expected to begin moving into the facility at the end of
next month
after enduring several spates of major insurgent rocket attacks in
their less-well-protected
offices and living quarters in the Green Zone. Four Americans -- two
soldiers and
two civilians -- have been killed by such fire in recent weeks.

At least three foreign service personnel -- two diplomatic security
agents and one
political officer -- have been killed in Iraq since the war began in
March 2003.

___

Associated Press writer Anne Flaherty contributed to this report.

Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Reply from: Dan Sullivan
Date: 16 Apr, 11:30
On Apr 16, 5:26 am, McSweegan is INSANE
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Reply from: McSweegan is INSANE
Date: 16 Apr, 13:20
On Apr 16, 5:26 am, McSweegan is INSANE
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>
> Subject: State Dept worried about Russia
>
> Date: Apr 16, 2008 5:08 AM
>
> Worried that Russian diplomats will be more welcome in the Middle
> East, especially
> since Putin told Bush off in Maine re 9/11. Imagine how much more
> welcome Russia
> will be in the Middle East once everyone finds out 9/11 was an inside
> job involving
> the CFR-bankers' CIA and the Mossad: * w w w .actionlyme.org/070426hometemp.htm * w w w .actionlyme.org/911_HOAX.htm
> The pre-announced WTC 7 collapse: * w w w .actionlyme.org/CHENEYMO_PSYCHOANALYSIS.htm
>
> State wants them there so that they can be human shields.
>
> KMDickson
> ===================================
> courant . com /news/nationworld/ats-ap_top14apr16,0,3267875.story
> Courant . com
> State Department warns diplomats of compulsory Iraq duty
>
> By MATTHEW LEE
>
> Associated Press Writer
>
> April 16, 2008
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to
> serve in Iraq
> next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for
> jobs at the
> Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained
> by The Associated
> Press.
>
> A similar call-up notice last year caused an uproar among foreign
> service officers,
> some of whom objected to compulsory work in a war zone, although in
> the end the
> State Department found enough volunteers to fill the jobs.
>
> Now, the State Department anticipates another staffing crisis.
>
> "We face a growing challenge of supply and demand in the 2009 staffing
> cycle,"
> the cable said, noting that more than 20 percent of the nearly 12,000
> foreign service
> officers have already worked in the two major hardship posts -- Iraq
> and Afghanistan
> -- and a growing number have done tours in both countries.
>
> As a result, the unclassified April 8 cable says, "the prime candidate
> exercise
> will be repeated" next year, meaning the State Department will begin
> identifying
> U.S. diplomats qualified to serve in Iraq and who could be forced to
> work there
> if they don't volunteer.
>
> The prime candidate list will be comprised of diplomats who have
> special abilities
> that are needed in Iraq, such as Arabic language skills, deep Mideast
> knowledge
> or training in specific areas of reconstruction.
>
> "We must assign to Iraq those employees whose skills are most needed,
> and those
> employees should know that they personally are needed," Foreign
> Service Director
> General Harry Thomas said in the cable sent to all diplomatic
> missions.
>
> The cable describes how the department will fill upcoming vacancies at
> hardship
> posts like those Iraq and Afghanistan -- although it doesn't plan to
> force any
> Afghanistan assignments. Diplomats will "bid," or apply, for positions
> in the war zones that will be advertised in May. After that, the
> department expects
> to begin identifying prime candidates for about 300 Iraq jobs that
> come open next
> summer, Thomas wrote.
>
> The cable said more details will be announced next month, but
> identification of
> prime candidates is the first step in implementing so-called "directed
> assignments."
> That means ordering diplomats to work in certain locations under
> threat of dismissal
> unless they have a compelling reason, such as a health condition, that
> would prevent
> them from going.
>
> Last year, after prime candidates were identified for 48 Iraq jobs
> that come open
> this summer, enough qualified volunteers came forward to avoid what
> would have been
> the largest diplomatic call-up since the Vietnam War -- but not before
> the uproar
> over the prospect of forced tours made national headlines.
>
> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that she had been
> personally offended
> by the critical comments of some diplomats who questioned the ethics
> of sending
> people against their will to a war zone. One diplomat, during an
> October session
> held at the State Department to explain the policy to employees,
> called the forced
> assignments a "potential death sentence" to loud applause.
>
> "I was deeply offended myself, and deeply sorry that these people who
> had self-selected
> into this town hall went out of their way, to my view, cast a very bad
> light on
> the foreign service," Rice told a House panel.
>
> Rice said the comments were isolated and prompted a visceral response
> by the rest
> of the diplomatic corps, including those serving in dangerous posts
> outside Iraq
> and Afghanistan. "I will tell you, the blogs were lit up in the
> Department
> of State by people who were offended ... who were absolutely offended
> by those comments,"
> she said.
>
> She added that she had not needed to "direct assign" diplomats to Iraq
> last year, but she stressed that she reserved the right to do so in
> the future.
>
> The State Department is hoping it can fill all of next year's Iraq
> vacancies
> with volunteers as it did in 2008.
>
> "We hope to accomplish the same in 2009," the cable says. "A willing,
> qualified volunteer is always preferable to an employee sent
> involuntarily."
>
> The union that represents U.S. diplomats shares that view.
>
> "Unless there is some huge upward change in the number of positions, I
> think
> it's quite possible to staff the Baghdad embassy with volunteers,"
> said
> John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association.
> "The foreign
> service has done it for the past five years and I believe the foreign
> service will
> do it again."
>
> Yet, there are serious concerns that the pool of those willing to go
> is dwindling.
>
> Some diplomats have privately expressed unease about volunteering for
> Iraq duty
> amid deep uncertainty over how the administration following President
> Bush will
> deal with Iraq, and how that might affect security or change
> Washington's focus
> on the country.
>
> While presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has
> vowed to
> stay the course, both Democratic hopefuls, Sens. Hillary Rodham
> Clinton and Barack
> Obama, have made clear they oppose the war and have pledged to reduce
> the number
> of American troops there.
>
> Such a move could have an impact on State Department operations and
> security, some
> diplomats fear.
>
> Naland said he was not aware of such concerns. He added that security
> worries could
> be allayed by the fact that the State Department on Monday finally
> took possession
> of the new, heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after months of
> delay caused
> by constructions problems.
>
> Diplomats are expected to begin moving into the facility at the end of
> next month
> after enduring several spates of major insurgent rocket attacks in
> their less-well-protected
> offices and living quarters in the Green Zone. Four Americans -- two
> soldiers and
> two civilians -- have been killed by such fire in recent weeks.
>
> At least three foreign service personnel -- two diplomatic security
> agents and one
> political officer -- have been killed in Iraq since the war began in
> March 2003.
>
> ___
>
> Associated Press writer Anne Flaherty contributed to this report.
>
> Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
> may not be published,
> broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


Reply from: b
Date: 17 Apr, 10:24
If Rice is so offended, she should spend a year or two in Iraq and
Afganistan to show how a diplomat should behave. Then she should be
recycled.

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> thomas.r...@po.state.ct.us, kur...@washpost . com ,
> georgew...@washpost . com , hor...@courant . com ,
> commissioner....@po.state.ct.us, cohencol...@aol . com ,
> FalNie...@aol . com , bransfi...@comcast . net , vtsh...@comcast . net ,
> o...@po.state.ct.us, d...@davila-dilzer . com ,
> scott.mur...@po.state.ct.us, governor.r...@po.state.ct.us,
> attorney.gene...@po.state.ct.us, randall.samb...@usdoj.gov
> Cc: fran...@ucia.gov, dr-ahmadine...@president.ir,
> eugenerobin...@washpost . com , hor...@courant . com ,
> bmil...@newstimes . com , t...@hotmail . com , rastr...@aol . com ,
> billcurr...@gmail . com , thomas.car...@usdoj.gov, amcgui...@rms-law . com ,
> rjmur...@aol . com , paulcraigrobe...@yahoo . com ,
> sidney_blument...@yahoo . com , criminal.divis...@usdoj.gov,
> karla.dobin...@usdoj.gov, christopher.chris...@usdoj.gov
>
> Subject: State Dept worried about Russia
>
> Date: Apr 16, 2008 5:08 AM
>
> Worried that Russian diplomats will be more welcome in the Middle
> East, especially
> since Putin told Bush off in Maine re 9/11.  Imagine how much more
> welcome Russia
> will be in the Middle East once everyone finds out 9/11 was an inside
> job involving
> the CFR-bankers' CIA and the Mossad: * w w w .actionlyme.org/070426homete=
mp.htm * w w w .actionlyme.org/911_HOAX.htm
> The pre-announced WTC 7 collapse: * w w w .actionlyme.org/CHENEYMO_PSYCHO=
ANALYSIS.htm
>
> State wants them there so that they can be human shields.
>
> KMDickson
> =========================
===========
> courant . com /news/nationworld/ats-ap_top14apr16,0,3267875.story
> Courant . com
> State Department warns diplomats of compulsory Iraq duty
>
> By MATTHEW LEE
>
> Associated Press Writer
>
> April 16, 2008
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to
> serve in Iraq
> next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for
> jobs at the
> Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained
> by The Associated
> Press.
>
> A similar call-up notice last year caused an uproar among foreign
> service officers,
> some of whom objected to compulsory work in a war zone, although in
> the end the
> State Department found enough volunteers to fill the jobs.
>
> Now, the State Department anticipates another staffing crisis.
>
> "We face a growing challenge of supply and demand in the 2009 staffing
> cycle,"
> the cable said, noting that more than 20 percent of the nearly 12,000
> foreign service
> officers have already worked in the two major hardship posts -- Iraq
> and Afghanistan
> -- and a growing number have done tours in both countries.
>
> As a result, the unclassified April 8 cable says, "the prime candidate
> exercise
> will be repeated" next year, meaning the State Department will begin
> identifying
> U.S. diplomats qualified to serve in Iraq and who could be forced to
> work there
> if they don't volunteer.
>
> The prime candidate list will be comprised of diplomats who have
> special abilities
> that are needed in Iraq, such as Arabic language skills, deep Mideast
> knowledge
> or training in specific areas of reconstruction.
>
> "We must assign to Iraq those employees whose skills are most needed,
> and those
> employees should know that they personally are needed," Foreign
> Service Director
> General Harry Thomas said in the cable sent to all diplomatic
> missions.
>
> The cable describes how the department will fill upcoming vacancies at
> hardship
> posts like those Iraq and Afghanistan -- although it doesn't plan to
> force any
> Afghanistan assignments. Diplomats will "bid," or apply, for positions
> in the war zones that will be advertised in May. After that, the
> department expects
> to begin identifying prime candidates for about 300 Iraq jobs that
> come open next
> summer, Thomas wrote.
>
> The cable said more details will be announced next month, but
> identification of
> prime candidates is the first step in implementing so-called "directed
> assignments."
> That means ordering diplomats to work in certain locations under
> threat of dismissal
> unless they have a compelling reason, such as a health condition, that
> would prevent
> them from going.
>
> Last year, after prime candidates were identified for 48 Iraq jobs
> that come open
> this summer, enough qualified volunteers came forward to avoid what
> would have been
> the largest diplomatic call-up since the Vietnam War -- but not before
> the uproar
> over the prospect of forced tours made national headlines.
>
> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that she had been
> personally offended
> by the critical comments of some diplomats who questioned the ethics
> of sending
> people against their will to a war zone. One diplomat, during an
> October session
> held at the State Department to explain the policy to employees,
> called the forced
> assignments a "potential death sentence" to loud applause.
>
> "I was deeply offended myself, and deeply sorry that these people who
> had self-selected
> into this town hall went out of their way, to my view, cast a very bad
> light on
> the foreign service," Rice told a House panel.
>
> Rice said the comments were isolated and prompted a visceral response
> by the rest
> of the diplomatic corps, including those serving in dangerous posts
> outside Iraq
> and Afghanistan. "I will tell you, the blogs were lit up in the
> Department
> of State by people who were offended ... who were absolutely offended
> by those comments,"
> she said.
>
> She added that she had not needed to "direct assign" diplomats to Iraq
> last year, but she stressed that she reserved the right to do so in
> the future.
>
> The State Department is hoping it can fill all of next year's Iraq
> vacancies
> with volunteers as it did in 2008.
>
> "We hope to accomplish the same in 2009," the cable says. "A willing,
> qualified volunteer is always preferable to an employee sent
> involuntarily."
>
> The union that represents U.S. diplomats shares that view.
>
> "Unless there is some huge upward change in the number of positions, I
> think
> it's quite possible to staff the Baghdad embassy with volunteers,"
> said
> John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association.
> "The foreign
> service has done it for the past five years and I believe the foreign
> service will
> do it again."
>
> Yet, there are serious concerns that the pool of those willing to go
> is dwindling.
>
> Some diplomats have privately expressed unease about volunteering for
> Iraq duty
> amid deep uncertainty over how the administration following President
> Bush will
> deal with Iraq, and how that might affect security or change
> Washington's focus
> on the country.
>
> While presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has
> vowed to
> stay the course, both Democratic hopefuls, Sens. Hillary Rodham
> Clinton and Barack
> Obama, have made clear they oppose the war and have pledged to reduce
> the number
> of American troops there.
>
> Such a move could have an impact on State Department operations and
> security, some
> diplomats fear.
>
> Naland said he was not aware of such concerns. He added that security
> worries could
> be allayed by the fact that the State Department on Monday finally
> took possession
> of the new, heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after months of
> delay caused
> by constructions problems.
>
> Diplomats are expected to begin moving into the facility at the end of
> next month
> after enduring several spates of major insurgent rocket attacks in
> their less-well-protected
> offices and living quarters in the Green Zone. Four Americans -- two
> soldiers and
> two civilians -- have been killed by such fire in recent weeks.
>
> At least three foreign service personnel -- two diplomatic security
> agents and one
> political officer -- have been killed in Iraq since the war began in
> March 2003.
>
> ___
>
> Associated Press writer Anne Flaherty contributed to this report.
>
> Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
> may not be published,
> broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.





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