Based on interviews with two former staff members of the Office of the STL prosecution, as well as numerous public statements by U.S. officials, there are reasons to take seriously the "all the way" intentions of [Jeffrey Feltman] and [Silvan Shalom]. Their governments assert that the STL is legitimate under both international law, given that it was established in accordance with a U. N. Security Council resolution issued under Chapter 7, and also under Lebanon's legal and constitutional principles contrary to what is being claimed by Hizbullah and STL's adversaries in Lebanon. According to one State Department lawyer, "If the STL indicts and convicts one member of Hizbullah, we win. A driver, a boy scout, we don't care. The Security Council can do a dozen things to topple Hizbullah. Fo...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, French Foreign Minis...
A just-retired U.S. diplomat who led negotiations that restored full diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Libya has taken an important job with Bechtel, a major U.S. company that stands to win major contracts in the former pariah state. The firm approached David Welch in his final months as assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs and in December made him vice president for Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, said a Bechtel spokesman, Francis Canavan.
Among the speakers at the banquet dinner was Madelyn Spirnak, State Department acting deputy assistant secretary for Near East affairs, who described U.S. outreach to local religious leaders and educators who visit the United States to observe religious diversity here and to see Muslim life in America first hand.
The stubborn rejection by President Bush and his neoconservative advisers of normal diplomatic practice in their dealings with Iran, detailed for the first time here, raises grave questions about the Bush administration's real motives as it maneuvers through the present crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Haass, for four years the senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National security Council under the first President Bush, began in the summer of 2001 to explore the possibilities for engaging Iran diplomatically, first through the easing of economic sanctions imposed in 1996 under the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
The U.S. State Department deputy who oversees a federal program to promote democracy, education and the economy in the Middle East is set to be the next guest speaker for The Rotary Club of Charleston. Scott J. Carpenter, deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Near East Affairs, is scheduled to speak at the 11:45 a.m. Friday meeting at the University of Charleston.
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