U.S. has big plans for embassy in Iraq [View All]

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Staff of biggest U.S. mission in world would number over 3,000

By Robin Wright

Updated: 2:00 a.m. ET Jan. 02, 2004

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3857175/



Staffing has been an issue in recent months. Many on the staff of L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, are young, comparatively inexperienced in the Middle East, non-Arabic speakers and political appointees rather than career Foreign Service officers. Some have already left or plan to do so before occupation ends to work on the president's reelection campaign, according to U.S. officials.