Powell Makes Unannounced Trip to Baghdad

[tritsofme]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) made an unannounced trip to Baghdad early Friday for talks with top Iraqi officials, including the country's new president, Ghazi al-Yawer.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said Powell was met at Baghdad International Airport by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (news - web sites), John D. Negroponte. Powell is the highest ranking American official to visit since Iraq's interim government took power on June 28.

Callahan told The Associated Press that Powell is expected to hold talks Friday with al-Yawer and Iraq's deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_powell_2

They gotta keep their names in the news somehow...

[bluestateguy]

1. Uh huh

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) made an unannounced trip to Baghdad early Friday for talks with top Iraqi officials, including the country's new president, Ghazi al-Yawer.

How about meeting with some ordinary Iraqis who are not politicians, businessmen and clerics?

[Tight_rope]

2. I'm sure Powell went by force...Being the good house boy and doing

what Master Bush wants to me him look good.

[rl6214]

6. Why do you have to make it

racial?

[lapfog_1]

3. No, maybe it was to prepare their puppets for

the cutting of the strings in a few months!

( Do YOU have your cayman islands account all set up? Gotta think
ahead in these things )

[thebigidea]

4. oh, who the fuck cares. A real surprise would be if he quit.

[flordehinojos]

5. The World Is Safer Today the Bushies Like to Say, but Why Is It That

whenever anyone of them goes to Baghdad they do so UNANNOUNCED! Afraid the boogie man is gonna get'em?
:scared:

[Judi Lynn]

7. Longer version of this story available now:

July 30, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made an unannounced trip to Baghdad early Friday following talks with Saudi officials on a proposal to form a Muslim force to help stamp out the deadly insurgency in Iraq.
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U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan told The Associated Press that Powell was met at Baghdad International Airport by U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte and would hold talks with top Iraqi officials, including the country’s new president, Ghazi al-Yawer, and deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh, before leaving later Friday. Powell, the highest ranking American official to visit since Iraq’s interim government took power on June 28, arrived following meetings with Kuwaiti and Saudi leaders in their respective countries.
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A U.S. military helicopter flew Powell, who has visited Iraq three times since Saddam Hussein’s ouster, from Baghdad’s airport to Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone where the U.S. Embassy and Iraq’s interim government are houses.
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In the Saudi port city of Jiddah on Thursday, Powell met with interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who urged Muslim nations to dispatch troops to Iraq to help defeat an insurgency he said threatens all Islamic countries.
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(snip/...)

http://www.iht.com/articles/531897.html

[leftchick]

8. what other kind of trip can it be than "unannounced"?

From Imus this AM:...

"Powell has to sneak in there like a Navy SEAL because they have made such a mess of the place."

[dbt]

9. Roger THAT, lc!

Has any member of this Reptile Regime made an announced trip to Iraq? Come to think of it, has anyone been brought to justice by this bunch?

Besides Martha Stewart?

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Under the cloak of darkness...

...he enters Baghdad like a sneak-thief.

[Demeter]

11. Seeking Political Asylum, No Doubt n/t

[Cocoa]

12. did he bring a turkey?

[daleo]

13. Maybe he wanted to check on Saddam, too

See how his "treatments" were coming along.