Wolfowitz’s girlfriend known as his “neoconcubine”

[dajoki]

May 10, 2007, 3:01 pm
About a World Bank Girl
By Mike Nizza
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/about-a-world-bank-girl/

With Paul D. Wolfowitz today getting more time to respond to charges that he mishandled his companion’s reassignment and pay package, it seemed like a good time to take a look at the woman in question, Shaha Ali Riza.

As opposition to President Paul D. Wolfowitz gathered at the World Bank in April, Web searches for images and references to the woman at the center of the controversy surged more than 1,550 percent on Yahoo. People were dying to see the face that launched a thousand critics.
A photograph from 2003 turned up, but Ms. Riza’s voice has been silent since she delivered defiant testimony to World Bank leaders looking in to the matter.

“Whatever happened to my confidentiality agreement with the bank?” she asked as leaks about her sprang from the institution. One that reached Salon claimed that she was known at the bank as Mr. Wolfowitz’s “neoconcubine.”

A profile of Shaha Ali Riza in today’s Washington Post describes her as an Oxford-educated women’s rights activist who speaks several languages, has traveled widely and has impressed many people with her intellect, including Sandra Day O’Connor, the former Supreme Court justice.
A friend tells The Post that Ms. Riza did not like being portrayed as a “bimbo” when she “has actually achieved a lot.”

The paper also dishes about where the couple first met (the National Endowment for Democracy); their common interests ( “spreading democratic ideals in Arab lands”); the paucity of public displays of affection when they started dating ( “one of the most well-guarded secrets in Washington and the Arab world”); and a friend’s lawyerly opinion on whether they would stay together ( “There is nothing that suggests the opposite for me at the moment”).

[Fridays Child]

1. Love it! Neocon ridicule has now officially gone global.

How in the world are the fuckers still in power here?

[MadMaddie]

2. What did she think was going to happen?

<snip>
“Whatever happened to my confidentiality agreement with the bank?”
<snip>

Well you get hired by the boss and get paid a ridiculous salary, you flaunt your relationship in front of all the UN staff.....(even though you know he is hated).....

and then you can't understand why you have no privacy....stupid, pathetic woman!

[wakeme2008]

3. OK not a bimbo just blind as a bat for date Paulie

:rofl:

[HereSince1628]

4. That's precious, absolutely.

[dajoki]

5. Yeah, I'd like to know...

who came up with that one, they deserve a prize.:rofl:

[benddem]

6. I'd like to know

how anyone could sleep with that man, much less have sex with him. She may not be a bimbo but there is something not quite right.

[Auntie Bush]

7. Isn't Wolfowitz a married man?

I heard he was...so that makes her his mistress...not his neoconcubine girlfriend.

[dajoki]

9. marital status appears to be uncertain...

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz

Wolfowitz met anthropologist Clare Selgin Wolfowitz while they were both studying at Cornell University in the mid-1960s; they married in 1968, had three children (Sara, David, and Rachel), separated in 2001, and, according to some sources, were divorced in 2002, though, according to other sources their marital status appears to be uncertain. "Since separating from his wife...in 2001, he has dated a secular Muslim woman in her fifties, Shaha Ali Riza. A British national from a Libyan family who grew up in Saudi Arabia, Riza is a longtime advocate of democracy in Arab countries." Paul Wolfowitz lives in Washington, D.C.

[Kelly Rupert]

8. Okay, that's hilarious.

K&R for "neoconcubine."

[AZBlue]

10. Did they engage in "naughty neonookie"?

[dajoki]

11. More like disgusting!! n/t

[Eric J in MN]

12. I don't like it when newspapers publish anonymous insults.

If someone wants to call her a "neoconcubine," the NY Times should either demand he say it on the record or not print it.

Same goes for saying that John Kerry "looks French" or that John Edwards is "the Breck Girl."

[dajoki]

13. "public displays of affection "

doesn't sound like they were trying to keep it secret.