Uh oh. US spy chief on secret Iraq mission right now (Negroponte)

[elehhhhna]

US spy chief on secret Iraq mission
Friday 03 November 2006, 16:00


John Negroponte, the US national intelligence director, has made an unannounced visit to Baghdad for talks with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister.

Yassin Majid, the prime minister's spokesman, said on Friday that the two men were in meetings in the Iraqi leader's office in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.He gave no other details and the US embassy officials were not immediately available for comment.

Negroponte, whose visit was previously unannounced, had served as the American ambassador to Iraq before the current envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad.

"This visit is in the framework of a continuing series of meetings between the Iraqi government and the US administration," Majid said without further elaboration.

The Negroponte visit comes five days after National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley paid an unannounced visit as tensions in the US-Iraqi relations came to the surface after a series of critical statements by al-Maliki.

Hadley met with al-Maliki and his security chief, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, telling them he "wanted to reinforce some of the things you have heard from our president."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AD3F126B-7C78-48BD-BB5C-C8B99461FF5C.htm

[Turbineguy]

1. Sssshhhhh!

It's a secret!:woohoo:

[Subdivisions]

2. I'd like to see Maliki invite the United States to leave

and see the Iraqis handle their own affairs. Sure it was BushCo that made this mess, but the price for cleaning it up ought to be paid by the Iraqi people. That is the price of ridding them of Saddam.

[Marnieworld]

3. with all of the tortured bodies appearing

I just assumed he was there.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Not much of a secret. It's been all over the media.