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For More Information: http://wranglers.tamu.edu By Pete Yost THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON President Bush named John Negroponte, the United States’ top diplomat at the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday and asserted that Iraq “will be free and dem ocratic and peaceful.” Bush announced the nomina tion in an Oval Office ceremony. At the United Nations, Negroponte, 64, was instrumen tal in winning unanimous approval of a Security Council resolution that demanded Saddam Hussein comply with U.N. mandates to disarm. While the resolution helped the Bush administration make its case for invading Iraq, the Security Council eventually refused to endorse the overthrow of Saddam, opting instead to extend U.N. weapons searches. “John Negroponte is a man of enormous experience and skill” and “has done a really good job of speaking for the United States to the world about our intentions to spread freedom and peace,” said Bush. Regarding Negroponte’s new post, the president said there is “no doubt in my mind he can handle it. no doubt in my mind he will do a very good job, and there’s no doubt in my mind that Iraq will be free and democratic and peaceful.” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar, R-Ind., supports the nomination and said he will work with Secretary of State Colin Powell to provide a prompt public hearing for Negroponte. If confirmed by the Senate, Negroponte would head a U.S. embassy in Baghdad that will be temporarily housed in a palace that belonged to Saddam. When up and running, the embassy will be the largest in the world. Negroponte would become ambassador in Baghdad when the United States hands over political power to an interim Iraqi govern ment by a June 30 deadline. The current top U.S. official in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, is expected to leave the country once the politi cal transition is completed. Thousands of U.S. troops will remain in the country even after the political transition is complete. As U.N. ambassador in New York. Negroponte also helped win approval of a resolution to expand the mandate of an inter national security force in Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban government. Before that, he worked in pri vate business. Negroponte’s nomination for the U.N. post was confirmed by the Senate in September 2(K)l, but that confirmation didn’t come easy. It was delayed a half-year mostly because of criticism of his record as the U.S. ambassa File Photo <T1W U N ambassador John Negroponte, recently appointed ambassot- by President Bush, spoke at the George Bush Library March 8. dor to Honduras from 1981 to 1985. In Honduras, Negroponte played a prominent role in assisting the Contras in Nicaragua in their war with the left-wing Sandinista govern ment, which was aligned with Cuba and the Soviet Union. For weeks before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Negroponte was ques tioned by staff members on whether he had acquiesced to human rights abuses by a Honduran death squad funded and partly trained by the Central Intelligence Agency. Negroponte testified that he did not believe theater part of a deliberate Hes: government policy. “To day,” he said, "I do noth': that death squads were op ing in Honduras." “He’s a diplomat'^ mat,” said Bernard At® the State Department' Latin America official u first Bush administration Negroponte was ambassai Mexico. “He’s trusted, l lb the administration. He- tainly very close to the^ tary of state and he’sii pable." Aronson said recent interview. Grad School Giveaway Win multimedia essentials! Enter Kaplan s Grad School Giveaway for a chance to win a free 42" Sony’ Plasma TV, Sony DVD Dream System, or MP3 player. Visit kaptest.com/giveaway to enter today! KAPLAN 1 -800-KAP-TEST kaptest.com/giveaway Test Prep and Admissions NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. 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But with Marines encircling Fallujah and holding their positions inside the city, com manders warned that if the deal falls through, they could launch an all-out assault, which would likely mean a resump tion of bloody urban combat. “There is also a very clear understand ing ... that should this agreement not go through. Marines forces are more than pre pared to carry through with military opera tions,” Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters in Baghdad. He said the Marines were poised to take the city “in a very short order.” The agreement included only vague ref erence underlining the “need” to investigate the killing and mutilation of four American civilians in Fallujah on March 31. U.S. offi cials have said they want Iraqis behind the attack handed over. Since the U.S. military got caught up in two fronts simultaneously this month — in Fallujah and against a rebel Shiite cleric’s militia in the south, sparking the worst vio lence in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s fall — there have increasingly been signs that U.S. commanders are attempting to resolve them one at a time. The standoff against radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr outside Najaf was effec tively put on hold Monday. Al-Sadr’s militia “has for the most part been contained in Najaf.” Col. Dana J. H. Pittard said. “We can wait... They will still be there. Ultimately we still want Iraqis to solve this problem.” Najaf is part of an area in south-central Iraq patrolled by 9,5(X) peacekeepers from 23 countries including Spain. On Monday. President Bush scolded Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for his decision to withdraw Madrid's 1,300 troops from Iraq, and told him to avoid actions that give “false comfort to terrorists or enemies of freedom inIr Kimmitt said there would be no[w vacuum as Spanish troops pulloulof I le said officials had been discussingiw replace the troops since Zap» Spanish parliamentary electionsbM after terror attacks in Madrid. But the defense ministeroffola w hich leads the multinational fatt.ssi did not know how the place of (lie troops would be filled. Spain said the would leave w ithin six weeks. American troops, meanwhile, employees of the U.S.-funded televisi lion Al-Iraqiya, the station announcec military said it was investigating. Correspondent Asaad driver Hussein Saleh werek craman Bassem Kamel was» “after American forces oj them while they were performing duty " near the central city ofSamam station announced. 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