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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
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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.
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Fallujah leaders, U.S. call on fighters to turn in weapoi
By Jason Keyser
Lourdes Navarro
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FALLUJAH. Iraq — Direct talks
between the United States and leaders of the
besieged city of Fallujah produced their first
concrete results: an appeal for insurgents to
turn in their mortars, surface-to-air missiles,
rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy
weapons, U.S. officials announced Monday.
In return, the U.S. military said it does
not intend to resume its offensive in the
Sunni Muslim stronghold so long as mili
tants are disarming.
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,
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military said it was investigating.
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and media workers have been ki
the Iraqi conflict by U.S. troops,g
terrorist bombings, according
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