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Personality: Armitage Richard
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(Daily) Richard Armitage, Deputy secretary of state during the 1st Bush administration.
(02.06.06) (F) ANAL: David Gardner: 'Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state in the first Bush administration, describe(d) Hizbollah as the "A-Team" of international terror - more lethal than al Qaeda - and owing a "blood-debt" to Americans the U.S. intended to collect.' The openings of President Katami elected by a 'landside' in '97, were 'ultimately rebuffed' by the Clinton administration. 'Notoriously, in May '03, Iran under a weakened Khatami offered to address U.S. concerns on nuclear weapons and terrorism, sort out their differences on Iraq, and co-operate in pursuit of a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington spurned that offer.' 'Iran is the single clearest beneficiary of the Iraq invasion, which overturned the nearly 1000-years old dominance of Sunni Islam in the country and the region and empowered its Shia co-religionists.'
(13.04.06) (F) INTERVIEW: Demetri Sevastopulo talks to Richard Armitage, 'Deputy secretary of state during the 1st Bush administration: "It merits talking the Iranians about the full range of our relationship...every thing from energy to terrorism to weapons to Iraq". 'He said the administration could afford to be patient "for a while" on Iran because Tehran would not have access to a nuclear weapon for some time, and because the IAEA, the Russians and the Chinese were all putting pressure on the Islamic republic.' Iraq: "We haven't been able to train the police and armed forces sufficiently quickly. They have not been able to put together a government of national unity this long after the election. There is less oil, less water, available now than there was a year ago, and year and a half ago. They are exporting less oil. So I think that one has to say that things are going badly".'
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