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Article: L Paul Bremer III.(Worldbeaters ... Taking aim at the rich and powerful)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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AT first sight, there's nothing very remarkable about the US Viceroy in Iraq, sometimes called Bremer Pasha by sympathetic Iraqi exiles. His elite credentials are impeccable: Yale, Harvard Business School, the Institut D'Etudes Politiques of the University of Paris and 23 years as a career diplomat, including a stint as US Ambassador to the Netherlands between 1983 and 1986. His strangely youthful appearance (he is 62) is reminiscent of ex-President Ronald Reagan, for whom he served as Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism between 1986 and 1989.
And this is when those credentials get a little soiled. Bremer is known to have sat on at least one committee with ...