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January 23, 2009

Mitchell, Holbrooke Named Mideast, Afghan-Pakistan Envoys
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Obama also visited the State Department Thursday, where he named two
envoys: retired Senate majority leader George Mitchell for the Middle
East and former ambassador Richard Holbrooke for Afghanistan and
Pakistan. As Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter administration,
Holbrooke oversaw weapons shipments to the Indonesian military as it
killed a third of East Timor’s population.



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