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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Laurence Pope Replaces Ambassador Chris Stevens

The new State Department point man for Libya has arrived in Tripoli to take control of the embassy. Laurence Pope, a career foreign service officer returning from retirement, replaces Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in an attack on a compound in Benghazi last month. Pope speaks Arabic and served the State Department for 31 years. He was ambassador to Chad and director of counter-terrorism. Pope will serve as charge d'affairs until the Obama administration nominates a new ambassador.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonder if Hillary will give him 3 men for protection, or just make him stand there in the middle of the burnt out shell....

Anonymous said...

Hope he takes a gun with him. Obama will not protect him from the Muslims, being a Muslim himself. Without support from our own President I would have not taken that job. Mr. Pope will be dead soon because Obama will just let it happen.

Anonymous said...

why bother to have an ambassador there? To what purpose?