Friday, May 21, 2010

Maura Connelly, next US Ambassador to Lebanon?

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"...diplomatic sources say Maura Connelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department Near Eastern Affairs bureau, and former charge d'affaires in Damascus, will be nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. Administration officials didn't immediately respond....

Connelly traveled with State counter terrorism coordinator Dan Benjamin to Syria last week....She's due to speak next month at the Middle East Institute on the Obama administration's Lebanon policy ..."

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