Bush appoints Gulf advisor
Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
Monday, May 28, 2001
WASHINGTON — U.S. President George Bush has appointed a leading
strategist as his adviser on Gulf issues.
Zalmay Khalilzad has been named special assistant to the president and
senior director for Gulf. The appointment was announced by National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Khalilzad is regarded as one of the top strategists in the United States
and an expert on Middle East and defense issues. He was director of the Rand
Corporation's strategy, doctrine and force structure program conducted for
the U.S. Air Force. He also founded Rand's Center for Middle Eastern
Studies.
No stranger to government, Khalilzad headed the Bush transition team for
the Defense Department and was an adviser to Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld.
During the Reagan administration, Khalilzad served as adviser on the
Iran-Iraq war.
Monday, May 28, 2001
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