Peter Galbraith

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Peter Galbraith, Former US Ambassador, Defends Himself Against Oil-Profiteering Charges, Slams NY Times Report

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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Former U.S. ambassador Peter Galbraith, the son of legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith, could not have picked a worse time to give a lecture on...

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Please Welcome Peter W. Galbraith and Andrew J. Hall to the Billionaire Bailout Society

Les Leopold | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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Galbraith reportedly got himself a $100 million piece (or more) of a Kurdish oil field. Hall's oil trading scams are picking our pockets by driving up the price of oil just enough for him to make a killing.

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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Peter Galbraith, American Adviser To Kurds, Stands To Reap Huge Oil Profits

nytimes.com | JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

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OSLO -- Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Jo...

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Peter Galbraith, American Adviser To Kurds, Stands To Reap Oil Wealth

The New York Times | James Glanz and Walter Gibbs | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. ...

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My Exclusive Interview with Ken Guest -- Journalist/Analyst on Afghanistan (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.

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Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Afghan Member Of Panel Investigating Election Fraud, Resigns

AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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KABUL — Efforts to resolve Afghanistan's fraud-marred presidential election suffered new setbacks Monday when one of two Afghans on the commissi...

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Kai Eide: UN Official Defends Afghanistan Election Despite Widespread Fraud

Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...

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U.N. Secretary General Owes Peter Galbraith an Apology

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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On September 30th, Peter Galbraith, the highest ranking American, and deputy to U.N. ambassador, Kai Eide, was fired for disclosing Eide's efforts to ...

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Kai Eide, UN Envoy In Afghanistan, Denies Claims Over Election Fraud

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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KABUL — The U.N.'s top envoy in Afghanistan denied allegations he did not do enough to prevent or investigate fraud in the country's presidentia...

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Peter Galbraith, Ousted UN Official, Says UN Failed To Prevent Afghan Election Fraud

AP | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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(AP) WASHINGTON -- An American ousted as the No. 2 official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Monday he has no second-thoughts about assertions ...

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Peter Galbraith, U.S. Critic Of Karzai, Fired From U.N. Mission

nytimes.com | NEIL MacFARQUHAR | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS �" Peter W. Galbraith, the deputy United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and the highest American official for the wor...

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Peter Galbraith: Top U.S. Official Fired By UN In Afghanistan

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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KABUL — The top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan is losing his job after he disagreed with superiors over how to deal with w...

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Afghanistan War: The West's 'Fatal Mistakes'

The Independent | Patrick Cockburn | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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After seven long years in which it seemed a sideshow to the bigger conflict in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan has reached a critical point. The US must ...

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Afghanistan Likely To See Surge In Civilian Employees

washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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Hundreds of additional U.S. diplomats and civilian officials would be deployed to Afghanistan as part of the new civil-military regional strategy that...

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Has the 'Surge' Brought Us Any Closer to 'Victory'?

Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

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If the surge has worked, that must mean victory is just around the corner, right? That's certainly the impression that the Bush White House is trying to give -- without exactly coming out and saying so.

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