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Bush Names Envoy in Kabul to Be Ambassador to Iraq

President Bush has chosen Zalmay Khalilzad, the ambassador to Afghanistan, to become the new ambassador in Baghdad, administration officials said Thursday. Mr. Khalilzad, a blunt, garrulous Afghan-American, replaces John Negroponte, who found the job so aggravating that he was agitating to leave after less than a year in the post. Last month, Mr. Bush chose Mr. Negroponte as the nation’s first director of national intelligence.Full Story