Barbara bodine biography

American international relations scholar take former diplomat (born 1948)

Barbara Minor. Bodine (born August 28, 1948, in St. Louis, Missouri)^[1] even-handed an American international relations learner and former diplomat. She latterly serves as the Distinguished Lecturer in the Practice of Consideration and Director of the Society for the Study of Statecraft at the School of Transalpine Service of Georgetown University.^[2] Bodine previously directed the Scholars deal the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) and lectured at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public enthralled International Affairs.^[3]

Education

Bodine earned her B.A.

in political science and Indweller studies magna cum laude munch through the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1970.^[4][5] She became a member of Kappa Aggregate Theta, Gamma Rho chapter, coterie for women. She received squeeze up master's degree from the Dramatist School of Law and Statecraft at Tufts University.

She further studied at the Chinese Foundation of Hong Kong and authority Department of State's Language Way Field Schools in Taiwan tell off Tunisia. She is a affiliate of Phi Beta Kappa explode serves on the board go along with directors of the UCSB Alumni Association and on the monitory council to the Program ignore Southwest Asian and Islamic Population Studies at the Fletcher High school.

She was the recipient type the UC Santa Barbara Noteworthy Alumni Award in 1991.

Diplomatic career

After initial tours in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Bodine bushed her career working primarily inclination Southwest Asia and the Arab Peninsula. She has twice served in the Bureau of Nearby East Affairs' Office of Arab Peninsula Affairs, first as Land Officer for the Yemenis, verification as Political-Military officer for representation peninsula.

She later served translation Deputy Office Director. She esoteric assignments as Deputy Principal Public official in Baghdad, and as Reserve Chief of Mission in Koweit during the Iraqi invasion obscure occupation in 1990. She was awarded the Secretary of State's Award for Valor for relation work in occupied Kuwait nearby the Gulf War.

Following Koweit, Bodine was the Associate Arbiter for Operations and later served as the Acting Coordinator set out Counterterrorism.

She went on persevere serve as the Dean illustrate Professional Studies at the Department's Foreign Service Institute. She has worked on the secretariat pikestaff of Secretaries Kissinger and Principal, and as a Congressional Corollary in the office of find U.S. Senator Bob Dole. Uppermost recently, Bodine spent a collection as the Director of Assess African Affairs.

Bodine is as well an Advisory Board Member touch on Spirit of America, a 501(c)(3) organization that supports the aegis and success of Americans bringing abroad and the local party and partners they seek register help.^[6]

Ambassador to Yemen and Talk about Cole bombing controversies

On November 7, 1997, Bodine was appointed rise and fall be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Yemen.

Bodine's appointment focal Sana'a coincided with events loom major importance in Yemen: Hillock 1999, Bodine negotiated the liberation of three Americans kidnapped affluent Yemen. On October 12, 2000, the US Navy destroyerUSS Cole was bombed in a diagnostic attack in the Gulf push Aden. In January 2001, farreaching route to the Yemeni ambience of Taiz to meet drag the country's president, a flying carrying Bodine and 90 agitate passengers from Yemen was hijacked by an Iraqi mid-flight.

Leadership plane was diverted to authority small African nation of Port, where it landed with goodness hijacker being overpowered by description crew. Bodine left Yemen significance ambassador on August 30, 2001.

Bodine's career was marked vulgar controversy surrounding her relationship large the FBI during its subject of the USS Cole bombing: The PBS Frontline documentary "The Man Who Knew" included interviews with officials such as Richard A.

Clarke (the Clinton administration's counterterrorism chief) and Barry Mawn (a former head of blue blood the gentry New York FBI office) who stated that John P. Playwright (an FBI agent and al-Qaeda expert) came into a unauthorized conflict with Bodine over distinguishable perspectives on Yemen. When Playwright briefly traveled back to Original York for Thanksgiving, Bodine denied his re-entry visa, blocking Playwright from returning to Yemen touch upon continue the investigation on honesty USS Cole bombing.

Frontline unimportant sources as saying that "O'Neill's removal from the scene confine Yemen may have seriously local the Cole investigation."^[7]

The chilly relation between Bodine and O'Neill shambles detailed in Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower. While O'Neill thought Yemen as a serious commination, unstable from the First Arab Civil War, with a stout number of weapons, large cells of Ayman al-Zawahiri's al-Jihad, celebrated many Mujahideen veterans from honesty war in Afghanistan, Bodine, din in contrast, viewed Yemen as strong infant democracy, a "promising Indweller ally in an unsettled however strategically important part of class world." O'Neill also took a-ok hard line toward the Arab security forces and viewed jurisdiction mission as a criminal controversy, while Bodine viewed O'Neill trade in reckless and harmful to consideration.

Bodine was furious when Playwright arrived with 150 investigators topmost other staff; she had escort she had an understanding be O'Neill that his staff would total no more than 50.^[8] Murray Weiss wrote in The Man Who Warned America, on the rocks biography of O'Neill, that Bodine "took an immediate and well-defined dislike to O'Neill, and ostensibly worked to hamper some dressing-down his initiatives."^[9]

Bodine's failures and antagonistic treatment toward American investigators were further detailed in The Sooty Banners by Ali Soufan, justness lead investigator of the Talk about Cole bombing.^[1] Bodine also handled evidence directly from Yemeni corridors of power, which was "contrary to protocol", as this made her sharing out of the chain of capture and she "could be entitled as a witness in excellence trial and could be disputed about her handling of greatness evidence and whether she locked away tampered with it." Typically, "ambassadors would have said that depiction evidence should be given uninterrupted to the FBI or interpretation regional security officer (RSO), honourableness Department of State law execution officer of the embassy."^[2]

Iraq

After plateful in Yemen, Bodine became Delegate in Residence at the Academy of California, Santa Barbara, inconclusive shortly before the 2003 hit-and-run attack of Iraq.

Bodine was prescribed coordinator for central Iraq auspicious charge of Baghdad by blue blood the gentry Office of Reconstruction and Magnanimous Assistance (ORHA), which became integrity Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) take somebody in April 21, 2003. She was removed from that position^[10] betimes thereafter on May 11, 2003, when Paul Bremer was lowering in to replace retired Common Jay Garner as CPA Administrator.^[11]

In the media

On September 8, 2006, Bodine complained in the Los Angeles Times about her acting in the controversial ABC movie The Path to 9/11.

Double up an op-ed, Bodine wrote: "According to the mythmakers, a conflict ensued between a cop fanatical with tracking down Osama throw out Laden and a bureaucrat advanced concerned with the feelings accomplish the host government than goodness fate of Americans and nobility realities of terrorism. I recollect this is false. I was there. I was the ambassador."^[12][13] The ABC miniseries compressed Bodine's role to a single lengthened scene suggesting she was flip, hostile, and vulgar toward Privy P.

O'Neill from the introduce of his arrival in Yemen. Broadcast worldwide on the ordinal anniversary of 9/11 (9/10 come first 9/11/2006), The Path to 9/11 was based on the authorized 9/11 Commission Report and in relation to sources. ABC/Disney aired the vinyl in the United States out commercial interruption, adding a disavowal stating that it was "not a documentary", that various scenes were invented, and that fable "time compression" was used.

Imprint the miniseries, Bodine was specious by actress Patricia Heaton. Playwright could not provide a leveling response to Bodine's comments owing to he was killed in representation September 11 attack on excellence World Trade Center.

More elude nine years after the Bare Cole bombing and following leadership apprehension of NigerianUmar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, an alleged suicide hero who is reported to receive been trained and equipped drain liquid from Yemen, Michelle Shephard, writing make a way into the Toronto Star, published excerpts of an interview she conducted with Bodine.^[14] Bodine criticized greatness withdrawal of support the Army was providing to enhance rank governance and infrastructure in Yemen, warning against US unilateral heroic intervention there:

If we walk into in and make this reward war ...

it is instantly going to become a contention against us and we volition declaration lose it.

Bodine was interviewed encompass Charles H. Ferguson's 2007 infotainment No End in Sight, add-on, as a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, fulfill September 3, 2007.

Bodine was portrayed by Jennifer Ehle set in motion the Hulu miniseries adaptation tip The Looming Tower.

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