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Bodine was portrayed in the [[Hulu]] miniseries [[The Looming Tower (miniseries)|adaptation of ''The Looming Tower'']] by [[Jennifer Ehle]]. |
Bodine was portrayed in the [[Hulu]] miniseries [[The Looming Tower (miniseries)|adaptation of ''The Looming Tower'']] by [[Jennifer Ehle]]. |
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On December 22, 2020, Bodine was a signatory to a letter to Secretary of State, [[Mike Pompeo]], advocating to not designate the [[Houthis]] as a [[foreign terrorist organization]]. The letter stated they had no sympathy for their movement and acknowledged the negative role they played in the crisis in [[Yemen]]. But said the designation would not advance U.S. national security interests, it could further exacerbate human suffering and interfere with aid being delivered, and that it would complicate the UN-led peace negotiations. Other signatures included, [[William Joseph Burns]], [[Ryan Crocker]], [[Gerald M. Feierstein]], [[Michael Mulroy]], [[Anne W. Patterson]], and [[Thomas R. Pickering|Thomas Pickering]], among others. <ref>https://www.mei.edu/publications/open-letter-secretary-state-proposal-designate-houthis-foreign-terrorist-organization</ref> |
On December 22, 2020, Bodine was a signatory to a letter to Secretary of State, [[Mike Pompeo]], advocating to not designate the [[Houthis]] as a [[foreign terrorist organization]]. The letter stated they had no sympathy for their movement and acknowledged the negative role they played in the crisis in [[Yemen]]. But said the designation would not advance U.S. national security interests, it could further exacerbate human suffering and interfere with aid being delivered, and that it would complicate the UN-led peace negotiations. Other signatures included, [[William Joseph Burns]], [[Ryan Crocker]], [[Gerald M. Feierstein]], [[Michael Mulroy]], [[Anne W. Patterson]], and [[Thomas R. Pickering|Thomas Pickering]], among others. <ref>https://www.mei.edu/publications/open-letter-secretary-state-proposal-designate-houthis-foreign-terrorist-organization</ref> On February 2, 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] informed Congress of its intent to reverse the Trump administration's eleventh-hour decision to designate Yemen's Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization. <ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/politics/us-houthis-terrorist-list/index.html</ref> |
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==References== |
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Barbara Bodine | |
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Personal details | |
Born | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | August 28, 1948
Alma mater | (BA) University of California, Santa Barbara (MA) Tufts University |
Template:U.S. Near Eastern Affairs Diplomats
Barbara K. Bodine (born August 28, 1948 in
Education
Bodine earned her B.A. in political science and Asian studies
Diplomatic career
After initial tours in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Bodine spent her career working primarily on Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. She has twice served in the Bureau of Near East Affairs' Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, first as Country Officer for the Yemenis, then as Political-Military officer for the peninsula. She later served as Deputy Office Director. She had assignments as Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad, and as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation in 1990. She was awarded the Secretary of State's Award for Valor for her work in occupied Kuwait during the Gulf War.
Following Kuwait, Bodine was the Associate Coordinator for Operations and later served as the Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism. She went on to serve as the Dean of Professional Studies at the Department's Foreign Service Institute. She has worked on the secretariat staff of Secretaries Kissinger and Vance, and as a Congressional Fellow in the office of former U.S. Senator Bob Dole. Most recently, Bodine spent a year as the Director of East African Affairs. Bodine is also an Advisory Board Member of Spirit of America, a 501(c)(3) organization that supports the safety and success of Americans serving abroad and the local people and partners they seek to help.[5]
Ambassador to Yemen and USS Cole bombing
On November 7, 1997, Bodine was appointed to be
Bodine's career was marked by controversy surrounding her relationship with the
The chilly relationship between Bodine and O'Neill is detailed in
Following the apprehension of
If we go in and make this our war ... it is suddenly going to become a war against us and we will lose it.
Iraq
After serving in Yemen, Bodine became Diplomat in Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara, until shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Bodine was appointed coordinator for central Iraq in charge of Baghdad by the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), which became the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) on April 21, 2003. She was removed from that position[10] soon thereafter on May 11, 2003, when Paul Bremer was brought in to replace Retired General Jay Garner as CPA Administrator.[11]
In the media
On September 8, 2006, Bodine complained in the Los Angeles Times about her portrayal in the controversial ABC docudrama The Path to 9/11. In an op-ed, Bodine wrote: "According to the mythmakers, a battle ensued between a cop obsessed with tracking down Osama bin Laden and a bureaucrat more concerned with the feelings of the host government than the fate of Americans and the realities of terrorism. I know this is false. I was there. I was the ambassador."[12][13] The ABC miniseries compressed Bodine's role to a single extended scene suggesting she was dismissive, hostile, and vulgar toward John P. O'Neill from the moment of his arrival in Yemen. Broadcast worldwide on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 (9/10 and 9/11/2006), The Path to 9/11 was based on the official 9/11 Commission Report and other sources. ABC/Disney aired the film in the United States without commercial interruption, adding a disclaimer stating that it was "not a documentary", that various scenes were invented, and that narrative "time compression" was used. In the miniseries, Bodine was played by actress Patricia Heaton. O'Neill could not provide a balancing response to Bodine's comments because he was killed in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Bodine was interviewed in
Bodine was portrayed in the Hulu miniseries adaptation of The Looming Tower by Jennifer Ehle.
On December 22, 2020, Bodine was a signatory to a letter to Secretary of State,
References
- Barbara Bodine, Ambassador to Republic of Yemen
- Barbara Bodine, Ambassador to Republic of Yemen, United States Department of State, 2001, retrieved April 14, 2018,
The President announced on September 2, 1997 his intention to nominate Barbara K. Bodine, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen. She was confirmed on November 5, 1997.
Notes
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index, Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ WWS: Practitioners in Residence Archived November 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ People: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://spiritofamerica.org/staff/amb-barbara-bodine
- ^ "The Man Who Knew - Introduction" (October 3, 2002). PBS Frontline.
- ^ Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower. Random House, 2006: pp. 322–323
- ^ Murray Weiss, The Man Who Warned America. HarperCollins, 2004: pp. 304-333.
- ^ Michelle Shephard (2010-01-02). "Yemen: Terror threat? U.S. ally? Nearly failed state?". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
I think it would be a major mistake to turn this into a third front, if Iraq and Afghanistan are somehow front number one and number two," said Bodine in an interview with the Star. "If we try to deal with this as an American security problem and dealt with by American military, we risk exacerbating the problem.
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- ^ Google Books: No End In Sight by Charles Ferguson
- ^ Bodine, B. (2006, September 8), "9/11 Miniseries Trashes Truth", Los Angeles Times, pg. B-13
- ^ 9/11 "Miniseries is Bunk" by Barbara Bodine, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2006
- ^ https://www.mei.edu/publications/open-letter-secretary-state-proposal-designate-houthis-foreign-terrorist-organization
- ^ https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/politics/us-houthis-terrorist-list/index.html
External links
- Bodine biography, University of Delaware website
- Frontline, "The man who knew" (published October 3, 2002)
- "Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels", The Washington Post, May 4, 2008