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'''Sir [[Ivor Roberts]]''' noted in 2004 that [[George W Bush]] was "[[al-Qa'ida]]'s best recruiting sergeant". | '''Sir [[Ivor Roberts]]''' noted in 2004 that [[George W Bush]] was "[[al-Qa'ida]]'s best recruiting sergeant". |
Revision as of 02:15, 24 November 2017
Ivor Roberts (diplomat) | |
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Born | 24 September 1946 |
Nationality | Irish |
Member of | Counter Extremism Project |
Sir Ivor Roberts noted in 2004 that George W Bush was "al-Qa'ida's best recruiting sergeant".
Valedictory Telegram
In 2007, he gave a valedictory telegram which was "curtly dismissive"[1] of the "war on terror". The response from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was to ignore the substance of his telegram but ban the century-old practice of valedictory telegrams from British envoys.
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