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Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as US Ambassador to the UN, Iraq, and Afghanistan under GWB and was the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush Administration. He also served in the Reagan Administration, advising on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq War.
Khalilzad was born in Afghanistan and first came to the US as an exchange student. He's married to an American, and the kids are named Alexander and Maximilian, not Mohammed and Mahmoud.