“Boothby worked for the Army as a contractor employed by a company called Babaricum LLC”
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The Rolling Stone profile was written by Michael Hastings and is titled “The Runaway General.” Duncan Boothby arranged Michael Hastings access to General McChrystal’s staff. The Washington Post reported Boothby’s resignment quoting their source who wished to remain anonymous. Duncan Boothby had worked for General McChrystal for the past year.
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Iran and the Obama Legacy
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Iraq, the vote
Bennington Banner (VT) - Saturday, January 1, 2005
Author: PATRICK MONROE Manchester Journal
MANCHESTER — The man tapped by the United Nations to help oversee Iraq’s first-ever elections later this month travels each week from Manchester to U.N. headquarters in New York City.
Derek Boothby , chairman of the U.N.’s Iraq Operations Group, came out of retirement in June after Secretary General Kofi Annan asked him to work with Iraq’s Ashraf Qazi, special representative of the Secretary General.
Boothby is a former career officer in the British Royal Navy and former deputy director of operations for weapons inspections in Iraq. He spent 21 years with the United Nations and was director of the Europe Division within the U.N.’s Department of Political Affairs and acted as second-in-command for the U.N.’s peacekeeping force in the Balkans.
Boothby ‘s current U.N. stint should last two or three months - if everything goes smoothly, he said. The group he leads is responsible for planning the daily operations of U.N. staff based in Iraq.
The U.N. pulled out of Iraq in September 2003 after attacks on its Baghdad headquarters killed 22 and injured more than 100.
Only recently have U.N. officials agreed to return to Iraq, with just over 200 there to assist with elections, Boothby said.
“The U.N. has a formidable task,” said Boothby . “We have to try to see that the elections ... happen on time, and are fair to all of the various factions within Iraq.”
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“We will have until October to help them put together a constitution,” said Boothby . “This will not be just a document that has been used in another country, and modified for use in Iraq. It will have to be crafted specifically for Iraq, and address the conditions that are unique to that country. All of the factions will have to be given some say in how the country will be run,” said Boothby .
If it is approved, final elections will be held by mid-December. Those national elections will produce a constitutional government to be in power by Dec. 31, 2005, Boothby said.
However, if the constitution is voted down, the whole process repeats itself with similar deadlines for 2006, he said.
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Manchester resident who oversaw Iraq election for the U.N. pleased with results
Bennington Banner (VT) - Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Author: CHRIS PARKER Staff Writer
MANCHESTER — Iraqi voters sent a strong message to insurgents Sunday when they participated in the country’s first independent elections in nearly 50 years, according to a Manchester resident who ran the election operations for the United Nations.
Derek Boothby , chairman of the U.N.’s Iraq Operations Group, said the vast majority of people in Iraq brushed aside threats of suicide bombers and boycotts to say they would stand together for democracy.
“I think everyone is very pleased the elections took place at all despite violence from insurgents,” he said. “Most people have a right to be pleased, except the insurgents.”
Boothby is a former career officer in the British Royal Navy and a former deputy director of operations for weapons inspections in Iraq.
He spent 21 years with the United Nations and came out of retirement last summer when U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan asked him to work with Iraq’s Ashraf Qazi, special representative of the secretary general.
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Cont. ... (Who is Michael Hastings???)
Is Duncan the son of Derek?
another liberal putz out of Vermont.
Who is Michael Hastings???
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/22/rolling-stone-author-discusses-general-mcchrystal-interview.html
How Rolling Stone Got Into McChrystal’s Inner Circle
Reporter Michael Hastings explains the backstory to the piece that upended a general—and maybe even a war.
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Can you explain how the article came about—what was the pitching and reporting process?
I was Baghdad correspondent for NEWSWEEK for two years, and I left the magazine after covering the elections. I wrote a piece for GQ before Obama took office that raised some serious questions about the direction we were taking in Afghanistan. So it was something I wanted to be writing about. I saw General McChrystal and his new strategy as a way to look at our Afghan policy to see if it’s working or if it’s a totally insane enterprise. I met with editors at Rolling Stone, they seemed into the idea, so I e-mailed McChrystal’s people. I didn’t think I was going to get any access at all. It’s one of those strange journalistic twists. They said yes, come on over to Paris to spend a couple days with us.
How much time did you spend with McChrystal over the month?
Another strange journalistic twist. The Icelandic volcano happens, and so my two-day trip turned into this month-long journey following General McChrystal and his staff around from Paris to Berlin to Kabul to Kandahar and then back to Washington, D.C. I wasn’t with him at every moment, obviously, but fairly regularly over that period of time.
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The name Stanley McChrystal is rolling off a lot of Americans’ tongues. But who is reporter Michael Hastings? Some basics:
* Hastings served as the Baghdad correspondent for Newsweek for two years. He wrote pieces for the magazine about soldiers from New Orleans dealing with Hurricane Katrina and the battle for control of central Baghdad, among other stories. He also covered the 2008 presidential campaign for Newsweek, an experience he later wrote about in GQ.
* In 2008, Hastings authored “I Lost My Love in Baghdad,” a book about his experiences as a war correspondent for Newsweek in Iraq, and about the death of his aide-worker girlfriend there. George Packer wrote a mixed review of the book in the New York Times, praising Hastings’ ability to capture war details but finding “literary shortcomings” in the love story at the core of the book.
* In addition to writing long-form pieces for Rolling Stone and GQ, Hastings blogs at True/Slant.
* Hastings was on record as being critical of the U.S. approach in Afghanistan before writing the Rolling Stone piece — most notably, in a GQ feature last year titled “Obama’s War.”
* Hastings recently explained the behind-the-scenes details of how the Rolling Stone piece came together to his former employers at Newsweek.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/22/innes.mchrystal.reporting/
Hastings, a young reporter whose work has been published in a variety of reputable publications, including the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, GQ and Foreign Policy, was a Newsweek correspondent in Iraq from 2005 to 2007. His girlfriend, Andi Parhamovich, another young journalist, followed him there; she was killed in a Sunni militia ambush in January 2007. His memoir of the experience, “I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story”, was published in 2008, and quickly panned by New Yorker staff writer George Packer in a review in the New York Times.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011900307.html
American Killed in Iraq Was Set to Marry
By KIM GAMEL
The Associated Press
Friday, January 19, 2007; 9:44 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Andrea Parhamovich was fully in control of her impending engagement, detailing the ring she wanted as well as helping to plan the formal engagement trip _ Paris, Valentine’s Day.
Parhamovich was killed in an ambush in Baghdad, and the Newsweek reporter in Baghdad who planned to marry her said Friday she had e-mailed him just last week with specifications for the ring.
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hey had been dating for about two years and wanted to travel to Paris in February so he could propose on Valentine’s Day, but the trip had to be postponed until March because of logistics and work demands, he said.
Parhamovich, 28, an activist with the Washington-based National Democratic Institute, died Wednesday in an ambush on her convoy as it traveled through one of Baghdad’s most dangerous neighborhoods. An al-Qaida-linked coalition of Iraqi Sunni insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack.
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http://www.newsweek.com/authors/michael-hastings.html?start=10
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/120620
Replacing McChrystal: Can Petraeus Win the War?
By Michael Hastings
Jun 23, 2010
His top civilian communications official, Duncan Boothby, resigned Tuesday, according to one official close to McChrystal.
Boothby is well known in Kabul and Washington and has a reputation for helping tell McChrystal’s story and the story of the strategy in Afghanistan. His aggressive outreach efforts were seen by many to be appropriate at a time when the public is either ambivalent or wary of the war.
Boothby worked for Adm. Greg Smith, a two-star, the highest public affairs officer ever in a war zone. Smith accepted Boothby’s resignation after reaction emerged to the article, according to the official.
The McChrystal controversy comes amid an intensified debate in Washington about the way ahead in Afghanistan. Although the strategy of sending an additional 30,000 troops is not yet fully underway – all the troops aren’t on the ground yet – new questions have been raised about the effectiveness of Obama’s strategy.