Laurence Pope named new top diplomat to Libya
Laurence Pope, a former U.S. ambassador to Chad and senior State Department counter-terrorism official speaks at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas in this March 7, 2011 photograph. The United States has chosen a veteran diplomat who retired more than a decade ago to serve as its senior envoy in Libya following the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in a Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, the State Department said on October 11, 2012. Pope, a former U.S. ambassador has arrived in Tripoli to serve as "charge d'affairs," the title given to a diplomat who represents a country in the absence of an ambassador, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement. REUTERS/Courtesy of Angelo State University/Handout
The United States has chosen a veteran diplomat who retired more than a decade ago to serve as its senior envoy in Libya following the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in a September 11 attack...
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