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February 20, 2009

New head coming to the IAEA

Ed Lasky
ElBaradei's term is up in November. Two men are vying to replace him. Who would you rather have?

Yukiya Amano, a classic elite track career diplomat in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, widely expected to de-politicize the agency; or

Abdul Samad Minty, a British-educated South African diplomat, and veteran anti-apartheid and disarmament acticist, expected to actively crusade.

Note that South Africa has increasingly turned in an anti-Israel direction.