[Peace-discuss] Holbrooke dies at 69

[C. G. Estabrook]

He was a vicious and murderous bastard, executor of awful policies, but any 
man's death diminishes me, as the poet says. Requiescat in pace.

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Subject: News Alert: Richard C. Holbrooke Dies at 69
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:50:35 -0500
From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com>

Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special
representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009 and a
diplomatic troubleshooter in Asia, Europe and the Middle East
who worked for every Democratic president since the late
1960s, died on Monday night at George Washington University
Hospital in Washington, D.C., an administration official
said. He was 69 and lived in Manhattan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/world/14holbrooke.html?emc=na