Mr. Frank Ricciardone This is Me

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1. 1. Albright meets the Iraqi opposition

   www.iraqcmm.org/cmm/io-meets-a - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/15/2007   Last Visited: 12/15/2007

   Mr. Frank Ricciardone, Senior Coordinator for Transition in Iraq

2. 2. "Bell Discusses Possible Helicopter Sale to Iraq"

   www.yirmeyahureview.com/archiv - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/12/1984   Last Visited: 9/18/2006

   We thanked the Bell reps for their briefing and urged them to keep us and Iraq desk officer Frank Ricciardone posted on developments.

3. 3. US Iraq coup plan lurches forward

   southmovement.alphalink.com.au - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 12/8/2007

   The United States on Thursday named Frank Ricciardone, deputy chief of mission in Ankara, an important listening post for events in northern Iraq as 'Special Representative for Transition in Iraq' to coordinate Washington support for the overthrow of the current Ba'ath leadership in Iraq.
   
   "We hope Ricciardone will carry out his new responsibilities somewhere outside of Turkey," the Hurriyet daily on Friday quoted an unnamed foreign ministry official as saying. In a further blunt message Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said Turkey had always supported the territorial integrity of its neighbors and was firmly opposed to a division of Iraq. "The US can carry out these activities on its own territory, but Turkey will certainly not take any part in this kind of interference," Ecevit said.
   
   Ricciardone directed the 1996 evacuation to the United States from northern Iraq of people, who had received money from the CIA, in failed covert $20 million destabilisation operation.
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   But Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Ricciardone would be helped by a team of US officials, including a military and political adviser.
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   Ricciardone, has headed the Iraq desk at the State Department, advised US military officers on aiding the Kurds in Iraq and also has served in Egypt.
   
   Between 1991 and 1993, Ricciardone served as the number two for Washington's closed embassy in Baghdad, operating out of Amman, Jordan and London. Ricciardone later served as political adviser to the commanders of the multinational force that supported CIA operations in northern Iraq following the Gulf War. He was credited with liasing a military exercise between Turkey, the U.S. and Israel in the Mediterranean recently.