Rend Rahim Francke

[Disturbed]

"Rend Rahim Francke is little known in Iraq. As a young girl she was sent for an education at boarding school in England, followed by Cambridge and the Sorbonne. She left Iraq for good in the 1970s and has been a US citizen since 1987.

A former banker and currency trader, Ms Francke is better known in the think-tanks and political salons of Washington DC, where she has been a prominent and passionate advocate for Iraqi regime change.

She worked with neo-conservative hawks in pushing for more US support for exile and opposition groups.

Advising on post-war planning, she shared the faith of neo-conservatives that building a democratic Iraq, and holding Saddam Hussein to account for human rights abuses, could transform the Middle East."

*Now she is Iraq's Ambassader to the US. It just seems bizzare that a US Citizen who left Iraq in the 70's is in this position.