 President Bush has named Zalmay Khalilzad, the ambassador to Afghanistan and a long-time national security adviser, as the new US ambassador to Baghdad, administration officials announced Thursday. Khalilzad, an Afghan-American citizen, will replace John Negroponte, who is said to have found the job so "aggravating" he left after less than a year there. Last month, Bush named Negroponte as America's first director of National Intelligence. Khalilzad will take over one of the most closely watched and dangerous US diplomatic posts. Officials did not say who would succeed him in Afghanistan. |