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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3682825.stm
Why Bush is Likely to Ignore Letter by Former U.S. Diplomats
(BBC) Paul Reynolds - Several of the former American diplomats who wrote a letter to President Bush complaining about U.S. policy towards Israel are connected to a lobby group active in Middle East affairs, often as a voice for the Palestinians. The lobby group behind the letter carries the bland name of the American Educational Trust (AET), founded in 1982. The AET's founding chairman was actually a former British diplomat, an Arabist named Edward F. Henderson who was the first British ambassador to Qatar and subsequently became head of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding in London, a lobby group promoting the Arab world. The retired American diplomat who helped to organize the letter, Andrew Killgore, was a U.S. Ambassador to Qatar himself who also helped found the AET.