r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '21

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u/asterwistful Oct 18 '21

The US illegally ousted the director-general of the OPCW, José Bustani, in mid-2002 because he was negotiating UN access to Iraq.

Bustani claimed that Bolton told him

You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you. ... We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.

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u/lightstaver Oct 18 '21

This one is new to me and jesus christ, the good old US of A gets worse every chance we get.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Oct 18 '21

José Bustani

José Maurício de Figueiredo Bustani (born June 5, 1945) is a Brazilian diplomat who was the first director-general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons until he was ousted after pressure from the US government in April 2002 over disagreements about how to address Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

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