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Ex-Senator Considered as Envoy to Mideast


[New York Times] Elisabeth Bumiller - Mitchell, 75, has Lebanese as well as Irish roots: his father, Joseph Kilroy, was an orphan adopted by a Lebanese family whose Arabic name had been anglicized to Mitchell, and Mitchell was raised a Maronite Catholic by his Lebanese mother. He was appointed in 2000, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, to lead an international commission to investigate the causes of violence in the Middle East.
2009-01-20 06:00:00
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