Barbara Bodine

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If we go in and make this our war ... it is suddenly going to become a war against us and we will lose it.

Bodine was interviewed in Charles H. Ferguson's 2007 documentary No End in Sight , and, as a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher , on September 3, 2007.

Bodine was portrayed by Jennifer Ehle in the Hulu miniseries adaptation of The Looming Tower.

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  1. 1 2 U.S. Public Records Index, Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. WWS: Practitioners in Residence Archived November 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 Soufan, Ali (2011). The Black Banners. Penguin. ISBN   978-0-393-07942-5
  4. "Q&A with Ambassador Barbara Bodine, '70". alumni.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  5. "Former US Ambassador to Yemen to speak at UD on March 27". udel.edu. March 19, 2002. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  6. https://spiritofamerica.org/staff/amb-barbara-bodine [ dead link ]
  7. "The Man Who Knew - Introduction" (October 3, 2002). PBS Frontline.
  8. Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower. Random House, 2006: pp. 322–323.
  9. Murray Weiss, The Man Who Warned America. HarperCollins, 2004: pp. 304–333.
  10. "US sacks its woman in Baghdad". The Guardian . 12 May 2003.
  11. Google Books: No End In Sight by Charles Ferguson
  12. Bodine, B. (2006, September 8), "9/11 Miniseries Trashes Truth", Los Angeles Times, pg. B-13
  13. 9/11 "Miniseries is Bunk" by Barbara Bodine, Los Angeles Times , September 8, 2006
  14. Michelle Shephard (2010-01-02). "Yemen: Terror threat? U.S. ally? Nearly failed state?". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-01-02. I think it would be a major mistake to turn this into a third front, if Iraq and Afghanistan are somehow front number one and number two," said Bodine in an interview with the Star. "If we try to deal with this as an American security problem and dealt with by American military, we risk exacerbating the problem.
Barbara Bodine
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United States Ambassador to Yemen
In office
December 22, 1997 August 30, 2001
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Yemen
1997–2001
Succeeded by

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