91.   Gul is expected to meet with Peter Tarnoff, undersecretary of state for political affairs, as well as business leaders.

92.   Ghazali Jaafar, MILF vice chairman for political affairs, denied MILF rebels were involved.

93.   Hamad Ali al-Sulayti, assistant secretary-general of political affairs for the group, said most Western media are connecting Islam with terrorism.

94.   He is an expert on political affairs in eastern Europe and a political writer.

95.   He said Armed Forces chief Gen. Wiranto has reported the plan to a meeting of Cabinet ministers dealing with security and political affairs.

96.   He was accompanied by Sir Walter Kieran Prendergast, the head of the U.N. political affairs department.

97.   His last post was assistant secretary-general of the United Nations for political affairs.

98.   He succeeds Thomas Pickering, who left in November and later returned to the State Department to become undersecretary of state for political affairs.

99.   He was accompanied to Freetown by Christopher Child, a Briton, who is chief program officer in the political affairs division at the Commonwealth Secretariat.

100.   His political affairs officer, Yemane Ghebreab, is leading a delegation to Italy where they are briefing parliament on the conflict with Ethiopia and meeting with legislators.