BAGHDAD - Ambassador Ryan Crocker was sworn in as the new top U.S. envoy to Iraq on Thursday, saying he was taking over the "most critical foreign policy mission" facing the United States.
The oath was administered by junior foreign service officer Tina Tran, who had served with Crocker in Islamabad and has been in the Baghdad embassy since last summer.
Crocker, who is fluent in Arabic, told Iraqi employees of the embassy in Arabic that "you are the heroes of the country, in the true meaning of the word."
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