[techweenie]

It's all over but the shouting.

Bush draws up list of candidates to replace Wolfowitz
Gabriel Rozenberg, Economics Reporter

The future of Paul Wolfowitz, the embattled President of the World Bank, was in further jeopardy last night after it emerged that the White House was drawing up a list of candidates to succeed him.

Most prominent on th list is Ashraf Ghani, the man credited with overhauling the economy of Afghanistan after September 11, The Times has learnt. Such an appointment would mark the first time a nonAmerican has held the position in the 60-year history of the global lender.

Senior officials in the US Administration have noted that the White House is softening the tone of its support for President Bush’s former Deputy Defence Secretary. They pointed yesterday to the silence of the Treasury Department and Henry Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, as an indication of the Administration’s attempt to distance itself from the man it parachuted into the job in 2005. Mr Wolfowitz appeared yesterday before a meeting of the World Bank’s 24-nation board, which is investigating whether he broke any rules in arranging a high-paying job at the US State Department for his partner, Shaha Riza, in 2005.


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Most media, even when pointing out that Shaha is considered Wolfie's "girlfriend" neglect to mention that Wolfie is married and a father of 3.