This article was amended on 21 December 2010 to remove a defamatory reference to a named IAEA official. As Mohamed ElBaradei's term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headed towards a close last year, Washington looked forward to the new era under Yukiya Amano with relish. In a cable in July, the American chargé, Geoffrey Pyatt, wrote: The IAEA transition that wil
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