Derek Plumbly

Derek Plumbly
Derek Plumbly ; (diplomat, propagandist);
Born	15 May 1948
	United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon
In office
	2012 - 2014
	Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission
In office
	2008 - 2011
	UK Ambassador to Egypt
In office
	2003 - 2008
	UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
In office
	2000 - 2003

Sir Derek Plumbly is former director of the Middle East department at the Foreign Office.

Propagandist

Referring to the 2000 Riyadh Bombing, Gordon Logan wrote that Plumbly was "routinely knighted to cover up the cock-up on his watch".^[1]

Full article: Operation Mass Appeal

According to journalist Neil Mackay he was "one of the key figures" in the propaganda operation entitled Operation Mass Appeal, which ran from the late 1990s to facilitate to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^[2]

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