The new ambassador to Egypt, Margaret Scobey, has been too busy to present her credentials to Hosni Mubarak. She needs to do so in order if she is to follow conventions so that she can preside over the embassy's July 4 celebration. Some of her time has been taken up with the investigation of the death of one of her dogs.
An autopsy showed that the dog was poisoned and Ms Scobey is worried that someone may poison her or other embassy staff. The embassy's security staff is hot on the case and is workng with the Egyptian police on the matter. You'll be relieved to know that the dog was buried in the United States, a Marine detachment saw to that.
Most people in the know suspect that the dog ate poison that was placed in the garden to deter stray cats and dogs from enetering the embassy grounds. The ambassador does not place much credence in that story.
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