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Robert Fowler
Robert Fowler is a former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations and to Italy. He has also served as a foreign policy adviser under three prime ministers.
In December 2008, al Qaeda captured two Canadian diplomats and their driver in Niger. In an excerpt from his new book, A Season in Hell, the author recalls 130 days trapped in the Sahara
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