An article in Business Day on Oct. 9 about journalists who attended a secret meeting in November 2001 called by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, referred incorrectly to the participation of Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist.

The relationship created further controversy over Wolfowitz ’ s nomination to head the World Bank, because the bank's ethics rules preclude sexual relationships between a manager and a staff member serving under that manager, even if one reports to the other only indirectly through a chain of supervision.

Wolfowitz failed, on April 19, 2007, to attend a high-profile meeting and the controversy led to disruption at the World Bank when some employees wore blue ribbons " in a display of defiance against his leadership.

According to Nicole Gaouette, in her report published in the Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2007, Juan José Daboub — the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and " a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party "— repeatedly deleted references to family planning from World Bank proposals.

Wolfowitz is in Jakarta to meet with Indonesian officials concerning U. S. relief efforts.

After President George W. Bush's nominated Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, journalists reported that Wolfowitz was involved in a relationship with World Bank Senior Communications Officer ( and Acting Manager of External Affairs ) for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office Shaha Ali Riza.

" According to Leiby and Linton Weeks, in their essay " In the Shadow of a Scandal ", Riza's employment at the World Bank predated Wolfowitz's nomination as Bank president: " Riza started at the World Bank as a consultant in July 1997 and became a full-time employee in 1999 "; and the relationship between Riza and Wolfowitz pre-dated it as well: In the early 1990s, Riza joined the National Endowment for Democracy and is credited there with development of the organization's Middle East program.

When Wolfowitz was considered for head of the CIA after the 2000 election, Clare Wolfowitz wrote President-elect George Bush a letter telling him that her husband's relationship with a foreign national — Riza — posed a national security risk.

The Chief of Staff Gen. Shaul Mofaz ( right foreground ) meets with U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( left ), and other senior U. S. Department of Defense officials in the Pentagon

Paul Wolfowitz, the military analyst for the United States Department of Defense under Ronald Reagan, had formulated a new foreign policy with regard to Iraq and other " potential aggressor states ", dismissing " containment " in favor of " preemption ", with the goal of striking first to eliminate threats.

In November 2001, he was one of the first politicians to call for an invasion of Iraq and held talks in Washington, DC, with senior US officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz.

" Donald Rumsfeld in his interview with Fox News on February 8, 2011 said that Wolfowitz was the first to bring up Iraq after the 9 / 11 attacks during a meeting at the presidential retreat at Camp David.

Wolfowitz graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry.

Wolfowitz did graduate work at the University of Chicago in political science, where he took two courses with Leo Strauss.

Wolfowitz broke from this official line by denouncing Saddam Hussein of Iraq at a time when Donald Rumsfeld was offering the dictator support in his conflict with Iran.

'" Other areas where Wolfowitz disagreed with the administration was in his opposition to attempts to open up dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and to the sale of Airborne Warning and Control System ( AWACS ) aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

Wolfowitz soon came into conflict with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who had been Kissinger ’ s assistant at the time of the visits to China.

" Wolfowitz and his assistant Lewis Libby made trips to Manila where they called for democratic reforms and met with non-communist opposition leaders.

Wolfowitz was present with Cheney, Colin Powell and others, on 27 February 1991 at the meeting with the President where it was decided that the troops should be demobilised.

" Wolfowitz was associated with the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ); he signed both the PNAC's June 3, 1997 " Statement of Principles ", and its January 26, 1998 open letter to President Bill Clinton.

The September 11 attacks in 2001 was a turning point in administration policy, as Wolfowitz later explained: " 9 / 11 really was a wake up call and that if we take proper advantage of this opportunity to prevent the future terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction that it will have been an extremely valuable wake up call ," adding: " if we say our only problem was to respond to 9 / 11, and we wait until somebody hits us with nuclear weapons before we take that kind of threat seriously, we will have made a very big mistake.

" with Wolfowitz adding that Iraq was a " brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily — it was doable ," and, according to John Kampfner, " from that moment on, he and Wolfowitz used every available opportunity to press the case.

Wolfowitz with New Zealand Prime Minister of New Zealand | Prime Minister Helen Clark at the Pentagon, March 26, 2002.

Ten months later, on January 15, 2003, with hostilities still continuing, Wolfowitz made a fifteen-hour visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul, and met with the new president Hamid Karzai.

As reported by the BBC, Wolfowitz told the crowd that US President George W. Bush " wants you to know that he stands in solidarity with you ".

Prior to the invasion, Wolfowitz actively championed it, as he later stated: " For reasons that have a lot to do with the U. S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason "

" Nevertheless " as the administration geared up for conflict with Saddam, Chalabi was welcomed in the inner sanctum of the Pentagon " under the auspices of the OSP, and " Wolfowitz did not see fit to challenge any of Chalabi ’ s information.

Kampfner outlined Wolfowitz ’ s strategy for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which " envisaged the use of air support and the occupation of southern Iraq with ground troops, to install a new government run by Ahmed Chalabi ’ s Iraqi National Congress.

In late 1999, Wolfowitz began dating Shaha Ali Riza.

Wolfowitz was on the endowment's board — which is how Riza first met him, according to Turkish journalist Cengiz Candar, a friend of the couple.

" Shaha was married at the time and Paul was married ," Candar recalled, and it wasn't until late 1999 — after Riza divorced and Wolfowitz had separated from his wife of 30 years, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz — that the couple began dating.

According to the London Sunday Times on March 20, 2005, despite their cultural differences, " Riza, an Arab feminist who confounds portrayals of Wolfowitz as a leader of a ' Zionist conspiracy ' of Jewish neoconservatives in Washington ... who works as the bank ’ s senior gender co-ordinator for the Middle East and north Africa ... not only shares Wolfowitz ’ s passion for spreading democracy in the Arab world, but is said to have reinforced his determination to remove Saddam Hussein ’ s oppressive regime.

Wolfowitz initially proposed to the World Bank's Ethics Committee that he recuse himself from personnel matters regarding Riza, but the committee rejected that proposal.

On April 12, 2007 the London Financial Times reported that, in a 2005 memorandum, Wolfowitz had personally directed the Bank's human resources chief to offer Riza a large pay rise and promotion, according to two anonymous sources who told the Financial Times that they had seen the memo.

In contrast, Fox News concluded that the new documents might offer Wolfowitz a " new lifeline " in the scandal, because the Bank's ethics committee had launched a review of the Riza compensation case in early 2006 and concluded that it did not warrant any further attention by the committee.

The report noted that Mr. Wolfowitz broke bank rules and the ethical obligations in his contract, and that he tried to hide the salary and promotion package awarded to Shaha Riza, his companion and a bank employee, from top legal and ethics officials in the months after he became bank president in 2005.

Among the signatories to Project for the New American Century's original statement of Principals is George H. W. Bush ’ s Vice President Dan Quayle, George W. Bush's defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, his Vice President Dick Cheney, and his brother Jeb Bush.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz ( left ) and Jones at press conference on Jones ' assumption of command of EUCOM.

In August 1963, he and his mother participated in the civil-rights march on Washington organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. Wolfowitz was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

In 1972, Wolfowitz earned a Ph. D. in political science from the University of Chicago, writing his doctoral dissertation on " nuclear proliferation in the Middle East ".

Based on the recommendation of Richard Perle, Pipes picked Wolfowitz for this committee, which was later called Team B.

Mann stresses: " It was on China that Wolfowitz launched his boldest challenge to the established order.

" Instead, on June 25, 1982, George P. Shultz replaced Haig as U. S. Secretary of State, and Wolfowitz was promoted.

After the 2002 Bali bombing, on October 18, 2002, then Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz observed that " the reason the terrorists are successful in Indonesia is because the Suharto regime fell and the methods that were used to suppress them are gone.

Two days after Shinseki testified, Wolfowitz said to the House Budget Committee on February 27, 2003: There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq.

Wolfowitz and his DOD staffers escaped unharmed and returned to the United States on October 28, 2003.

" Press conference at G8 Summit ( Paul Wolfowitz standing at rear on right )

In a debate on the proposed Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy at the Bank's 2006 Annual Meetings, shareholders directed Wolfowitz to undertake extensive consultations and revise the strategy to show how objective measures of corruption would be incorporated into decisions and how the shareholders ' representatives on the Bank's Board would play a key role.

Sidney Blumenthal also reported on the letter Clare Wolfowitz wrote: