Kmiec offers to help US embassy in Libya

Douglas Kmiec , the former US ambassador to Malta, has recalled the brief stays in Malta of the ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and offered to help the US embassy in Libya  in the wake of Mr Stevens's killing. "Let's Get Back to the Promise of Inter-faith Diplomacy. "Here I am, Barack: Send me back to continue the Inter-faith work which you inspire and for which Chris Stevens laid down his life," Kmiec wrote in the Huffington Post. Mr Kmiec served in Malta at the time of the uprising in Libya and was involved in the evacuation of Libyan nationals and in the US approaches to the Libyan opposition. Stevens was America's 'first man on the ground' in Libya. Kmiec eventually resigned after the State Department took exception to his personal involvement in religious affairs. Writing in the Malibu Times, Mr Kmiec said it was his  privilege to get to know Stevens during the period of the Arab uprising as his transit to and from Benghazi several times meant a stop at the US embassy in Malta.Mr Kmiec said that in view of Stevens's visits to Malta in his weeks as envoy to Libya in 2010, the embassy staff had adopted an almost regular routine at their morning meetings of...