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Meyer is scheduled to depart at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, but says he will stay beyond that date if a replacement is not found by then...
...don’t want to leave at this point,” she told the Globe, but said she is concerned that others may choose to depart...
...forces still based around Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. But opposition to the Syrian presence has grown. Damascus made a serious miscalculation last August when it manipulated the constitution. Hariri resigned in protest and quietly backed the U.N. resolution sponsored by France and the U.S. calling on Syria to depart. Since then, Hariri appeared to be joining political forces with the opposition to dominate parliamentary elections scheduled for May, in what would have amounted to a referendum on Syria's occupation...
...size and capability. On the other hand, as Juan Cole notes, key leaders of the UIA see a U.S. withdrawal as essential. One Sistani aide, for example, urged the Sunnis to participate on the grounds that an elected government would have "the ability to demand that the Occupying powers depart from Iraq, supporting this stance by their popular legitimacy." Such a call may yet figure in attempts by a new government to broker a political settlement with the nationalist component of the insurgency...
...even for those detainees ostensibly cleared, the wait goes on. Only one of them has been released thus far, the officials tell TIME, and just two more are cleared to depart. The reason is that under the tribunal rules, final approval of each release order is put on hold until the CIA and other intelligence agencies have a chance to comb their files for additional incriminating evidence to present to the tribunal. Only if the tribunal then decides a second time that a detainee is eligible for release will the Pentagon actually sign off. A Pentagon spokesman would not comment...