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...began a more systematic campaign of kidnap and execution. The bodies of their victims, bearing signs of bestial torture, were often tossed into sewers or garbage dumps. Jihadi groups responded in kind. The U.S. military had passed on most security responsibilities to Iraqi forces, but they proved unable to halt the killings. Worse, they were frequently accused of joining in the fighting, usually on the side of the militias. Last fall two U.S.-Iraqi joint security operations failed to stanch the bloodletting...
Will she stay that way? With a large supply of luck, Operation Imposing Law, the new security operation enabled by President George W. Bush's "surge" of U.S. troops, may halt the sectarian fighting in Baghdad long enough for Shi'ites and Sunnis to start mending fences. If all goes according to plan, the Iraqi government will use the respite from violence to launch a massive economic program that will create jobs and improve civic services like electricity and water supply. If the government can do that, says veteran Shi'ite politician Abu Firas al-Saedi, "people won't immediately...
Take, for example, environmentalists who advocate mandatory caps on carbon emissions. In order to halt global warming, reductions would need to be universal and compulsory, not sporadic and voluntary. Yet environmentalists still make individual efforts to reduce their carbon emissions—by buying a Prius, recycling, or paying a premium for wind energy...
...something to sell to the Palestinian people" before he will begin discussing the deeper issues of co-existence between Palestinians and Israelis. For starters, Abbas wants Olmert to return an estimated $500 million in Palestinian tax money, lift some of the 400 Israeli roadblocks in the West Bank and halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in the disputed territories. Otherwise, says one presidential aide, "how can we persuade the Palestinians that they can gain anything from peace with the Israelis?" with reporting by Scott Macleod/Cairo, Jamil Hamad/Ramallah and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
...Bush's critics see it, that's where the latest deal falls short. Former Clinton Administration officials say the agreement is a close facsimile of the Agreed Framework signed by Washington and Pyongyang in 1994. That deal called for the North to halt nuclear-weapons development in return for two light-water nuclear power plants, from which it is difficult to generate the fissile material for bombs. Clinton's presidency ended before the power plants could be completed, and the projects today are derelict--evidence, in Pyongyang's eyes, of Washington's bad faith. But those who defend the Agreed...