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...looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes to restore many of the local security forces. "I would expect the traffic cops weren't involved in crimes," says a State Department official. The first joint patrols between Iraqi police and U.S. troops were scheduled to begin soon. In Mosul residents formed neighborhood-watch groups to prevent further looting...
...controversial positions with the Democratic Party's base, but Lieberman is so decent and solid a man that the apostasy provoked only a few discomforted rustlings in the crowd. (Lieberman was prepared, I am told, to endorse school vouchers if he'd been asked, which would have rocked the joint, but he wasn't asked...
...Instead, the preferred word, used also in the nine-point joint declaration issued at the end of the seven-hour meeting, was 'natural resources,' suitably neutral and incapable of evoking oil's tumultuous geopolitics of greed and guns...
...After all the protest against the bullying of young President Bashar al-Assad, the joint declaration contained only a muted reference to the controversy. It expressed "disagreement with allegations directed toward Syria, and welcomed the news regarding the intention of the American Secretary of State to visit Damascus to discuss Syrian-American relations...
...would have helped ensure that the Riyadh conclave does not set even a general deadline for coalition forces to vacate Iraq . The joint declaration only reminds the "occupying powers" of "their obligation to withdraw from Iraq", and omits "as soon as possible", something which the other neighbors otherwise repeatedly emphasize (as did Prince Saud after the meeting concluded). The joint appeal then, is unexceptionable, since Washington has already said it will eventually pull its troops out of Iraq...