Word: mideast
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...given the disposition of the U.S. forces currently after him, to make it to court Saddam would likely have to surrender pretty soon. Given his track record for miscalculating, if the Pentagon futures market in Mideast events was up and trading, it would have been a relatively safe bet that Saddam won't be taken alive...
Although he greeted it with skepticism, President Bush's Mideast peace "roadmap" got its most important boost yet on Wednesday - in the form of a reported agreement by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade to halt attacks on Israelis for three months. In response, the President declared, "I'll believe it when I see it," and echoed the Israeli demand that progress depends on the dismantling of the groups that had reportedly embraced a cease-fire. But Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, on whom the Bush administration is relying to deliver Palestinian compliance with...
...Perhaps one of the few things the "roadmap" has going for it is that in the Mideast region, expectations of success are almost uniformly low. The Arabs are expecting Sharon to refuse to move against the settlers, while the Israelis are expecting Abbas to fail in his efforts to stop terrorism. Left to navigate the road map without outside supervision, the Israelis and Palestinians would unlikely stay the course for more than a couple of weeks - the reason they're talking now is that the Bush administration is micromanaging the process. And the extent of real political differences and deep...
...Iraq, and the fact that Rumsfeld is making them in the wake of a Bush administration decision to end high-level back-channel talks with Tehran and on the eve of a reported White House policy review on Iran is of some concern both in Europe and the Mideast...
...cabinet debated adopting the Bush mideast peace roadmap, Sharon made it clear that although he shared many of their misgivings about the document, Israel could not afford a clash with the White House. Instead of a simple "yes," however, Israel's adoption of the roadmap took the form of a "yes, but?" Sharon claims to have won U.S. agreement to address 14 changes proposed by Israel...