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...some insurgents are turning on al-Qaeda in Anbar province. He added that some insurgent groups are negotiating with the Iraqi government to come into the political process. He successfully lobbied Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to pressure his political supporter Moqtada al Sadr to lay low during the rollout of the Baghdad security plan...
That's why the big carriers are not going to take the front-of-the-plane challenge lying down. As part of an 18-month rollout, BA will spend $190 million on improvements to its Club World product and its "2.0" plan for flat beds, which BA originated in 2000. "We far outdeliver any one of these start-ups because we cover the bases," says Woody Harford, BA's senior vice president of sales and marketing for North America. BA and American regard their worldwide networks and frequent-flyer miles as key retention devices. "If you don't invest...
...foreign policy experts who met with Hadley in December, and talks with Iran and Syria were ruled out of the question. A dismayed Administration official who has generally been an optimist about Iraq described the process as chaotic. "None of this," he predicted of the surge and its coming rollout, "is going to work...
...rollout was designed to exert maximum pressure on the White House because, despite all the fanfare, the report was aimed at an audience of one--Bush. For most of the week, he looked none too pleased about the round-the-clock talking-to he was getting. As he received the report, he told cameras it was "interesting." Later he said it has "some very good ideas." But within a day, he was putting some distance between himself and the best seller: "I don't think Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton expect us to accept every recommendation...
Bush will put a few weeks between the big Baker-Hamilton rollout and his own restart. White House officials worry that anything faster would look too reactive--a curious instinct, given the public's overwhelming desire for change and the positive response Bush received when he tossed Rumsfeld over the side after the elections. Says a former government official who has known Bush for 20 years: "If he is going to take political advantage of things he might have done anyhow, why not do them fast instead of slow?" It may be that the President is not yet ready...