APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from December 2006

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from December 2006

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 16 - Training To Be Stepped UP.
December 11, 2006... With US military training efforts stepped up, Iraq's government on Dec. 1 took command over another army division in the north in a demonstration of US commitment to accelerate the handover of military control to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki....

IRAQ - Baker-Hamilton Panel For Radical Change.
December 11, 2006... The Iraq Study Group (ISG) on Dec. 6 called for a radical change of course in US policy, saying conditions in Iraq were "grave and deteriorating". Its report set out how the US was spending $2 bn a week on an unpopular conflict in which nearly...

IRAQ - Hakim At White House.(Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim)
December 11, 2006... George W. Bush on Dec. 4 told visiting Shi'ite cleric Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim he was not satisfied with the pace of progress in Iraq as he and Bush discussed how the US could accelerate assistance to Baghdad. Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council...

IRAQ - Gates: 'US Is Not Winning Iraq'.(Robert Gates)
December 11, 2006... Robert Gates, the White House choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary, on Dec. 5 acknowledged the US was not winning the war in Iraq. Asked at his nomination hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee whether the US was...

IRAQ - Pressure on Iran.(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Iran has been especially frustrating for the Bush administration. Officials believed that a breakthrough was near in mid-September, when Iranian National Security Adviser Ali Larijani signalled that he would gp to New York with a compromise on...

IRAQ - GCC+Egypt & Jordan Meet With Rice.(Gulf Co-operation Council )
December 11, 2006... The Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Jordan and the six states of the Arab Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), on Dec. 1 had a meeting in the Jordanian resort town of Shouna with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. They urged Ms Rice to do more to...