Word: pullout
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...speakers’ presentation was followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer session, in which the panelists addressed issues about inaccuracies in media portrayals and the proposed pullout in the Gaza Strip this summer...
...wills between Washington and Damascus has created dilemmas for Hizballah. The group fears that the anti-Syrian protests may accelerate demands that Hizballah disband its military wing, in accord with U.N. Resolution 1559. A Syrian pullout would deprive Hizballah of a powerful ally on the ground and could choke off the Syrian channel for military supplies from Iran, Hizballah's main sponsor. Nasrallah is concerned that Lebanon will move into the U.S. orbit and face pressure to sign a peace treaty with Israel. While Nasrallah lauded Syria, he was careful to hold the demonstration under the colors of Lebanon...
...admitted that the pullout would be very difficult, as many families have lived in settlements for generations...
...similar qualifier to the one touted by Allawi. She speculates that a combination of U.S. pressure and the reality of the insurgency's capabilities versus the limited abilities of Iraqi security forces has prompted the change. The issue may yet be revisited, however. On the one hand, a U.S. pullout would leave a new government at the mercy of an insurgency growing in size and capability. On the other hand, as Juan Cole notes, key leaders of the UIA see a U.S. withdrawal as essential. One Sistani aide, for example, urged the Sunnis to participate on the grounds that...
...position is that a timetable for troop withdrawal is out of the question. That, at any rate, is what top U.S. officials told an influential Sunni clerical group in early January after the imams said they would consider calling off their boycott of the vote in return for a pullout schedule. But the Pentagon is accelerating plans to embed U.S. military advisers with Iraqi security forces in hopes of improving their combat capabilities so that they can take over for U.S. troops. "The most important goal is to get the Iraqis into the fight, not to get our numbers down...