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The Iraq War did not Force Gadaffi's HandThe Financial Times, March 9, 2004Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy Martin S. Indyk Embarrassed by the failure to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, President George W. Bush is trying to find another WMD-related justification for his pre-emptive war on Iraq. Bush administration spokesmen have been quick to portray Libya's December decision to abandon WMD programmes as the direct result of the US invasion of Iraq or, as Mr. Bush himself put it in his State of the Union address: "Nine months of intense negotiations succeeded with...

Jun. 16, 2003 Martin Indyk: Rabin, Peres, Barak, Bibi were all willing to return Golan By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said Monday that former Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu, who served during President Bill Clinton's presidency, were willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a comprehensive peace agreement. Indyk was speaking at a Tel-Aviv University symposium as to the failure of the Camp David peace talks. According to Indyk, the greatest challenge for the Israeli leaders was to bring "the Lion...