A Doha deal would take a bigger bite out of tariffs the higher they are.
A Doha source said that al-Jazeera management appointed Farag and Sayeed in good faith, based "on the best information that was available at the time".
A Doha source defended the decision, saying that it is common practice in hostile areas to house a bureau within a western hotel: "The legal assessment from our side was that we were operating legally".
Although a Doha breakthrough remains elusive, Mr Bush is engaged.
The world will have to wait for a Doha deal, if it ever gets one.
By 2010 such momentum as there is for a Doha round agreement may have been lost.
And I think everyone is keen to see a Doha outcome.
An ice cream shop in downtown Beirut put out a sign offering a Doha Agreement Cone.
And, of course, the promise of a Doha deal remains unfulfilled.
Trade-promotion authority and by extension a Doha deal will probably have to wait until after the 2008 presidential election.America's political calculus could yet change if the real costs of a Doha failure became clear.
By July, he argued, there needs to be a "rough approximation of what a Doha undertaking might look like".
