Critics of Syria predicted failure from the outset, accusing Mr. Assad of exploiting serial peace initiatives — first by allies he has since alienated, then by the Arab League and now the United Nations — to stall while trying to annihilate his opponents.
In 2009, the F.B.I. undertook its Highway Serial Killings Initiative to coordinate investigations into the hundreds of unsolved highway murders in its databank.
But in 2009 the F.B.I. went public with its Highway Serial Killings initiative, noting the numbers of women, often truck-stop prostitutes, killed each year, and suggesting the suspects are mostly long-haul truckers.
Serial, an initiative created by This American Life and associated with US public radio that swiftly became an international sensation, will examine the circumstances surrounding Bergdahl's capture in 2009 and release last year, when the White House traded him for five Guantánamo Bay prisoners.
In 2009, ViCAP introduced the Highway Serial Killings Initiative, a program targeting highly mobile serial crimes, specifically those committed by long-haul truckers.
In 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBII) released the results of a five-year-long study (the Highway Serial Killings Initiative) investigating the unsolved murders of prostitutes, hitchhikers, and stranded motorists.
In 2004, the FBI began investigating a string of murders in which the victims were found along the Interstate 40 corridor in Oklahoma and several other states, which sparked the creation of the Highway Serial Killings Initiative.
