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...plans to move aircraft carriers and missile defense batteries into the region signaled that by "address" he wasn't envisaging the sort of diplomatic engagement advocated by the Iraq Study Group. Bush and other officials have amplified their denunciations of Iranian "meddling" in Iraq, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated that the President had signed an order authorizing a broad military campaign against Iranian networks operating inside Iraq. In an interview with TIME, Rice even said that she could not rule out the possibility that U.S. troops might cross the Iraq border into Iran in pursuit of Iranians suspected...
...anybody ask the Iraqis? While U.S. officials commonly use terms such as "meddling" to describe Iranian involvement in Iraq - an accusation echoed by Sunni leaders inside Iraq and by the Sunni Arab regimes with which Secretary Rice has been meeting in recent days - the Shi'ite and Kurdish parties that lead Iraq's government don't share Washington's animus towards Tehran; in both cases they have close ties with Iran forged during years of exile and warfare...
...Abbas evasively replied to Rice that "he would think about" attending the summit. Just a few hours after Rice's Middle East road trip has moved on, Abbas was already under pressure from Hamas and from his own Fatah movement not to go. As one senior Fatah Central Committee member, a veteran of several past tripartite summits, told TIME: "We go and meet the Israeli Prime Ministers and what do we get? Lies, lies, lies. So in the eyes of Palestinians we become partners to these lies...
...Emerging from a three-hour session with Ms. Rice, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert then met with supporters of his Kadima party and made it clear that he would negotiate with a Palestinian "national unity" government only if it recognized the state of Israel, renounced violence and respected previous accords Palestinians had signed with the Israelis...
...Palestinian demands is for Israel to stop building Jewish settlements in the West Bank. It did not help Rice sell her tattered "Road Map" to the Palestinians that today Israeli newspapers announced more houses were going up in one of the big Jewish settlements inside the Palestinian territories...