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Dick Cheney to Visit Riyadh This Week
 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah will meet with US Vice President Dick Cheney here later this week, US Embassy deputy spokesman Andrew Mitchell said yesterday. Mitchell said that the vice president would also visit Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this tour.
| Wonder if he's carrying a briefcase to each meeting? |
âThe talks between King Abdullah and Cheney will be held on Tuesday,â said Mitchell. He said the talks would focus on key issues of mutual concern, including bilateral relations and the situation in the Middle East and Iraq.
| and perhaps points east?? |
| That's an absolutely plain vanilla agenda. My guess is that the subjects of conversation would be Syria â the Soddies will be meddling big time as soon as it becomes obvious it's going to explode â and Iran. I'm sure the Soddies have no objection to Iran getting thumped, but it looks like there might be Israeli involvement in the process and that will tighten the royal sphincter. The other issue of concern to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques would be discomfort at seeing yet another member of the Axis of Evil drop. He's got to know that we have the axis mapped and that there weren't only three members. Iran going down moves Arabia up on the list. |
Mitchell said that Cheney was due to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Jan. 17 before he travels to Kabul to represent the US at the opening session of the Afghanistanâs new parliament.
| ... the subject to be Hosni's efforts in smoothing Assad's path to oblivion... |
Cheney will stop in Pakistan to see the relief and reconstruction efforts being made by the US Agency for International Development in the wake of the Octoberâs devastating earthquake. He will deliver a horse's head to meet with Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf. In Oman, the vice president will hold talks with Sultan Qaboos to discuss bilateral and regional issues of common concern with special reference to the war on terror.
| good translation above, Steve. |
| Note, also, that Bush, Sr. is on his way to Pakland and Nicholas "Monty" Burns is visiting Pak-India as well. Something's up. |
Posted by: lotp 2006-01-15 |
