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Rice Conferencing With Every Person Of Power In The ME
(Debka)...In Amman, the US secretary met with a whole galaxy of Arab decision-makers and intelligence chiefs: the two top Saudi security officials, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, national security adviser, and Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, head of the General Intelligence Presidency, as well as a string of secret service chiefs from various Arab countries, Jordans King Abdullah and, finally, an off-the-record encounter with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, whom she had met a day earlier at a three-way meeting with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. According to the official communiqué, the US secretary met in Amman with the heads of the secret services of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates nicknamed the Arab Quartet. DEBKA-Net-Weeklys sources describe the occasion as far more far-reaching in scope, agenda and importance than the laconic statement suggests. For one thing, a deputy of CIA Director General Michael Hayden, described as the agencys No. 2, was present. So too were the US military intelligence chief in Iraq and Washingtons Security Coordinator for the Palestinians, Lt. Gen. Keith W. Dayton, as well as the head of the United Arab Emirates intelligence services, who is known as Emir Muhammad, and the head of Jordans intelligence services, Gen. Muhammad Zuaibi. There, too, was Egyptian intelligence minister, Gen. Omar Suleiman, alongside high-ranking officials of the Kuwaiti and Moroccan secret services. The importance of this US-Arab intelligence summit was quickly appreciated in Tehran. No sooner had the participants dispersed Tuesday night, than Irans national security adviser, Ali Larijani, was on a special plane to Riyadh and closeted with Princes Bandar and Muqrin to find out what was next on the agenda of the secret exchanges Washington is conducting through Saudi mediation... Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-27 |
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