RoP Leaders Meet in Mecca
Charles Johnson
Tue Feb 6, 2007 at 10:28 am PST • Views: 148
Now why in the world would genocidal terrorists choose the very center of Islam as a meeting place? Palestinian leaders in Mecca for talks.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia brought the two main Palestinian leaders to Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, on Tuesday to try to end their bloody conflict and complete a power-sharing agreement on a coalition government.
Before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas left for the talks with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, he warned that failure in Mecca “would mean the deterioration of the internal situation and igniting civil war,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted him as saying. “The word ‘failure’ is forbidden.”
Mashaal and Abbas arrived in Jiddah, where they were due to meet King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. The city is less than an hour’s drive from Mecca.
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