The Bush administration sent CIA Director George Tenet to the Middle East to serve as a facilitator for Israeli-Palestinian security talks. In another development, President Bush spoke to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah as part of his effort to monitor the situation in the Middle East and seek a larger peace role for Israel’s neighbors, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
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