U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to clamp down on terrorist groups after a suicide attack in Israel killed five people. Other U.S. officials contacted their Israeli counterparts, McCormack said, asking them to “consider the consequences” of any retaliatory act.
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