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Saudi
Arabia has sent eight brigades to its border with Jordan after
receiving intelligence reports that Israel was massing troops
along the Jordanian border, Saudi officials said yesterday.
Meanwhile,
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah headed for the US with what a Riyadh-based
Arab diplomat said "a mandate to speak on behalf of all Arab
states."
Abdullah
is to hold talks on the Middle East crisis with US President George
W Bush at his Texas ranch tomorrow.
He
launched a Middle East peace proposal at an Arab summit in Beirut
last month.
Before
meeting Bush, Abdullah will hold talks with Vice-President Dick
Cheney today. On Friday, he will meet former US president George
Bush Sr and meet US businessmen on Saturday.
The
eight brigades, compromising 8,000 soldiers equipped with armoured
personnel carriers and missile launchers, moved into the Tabuk
region in northern Saudi Arabia.
A
25km strip of Jordanian territory separates Israel from Saudi
Arabia.
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