Cheney to seek Saudi help on Iraq, Iran

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070512/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqdiplomacycheney_070512113257

Cheney to seek Saudi help on Iraq, Iran

ABU DHABI (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney headed for Saudi Arabia on Saturday to seek its aid in Iraq, two months after close ally King Abdullah slammed the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of that war-torn land.

Over the weekend, Cheney was also to visit Egypt and Jordan to wrap up a week-long Middle East visit aimed at encouraging Washington's friends to help pull Iraq's minority Sunni Muslims into the country's fragile political process.

The vice president's diplomatic mission also aims to win the US allies' help in curbing the influence of a rising Iran, amid talk that the Islamic republic and Saudi Arabia are in the early skirmishes of a proxy war in Iraq.

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diplomatic mission?:wtf: I don't think he knows the meaning of that word...