Eoin Callan and Demetri Sevastopulo of the Financial Times in Washington report that the Middle East is on the verge of three civil wars – in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories – King Abdullah of Jordan warned Sunday ahead of crisis talks with US President George W. Bush and the Iraqi prime minister.
The Jordanian king said that “something dramatic” needed to come out of the meeting between President Bush and Nourial-Maliki, prime minister,at the tripartite summit being hosted in Amman this week.
The warning of impending civil war adds to the intensifying pressure on the Bush administration to map out a fresh strategy for ending the war in Iraq, which today enters its 1,347th day.
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