LONDON [MENL] -- The American-Egyptian summit was reported to have ended in
serious disagreement between President George Bush and President Hosni
Mubarak.Arab and Western diplomatic sources who followed the summit said Bush
and Mubarak failed to agree on how to end the Israeli-Palestinian war. The
sources said the two presidents also disputed the role of Israel in the
Middle East as well as the need for Palestinian reform."There was a surreal atmosphere to the summit," a diplomatic source who
obtained a report on the Bush-Mubarak meeting said. "They were talking at
each other rather than toward each other."The sources said Mubarak also turned down Bush's appeal for Egypt's
cooperation in a military campaign to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
They said the U.S. president urged his Egyptian counterpart to end
diplomatic and trade cooperation with Baghdad.
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