Slavin in the WashingtonTimes, here
(having sensed the failure of the venture) "...Miss Rice said. "But this was not an effort to develop a common strategy." Qatar and Oman, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, declined a U.S. invitation to attend Tuesday's meeting, Arab sources here said....At a regional security conference in Bahrain over the weekend, Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf Bin Alawi told The Washington Times that the incoming Obama administration should focus on talks with Iran...Gary Sick, an Iran and Gulf specialist at Columbia University, said the Gulf Arab "strategy is two-fold." "On the one hand, they are trying to develop reliable relations with Iran to preclude the sense that they are obvious enemies. At the same time, they are encouraging the United States to take a tough line."
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