Crown Prince Abdullah gets call from Cheney, meets Francs

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz received a telephone call from the US Vice President Dick Cheney during which the two sides reviewed developments in the region especially on the Palestinian arena.

On Sunday the Saudi crown prince met in Riyadh with the leader of the central leadership of the American army Gen. Tommy Francs.

The Saudi news agency said that Prince Abdullah and Francs discussed relations existed between Saudi Arabia and the US.

Francs who is making a tour on the region announced on Saturday in Kuwait that the American forces in the Gulf "are ready" to launch a military attack against Iraq, but the US President George Bush did not take a decision to that effect yet. On Saturday Francs visited the UAE and Oman.