[R-G] Gates, in Visit to Israel, Will Find Iran Looming

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/world/middleeast/26israel.html>
Gates, in Visit to Israel, Will Find Iran Looming
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: July 25, 2009

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Mr. Gates will be part of a stream of American government officials
visiting Israel in the next week. Among them are James L. Jones, the
national security adviser; George J. Mitchell, the special envoy for
the Middle East, who arrived in Syria on Saturday; and Dennis B. Ross,
the Iran expert on the National Security Council staff and Mr.
Makovsky’s co-author. Senior military officials cast the timing of the
trips as coincidental.