 Richard Cheney, the US vice-president, has left Washington for Egypt and Saudi Arabia where he will hold talks with the leaders of both countries about the war in Iraq and regional security, among other things. On Tuesday, the US vice-president is scheduled to meet Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, officials said on Sunday. No other details of the talks have been publicly released, but an administration official told AFP that "peace and democracy in the Middle East - I think that is going to be the general focus of him going there." |