(New York Times) President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Monday in Cairo, their third meeting in the past six months. Both men expressed support for a plan to increase Egypt's security presence along its border with Gaza, and to send the Egyptian police into Gaza to help train their Palestinian counterparts. Israel has expressed concern that Gaza could descend into chaos after an Israeli withdrawal, and wants Egypt's help to prevent a power vacuum.
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