1.   Abdullah, at recent Arab and Islamic summit meetings, has avoided war-mongering but called directly for the United States to reprimand Israel.

2.   Some have suggested that he may have been seeking to embarrass the establishment as the Islamic summit meeting approached.

3.   That Islamic summit will be held in Tehran.

4.   The alliance has drawn severe criticism from Arab countries, to the extent that Turkish President Suleyman Demirel was compelled to leave an Islamic summit meeting last month.

5.   When the worldwide Islamic summit meeting ended in Iran on Thursday, one guest who was expected to be at the closing ceremony had already left.

6.   A visit by Abdullah to Tehran in December for an Islamic summit showed a thaw.

7.   Abdullah also attended an Islamic summit in Tehran in December and met moderate President Mohammad Khatami who took office in August.

8.   Abdullah invited then-president Rafsanjani to Saudi Arabia in March on the sidelines of an Islamic summit in Pakistan.

9.   Aides said Annan briefed Barak on the Islamic summit he attended this week in Qatar.

10.   Arab officials said Wednesday that they expected the Islamic summit here to advance relations between their countries and Persian Iran.