"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."
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We are certainly going to meet that deadline and wehope maybe wecan accelerate it a little bit so that we have some additional time.
"We hope that Egypt will open this crossing permanently for goods so our people canmeet their needs, " said Ehab al-Ghsain, head of the Hamas government's media office.
Wecan only hope that, if American troops must run the gauntlet while abandoning Iraq in order to meet some politically and arbitrarily imposed deadline, they will be welcomed home in much the same way as were British forces who survived the evacuation known as the "miracle of Dunkirk" in 1940.