Intriguing Quickhits - Saudis mulling sending troops into Iraq.

(WSJ-WashWire) The Saudi Foreign Minister "went on to deliver a less than ringing endorsement of the new Bush Iraq plan, saying he agreed with its “objectives”—a cohesive and peaceful Iraq—but could not necessarily support “the means.”

(MSNBC) "Saudi Arabia believes the Iraqi government is not up to the challenge and has told the United States that it is prepared to move its own forces into Iraq should the violence there degenerate into chaos, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Tuesday."

Laura Rozen hypothesizes about the reported "non-official" Israel-Syria discussions and why they broke down.

Josh Marshall discusses the recent replacement of a number of US Attorneys. (Most interesting is the dangling question, "Now, why would Karl Rove want his top opposition researcher being the US Attorney in Arkansas for the next two years?")

(AP) Now, they're talking about extending deployments in Afghanistan.

Last, (Iraqslogger) Remember the Chicago based ex-Iraqi minister who was busted out of an Iraqi prison by US contractors, flown to Jordan by Secret Service officials on a US plane, and is still under suspicion regarding $2 billion of misappropriation. Well, he's now back in Chicago, safe and Chalabi-like.