Saudi Arabia brought the two main Palestinian leaders to Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, on Tuesday to try to end their bloody conflict and complete a power-sharing agreement on a coalition government. Before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas left for the talks with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, he warned that failure in Mecca “would mean the deterioration of the internal situation and igniting civil war,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted him as saying. “The word ‘failure’ is forbidden.” Full Story