Security chiefs thrash out timetable for peace

Israeli and Palestinian security commanders were meeting to try to agree on the next steps in the shaky US-sponsored truce, but each side expressed suspicions about the actions and intentions of the other.

The security chiefs talked into the early hours of today, one of a series of sessions to discuss fundamental differences over the ceasefire negotiated last week by US Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, aimed at ending nearly nine months of violence.