STATE DEPARTMENT SUMMONS FOREIGN DIPLOMATS     KUN0080 4 GEN 0334 KUWAIT /KUNA-TWZ3   POL-U.S.-ATTACKS-DIPLOMATS   STATE DEPARTMENT SUMMONS FOREIGN DIPLOMATS     WASHINGTON, SEPT 15 (KUNA) -- THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS SUMMONED FOREIGN   DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES TO WARN THAT THEIR GOVERNMENTS WOULD BE ISOLATED IF   THEY TOLERATE OR ASSIST TERRORIST GROUPS, A DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL SAID ON   SATURDAY.   THE OFFICIAL SAID THAT THE MEETINGS TOOK PLACE ON FRIDAY AND INVOLVED   DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS IN CHARGE OF THE FIVE MAIN WORLD REGIONS: EUROPE, THE   MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA.   AMBASSADORS WERE TOLD THAT THE UNITED STATES EXPECT THEIR GOVERNMENT TO   SHUT DOWN MONEY CHANNELS THAT FINANCE TERRORIST GROUPS AND FACILITATE ACCESS   OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ACROSS THEIR BORDERS.   COUNTRIES ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT TERRORISM LIST HAVE BEEN GENERALLY   EXCLUDED FROM THESE MEETINGS. ONE EXCEPTION HAS BEEN SYRIA, WITH WHICH U.S.   OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN IN CONTACTS AT A VARIETY OF LEVELS SINCE THE ATTACKS ON   THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND PENTAGON LAST TUESDAY.   THE MEETING CAME FOLLOWING A POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM PAKISTAN TO A LIST OF U.   S. DEMANDS FOR A POSSIBLE ATTACK ON NEIGHBORING AFGHANISTAN, INCLUDING THE   STATIONING OF MULTINATIONAL TROOPS FORCE IN PAKISTAN.   PAKISTAN IS GEOGRAPHICALLY AND POLITICALLY CLOSE TO AFGHANISTAN WITH GOOD   TIES WITH THE RULING TALIBAN GOVERNMENT WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE HARBORING   SAUDI-BORN FUGITIVE OSAMA BIN LADEN. BIN LADEN, ALL BUT MENTIONED BY NAME IN   THE LATEST ATTACKS, TOPS THE FBI'S LIST OF WANTED FUGITIVES.   WITHOUT MENTIONING BIN LADEN BY NAME, SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAID   THAT HE WAS THE FOCUS OF ATTENTION.   MEANWHILE, AMERICA'S LONGTIME FOE IRAN HAS BEEN FLOATED AS A POSSIBLE   PARTICIPANT IN THE U.S.-LED CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERROR.   IN THEORY AT LEAST, IRAN COULD PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION TO THE UNITED   STATES IS THERE IS SUBSTANCE TO THE U.S. SUSPICION THAT BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND   THE ATTACKS. IRAN SHARES A LONG BORDER WITH AFGHANISTAN AND HAS HAD   ACRIMONIOUS RELATIONS WITH THE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT.(END)   AJ.BZ.     KUNA 152037 Sep 01NNNN