'Rafah won't open until Schalit return'

       Egypt announced that it would not open the Rafah border crossing until kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit is returned to Israel, an official in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's entourage to Sharm e-Sheikh announced Tuesday. Earlier, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that his country was trying to secure Schalit's release, while Olmert lauded his host's efforts to end terrorism from the Gaza Strip. Olmert and Mubarak held talks at the Red Sea resort in a meeting that came on the sixth day since the Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect. "We shall discuss the question of Gilad Schalit," said Mubarak, speaking to reporters through an interpreter as he and Olmert went into the closed-door meeting. "We are making efforts for his release." Olmert, who also said they would talk about Schalit, added that there were "many issues" on the agenda, including bilateral matters, and thanked Mubarak for Egyptian efforts to "achieve the conditions to end the terror from Gaza toward residents of Israel." The two leaders were also expected to discuss arms smuggling into the Strip. Israel wants assurances Egypt will do more to fight weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza. Olmert was quoted Tuesday in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat daily as saying that if the weapons smuggling did not end, then Israel would consider the truce agreement violated, and "then we will be compelled to military action." (22,13)