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Istanbul, Turkey - U.S. officials met with Iraqi and Turkish diplomats here Saturday on the crisis threatening Iraq's northern border, but key Kurdistan officials failed to offer assurances that they would move against Kurdish militants attacking Turkey from havens in their region American officials said. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice led the U.S. delegation in meetings with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Iraq amid a broader two day gathering of Arab countries and world powers to discuss Iraq's many problems. But Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, acknowledged that though the leaders of Iraq Kurdistan have offered support, they have not yet taken any action that shows they will move against the militants as the United States and Turkey want. A lot of the right things are being said, Crocker told reporters, But what's important is that the right things are done on the ground.