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AP Provides Security Details of Bush Visit to Ramallah
2008-01-08
This strikes me as extremely poor form for the media to provide this level of detail.
US snipers will take up positions on rooftops and local traffic will be barred from some downtown districts as part of unprecedented security precautions during US President George W. Bush's visit this week, Palestinian security officials said Tuesday.

Bush is expected to travel to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Ramallah headquarters, known in Arabic as the muqaata, by helicopter on Thursday.

Two alternate landing sites have been prepared; one in Abbas' compound and one in the parking lot of the nearby Quaker-run Friends' School. On Monday, helicopters practiced landing and takeoff at both sites.

During Bush's visit, a security cordon will be set up over a radius of some 300 meters around each landing site, said Palestinian police spokesman Adnan Damiri.
Posted by:lawhawk

#5  Several folks at AP need to be audited by the IRS every year for the rest of their lives. And their entire immediate family, too. This audit needs to include a strip search, and a body cavity search. To be done by the person with the largest knuckles that they can find. This audit could take severl months out of their lives. Each year. And their names need to show up on the no-fly list. Persistantly.
Posted by: gorb   2008-01-08 23:09  

#4  I read in an article when this trip first came up, that after having been trained by them, the Palestinians are absolutely terrified of attracting negative attention from the Americans... whose bullets hit whatever they aim at (amazing concept, that!). I should think that allowing something to happen to anyone in President Bush's party would attract the Secret Service's negative attention.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-01-08 18:39  

#3  Perhaps there is a designated area and time for AP reporters to be at...
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-01-08 17:39  

#2  I imagine the thought of President Cheney does send shivers through the turbans more than a few middle easterners.
Posted by: High Brow   2008-01-08 17:29  

#1  Did they mention the part where, if anything happens to him, Gaza and the West Bank are ordered carpet bombed by President Cheney?
Posted by: tu3031   2008-01-08 16:37  

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