More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit

I guess he won't be feeling the love...

More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit


Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
Monday January 7, 2008
The Guardian


Israeli officials in Jerusalem are to deploy more than 10,000 police officers in a vast security operation ahead of the arrival this week of George Bush, the first US president to visit in a decade. Graffiti are being cleaned off walls, road markings are being repainted and hundreds of American flags are being put up across the city. The floodlights which illuminate the stone ramparts of the Old City will stay on for an extra two hours every night, until 2am, to give the president the chance to catch the view.

Hundreds of hotel rooms across Jerusalem have been booked for Bush's group, as well as for the media and even Israeli officials, who fear they might not be able to make it home in the evenings.

Bush, who arrives on Wednesday for his first visit as president, will stay at the King David hotel. Eight truckloads of equipment have already arrived in advance of his two-night stay. All the hotel's rooms will be taken by his entourage - tourists have had their bookings cancelled.

The security precautions, dubbed Operation Clear Skies by the Israeli security services, are immense. Roads around the hotel will be blocked, despite the huge traffic jams that will entail. A force of 10,500 police and security staff will be deployed and Bush will be flown in to the hotel by helicopter from the airport near Tel Aviv. "There will be so much security nobody will be able to get anywhere near the president," said Micky Rosenfield, Israel's police spokesman.

Yesterday an American militant linked to al-Qaida, Adam Gadahn, released an Arabic language internet video calling for attacks on Bush during his Middle East visit. In Jerusalem some protests are expected from rightwing groups, particularly from a vocal organisation that lobbies for the release of Jonathan Pollard, who was jailed in the US in 1986 for spying for Israel. Pollard's supporters have taken out adverts on Jerusalem buses in Hebrew and English that read "Bush, free your captive". The president is pictured alongside Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, and Hassan Nasrullah, the Hizbullah leader. Beneath them are pictures of Pollard alongside three Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas and Hizbullah last year.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2236314,00.html

. . . 10,000 will be enough?

He needs to travel with an army of his own to stay alive..

Nothing will create sympathy quicker for the GOP than for something to happen to Bush in the Middle East.

..that's rather Ridiculous ..

ABC Ran this yesterday:

American Al Qaeda Leader To Bush: 'We Will Be Waiting For You'

American Al Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn told his followers to welcome Bush "with bombs and traps" upon his upcoming visit to the Middle East this week.

"The occupied territories are awaiting their first visit by the crusader Bush and the mujahideen are also waiting for him," said Gadahn, a California native and now an Al Qaeda spokesman.

Gadahn is the star of the latest al Qaeda propaganda video to be posted online by the group's media wing, As Sahab.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4093635&page=1

:tinfoilhat:

...this morning in another thread :D :

"Would Cheney dare to use Georgie as a sacrifical lamb for The Cause????

You know how those PNACers love the idea of new Pearl Harbors to ram through actions Americans otherwise wouldn't abide....

Bush heads to Israel for the first time ever (and we know how much he loves to travel!)...we read articles about the heavy security surrounding the visit...Cheney and the Likudnics have a seriously itchy finger regarding Iran...the WMD argument/pretext has been blown out of the water by our own intel agencies...

I'm just saying... :evilgrin: "


But you are right, an attempt would suit the purpose just fine...

fake a warning video to get the world to think he needs 10,000 police to protect his sorry ass. Would he?

:puke:

who are now more "exposed" to threats, just because Drinky McDumbass needs his own private army every time he travels out of his protective little cocoon!! :mad: