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...most tolerant and cosmopolitan countries in the Middle East, and arguably the prettiest. But it's a tougher place for U.S. diplomats, who live in a fortified hillside compound just north of the capital that they rarely leave, and never without bodyguards. Top officials travel in convoys of armored vehicles, which sometimes break up into decoy mini-convoys to confuse would-be attackers. One of the rumors floating around the bomb scene this evening was that the target vehicles were in fact part of such a decoy convoy...
When Bush paid a visit to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's home, the presidential convoy had dozens of armored cars, even though Olmert lives just a few blocks away from the historic King David hotel where Bush was staying. Still, compared to other stops on Bush's Middle East wing, Israel is considered comparatively safe. The Israeli police, well-experienced in dealing with suicide bombers, are unmatched in the world when it comes to security. More than 4,000 Israeli police and soldiers stopped traffic and cordoned off chunks of Jerusalem whenever the U.S. President drove through...
...short distance from Jerusalem to the Palestinian headquarters of President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. But fog rolled into the Judean hills on Thursday, grounding the Chinooks. Instead, Bush set off by road in his serpentine 45-car motorcade riding in one of many identical bomb-proof limousines. The convoy sped by refugee camps and bounced over potholed roads to Abbas's compound. Meanwhile, a senior Israeli police official told TIME that Israel Special Forces and an emergency medical team were at the ready on the outskirts of Ramallah in case of an assassination attempt - they were particularly watchful...
...among us were braver than others. The Austrian-based accountant tried to goad the guides into talking politics; the Italian retirees criticized the constant Kimilsungist propaganda, but only in Italian. After a while, I rebelled against the picture policing, even daring to sneak a snapshot of a grim military convoy with thousands of conscripts headed to points unknown...
...months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he has been the subject of relentless speculation as to whether he was a terrorist true believer or just a thrill-seeking adventurer who went astray. Yesterday, smiling and looking stocky and confident, Hicks was driven away in a two-car convoy while his lawyer spoke on his behalf: "First and foremost I recognize the full depth of gratitude for getting me home. I will not forget or let you down...