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...injury, many say, was the indifference of the Western press. German papers at first buried the story, while it took several days for papers in other countries to pick up on it. There was also the added detail that Sherbini's husband was shot and injured by a guard who at first thought he was the attacker. And all that was compounded by the initial lack of a formal apology from Germany. (On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered her condolences to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the G-8 summit in Italy.) "Had the Muslim been the aggressor...
...Government facilities, after all, have proved to be tempting targets for both international terrorists (such as those who attacked the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001) and domestic assailants like Timothy McVeigh, who bombed Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. But security at the government buildings guarded by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) is almost comically inept, according to a disturbing report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Over the past year, undercover investigators visited 10 supposedly high-security buildings in four cities and at each location were allowed inside with bombmaking ingredients. Investigators then walked into...
...baby: The report says an absentminded guard at an unidentified federal building sent a baby through an X-ray machine while the baby's mother was pulling out her identification. The guard was fired but subsequently sued the FPS, claiming he never received proper X-ray training. The FPS could not produce evidence of the training, and the guard won the lawsuit...
...Other issues with guards: FPS has had numerous problems with poorly trained or incompetent guards, many of them hired through the 67 private companies the agency contracts. Investigators found one armed guard asleep at his post after having taken the painkiller Percocet. Another guard was found using a government computer to work on his adult-website business, while another misbegotten guard accidentally fired his gun while he practiced drawing the weapon in a bathroom...
...potential for global symbolism abounds whenever an American President meets the Roman Pontiff, and the first-ever encounter between the 47-year-old Obama and the 82-year-old Benedict offered a vivid snapshot of how the change of the guard in Washington looks on the world stage...