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Thanks to all these precautions, Bush's foray into the West Bank passed without a hitch. But the real challenge for the presidential phalanx of bodyguards will come when his tour moves on to possibly more dangerous territory - Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt - where Bush is even less popular. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
...suicide bombers may target her. She is not under house arrest and she is free to leave." His concern for Bhutto's well-being was somewhat belied by the four rows of coiled barbed wire, one metal barrier, two layers of concrete barricades, an armored personnel carrier and a phalanx of police officers eight deep blocking the entrance to her street...
...night out with friends, so they drugged their little ones with painkillers or sedatives. Madeleine's dose was mismeasured, or she had an unexpected reaction. The parents somehow hid her corpse for weeks and then got the body out in the trunk of their rental car even though a phalanx of reporters was camped in Praia...
...choice imposed on him after a coup by then military chief Pervez Musharraf. Despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling last month that the former premier could not legally be denied a return to his home country, Sharif was bundled out of the Islamabad Airport first class lounge by a phalanx of plainclothes police officers and elite special forces soldiers clad in tight black T-shirts. While the Pakistani government has not yet confirmed his deportation, intelligence officials say he was placed on a plane departing for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "He never even got his passport stamped," says Amjad Malik...
...base in the middle of Iraq's Anbar province, the President got an altogether different kind of report. In a concrete building sheltered from the 110°F (45°C) heat outside, Captain Lee Hemming, a Marine Cobra helicopter pilot, stood nervously opposite his Commander in Chief and a phalanx of fellow Marines and described his mission...