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...sensitive security role have helped keep the island pretty much off-limits to journalists. That has made it something of a holy-grail dateline for reporters covering the military. Not that I saw much of it. After Bush deplaned, he was greeted by an honor guard on the tarmac. We were taken to an auditorium while Bush met the base commander and troops elsewhere on the grounds. When I tried to leave the building to look around, some courteous airmen said I didn't have the proper clearance...
...from London that I was prepared to face any of these concocted charges against me, that I was prepared to go to prison, to go anywhere they wanted to take me in Pakistan. I don't mind that." And then they whisked him away from the lounge to the tarmac where there was a plane, and they said we are going to take you to a far flung jail in the south of Pakistan, and he thought, "they are taking me to Karachi. OK fine." But after an hour and a half after the plane did not descend...
...takeoff, its lights off and its window shades drawn. Laptops were returned in midflight, but their owners had to disable the wireless functions to prevent the President's plane from being tracked across the globe. Twelve hours later, Air Force One touched down, and Bush stepped out onto the tarmac of another well-secured U.S. air base for an eight-hour visit to Anbar province...
...role has helped make Diego Garcia pretty much off-limits for journalists. That, in turn, has made it something of a holy-grail dateline for reporters covering the military. Not that I saw much of it. After President Bush deplaned, he was greeted by an honor guard on the tarmac. We were taken 100 yards to a low, beige outbuilding and shown to an auditorium, while Bush met the base commander and some unspecified others. When I tried to leave the building to look around, I was told by some courteous airmen that I didn't have the proper clearance...
...resolve the stand-off. Similar grumbling was heard in France and around Europe over the deployment of Sarkozy's wife, Cécilia, as an emissary to Libya twice in the last ten days of negotiations, as well as her presence on the presidential plane and on the Sofia tarmac with the returning Bulgarians. Critics have claimed the move was an attempt to cast France's First Lady into a quasi-official, freelancing diplomatic role to fit her husband's political objectives. However, Elysée officials note Madame Sarkozy was accompanied with senior officials who handled negotiations, and that...