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To: lorne who wrote (3720)	2/9/2004 9:57:29 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Re: Come on gus you with all your connections know very well that Charlie is doing advanced work/scouting for Prez Bush. LOL... What are you babbling about, you freak?!? Time for you to update your "Buckingham files": Wednesday November 19, [2003] Prince Charles' pro-Palestinian views could embarrass US LONDON (AFP) - Prince Charles has not been on a trip to the US for the last six years because he is privately critical of US policy in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and officials fear he could embarrass Washington. Charles who formally welcomed US President George W. Bush when he arrived on a state visit to Britain, has strong pro-Palestinian views, The Guardian newspaper said Wednesday. The Guardian quoted a source familiar with discussions over possible visits by the prince to the US as saying that there was concern over the perception that Charles "is fairly Arabist". "He has, in American terms and international terms, fairly dodgy views on Israel," the source said. "He thinks American policy on the Middle East is complete madness and he used to express that quite loudly to a lot of people, including ministers and various ambassadors." The source added: "The system basically thinks that he is unsound on America and he has not really wanted to go anyway. He doesn't much like American culture." The prince made four trips to the United States between 1993 and 1997 but has not been back since. A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace told The Guardian that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip had made many visits to the US during her reign, and that other British royals were regular visitors across the Atlantic. A spokeswoman for Charles said all official visits abroad by Prince Charles were made after advice from the British Foreign Office and decisions "would have been made for reasons that were pertinent at the time". The Guardian said the prince's advisers favoured him going to the US, but there was strong resistance from senior diplomats in London, and at the British embassy in Washington. Bush is the guest of Queen Elizabeth at her residence Buckingham Palace during the first state visit to Britain by an American leader which ends Friday. The president was to enjoy a ceremonial welcome at the palace and savour a lavish state banquet there Wednesday. uk.news.yahoo.com indymedia.org.uk