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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (683077)	5/22/2005 1:45:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I would have loved to hear the arab outcry and outrage if Laura Bush did NOT visit a mosque. You just cannot win with these people. Protesters surround Laura Bush at Jerusalem mosque First lady whisked away as emotions grow tense Sunday, May 22, 2005 Posted: 11:43 AM EDT (1543 GMT) JERUSALEM (CNN) -- First lady Laura Bush, on a political fence-mending tour of the Middle East, found herself the target of a tension- filled protest in Jerusalem on Sunday at one of Islam's holiest sites. After a brief tour of the Dome of the Rock mosque, about 40 or 50 protesters surrounded Bush and her U.S. Secret Service detail as they departed, pushing to get closer and shouting: "How dare you come here" and "You don't belong in this mosque." Security guards closed in tightly around the first lady while angry protesters pushed close. As Secret Service agents shadowed her, Israeli security guards linked arms and forced a pathway for the first lady's entourage through the crowd to Bush's motorcade. The site is Islam's third-holiest, and is built on a hill in Jerusalem known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif -- or the Noble Sanctuary. The hill also is believed to contain the ruins of Judaism's holiest temple. Videotape of the incident shows Bush at first appearing unperturbed by her surroundings and chatting amiably with officials as they move away from the mosque. Once down off the hill, Secret Service agents whisked the first lady into her limousine which departed for her next stop. Not far from the mosque, protesters forced Bush into another tight squeeze earlier Sunday at Judaism's holy Western Wall. While the first lady passed through a narrow walkway set up for her to reach the wall, dozens of protesters pushed against Bush's guards. The demonstrators demanded the release of Jonathan Pollard, an American imprisoned for passing security information to Israel. Adnan Husseini, director of the Islamic Trust that administers the mosque compound, told The Associated Press that Bush tried to downplay the heckling, saying it could have happened anywhere. According to AP, Husseini said he told the first lady that he hoped President Bush would exert pressure to achieve peace in the Holy Land, for without it, "there will be no peace or stability in the area." Shortly after the incident, during a stop in Jericho, the first lady told reporters that all of the locations she visited were places of strong emotion. She also said that the Israeli and Palestinian women she met with all wanted peace but that Palestinians and Israelis must come to the table for that to take place.