Egyptian doctors threatening to strike, Many make as little as $63 a month working under poor conditions. They want a minimum salary of about $180.
Enter the lounge in the Nile Hospital, take a seat on a ripped leather couch, brush away the cigarette smoke and listen to a litany of complaints on the cruel economics of healthcare from doctors whose salaries are as low as $63 a month and who live with their parents.

The travails of doctors mirror the larger shortcomings of a government struggling to provide medical care in a country where about 45% of the population lives in poverty. Physicians across the nation complain of long hours, shrinking respect for their profession, lack of medicine and broken equipment. One gynecologist said his public hospital is so broke that he buys his own rubber gloves rather than wearing ones that have been washed for reuse.

"You get 10 extra pounds [about $1.80] if you work a 24-hour shift," said Mohammed Farahat, an orthopedic specialist. "But to buy your dinner during that shift costs you 15 pounds. So you're thinking, what good does it do?"

Egypt's doctors have been protesting for weeks and have set a March deadline for a nationwide strike. Their battle is the latest ripple of labor unrest that in recent months has sparked demonstrations by textile workers, university professors, pharmacists, train conductors and real estate tax collectors. High inflation, flat wages and anger at the government of President Hosni Mubarak are increasingly agitating both the educated and working classes in a moderate Arab state that is one of America's closest Middle East allies.

The Doctors Union is demanding an immediate minimum monthly salary of 1,000 pounds or about $180 for the 93,000 physicians working directly for the state. No salary at the Nile Hospital in northwest Cairo exceeds that, including the pay for surgeons, Farahat said.

The starting monthly pay for doctors can be as low as $23. The Egyptian Health Ministry said that it would gradually increase pay based on performance, but that its budget, like those of many government agencies, is too strapped to meet the union's demands.

"We sympathize with doctors," said Abdel Rahman Shahin, a ministry spokesman. "The state should finance [higher pay], but the state has a lot of obligations." He added that with phased-in performance bonuses "at least there is some change doctors will feel" by the end of the year.

Many doctors view the proposal as a paltry attempt to correct years of low salaries that are now quickly eaten up by a surge in inflation that has increased prices as much as 50% for food and other commodities over the last two years. The crisis has also reminded doctors that despite years of education and training, their average salaries are slightly higher than that of government accountants, who earn about $35 a month, and less than many university professors.

"Life is very difficult, but people expect you, as a doctor, to have a car, spend generously and leave huge tips," said Ahmed Sobhi, an internist at Nile Hospital who earns less than $65 a month. "The reality is my small salary. My wife and I and our new daughter live in an apartment owned by my father. We never go to the movies. Our only entertainment is to watch TV."

That description fits thousands of Egyptian doctors, many of whom vent their anxiety on a blog sponsored by Doctors Without Rights, a lobbying group founded in 2007.

A post filed by Dr. Ali Said reads: "An inspector from the municipality has passed by our hospital today. All he cared to check was whether we had trees or not. You tell inspectors, 'There is a shortage in equipment.' They tell you, 'There is no money for this nonsense.' . . . Have you ever heard of anything like this in any other part of the world?"

The physicians' stature and sense of professional entitlement have been tested by a state healthcare system burdened by bureaucracy and debt. Most doctors moonlight by rotating shifts at different hospitals and private clinics. This accumulates into strings of sleepless nights but can earn doctors an extra $90 a month. Many leave Egypt for richer Persian Gulf oil countries, where hospital salaries are many times higher.

"This is causing a brain drain," said Farahat, who sat puffy-eyed in scrubs and a lab coat. "I have doctor friends who have moved abroad and I'm thinking of going to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates. The problem is that in 10 to 15 years, if all the doctors leave, there will be no one left to teach a younger generation of Egyptian physicians."

It is a sensitive time for doctors to be contemplating a strike. Mubarak and his ruling National Democratic Party are under pressure from labor groups demanding better wages and from opposition organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, pushing for political reforms. Calls for change have highlighted the widening anger the poor have for an upper class they regard as corrupt and aloof to the nation's problems.

The Doctors Union has a history of involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, which wants Egypt governed by Islamic law and has seen hundreds of members arrested by security forces seeking to limit the group's chances in upcoming local elections. The doctors have been careful in recent demonstrations not to let their cause for higher salaries be subsumed into a wider and more dangerous political debate.

But many physicians feel that, although they still command a degree of respect in society, they are part of a vanishing middle class. "We have two classes today in Egypt -- the capitalists and the poor," Farahat said. "We have no middle class anymore. Given such conditions, there must be labor strikes."

His colleague, Mohammed Sayed, an orthopedic specialist, agreed. "Five years ago a strike by doctors would have been unthinkable," he said. "Overall, the economy is doing well, but the money is not getting to the people. It's going to the elite. In the 1960s and 1970s, Egypt had rich people but they were self-made, the sons of farmers who came from the Nile Delta. Today, the rich come from the rich class; they've done nothing to work for it. We are asking for a reasonable demand of 1,000 pounds a month."

The Egyptian government's underfunding of healthcare has created a public system in which the poor are forced to pay for medications, sutures and other items that would normally be covered by subsidies. The nation's healthcare system is divided into public and private institutions, but most hospital beds are funded by the state. Inflation and supply shortages prevent patients from filling prescriptions, resulting in extended illnesses and longer recovery times.

"We face difficulties in serving patients because public healthcare is, in effect, being privatized in a ruthless way," said Said Sayed, a spokesman for the Doctors Union, which represents Egypt's 167,000 physicians. "We cannot serve the poor patient in public hospitals."

Mohammed Sayed, a husky, congenial man, said he works a number of 24-hour shifts a month, which earns him an extra $10. Even before the rapid rise in inflation, he said, that was a maddeningly low sum.

His friend, Mohammed Wael Saad, a surgeon at Nile Hospital, said most Egyptians view doctors as singularly altruistic and find it odd that they would consider striking over financial matters.

"People think we are beyond money. But how can we live?" said Saad. "How can I give the best when I work long hours and earn as much as a nurse or a mill worker? Our salaries need to be commensurate with prosecutors'. They earn 2,000 pounds [about $365] a month. So, is it more important to put someone in jail or to save someone from dying?"

jeffrey.fleishman@ latimes.com

Noha El-Hennawy of The Times' Cairo Bureau contributed to this report.

Ceci cause un exode des compétences.
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Médecins égyptiens menaçant de frapper, beaucoup de marque aussi peu que $63 par mois fonctionnant dans de mauvaises conditions. Ils veulent un salaire minimum environ de $180.
Entrez dans le salon dans l'hôpital du Nil, prenez un siège sur un divan en cuir déchiré, balayez loin la fumée de cigarette et écoutez des litanies des plaintes sur les sciences économiques cruelles des soins de santé des médecins dont les salaires sont aussi bas que $63 par mois et qui vivent avec leurs parents.

Les travails des médecins reflètent les imperfections plus grandes d'un gouvernement luttant pour fournir le soin médical dans un pays où environ 45% de la population vit dans la pauvreté. Les médecins à travers la nation se plaignent de longues heures, de respect craintif pour leur profession, de manque de médecine et d'équipement cassé. Un gynécologue dit son hôpital public est ainsi s'est cassé qu'il achète ses propres gants en caoutchouc plutôt que de ceux porter qui ont été lavés pour la réutilisation.

« Vous obtenez 10 livres supplémentaires [environ $1.80] si vous travaillez un poste de 24 heures, » avez dit Mohamed Farahat, un spécialiste orthopédique. « Mais acheter votre dîner pendant ce décalage te coûte 15 livres. Ainsi vous pensent, quels bons il font ? Les « 

médecins de l'Egypte avaient protesté pendant des semaines et ont fixé une date-limite de mars pour une grève dans tout le pays. Leur bataille est la dernière ondulation du malaise ouvrier qui a ces derniers mois des démonstrations suscitées par des ouvriers de textile, des professeurs d'université, des pharmaciens, des chefs d'orchestre de train et des percepteurs immobiliers. L'inflation élevée, les salaires plats et la colère au gouvernement du Président Hosni Mubarak agitent de plus en plus l'instruit et des classes ouvrières dans un déclarer arabe modéré qui est l'un des alliés de Moyen-Orient les plus étroits de l'Amérique.

Les médecins Union exige un salaire mensuel minimum immédiat de 1.000 livres ou environ de $180 pour les 93.000 médecins travaillant directement pour l'état. Aucun salaire à l'hôpital du Nil au Caire du nord-ouest n'excède cela, y compris le salaire pour des chirurgiens, Farahat dit.

Le salaire mensuel commençant pour des médecins peut être aussi bas que $23. Le ministère égyptien de santé a indiqué qu'il augmenterait graduellement le salaire basé sur l'exécution, mais que son budget, comme ceux de beaucoup d'organismes gouvernementaux, est trop attaché pour satisfaire les demandes des syndicats.

« Nous sympathisons avec des médecins, » a dit Abdel Rahman Shahin, un porte-parole de ministère. « L'état devrait financer [un salaire plus élevé], mais l'état a beaucoup d'engagements. » Il a ajouté qu'avec mettre en phase-dans des bonifications d'exécution « au moins il y a quelques médecins de changement se sentira » vers la fin de l'année.

Beaucoup de médecins regardent la proposition comme pauvre tentative de corriger des années des bas salaires qui sont maintenant rapidement mangés vers le haut par une montée subite dans l'inflation qui a augmenté des prix pas moins de 50% pour la nourriture et d'autres produits au cours des deux dernières années. La crise a également rappelé les médecins qui en dépit des années d'éducation et de formation, leurs salaires moyens sont légèrement plus hauts que celui des comptables de gouvernement, qui gagnent environ $35 par mois, et moins que beaucoup de professeurs d'université.

La « vie est très difficile, mais les gens vous attendent, comme un docteur, pour avoir une voiture, dépenser généreusement et laisser des bouts énormes, » a dit Ahmed Sobhi, un spécialiste des maladies organiques à l'hôpital du Nil qui gagne moins de $65 par mois. « La réalité est mon petit salaire. Mon épouse et I et notre nouvelle fille de phase dans un appartement possédé par mon père. Nous ne allons jamais au cinéma. Notre seulement divertissement est de regarder la TV. « 

Cette description adapte des milliers de médecins égyptiens, beaucoup de qui passage que leur inquiétude sur un blog a commandité par médecins Without Rights, un groupe de incitation a fondé en 2007.

Un poteau a classé par le Dr. Ali dit lit : « Un inspecteur de la municipalité a passé par notre hôpital aujourd'hui. Tout qu'il s'est inquiété pour vérifier était, que nous ayons eu des arbres ou pas. Vous dites des inspecteurs, « il y a un manque dans l'équipement. » Ils vous disent que, « il n'y a aucun argent pour ce non-sens. » . . . Avez-vous jamais entendu parler de n'importe quoi de pareil dans une autre partie du monde ? « 

La stature et le sens des médecins du droit professionnel ont été examinés par un système de soins de santé d'état chargé par la bureaucratie et la dette. La plupart des médecins cumulent deux emplois en tournant des décalages à différents hôpitaux et à cliniques privées. Ceci s'accumule dans des cordes des nuits sans sommeil mais peut gagner à des médecins des $90 supplémentaires par mois. Beaucoup quittent l'Egypte pour des pays plus riches d'huile de golfe Persique, où les salaires d'hôpital sont beaucoup de fois plus haut.

« Ceci cause un exode des compétences, » a dit Farahat, qui s'est reposé gonflé-observé dedans frotte et un manteau de laboratoire. « J'ai des amis de docteur qui se sont déplacés à l'étranger et je pense à aller en Arabie Saoudite, au Kowéit ou aux Emirats Arabes Unis. Le problème est celui en 10 à 15 ans, si tous médecins partent, là ne sera unique gauche pour enseigner une plus jeune génération des médecins égyptiens. « 

C'est un temps sensible pour des médecins pour contempler une grève. Mubarak et son parti démocratique national régnant sont sous pression des groupes de travail exigeant de meilleurs salaires et des organismes d'opposition, tels que la confrérie musulmane, poussant pour des réformes politiques. Les appels pour le changement ont accentué la colère de élargissement que les pauvres prennent pour une classe aristocratique ils considèrent comme corrompu et à distance aux problèmes de la nation.

Les médecins Union a une histoire de participation avec la confrérie musulmane, qui veut l'Egypte régie par loi islamique et a vu des centaines de membres arrêtés par des forces de sécurité cherchant à limiter les chances du groupe dans des élections locales prochaines. Les médecins ont fait attention dans des démonstrations récentes pas ont laissé leur cause pour des salaires plus élevés être englobée dans une discussion politique plus large et plus dangereuse.

Mais beaucoup de médecins estiment que, bien qu'ils commandent toujours un degré de respect dans la société, ils font partie d'une bourgeoisie de disparaition. « Nous avons deux classes aujourd'hui en Egypte -- les capitalistes et les pauvres, » Farahat ont dit. « Nous n'avons désormais aucune bourgeoisie. Donné de telles conditions, il doit y avoir des grèves de main-d'oeuvre. « 

Son collègue, Mohamed Sayed, un spécialiste orthopédique, convenu. Il y a « cinq ans une grève par des médecins aurait été impensable, » il a dit. « De façon générale, l'économie fait bien, mais l'argent n'arrive pas au peuple. Il va à l'élite. Dans les années 60 et les années 70, l'Egypte a eu les personnes riches mais elles individu-ont été faites, les fils des fermiers qui sont venues du delta du Nil. Aujourd'hui, les riches viennent de la classe riche ; ils n'ont fait rien à travailler pour lui. Nous demandons une demande raisonnable de 1.000 livres par mois. « 

Le sous-provisionnement du gouvernement égyptien des soins de santé a créé un système public dans lequel les pauvres sont forcés de payer les médicaments, les sutures et d'autres articles qui seraient normalement couverts par des subventions. Le système des soins de santé de la nation est divisé en établissements publics et privés, mais la plupart des lits d'hôpital sont placés par l'état. Les manques d'inflation et d'approvisionnement empêchent des patients des prescriptions remplissantes, ayant pour résultat des maladies prolongées et de plus longs temps de rétablissement.

« Nous faisons face à des difficultés dans des patients de portion parce que les soins de santé publics sont, en effet, étant privatisé d'une manière impitoyable, » avons dit ledit Sayed, un porte-parole pour les médecins Union, qui représente les médecins de l'Egypte 167.000. « Nous ne pouvons pas servir le pauvre patient dans les hôpitaux publics.  »

Mohamed Sayed, un homme enroué et du même caractère, dit il travaille un certain nombre de décalages de 24 heures par mois, qui lui gagne des $10 supplémentaires. Même avant l'élévation rapide de l'inflation dit-il qui était une somme de façon exaspérante basse.

Son ami, Mohamed Wael Saad, un chirurgien à l'hôpital du Nil, a dit la plupart des médecins de vue d'Egyptiens en tant que singulièrement altruiste et les trouve impairs qu'ils considéreraient frapper les sujets financiers finis.

Les « gens pensent que nous sommes au delà d'argent. Mais comment pouvons-nous vivre ? « a dit Saad. Est-ce que « comment je peux donner le meilleur quand je travaille de longues heures et gagne autant qu'une infirmière ou un ouvrier de moulin ? Nos salaires doivent être proportionnés aux procureurs. Ils gagnent 2.000 livres [environ $365] un mois. Ainsi, est-il plus important de mettre quelqu'un dans la prison ou de sauver quelqu'un de la mort ? « 

EL-Hennawy de jeffrey.fleishman@

latimes.com Noha du bureau du Caire des temps a contribué à ce rapport.

Esto está causando una fuga de cerebros.
Automatically translated into Spanish thanks to WorldLingo
Doctores egipcios que amenazan pulsar, mucho marca tan poco como $63 por mes que trabaja bajo condiciones pobres. Desean un salario mínimo de cerca de $180.
Entre en el salón en el hospital del Nilo, tome un asiento en un sofá de cuero rasgado, cepille lejos el humo del cigarrillo y escuche una letanía de quejas en la economía cruel del healthcare de los doctores que sueldos son tan bajos como $63 por mes y que viven con sus padres.

Los travails de los doctores reflejan los defectos más grandes de un gobierno que luchan para proporcionar asistencia médica en un país en donde el cerca de 45% de la población vive en pobreza. Los médicos a través de la nación se quejan de largases horas, de respecto que encoge por su profesión, de la carencia de la medicina y del equipo quebrado. Un ginecólogo dicho su hospital público es así que se rompió que él compra sus propios guantes de goma más bien que el usar que se han lavado para la reutilización.

“Usted consigue 10 libras adicionales [cerca de $1.80] si usted trabaja 24 cambios de la hora,” dijo a Mohammed Farahat, especialista ortopédico. “Pero comprar su cena durante esa cambio le cuesta 15 libras. ¿Usted están pensando tan, qué buenos él hacen? Los “

doctores de Egipto han estado protestando por semanas y han fijado un plazo de marcha para una huelga a nivel nacional. Su batalla es la ondulación más última del malestar de trabajo que estos últimos meses tiene demostraciones chispeadas de los trabajadores del textil, de los profesores de la universidad, de los farmacéuticos, de los conductores del tren y de los colectores de impuesto de las propiedades inmobiliarias. La alta inflación, los salarios planos y la cólera en el gobierno de presidente Hosni Mubarak están agitando cada vez más a educado y a clases obreras en un estado árabe moderado que sea uno de los aliados más cercanos de Medio Oriente de América.

Los doctores Union están exigiendo un sueldo mensual mínimo inmediato de 1.000 libras o cerca de $180 para los 93.000 médicos que trabajan directamente para el estado. Ningún sueldo en el hospital del Nilo en El Cairo del noroeste excede eso, incluyendo la paga para los cirujanos, Farahat dicho.

La paga mensual que comienza para los doctores puede ser tan baja como $23. El ministerio egipcio de la salud dijo que aumentaría gradualmente la paga basada en funcionamiento, pero que su presupuesto, como los de muchas agencias de estatal, está atado con correa también para resolver las demandas de la unión.

“Nos compadecemos de los doctores,” dijo Abdel Rahman Shahin, portavoz del ministerio. “El estado debe financiar [una paga más alta], pero el estado tiene muchos de obligaciones.” Él agregó que con poner en fase-en primas del funcionamiento “por lo menos hay algunos doctores del cambio se sentirá” antes de fin de año.

Muchos doctores ven la oferta como tentativa ínfima de corregir años de los sueldos bajos que ahora son comidos rápidamente para arriba por una oleada en la inflación que ha aumentado precios tanto como el 50% para el alimento y otras materias durante los dos años pasados. La crisis también ha recordado los doctores que a pesar de años de la educación y del entrenamiento, sus sueldos medios son levemente más altos que el de los contables del gobierno, que ganan cerca de $35 por mes, y menos que muchos profesores de la universidad.

La “vida es muy difícil, pero la gente le cuenta con, como un doctor, tener un coche, pasar abundante y dejar extremidades enormes,” dijo a Ahmed Sobhi, un interno en el hospital del Nilo que gana menos de $65 por mes. “La realidad es mi sueldo pequeño. Mi esposa e I y nuestra nueva hija vivos en un apartamento poseído por mi padre. Nunca vamos a las películas. Nuestra solamente hospitalidad es ver la TV. “

Esa descripción cabe a millares de los doctores egipcios, muchos de quién respiradero que su ansiedad en un blog patrocinó por los doctores Without la Rights, un grupo de cabildeo fundó en 2007.

Un poste archivó por el Dr. Ali dicho lee: “Un inspector del municipio ha pasado por nuestro hospital hoy. Todo lo que él cuidó para comprobar era si teníamos árboles o no. Usted dice a inspectores, “allí es una escasez en el equipo.” Le dicen que, “no haya dinero para este absurdo.” . . . ¿Usted ha oído hablar siempre algo similar en otra parte del mundo? “

La estatura y el sentido de los médicos del derecho profesional han sido probados por un sistema del healthcare del estado cargado por la burocracia y la deuda. La mayoría de los doctores moonlight rotando cambios en diversos hospitales y las clínicas privadas. Esto acumula en las cadenas de noches sleepless pero puede ganar a doctores $90 adicionales por mes. Muchos salen de Egipto para países más ricos del aceite del golfo persa, donde están muchas veces más arriba los sueldos del hospital.

“Esto está causando una fuga de cerebros,” dijo Farahat, que se sentó puffy-eyed adentro friega y una capa del laboratorio. “Tengo amigos del doctor que se han movido al extranjero y estoy pensando en ir a la Arabia Saudita, a Kuwait o a los emiratos árabes unidos. El problema está ése en 10 a 15 años, si todos los doctores se van, allí será nadie izquierda para enseñar una generación más joven de médicos egipcios. “

Es un rato sensible para los doctores de comtemplar una huelga. Mubarak y su partido democrático nacional predominante están bajo presión de los grupos de trabajo que exigen salarios mejores y de organizaciones de la oposición, tales como la fraternidad musulmana, empujando para las reformas políticas. Las llamadas para el cambio han destacado la cólera que ensanchaba que los pobres tienen para una clase alta miran como corrupto y a distancia a los problemas de la nación.

Los doctores Union tienen una historia de la implicación con la fraternidad musulmana, que desea Egipto gobernado por ley islámica y ha considerado a centenares de miembros arrestados por las fuerzas de la seguridad que intentan limitar las ocasiones del grupo en elecciones locales próximas. Los doctores han tenido cuidados en demostraciones recientes no dejaron su causa para sueldos más altos ser incluidos en un discusión político más amplio y más peligroso.

Pero muchos médicos se sienten que, aunque todavía ordenan un grado de respecto en sociedad, son parte de una clase media de desaparición. “Tenemos dos clases hoy en Egipto -- los capitalistas y los pobres,” Farahat dijeron. “No tenemos ninguna clase media más. Dado tales condiciones, debe haber huelgas de trabajo. “

Su colega, Mohammed Sayed, especialista ortopédico, convenido. Hace “cinco años una huelga de los doctores habría sido increíble,” él dijo. “Total, la economía está haciendo bien, pero el dinero no está consiguiendo a la gente. Va a la élite. En los años 60 y los años 70, Egipto tenía gente rica pero le uno mismo-hicieron, los hijos de los granjeros que vinieron del delta del Nilo. Hoy, los ricos vienen de la clase rica; no han hecho nada trabajar para él. Estamos pidiendo una demanda razonable de 1.000 libras por mes. “

El underfunding del gobierno egipcio del healthcare ha creado un sistema público en el cual fuerzan a los pobres pagar las medicaciones, las suturas y otros artículos que serían cubiertos normalmente por subsidios. El sistema del healthcare de la nación se divide en las instituciones públicas y privadas, pero la mayoría de las camas del hospital son financiadas por el estado. Las escaseces de la inflación y de la fuente previenen a pacientes de prescripciones que llenan, dando por resultado enfermedades extendidas y tiempos más largos de la recuperación.

“Hacemos frente a dificultades en pacientes de la porción porque es el healthcare público, en efecto, siendo privatizado de una manera despiadada,” dijimos Sayed dicho, portavoz para los doctores Union, que representa a médicos de Egipto 167.000. “No podemos servir al paciente pobre en hospitales públicos. ”

Mohammed Sayed, hombre fornido, agradable, dicho él trabaja un número de 24 cambios de la hora al mes, que le gana $10 adicionales. Incluso antes de la subida rápida de la inflación, él dijo, que era una suma maddeningly baja.

Su amigo, Mohammed Wael Saad, cirujano en el hospital del Nilo, dijo a la mayoría de los doctores de la opinión de los egipcios como singular altruista y los encuentra impares que considerarían el pulsar de materias financieras excesivas.

La “gente piensa que estamos más allá de dinero. ¿Pero cómo podemos vivir? “dijo a Saad. ¿“Cómo puedo dar el mejor cuando trabajo largases horas y gano tanto como una enfermera o un trabajador del molino? Nuestros sueldos necesitan ser comensurados con los querellantes. Ganan 2.000 libras [cerca de $365] un mes. ¿Así pues, es más importante poner a alguien en cárcel o ahorrar a alguien de morir? “

EL-Hennawy de jeffrey.fleishman@

latimes.com Noha de la oficina de El Cairo de los tiempos contribuyó a este informe.

Ciò sta causando una fuga dei cervelli.
Automatically translated into Italian thanks to WorldLingo
Medici egiziani che minacciano di colpire, molto marca poco quanto $63 un il mese che funziona in cattive condizioni. Desiderano uno stipendio minimo di circa $180.
Entri nel salotto nell'ospedale del Nilo, prenda una sede su uno strato di cuoio strappato, spazzoli via il fumo della sigaretta ed ascolti una litania dei reclami sull'economia crudele di healthcare dai medici di cui gli stipendi sono bassi quanto $63 un il mese e che vivono con i loro genitori.

I travails dei medici rispecchiano le più grandi imperfezioni di un governo che lottano per fornire la cura medica in un paese in cui circa 45% della popolazione vive nella povertà. I medici attraverso la nazione si lamentano delle ore lunghe, del rispetto shrinking per la loro professione, della mancanza di medicina e dell'apparecchiatura rotta. Un ginecologo detto il suo ospedale pubblico è in modo da si rotto che compra i suoi propri guanti di gomma piuttosto che quei da portare che siano stati lavati per riutilizzazione.

“Ottenete 10 libbre supplementari [circa $1.80] se lavorate uno spostamento di 24 ore,„ avete detto Mohammed Farahat, un esperto ortopedico. “Ma comprare il vostro pranzo durante quello spostamento gli costa 15 libbre. Così voi stanno pensando, che buoni esso fanno? “

I medici dell'Egitto stanno protestando per le settimane ed hanno fissato una scadenza di marzo per un colpo nazionale. La loro battaglia è l'ultima ondulazione di agitazione di lavoro che negli ultimi mesi ha dimostrazioni scintillate dagli operai della tessile, dai professori dell'università, dai farmacisti, dai conduttori del treno e dai collettori di imposta del bene immobile. L'alta inflazione, gli stipendi piani e la rabbia al governo del presidente Hosni Mubarak sempre più stanno agitando sia l'istruito che le classi operaie in un arabo moderato dichiarano che è uno degli alleati di Medio Oriente più vicini dell'America.

I dottori Union sta richiedendo uno stipendio mensile minimo immediato di 1.000 libbre o di circa $180 per i 93.000 medici che lavorano direttamente per il dichiarare. Nessuno stipendio all'ospedale del Nilo a Cairo di nord-ovest eccede quello, compreso la paga per i chirurghi, Farahat detto.

La paga mensile partente per i medici può essere bassa quanto $23. Il ministero egiziano di salute ha detto che aumenterebbe gradualmente la paga basata sulle prestazioni, ma che il relativo preventivo, come quelli di molti enti governativi, ugualmente è legato per rispondere alle esigenze del sindacato.

“Sympathize con i medici,„ ha detto Abdel Rahman Shahin, un portavoce di ministero. “Il dichiarare dovrebbe finanziare [più alta paga], ma il dichiarare ha obblighi molto.„ Ha aggiunto che con mett-nelle indennità di prestazioni “almeno ci sono alcuni medici del cambiamento riterranno„ per la fine dell'anno.

Molti medici osservano la proposta come misero tentativo di correggere gli anni degli stipendi bassi che ora sono mangiati rapidamente in su da un impulso nell'inflazione che ha aumentato i prezzi fino a 50% per alimento ed altri prodotti durante gli ultimi due anni. La crisi inoltre ha ricordato ai medici che malgrado gli anni di istruzione e di formazione, i loro stipendi medii sono un po'superiori a quello dei ragionieri di governo, che guadagnano circa $35 un il mese ed a di meno che molti professori dell'università.

“La vita è molto difficile, ma la gente li prevede, come un medico, avere un automobile, spendere generoso e lasciare le punte enormi,„ ha detto Ahmed Sobhi, un internista all'ospedale del Nilo che guadagna più meno di $65 un il mese. “La realtà è il mio piccolo stipendio. La mia moglie ed I e la nostra nuova figlia in tensione in un appartamento posseduto dal mio padre. Non andiamo mai ai film. Il nostro soltanto intrattenimento è di guardare la TV. “

Quella descrizione misura i migliaia dei medici egiziani, molti di chi sfiato che la loro ansia su un blog ha patrocinato dai dottori Without Rights, un gruppo d'incitamento ha fondato in 2007.

Un alberino archiviato dal Dott. Ali detto legge: “Un ispettore dal comune ha passato oggi dal nostro ospedale. Tutto che si preoccupasse per controllare era se abbiamo avuti alberi oppure no. Dite agli ispettori, “là siete una scarsità in apparecchiatura.„ Gli dicono che, “non ci siano soldi per questa assurdità.„ . . . Avete sentito parlare mai qualcosa di simile in qualunque altra parte del mondo? “

L'altezza ed il senso dei medici di autorizzazione professionale sono stati esaminati da un sistema del healthcare di dichiarare caricato dalla burocrazia e dal debito. La maggior parte dei medici moonlight ruotando gli spostamenti agli ospedali differenti ed alle cliniche riservate. Ciò si accumula nelle serie di notti sleepless ma può guadagnare a medici i $90 supplementari un il mese. Molti lasciano l'Egitto per i paesi più ricchi dell'olio del golfo persiano, in cui gli stipendi dell'ospedale sono molte volte più su.

“Questo sta causando una fuga dei cervelli,„ ha detto Farahat, che si è seduto puffy-eyed dentro frega e un cappotto del laboratorio. “Ho amici del medico che si sono mossi all'estero e sto pensando ad andare in Arabia Saudita, nel Kuwait o negli Emirati Arabi Uniti. Il problema è quello durante 10 - 15 anni, se tutti i medici vanno, là sarà nessuna parte di sinistra per insegnare una generazione più giovane dei medici egiziani. “

È un tempo sensibile per i medici contemplare un colpo. Mubarak ed il suo partito democratico nazionale di regolamento provengono sotto pressione dai gruppi di lavoro che richiedono gli stipendi migliori e dalle organizzazioni di opposizione, quale la fratellanza musulmana, spingente per le riforme politiche. Le richieste per cambiamento hanno evidenziato la rabbia che d'allargamento i poveri hanno per un codice categoria superiore considerare corrotto ed aloof ai problemi della nazione.

I dottori Union ha una storia della partecipazione con la fratellanza musulmana, che desidera l'Egitto governato da legge islamica ed ha visto i centinaia dei membri arrestati dalle forze di sicurezza che cercano di limitare le probabilità del gruppo nelle elezioni locali imminenti. I medici hanno fatti attenzione nelle dimostrazioni recenti non hanno lasciato la loro causa per gli più alti stipendi essere inclusi in un dibattito politico più largo e più pericoloso.

Ma molti medici ritengono che, anche se ancora comandano un grado di rispetto nella società, fanno parte di un codice categoria centrale di sparizione. “Abbiamo oggi due codici categoria nell'Egitto -- i capitalisti ed i poveri,„ Farahat hanno detto. “Non avremo codice categoria centrale più. Dato tali circostanze, ci devono essere colpi di lavoro. “

Il suo collega, Mohammed Sayed, un esperto ortopedico, accosentito. “Cinque anni fa un colpo dai medici sarebbe stato impensabile,„ ha detto. “In generale, l'economia sta facendo bene, ma i soldi non stanno ottenendo alla gente. Sta andando all'elite. Negli anni 60 e negli anni 70, l'Egitto ha avuto gente ricca ma auto-sono state fatte, i figli dei coltivatori che sono venuto dal delta del Nilo. Oggi, i rich vengono dal codice categoria ricco; non hanno fatto niente funzionare per esso. Stiamo chiedendo una richiesta ragionevole di 1.000 libbre un il mese. “

Il sottocapitalizzazione del governo egiziano di healthcare ha generato un sistema pubblico in cui i poveri sono costretti a pagare i farmaci, i suturare ed altri articoli che sarebbero coperti normalmente dalle sovvenzioni. Il sistema del healthcare della nazione è diviso nelle istituzioni pubbliche e riservate, ma la maggior parte delle basi dell'ospedale sono costituite un fondo per dal dichiarare. Le scarsità del rifornimento e di inflazione evitano i pazienti le prescrizioni riempientesi, con conseguente malattie estese e tempi maggiori di recupero.

“Affrontiamo le difficoltà nei pazienti del serving perché il healthcare pubblico è, in effetti, essendo privatizzando in un senso ruthless,„ abbiamo detto Sayed detto, un portavoce per i dottori Union, che rappresenta i medici dell'Egitto 167.000. “Non possiamo servire il povero paziente in ospedali pubblici. „

Mohammed Sayed, un uomo husky e congenial, ad esempio lavora un certo numero di spostamenti di 24 ore un il mese, che gli guadagna i $10 supplementari. Anche prima dell'aumento veloce nell'inflazione, egli disse, che era una somma maddeningly bassa.

Il suo amico, Mohammed Wael Saad, un chirurgo all'ospedale del Nilo, ad esempio la maggior parte dei medici di punto di vista degli Egiziani come singolarmente altruistico e li trova dispari che studierebbero la possibilità di colpire gli argomenti finanziari eccessivi.

“La gente pensa che siamo oltre soldi. Ma come possiamo vivere? “ha detto Saad. “Come posso dare il la cosa migliore quando lavoro le ore lunghe e guadagno tanto come un'infermiera o operaio del laminatoio? I nostri stipendi devono essere proporzionati ai procuratori. Guadagnano 2.000 libbre [circa $365] un mese. Così, è più importante mettere qualcuno in prigione o conservare qualcuno dal morire? “

EL-Hennawy di jeffrey.fleishman@

latimes.com Noha dell'ufficio de Cairo dei tempi ha contribuito a questo rapporto.

Dieses verursacht eine Abwanderung von Fachkräften.
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Ägyptische Doktoren, die bedrohen anzuschlagen, viel Marke so wenig wie $63 ein den Monat arbeitet unter schlechten Bedingungen. Sie wünschen ein Mindestgehalt von ungefähr $180.
Betreten Sie den Aufenthaltsraum im Nil Krankenhaus, nehmen Sie einen Sitz auf einer zerrissenen ledernen Couch, bürsten Sie weg den Zigaretterauch und hören Sie zu einer Litanei von Beanstandungen auf der grausamen Volkswirtschaft von healthcare von den Doktoren deren Gehälter so niedrig wie $63 ein Monat sind und die mit ihren Eltern leben.

Die travails der Doktoren spiegeln die größeren Fehler einer Regierung kämpfend, um medizinische Behandlung in einem Land zur Verfügung zu stellen wider, in dem ungefähr 45% der Bevölkerung in der Armut lebt. Ärzte über der Nation beschweren sich von den langen Stunden, vom schrumpfenden Respekt für ihren Beruf, vom Mangel an Medizin und von defekter Ausrüstung. Ein besagter Gynäkologe sein allgemeines Krankenhaus ist, also brach, daß er seine eigenen Gummihandschuhe anstatt das Tragen kauft, die für Wiederverwendung gewaschen worden sind.

„Sie erhalten 10 Extra zerstoßen [ungefähr $1.80] wenn Sie eine 24stündige Verschiebung bearbeiten,“ sagten Mohamed Farahat, ein orthopädischer Fachmann. „Aber, Ihr Abendessen während dieser Verschiebung zu kaufen kostet, das Sie, zerstößt 15. So Sie, denken welche gute es tut? „

Doktoren Ägyptens haben für Wochen protestiert und haben einen März Stichtag für einen allgemein Schlag eingestellt. Ihre Schlacht ist die neueste Kräuselung von Arbeitsruhelosigkeit, die in den letzten Monaten gefunkte Demonstrationen durch Textilarbeiter, Universitätsprofessoren, Apotheker, Zugleiter und Sammler der Grundsteuer hat. Hohe Inflation, flache Löhne und Zorn an der Regierung des Präsidenten Hosni Mubarak regt in zunehmendem Maße das gebildete und die Arbeiterklassen in einem gemäßigten arabischen Zustand auf, der einer von Amerikas nähsten Mittlere Ostenverbündeten ist.

Die Doktoren Union verlangt ein sofortiges minimales Monatsgehalt von 1.000 zerstößt oder ungefähr von $180 für die 93.000 ärzte, die direkt für den Zustand arbeiten. Kein Gehalt am Nil Krankenhaus in Nordwestkairo übersteigt das, einschließlich die Bezahlung für Chirurgen, gesagtes Farahat.

Die beginnende Monatsbezahlung für Doktoren kann wie $23 so niedrig sein. Das ägyptische Gesundheit Ministerium sagte, daß es stufenweise die Bezahlung erhöhen würde, die auf Leistung basierte, aber daß sein Etat, wie die vieler Regierungsagenturen, auch gegurtet wird, um die Nachfragen des Anschlußes zu befriedigen.

„Wir sympathisieren mit Doktoren,“, sagte Abdel Rahman Shahin, ein Ministeriumwortführer. „Der Zustand sollte finanzieren [höhere Bezahlung], aber der Zustand hat eine Menge Verpflichtungen.“ Er addierte, daß mit einteilen-in Leistung Prämien „mindestens es einige änderung Doktoren glaubt“ Ende des Jahres gibt.

Viele Doktoren sehen den Antrag als armseliger Versuch, Jahre der niedrigen Gehälter zu beheben an, die jetzt schnell oben durch eine Schwankung in der Inflation gegessen werden, die Preise soviel wie 50% für Nahrung und andere Gebrauchsgüter über den letzten zwei Jahren erhöht hat. Die Krise hat auch Doktoren, die trotz der Jahre der Ausbildung und des Trainings, ihre durchschnittlichen Gehälter etwas höher als das der Regierung Buchhalter sind, die ungefähr $35 ein Monat erwerben, und kleiner als viele Universitätsprofessoren erinnert.

„Das Leben ist sehr schwierig, aber Leute erwarten Sie, wie ein Doktor, ein Auto haben, großzügig aufwenden und sehr große Spitzen lassen,“, sagte Ahmed Sobhi, ein Internist am Nil Krankenhaus, das weniger als $65 ein Monat erwirbt. „Die Wirklichkeit ist mein kleines Gehalt. Meine Frau und I und unsere neue Tochter Phasen in einer Wohnung besessen von meinem Vater. Wir gehen nie zu den Filmen. Unsere nur Unterhaltung ist, Fernzusehen. „

Diese Beschreibung paßt Tausenden der ägyptischen Doktoren, viele von wem Entlüftungsöffnung, die ihre Angst auf einem blog durch Doktoren Without Rights förderte, eine beeinflussende Gruppe gründete 2007.

Ein Pfosten eingeordnet vom Dr. Gesagter Ali liest: „Ein Prüfer vom Stadtbezirk hat durch unser Krankenhaus heute überschritten. Alles, das er sich interessierte, um zu überprüfen, war, ob wir Bäume oder nicht hatten. Sie erklären Prüfern, „dort sind ein Mangel in der Ausrüstung.“ Sie erklären Ihnen daß, „es gibt kein Geld für diesen Unsinn.“ . . . Haben Sie überhaupt von etwas ähnliches in irgendeinem anderen Teil der Welt gehört? „

Der die Statur und die Richtung ärzte der professionellen Bezeichnung sind durch ein Zustand healthcare System geprüft worden, das durch Bürokratie und Schuld belastet wird. Die meisten Doktoren arbeiten schwarz, indem sie Verschiebungen an den unterschiedlichen Krankenhäusern und an den privaten Kliniken drehen. Dieses sammelt an, in Zeichenketten von sleepless Nächte aber kann Doktoren Extra$90 ein Monat erwerben. Viele verlassen Ägypten für reichere ölländer des persischen Golfs, in dem Krankenhausgehälter viele Mal stark sind.

„Dieses verursacht eine Abwanderung von Fachkräften,“, sagte Farahat, das innen geschwollen-gemustert sich scheuert und ein Labormantel saß. „Ich habe Doktorfreunde, die auswärts umgezogen sind und ich denke an das Gehen zu Saudi-Arabien, zu Kuwait oder zu den vereinigten arabischen Emiräten. Das Problem ist das in 10 bis 15 Jahren, wenn alle Doktoren verlassen, dort ist keins links zum Unterrichten ein jüngeres Erzeugung der ägyptischen ärzte. „

Es ist eine empfindliche Zeit für Doktoren, einen Schlag zu erwägen. Mubarak und seine regierende nationale demokratische Partei sind unter Druck von den Arbeitsgruppen, die bessere Löhne verlangen und von den Opposition Organisationen, wie der moslemischen Bruderschaft und drücken für politische Verbesserungen. Anrufe für änderung haben den verbreiternden Zorn hervorgehoben, den die Armen für eine obere Kategorie haben, sie und aloof zu den Problemen der Nation betrachten als verdorben.

Die Doktoren Union hat eine Geschichte der Miteinbeziehung mit der moslemischen Bruderschaft, die Ägypten wünscht, das durch islamisches Gesetz geregelt wird und Hunderte Mitglieder gesehen hat, die durch die Sicherheit Kräfte festgehalten werden, die suchen, die Wahrscheinlichkeiten der Gruppe in den upcoming lokalen Wahlen zu begrenzen. Die Doktoren sind in den neuen Demonstrationen nicht ließen ihre Ursache für höhere Gehälter in eine breitere und gefährlichere politische Debatte zusammengefaßt werden achtgegeben.

Aber viele ärzte glauben, daß, obgleich sie noch einen Grad Respekt in der Gesellschaft beherrschen, sie ein Teil einer verschwindenen mittleren Kategorie sind. „Wir haben zwei Kategorien heute in Ägypten -- die Kapitalisten und die Armen,“ Farahat sagten. „Wir haben keine mittlere Kategorie mehr. Solche Bedingungen gegeben, muß es Arbeitsniederlegungen geben. „

Sein Kollege, Mohamed Sayed, ein orthopädischer Fachmann, vereinbart. Vor „fünf Jahren würde ein Schlag durch Doktoren undenkbar gewesen sein,“ sagte er. „Gesamt, tut die Wirtschaft gut, aber das Geld gelangt nicht an die Leute. Es geht zur Auslese. In den sechziger Jahren und in den siebziger Jahren hatte Ägypten reiche Leute, aber sie wurden, die Söhne der Landwirte Selbst--gebildet, die vom Nil Dreieck kamen. Heute kommen die Rich von der reichen Kategorie; sie haben nichts getan, für es zu arbeiten. Wir bitten um eine angemessene Nachfrage von 1.000 zerstoßen einen Monat. „

Die ägyptischen Unterkapitalisierung der Regierung von healthcare hat ein allgemeines System verursacht, in dem die Armen gezwungen werden, für Medikationen, Nähte und andere Einzelteile zu zahlen, die normalerweise durch Beihilfe abgedeckt würden. Das System healthcare der Nation wird in die allgemeinen und privaten Anstalten geteilt, aber die meisten Krankenhausbetten werden durch den Zustand finanziert. Inflation- und Versorgungsmaterial-Mängel verhindern Patienten an füllenden Verordnungen, mit dem Ergebnis der ausgedehnten Krankheiten und der längeren Wiederaufnahme Zeiten.

„Wir stellen Schwierigkeiten bei Umhüllungpatienten, weil allgemeines healthcare ist, in Wirklichkeit privatisierend in einer unbarmherzigen Weise,“ sagten besagtes Sayed, einen Wortführer für die Doktoren Union gegenüber, der Ägyptens 167.000 ärzte darstellt. „Wir können nicht den armen Patienten in den allgemeinen Krankenhäusern dienen. “

Mohamed Sayed, ein heiserer, geistesverwandter Mann, gesagt bearbeitet er eine Anzahl von 24stündigen Verschiebungen ein Monat, der ihm Extra$10 erwirbt. Sogar vor dem schnellen Aufstieg in der Inflation, sagte er, die eine unerträglich niedrige Summe war.

Sein Freund, Mohamed Wael Saad, ein Chirurg am Nil Krankenhaus, sagte die meisten ägypteransichtdoktoren als einzigartig altruistisches und findet ihn ungerade, daß sie erwägen würden, übermäßigfinanzsachen anzuschlagen.

„Leute denken, daß wir über Geld hinaus sind. Aber wie können wir leben? „sagte Saad. „Wie kann ich das beste geben, wenn ich lange Stunden bearbeite und soviel wie eine Krankenschwester oder einen Mühlarbeiter erwerbe? Unsere Gehälter müssen mit Verfolgern angemessen sein. Sie erwerben 2.000 zerstoßen [ungefähr $365] einen Monat. So ist es wichtiger, jemand in Gefängnis einzusetzen oder jemand vom Sterben zu speichern? „

jeffrey.fleishman@ latimes.com

Noha EL-Hennawy des Büros Kairo der Zeiten beigetragen zu diesem Report.

Isto está causando um dreno de cérebro.
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Doutores Egyptian que ameaçam golpear, muito make tão pouco quanto $63 um o mês que trabalha sob circunstâncias pobres. Querem um salário mínimo de aproximadamente $180.
Entre no lounge no hospital de Nile, faça exame de um assento em um couch de couro rasgado, escove afastado o fumo do cigarro e escute um litany das queixas na economia cruel do healthcare dos doutores cujos os salários são tão baixos quanto $63 um o mês e que vivem com seus pais.

Os travails dos doutores espelham os shortcomings maiores de um governo que esforçam-se para fornecer o cuidado médico em um país onde aproximadamente 45% da população viva na pobreza. Os médicos através da nação queixam-se de horas longas, do respeito shrinking para sua profissão, da falta da medicina e de equipamento quebrado. Um gynecologist dito seu hospital público é assim que quebrou que compra suas próprias luvas de borracha melhor que desgastar que foram lavadas para reusar.

“Você começa 10 libras extra [aproximadamente $1.80] se você trabalhar um deslocamento de 24 horas,” disse Mohammed Farahat, um specialist orthopedic. “Mas comprar seu jantar durante esse deslocamento custa-lhe 15 libras. Assim você estão pensando, que bons ele fazem? De “

os doutores Egipto têm protestado por semanas e têm ajustado um fim do prazo de março para uma batida de âmbito nacional. Sua batalha é o ripple o mais atrasado do unrest labor que em meses recentes tem demonstrações acendidas por trabalhadores de textile, por professores da universidade, por pharmacists, por maestros do trem e por coletores de imposto da propriedade real. A inflação elevada, os salários lisos e a raiva no governo do presidente Hosni Mubarak estão agitando cada vez mais as classes educadas e de funcionamento em um estado árabe moderado que seja um dos aliados os mais próximos do leste médio de América.

Os doutores União estão exijindo um salário mensal mínimo imediato de 1.000 libras ou de aproximadamente $180 para os 93.000 médicos que trabalham diretamente para o estado. Nenhum salário no hospital de Nile no Cairo noroeste excede aquele, including o pagamento para cirurgiões, Farahat dito.

O pagamento mensal começando para doutores pode ser tão baixo quanto $23. O Ministry Egyptian da saúde disse que aumentaria gradualmente o pagamento baseado no desempenho, mas que seu orçamento, como aqueles de muitas agências de governo, está prendido com correias demasiado para se encontrar com as demandas da união.

“Nós sympathize com os doutores,” disse Abdel Rahman Shahin, um spokesman do ministry. “O estado deve financiar [pagamento mais elevado], mas o estado tem muitos das obrigações.” Adicionou que com phased-em bônus do desempenho “pelo menos há alguns doutores da mudança sentirá” para o fim do ano.

Muitos doutores vêem a proposta como uma tentativa paltry de corrigir anos dos salários baixos que são comidos agora rapidamente acima por um surge na inflação que aumentou preços tanto quanto 50% para o alimento e os outros productos sobre os últimos dois anos. A crise lembrou também os doutores que apesar dos anos da instrução e do treinamento, seus salários médios são ligeiramente mais elevados do que aquele dos contabilistas do governo, que ganham aproximadamente $35 um o mês, e o menos do que muitos professores da universidade.

A “vida é muito difícil, mas os povos esperam-no, como um doutor, para ter um carro, para gastar generosa e deixar pontas enormes,” disse Ahmed Sobhi, um internist no hospital de Nile que ganha menos de $65 um o mês. “A realidade é meu salário pequeno. Meu esposa e I e nossa filha nova vivos em um apartamento possuído por meu pai. Nós nunca vamos aos filmes. Nosso somente entertainment é prestar atenção à tevê. “

Essa descrição cabe milhares dos doutores Egyptian, muitos de quem respiradouro que sua ansiedade em um blog patrocinou por doutores Sem Direita, um grupo lobbying fundou em 2007.

Um borne arquivado pelo Dr. Ali dito lê: “Um inspector da municipalidade tem passado por nosso hospital hoje. Tudo que se importou para verificar era se nós tivemos árvores ou não. Você diz inspectors, “lá é uma falta no equipamento.” Dizem-no que, “não há nenhum dinheiro para este absurdo.” . . . Você ouviu-se sempre de qualquer outra coisa semelhante em alguma outra parte do mundo? “

O stature e o sentido dos médicos do entitlement profissional foram testados por um sistema do healthcare do estado burdened pela burocracia e pelo débito. A maioria de doutores moonlight girando deslocamentos em hospitais diferentes e em clínicas confidenciais. Isto acumula em cordas de noites sleepless mas pode ganhar a doutores uns $90 extra um o mês. Muitos saem de Egipto para uns países mais ricos do óleo do golfo persa, onde os salários do hospital são muitas vezes mais altamente.

“Isto está causando um dreno de cérebro,” disse Farahat, que se sentou puffy-eyed dentro esfrega e um revestimento do laboratório. “Eu tenho os amigos do doutor que se moveram no exterior e eu estou pensando de ir a Arábia.Saudita, a Kuwait ou aos Emirates árabes unidos. O problema está aquele em 10 a 15 anos, se todos os doutores sairem, lá será no one esquerda para ensinar uma geração mais nova de médicos Egyptian. “

É uma estadia sensível para doutores contemplar uma batida. Mubarak e seu partido democrático nacional governando estão sob a pressão dos grupos labor que exigem salários melhores e das organizações da oposição, tais como o Brotherhood muçulmano, empurrando para reformas políticas. As chamadas para a mudança destacaram a raiva que alargando-se os pobres têm para uma classe superior consideram como corrupt e aloof aos problemas da nação.

Os doutores União têm uma história da participação com o Brotherhood muçulmano, que quer Egipto governado pela lei Islamic e viu centenas dos membros prendidos pelas forças da segurança que procuram limitar as possibilidades do grupo em eleições locais upcoming. Os doutores tiveram cuidados em demonstrações recentes não deixaram sua causa para uns salários mais elevados subsumed em um debate político mais largo e mais perigoso.

Mas muitos médicos sentem que, embora comandem ainda um grau de respeito na sociedade, são parte de uma classe média desaparecendo. “Nós temos duas classes hoje em Egipto -- os capitalistas e os pobres,” Farahat disseram. “Nós não temos nenhuma classe média anymore. Dado tais circunstâncias, deve haver umas batidas labor. “

Seu colega, Mohammed Sayed, um specialist orthopedic, concordado. “Cinco anos há uma batida por doutores seria unthinkable,” disse. “Total, a economia está fazendo bem, mas o dinheiro não está começando aos povos. Está indo ao elite. Nos 1960s e nos 1970s, Egipto teve povos ricos mas self-foram feitos, os filhos dos fazendeiros que vieram do delta de Nile. Hoje, os rich vêm da classe rica; não fizeram nada trabalhar para ele. Nós estamos pedindo uma demanda razoável de 1.000 libras um o mês. “

O underfunding do governo Egyptian do healthcare criou um sistema público em que os pobres são forçados a pagar pelos medications, pelas suturas e pelos outros artigos que seriam cobertos normalmente por subsídios. O sistema do healthcare da nação é dividido em instituições públicas e confidenciais, mas a maioria de camas do hospital são financiadas pelo estado. As faltas da inflação e da fonte impedem pacientes das prescrições de enchimento, tendo por resultado doenças prolongadas e uns tempos mais longos da recuperação.

“Nós enfrentamos dificuldades em pacientes do serving porque o healthcare público é, de fato, sendo privatizado em uma maneira ruthless,” dissemos Sayed dito, um spokesman para os doutores União, que represente médicos de Egipto 167.000. “Nós não podemos servir ao paciente pobre em hospitais públicos. ”

Mohammed Sayed, um homem husky, congenial, dito trabalha um número de deslocamentos de 24 horas um o mês, que lhe ganha uns $10 extra. Mesmo antes da ascensão rápida na inflação, disse ele, que era uma soma maddeningly baixa.

Seu amigo, Mohammed Wael Saad, um cirurgião no hospital de Nile, disse a maioria de doutores da opinião dos Egyptians como singular altruistic e encontra-os impares que considerariam golpear matérias financeiras excedentes.

Os “povos pensam que nós somos além do dinheiro. Mas como podemos nós viver? “disse Saad. “Como posso eu dar o mais melhor quando eu trabalho horas longas e ganho tanto quanto uma enfermeira ou um trabalhador do moinho? Nossos salários necessitam ser proporcionais com os prosecutors'. Ganham 2.000 libras [aproximadamente $365] um mês. Assim, é mais importante pôr alguém na cadeia ou conservar alguém de morrer? de “

EL-Hennawy jeffrey.fleishman@

latimes.com Noha do departamento do Cairo dos tempos contribuído a este relatório.

Detta orsakar en forskarflykt.
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Egyptier manipulerar att hota som ska slås, många maken så lite, som $63 som ett månadarbete under fattigt villkorar. De önskar en minimi avlönar av omkring $180.
Skriv in vardagsrumen i det Nile sjukhuset, ta en placera på en riven sönder lädersoffa, borsta bort cigarettröken och lyssna till en litany av klagomål på den grymma nationalekonomin av sjukvården från manipulerar vars avlönar är så låg som $63 per månad, och som bor med deras föräldrar.

Travailsna av manipulerar avspeglar de större ofullkomlighet av en regering som kämpar för att ge medicinsk vård i ett land var omkring 45% av befolkningen bor i armod. Läkare över nationen klagar av lång tid, shrinking respekt för deras yrke, brist av medicinen och bruten utrustning. En said gynekolog hans offentliga sjukhus är så pank att han köper hans egna rubber handskar i stället för ha på sig som har tvättat sig för, återanvända.

”Får du 10 som extrahjälpen dunkar [omkring $1.80] om du fungerar en 24 timmeförskjutning,” sade Mohammed Farahat, en ortopedisk specialist. ”Men till köp kostar som din matställe under den förskjutning dig, dunkar 15. Så dig tänkande, är vilken goda det gör? ”

Manipulerar har Egypten protesterat för veckor och har uppsättningen per marsstopptiden för ett rikstäckande slag. Deras strid är det senast skvalpar av den arbets- oroen som i nya månader har gnistdemonstrationer vid textilarbetare, universitetarprofessorer, pharmacists, drevledare och fastighetskattsamlarear. Kickinflation, lägenhettimpenningar och ilska på regeringen av presidenten Hosni Mubarak agiterar mer och mer både det bildadt, och arbetet klassificerar i en arabisk dämpa påstår som är en av Amerika mest nära Mellanösten bundsförvanter.

Manipulerar union begär en omgående minimum månadstidning avlönar av 1.000 dunkar eller omkring $180 för arbetet för 93.000 läkare direkt för det statligt. Inget avlöna på det Nile sjukhuset i northwest Cairo överskrider det, däribland lönen för kirurgar, sagda Farahat.

Den starta månadstidninglönen för manipulerar kan vara så låg som $23. Det egyptiska vård- departement sade att det skulle gradvist förhöjninglönen som baserades på kapacitet, men att dess budget, gillar de av många statligt verk, fästas för för att möta union begärningar.

”Sympatiserar vi med manipulerar,”, sade Abdel Rahman Shahin, en departementtalesman. ”Bör det statligt finansiera [högre lön], men det statligt har åtaganden för en radda.”, Han tillfogade det med arrangera gradvis-i kapacitetsbonusar ”åtminstone där är någon ändring manipulerar ska känselförnimmelse” vid avsluta av året.

Många manipulerar beskådar förslag som ett uselt försök att korrigera år av lowen avlönar som är nu snabbt uppätna vid en svallvåg i inflation, som har ökat prissätter så mycket som 50% för mat och andra artiklar över de sist två åren. Krisen har också påmint manipulerar, att illviljaår av utbildning och utbildning, deras genomsnitt avlönar är litet högre än det av regerings- revisorer, som tjänar omkring $35 per månad, och mindre än många universitetarprofessorer.

”Är liv mycket svårt, men folket förväntar dig, som en manipulera, att ha en bil, att spendera generously och lämna enorma spetsar,”, sade Ahmed Sobhi, en internist på det Nile sjukhuset som tjänar mer mindre än $65 per månad. ”Är verkligheten mitt litet avlönar. Mitt fru och I och vår nya dotter bor i en lägenhet som ägas av min fader. Vi går aldrig till filmerna. Vår endast underhållning är till klockaTV:N. ”

Manipulerar den tusentals egyptier för beskrivningspassformar, många av, vem vädrar deras ångest på en blog som by sponsras, manipulerar utan rätter, en lobbyverksamhetgrupp som grundas i 2007.

En posta som sparas av dr.en Sagda Ali läser: ”Har en inspektör  från municipalityen passerat av vårt sjukhus i dag. Allt som han att bry sig för att kontrollera, var oss hade huruvida trees eller inte. Du berättar inspektör, ”där är en brist i utrustning.”, De berättar dig att, ”det inte finns några pengar för denna nonsens.”, . . . Har du någonsin hört av något något liknande detta i någon annan världsdel? ”

Läkare har kroppsstorlek och avkänning av yrkesmässigt berättigande testats av en statlig vårdsystem som betungas av byråkrati och skuld. Mest manipulerar månsken, genom att rotera förskjutningar på olika sjukhus och privata kliniker. Detta ackumulerar in i stränger av sömnlöst på nätterna men kan tjäna manipulerar en extrahjälp $90 en månad. Många lämnar Egypten för rikare Persiska vikenoljaländer, var sjukhuset avlönar är många tider higher.

”Orsakar detta en forskarflykt,”, sade Farahat, som satt pösig-synat in skurar, och ett labb täcker. ”Har jag att manipulera vänner som har rört utland och I-förmiddagen som är tänkande av att gå till Saudiarabien, Kuwait eller de eniga arabiska emiratesna. Problemet är det i 10 till 15 år, om alla manipulerar tjänstledighetar som där ska, är inget som lämnas för att undervisa en mer ung utveckling av egyptiska läkare. ”

Är det en känslig tid för att manipulerar ska beskåda ett slag. Mubarak och hans avgörandemedborgaredemokratiska partit är pressar under från fordras bättre timpenningar för arbets- grupper och från oppositionorganisationar, liksom det Muslim brödraskapet som är driftigt för politiska reformer. Appeller för ändring har markerat görande bredare ilskan som det fattigt har för en överklass dem hänseende som korrumperat och reserverat till nation problem.

Manipulerar union har en historia av medverkan med det Muslim brödraskapet, som önskar Egypten som regleras av islamisk lag och, har sett att hundratals medlemmar som arresteras av säkerhetsstyrkor som söker att begränsa gruppen riskerar i kommande kommunalval. Manipulerar har varit försiktigt i nya demonstrationer inte låt deras för att orsaka för higher avlönar infogas in i en mer bred och farligare politisk debatt.

Men känselförnimmelse för många läkare som, även om de stillar befaller en grad av respekt i samhälle, de är delen av en försvinnamedelklass. ”Har vi två klassificerar i dag i Egypten -- kapitalisterna och det fattigt,” Farahat sade. ”Har vi ingen medelklass anymore. Givet sådan villkorar, där måste vara arbets- slag. ”

Hans kollega, Mohammed Sayed, en ortopedisk specialist som instämmas. ”Fem år sedan som ett slag manipulerar by skulle, har varit otänkbart,” sade han. ”Total-, gör ekonomin väl, men pengarna får inte till folket. Det går till eliten. I 60-tal och 70-tal hade Egypten richfolk, men de själv-gjordes, sonsna av bönder som kom från den Nile deltan. I dag kommer richna från richna klassificerar; de har gjort ingenting att fungera för den. Vi frågar för en rimlig begäran av 1.000 dunkar en månad. ”

Har egyptiska regering underfunding av sjukvården skapat ett offentligt system som det fattigt tvingas för att betala i för läkarbehandlingar, suturer, och andra objekt, som skulle, täckas normalt av subventioner. Nation vårdsystem delas in i offentliga och privata institutioner, men mest sjukhussängar betalas av det statligt. Inflation- och tillförselbrister förhindrar tålmodig från fyllnads- recept och att resultera i extended illnesses och längre återställningstider.

”Vänder mot vi svårigheter i portiontålmodig, därför att den offentliga sjukvården är, verkställer in, privatiseras i ett hänsynslöst långt,”, sade Said Sayed, en talesman för manipulerar union, som föreställer Egypten 167.000 läkare. ”Kan inte vi serven den fattiga tålmodig i offentliga sjukhus. ”

Mohammed Sayed, en husky sympatisk man som sägs fungerar han, ett nummer av 24 timmeförskjutningar per månaden, som tjänar honom en extrahjälp $10. Även för forlöneförhöjningen i inflation, sade han, som var en maddeningly låg summa.

Hans vän, Mohammed Wael Saad, en kirurg på det Nile sjukhuset, sade att mest egyptier beskådar manipulerar som singularly altruistic och finner det som är udda att de skulle betraktar en klockas slag över en ekonomisk fråga.

”Folk funderare är vi det okändapengar. Men hur kan vi bo? ”sade Saad. ”Hur kan jag ge det bäst, när jag fungerar lång tid och tjänar så mycket som en sjuksköterska eller en malaarbetare? Vårt avlönar behov att vara commensurate med åklagare. De tjänar 2.000 dunkar [omkring $365] en månad. Så är det viktigare att sätta någon i arrest eller till räddningen någon från att dö? ”

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Noha El-Hennawy av tid den Cairo byrån som bidras till denna rapport.

Это причиняет утечку умов.
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Египетские доктора угрожая поразить, много модель как немного как $63 месяц работая под плохими условиями. Они хотят минимальную зарплату около $180.
Войдите lounge в стационар Нила, примите место на сорванном leather кресле, почистьте прочь дым щеткой сигареты и послушайте к litany жалоб на жестокосердном домоводстве healthcare от докторов зарплаты которых как низки как $63 месяц и которые живут с их родителями.

Travails докторов отражают более большие shortcomings правительства борясь для того чтобы обеспечить медицинское обслуживание в стране где около 45% из населенности живет в скудости. Врачи через нацию жалуются долгих часов, shrinking уважения для их профессии, отсутсвия микстуры и сломленного оборудования. Один gynecologist сказанный его общественный стационар поэтому сломал что он покупает его собственные rubber перчатки rather than нося одни были помыты для повторного пользования.

«Вы получаете 10 экстренных фунтов [около $1.80] если вы работаете 24-часовой перенос, то» сказали Mohammed Farahat, протезный специалиста. «Но купить ваш обед во время того переноса стоит вам 15 фунтов. Так вы думают, что хорошие оно делают? «

Доктора Египта протестуют на недели и установили краиний срок в марте для общенациональной забастовки. Их сражением будет самая последняя пульсация трудного unrest in recent months имеет, котор искрят демонстрации работниками тканья, профессорами университета, аптекарями, проводниками поезда и сборниками налога на недвижимость. Высокое взвинчивание, плоские зарплаты и гнев на правительстве президента Hosni Mubarak все больше и больше агитируют и educated и трудовые слои общества в вмеру арабском положении которое одним из союзников Ближнего Востока америки самых близких.

Доктора Соединение требуют немедленно минимальному месячному окладу 1.000 фунтов или около $180 для 93.000 врачей работая сразу для положения. Никакая зарплата на стационаре Нила в северо-западном Каире не превышает то, включая получку для хирургов, сказанное Farahat.

Начиная ежемесячная получка для докторов может быть как низка как $23. Египетское министерство здоровья сказало что оно постепенно увеличит получку основанную на представлении, но что свой бюджетя, как то из много правительственных организаций, слишком связан для того чтобы соотвествовать соединения.

«Мы сочувствуем с докторами,» сказал Abdel Rahman Shahin, оратор министерства. «Положение должно профинансировать [более высокая получка], но положение имеет множество обязательств.» Он добавил что с фазировать-в тантьемами представления «по крайней мере будет некоторые доктора изменения будут чувствовать» by the end of год.

Много докторов осматривают предложение как paltry попытка исправить леты низких зарплат теперь быстро съедены вверх пульсацией в взвинчивании имеет повышенные цены как очень как 50% для еды и других товаров над последними 2 летами. Кризис также reminded доктора несмотря на леты образования и тренировки, их средние зарплаты небольш более высоки чем зарплатиз бухгалтеров правительства, которые зарабатывают около $35 месяц, и чем много профессоров университета.

«Жизнь очень трудна, но люди надеются вас, по мере того как доктор, иметь автомобиль, потратить великодушно и оставить огромные концы,» сказал Ahmed Sobhi, internist на стационаре Нила который зарабатывает меньш чем $65 месяц. «Реальностью будет моя малая зарплата. Мои супруга и I и наша новая дочь в реальном маштабе времени в квартире имеемой моим отцом. Мы никогда не идем к киноим. Наша только зрелищность должна посмотреть TV. «

То описание приспосабливает тысячи египетских докторов, много из сброс их, котор тревожность на blog спонсировала докторами Без Правом, лоббируя группа основало в 2007.

Столб хранил Др. Сказанное Али читает: «Контролер от муниципалитета проходил нашим стационаром сегодня. Все, котор он позаботил для того чтобы проверить было имели ли мы валы или не. Вы говорите контролеров, «там будете недостатком в оборудовании.» Они говорят вас, «не будет деньг для этого вздора.» . . . Вы всегда hear of что-нибудь подобное в любой другой части мира? «

Stature и чувство врачей профессионального entitlement были испытаны системой healthcare положения ой канцелярщиной и задолженностью. Большинств moonlight докторов путем вращать переносит на по-разному стационары и приватные клиники. Это аккумулирует в шнуры sleepless ночей но может заработать докторам экстренные $90 месяц. Много выходят Египт для более богатых стран масла персидский залива, где зарплаты стационара много времен более высоко.

«Это причиняет утечку умов,» сказал Farahat, которое сидело puffy-eyed внутри scrubs и пальто лаборатории. «Я имею друзей доктора двигали зарубежом и я думаю идти к Саудовской Аравии, Кувейту или Объединенным эмиратам. Проблемой то в от 10 до 15 летах, если все доктора выходят, то там будет no one левая сторона для того чтобы научить более молодому поколению египетских врачей. «

Будет чувствительным временем для докторов предусматривать забастовку. Mubarak и его управляя национальное демократическая партия находятся под давлением от трудных групп требуя более лучшим зарплатам и от организаций противовключения, such as мусульманское братство, нажимая для политических реформ. Звоноки для изменения выделяли расширяя гнев, котор бедные имеют для высшего класса они считают как corrupt и aloof к проблемам нации.

Доктора Соединение имеют историю запутанности с мусульманским братством, которое хочет Египт управленный мусульманским правом и видело сотниы членов арестованных силами безопасности изыскивая ограничивать шансы группы в предстоящих местных выборах. Доктора быть осторожным в недавних демонстрациях не препятствовали их причине для более высоких зарплат быть subsumed в более широкую и более опасную политическую дискуссию.

Но много врачей чувствуют что, хотя они все еще дают команду на проведение STEPENи уважения в обществе, они будут частью исчезая среднего класса. «Мы имеем 2 типа сегодня в Египте -- капиталисты и бедные,» Farahat сказали. «Мы не будем иметь никакое средний класс больше. Оно дали такие условия, должно быть трудные забастовки. «

Его коллега, Mohammed Sayed, протезный соглашенный специалист. «5 лет тому назад забастовка докторами была бы unthinkable,» он сказал. «Обще, экономия делает наилучшим образом, но деньг не получает к людям. Оно идет к элите. В 1960s и 1970s, Египт имел людей богатые люди но они былисделаны, сынки хуторянин которые пришли от перепада Нила. Сегодня, богатые люди приходит от типа богатые люди; они не сделали ничего работать для его. Мы ask for разумное требование 1.000 фунтов месяц. «

Underfunding египетского правительства healthcare создавал общественную систему в бедные принуждаются оплатить для лекарств, сутур и других деталей которые нормальн были бы предусматриваны субсидиями. Система healthcare нации разделена в общественные и приватные заведения, но большинств кровати стационара фондированы положением. Взвинчивание и недостаточные объемы поставок предотвращают пациентов от заполняя рецептов, resulting in выдвинутые болезни и более длинние временена восстановления.

«Мы смотрим на затруднения в пациентах сервировки потому что общественное healthcare, in effect, privatized в ruthless дороге,» сказали сказанное Sayed, оратор для докторов Соединения, который представляет врачей Египта 167.000. «Мы не можем служить плохой пациент в общественных стационарах. »

Mohammed Sayed, осиплый, конгениальный сказанный человек, он работает несколько 24-часовые переносы месяц, который зарабатывает ему экстренные $10. Даже перед быстро подъемом в взвинчиванием, он сказал, была maddeningly низкая сумма.

Его друг, Mohammed Wael Saad, хирург на стационаре Нила, сказал большинств докторам взгляда египтянин как исключительн альтруистическое и считает сверхсчетным, чтобы они будет рассматривать поразить излишек финансовые дела.

«Люди думают мы за деньг. Но как можем мы жить? «сказал Saad. «Как могу я дать самое лучшее когда я работаю долгие часы и зарабатываю как много как нюна или работник стана? Нашим зарплатам нужно быть соответствующими с обвинителями. Они зарабатывают 2.000 фунтов [около $365] месяц. Так, важне положить кто-то в тюрьму или сохранить кто-то от умирать? «

jeffrey.fleishman@ latimes.com

Noha el-Hennawy конторы Каира времен способствовало к этому рапорту.

Dit veroorzaakt een braindrain.
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De Egyptische artsen die dreigen te slaan, velen maken zo weinig zoals $63 per maand werkend in de slechte omstandigheden. Zij willen een minimumsalaris van ongeveer $180.
Ga de zitkamer in het Ziekenhuis van Nijl in, neem weg een zetel op een gescheurde leerlaag, borstel de sigaretrook en luister aan litany van klachten op de wrede economie van gezondheidszorg van artsen de van wie salarissen zoals $63 per maand zo laag zijn en die met hun ouders leven.

Travails van artsen weerspiegelen de grotere tekortkomingen van een overheid die medische zorg in een land worstelt te verstrekken waar ongeveer 45% van de bevolking in armoede leeft. De artsen over de natie klagen van lange uren, die eerbied voor hun beroep, gebrek aan geneeskunde en gebroken materiaal krimpen. Één gynaecoloog zei het zijn openbaar ziekenhuis zo is brak dat hij zijn eigen rubberhandschoenen eerder dan het dragen van degenen koopt die voor hergebruik zijn gewassen.

„U krijgt 10 extra ponden [ongeveer $1.80] als u een verschuiving van 24 uur werkt,“ bovengenoemde Mohammed Farahat, een orthopedische specialist. „Maar uw diner tijdens die verschuiving kopen kost u 15 ponden. Denken u zo, welk goed het doet? De „

artsen van Egypte hebben voor weken geprotesteerd en een uiterste termijn van Maart voor een nationale staking geplaatst. Hun slag is de recentste rimpeling van arbeidsonrust die de laatste maanden demonstraties door textielarbeiders, universitaire professoren, apothekers, treinleiders en de collectoren van de onroerende goederenbelasting heeft gevonkt. Lonen met hoge inflatie, de vlakke en de woede bij de overheid van President Hosni Mubarak ageren zowel meer en meer opgeleid als arbeidersklassen in een gematigde Arabier verklaren die één van bondgenoten van het Midden-Oosten van Amerika de dichtste is.

De Unie van Artsen eist een direct minimum maandelijks salaris van 1.000 ponden of ongeveer $180 voor de 93.000 artsen die direct voor de staat werken. Geen salaris bij het Ziekenhuis van Nijl in noordwestenKaïro overschrijdt dat, met inbegrip van het loon voor chirurgen, bovengenoemde Farahat.

De maandelijkse aanvang betaalt want de artsen zo laag kunnen zijn zoals $23. Het Egyptische Ministerie van de Gezondheid zei dat het geleidelijk aan loon verhogen zou dat op prestaties wordt gebaseerd, maar dat zijn begroting, als die van vele overheidsagentschappen, ook wordt vastgebonden om de eisen van de unie te ontmoeten.

„Wij sympathiseren met artsen,“ bovengenoemde Abdel Rahman Shahin, een ministeriewoordvoerder. De „staat zou moeten financieren [hoger betaal], maar de staat heeft heel wat verplichtingen.“ Hij voegde toe dat met faseren-in prestatiesbonussen „minstens er sommige verandering artsen zal voelen“ tegen het eind van het jaar zijn.

Vele artsen bekijken het voorstel als waardeloze poging om jaren lage salarissen te verbeteren die nu snel omhoog door een schommeling in inflatie worden gegeten die prijzen zo zoals veel 50% voor voedsel en andere goederen in de loop van de laatste twee jaar heeft verhoogd. De crisis heeft ook artsen eraan herinnerd dat ondanks jaren van opleiding en onderwijs, hun gemiddelde salarissen lichtjes hoger zijn dan dat van overheidsaccountants, die ongeveer $35 per maand, en minder dan vele universitaire professoren verdienen.

Het „leven is zeer moeilijk, maar de mensen verwachten dat u, als arts, om een auto grootmoedig te hebben, reusachtige uiteinden te besteden en te verlaten,“ bovengenoemde Ahmed Sobhi, een internist bij het Ziekenhuis van Nijl dat minder dan $65 per maand verdient. De „werkelijkheid is mijn klein salaris. Mijn vrouw en I en onze nieuwe dochter levend in een flat die door mijn vader wordt bezeten. Wij gaan nooit naar movies. Ons enig vermaak moet op TV letten. „

Die beschrijving past duizenden Egyptische artsen, veel van wie hun bezorgdheid op een blog luchten die door Artsen zonder Rechten, een lobbyende groep wordt gesponsord die in 2007 wordt opgericht.

Een post die door Dr. wordt ingediend. Bovengenoemd Ali leest: Een „inspecteur van de gemeente heeft door het ons ziekenhuis vandaag overgegaan. Allen gaf hij te controleren was of wij bomen of niet hadden. U vertelt inspecteurs, „Er is een tekort in materiaal.“ Zij vertellen u, „Er is geen geld voor deze onzin.“ . . . Hebt u ooit iets in die aard in een ander deel van de wereld vernomen? De „

gestalte en de betekenis van de artsen van professionele betiteling zijn door een systeem van de staatsgezondheidszorg dat door bureaucratie en schuld wordt belast getest. Het meeste artsenmaanlicht door verschuivingen bij de verschillende ziekenhuizen en privé klinieken te roteren. Dit accumuleert in koorden van sleepless nachten maar kan artsen verdienen een extra $90 per maand. Velen verlaten Egypte voor rijkere de olielanden van de Perzische Golf, waar de het ziekenhuissalarissen vaak meer hoog zijn.

„Dit veroorzaakt een braindrain,“ bovengenoemde Farahat, die puffy-eyed binnen schrobt en een laboratoriumlaag zat. „Ik heb artsenvrienden die me in het buitenland heb bewogen en ik aan het gaan naar Saudi-Arabië, Koeweit of de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten denk. Het probleem is dat in 10 tot 15 jaar, als al artsenverlof, er no one linkerzijde zal zijn om een jongere generatie van Egyptische artsen te onderwijzen. „

Het is een gevoelige tijd voor artsen om een staking te overwegen. Mubarak en zijn beslissende Nationale Democratische Partij zijn onder druk van arbeidsgroepen die betere lonen eisen en van oppositieorganisaties, zoals het MoslimBroederschap, dat voor politieke hervormingen duwt. Verzoekt verandering hebben benadrukt de verwijdende woede de armen hebben want aristocratisch zij corrupt en op een afstand aan de problemen van de natie beschouwen.

De Unie van Artsen heeft een geschiedenis van betrokkenheid met het MoslimBroederschap, dat Egypte wil dat door Islamitische wet wordt geregeerd en honderden leden gezien die die door veiligheidskrachten worden gearresteerd de kansen van de groep in aanstaande lokale verkiezingen willen beperken. De artsen zijn zorgvuldig in recente demonstraties geweest om hun oorzaak niet te laten want de hogere salarissen in een breder en gevaarlijker politiek debat worden ondergebracht.

Maar vele artsen zijn van mening dat, hoewel zij nog een graad van eerbied in de maatschappij bevelen, zij deel van een verdwijnende middenklasse uitmaken. „Wij hebben vandaag twee klassen in Egypte -- de kapitalisten en de armen,“ bovengenoemde Farahat. „Wij hebben meer geen middenklasse. Gezien dergelijke voorwaarden, moeten er arbeidsstakingen zijn. „

Zijn collega, Mohammed Sayed, een orthopedische specialist, ging akkoord. „Vijf jaar geleden zou een staking door artsen ondenkbaar geweest zijn,“ hij zei. „Globaal, goed doet de economie, maar het geld krijgt niet aan de mensen. Het gaat naar de elite. In de jaren '60 en de jaren '70, had Egypte rijke mensen maar zij werden zelf-gemaakt, de zonen van landbouwers die uit de Delta van Nijl kwamen. Vandaag, komen de rijken uit de rijke klasse; zij hebben niets voor het doen werken. Wij vragen om de redelijke vraag van 1.000 ponden per maand. „

Het underfunding van de Egyptische overheid van gezondheidszorg heeft tot een openbaar systeem geleid waarin de armen om voor medicijnen, hechtingen en andere punten worden gedwongen te betalen die normaal door subsidies zouden behandeld worden. Het de gezondheidszorgsysteem van de natie is verdeeld in openbare en privé instellingen, maar de meeste het ziekenhuisbedden worden gefinancierd door de staat. De tekorten van de inflatie en van de levering verhinderen patiënten voorschriften te vullen, resulterend in uitgebreide ziekten en langere terugwinningstijden.

„Wij zien moeilijkheden in het dienen van patiënten onder ogen omdat de openbare gezondheidszorg, inderdaad, op een ruthless manier wordt geprivatiseerd,“ bovengenoemde Bovengenoemde Sayed, een woordvoerder voor de Unie van Artsen, die 167.000 artsen van Egypte vertegenwoordigt. „Wij kunnen de slechte patiënt in de openbare ziekenhuizen dienen niet. “

Mohammed Sayed, een husky, passende bovengenoemde mens, werkt hij een aantal verschuivingen van 24 uur een maand, wat hem een extra $10 verdient. Zelfs vóór de snelle stijging van inflatie, zei hij, die een maddeningly lage som was.

Zijn vriend, Mohammed Wael Saad, een chirurg bij het Ziekenhuis van Nijl, zei vreemd de meeste de mening van Egyptenaren artsen als altruïstisch en vindt het oneven dat zij zouden nadenken opvallend over financiële kwesties.

De „mensen denken wij voorbij geld zijn. Maar hoe wij kunnen leven? „bovengenoemde Saad. „Hoe kan ik geven het beste wanneer ik lange uren werk en zo veel zoals een verpleegster of een molenarbeider verdien? Onze salarissen moeten evenredig met eisers zijn. Zij verdienen 2.000 ponden [ongeveer $365] een maand. Zo, is het belangrijker om iemand in gevangenis iemand van het sterven te redden te zetten of? „

jeffrey.fleishman@ latimes.com

Noha Gr-Hennawy van de Dienst van Kaïro van The Times droeg tot dit rapport bij.

هذا يسبّب دماغ تصريف.
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دكاترة مصريّة يهدّد أن يصيب, كثير صنع مثل قليلا بما أنّ $63 [ا] شهر يعمل تحت شروط فقيرة. هم يريدون [مينيموم سلري] من حوالي $180.
دخلت الردهة في نيل مستشفى, أخذت مقعد على يمزّق أريكة جلديّة, فرشت بعيدا السيجارة دخان واستمعت إلى [ليتني] الشكاوي على العلم اقتصاد قاسية [هلثكر] من دكاترة الذي رواتب يكونون مثل منخفضة بما أنّ $63 [ا] شهر والذي يعيش مع والدهم.

يعكس ال [ترفيلس] الدكاترة العيب نقص كبيرة من حكومة يكافح أن يزوّد [مديكل كر] في بلد حيث حوالي 45% من الالسّكان يعيش في فقر. يشتكي طبيبات عبر الأمة من [لونغ هوور], إحترام [شرينكينغ] لمهنتهم, افتقار الالطبّ وتجهيز مكسورة. واحدة طبيب نسائيّ يقول مستشفىه عامّة لذلك [بروك] أنّ يشتري هو ه خاصّة قفازات مطّاطة [رثر ثن] يرتدي أحد أنّ يتلقّى يكون غسلت لاستعمال مكرّر.

"يحصل أنت 10 باوندات إضافيّة [حوالي $1.80] إن أنت تعمل تغير [24-هوور]," قال محمّد [فرهت], إختصاصية تجبيريّة. "غير أنّ أن يكلّم يشتري عشاءك أثناء أنّ تغير أنت 15 باوندات. هكذا أنت يكون يفكّر, ما جيّدة هو يتمّ? "

مصر يحتجّ دكاترة يتلقّى يكون لأسابيع ويثبت مارس - آذار ميعاد أخير لإضراب قوميّة. معركتهم التموج متأخّرة [لبور ونرست] أنّ [إين رسنت مونثس] يتلقّى ينشّط مظاهرات بنسيج عاملات, جامعة أستاذات, صيدليات, قافلة تموين قادة و [تإكس كلّكتور] [رل ستت]. يهيّج [هي ينفلأيشن], أجور مسطّحة وحالة في الحكومة الرئيس حسني مبارك بدرجة متزايدة على حدّ سواء المتعلّمة و [ووركينغ كلسّ] في دولة معتدلة عربيّة أنّ يكون واحدة من أمريكا قريبة [ميدّل ست] حلفاء.

يطلب الدكاترة [أونيون] راتب فوريّة أدنى شهريّة من 1,000 باوندات أو حوالي $180 ل ال 93,000 طبيبات يعمل مباشرة للدولة. ما من يتجاوز راتب في نيل مستشفى في قاهرة شماليّ غربيّ أنّ, بما في ذلك الراتب لجراحات, [فرهت] يقال.

ال يبدأ راتب شهريّة لدكاترة يستطيع كنت مثل منخفضة بما أنّ $23. المصريّة صحة قال وزارة أنّ هو تدريجيّا زاد راتب يؤسّس على أداء, غير أنّ أنّ ميزانيته, مثل أنّ من كثير وكالة حكوميّة, أيضا حزمت أن يلتقي الإتحاد طلبات.

"يتعاطف نحن مع دكاترة," قال [أبدل] [رهمن] [شهين], وزارة ناطق بلسان. "الدولة سوفت موّلت [راتب [هيغر]], غير أنّ يتلقّى الدولة [ا لوت] الإلتزامات." هو أضاف أنّ مع [فسد-ين] أداء علاوات "على الأقلّ هناك بعض تغير دكاترة سيشعر" [بي ث ند وف] السنة.

يشاهد كثير دكاترة الاقتراح كمحاولة بائس أن يصحّ سنون من رواتب منخفضة أنّ يكون الآن سريعا أكلت فوق بجيشان في تضخم أنّ قد زاد سعرات مثل كثير بما أنّ 50% لطعام وأخرى بضائع على المتأخّرة اثنان سنون. يذكّر الأزمة يتلقّى أيضا دكاترة أنّ على الرغم من سنون من تربية وتدريب, رواتبهم معدّلة يكونون قليلا [هيغر] من أنّ من حكومة محاسبات, الذي يكسب حوالي $35 [ا] شهر, وبعض من كثير جامعة أستاذات.

"حياة جدّا يصعب, غير أنّ يتوقّع الناس أنت, بما أنّ دكتورة, أن يتلقّى سيارة, أنفقت بسخاء وتركت أطراف ضخمة," قال أحمد [سبهي], طبيب باطنيّ في نيل مستشفى الذي يكسب أقلّ من $65 [ا] شهر. "الحقيقة راتبي صغيرة. ي زوجة وأنا وابنتنا جديدة حيّة في شقة يمتلك بأبي. نحن أبدا نذهب إلى الأفلام. نا فقط ترفيه أن يراقب تلفزيون. "

أنّ يلائم وصف آلاف من دكاترة مصريّة, كثير من من منفس حالت قلقهم على [بلوغ] كفل بدكاترة [ويثووت] [ريغتس], يضغط مجموعة أسّس في 2007.

موقعة يصنّف ب [در.]. يقرأ علي يقال: "قد مرّ مفتشة من البلديّة بمستشفىنا اليوم. كان كلّ هو اهتمّ أن يفحص ما إذا نحن تلقّينا أشجار أو لا. أنت تقول مفتشات, "هناك نقص في تجهيز." هم يقولون أنت, "هناك ما من مال ل هذا هراء." . . . يتلقّى أنت في أيّ وقت تعلم [أنثينغ ليك ثيس] في أيّ أخرى جزء من العالم? "

الطبيبات اختبرت مكانة وإحساس من حق محترفة يتلقّى يكون بدولة [هلثكر] نظامة يحمّل بديوانيّة ودين. يعمل كثير دكاترة ب يدور تغيرات في مستشفيات مختلفة ومصحة خاصّة. هذا يكدّس داخل خيطان من ليال أرق غير أنّ يستطيع كسبت دكاترة إضافيّة $90 [ا] شهر. كثير يترك مصر لغنيّة [برسن غلف] زيت بلد, حيث مستشفى رواتب يكونون كثير أوقات [هيغر].

"يسبّب هذا دماغ تصريف," قال [فرهت], الذي جلس [بوفّ-د] داخل يدعك ومختبرة طبقة. "يتلقّى أنا دكتورة صديقات الذي قد تحرّك في الخارج وأنا أفكّر من يذهب إلى [سودي ربيا], كويت أو الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة. المشكلة أنّ في 10 [تو] 15 سنون, إن [ألّ ث] دكاترة يتركون, هناك سيكون [نو ون] يسار أن يعلم جيل شابّة من طبيبات مصريّة. "

هو وقت حسّاسة لدكاترة أن يكون تأمّلت إضراب. مبارك وه يحكم حزب وطنيّة ديموقراطيّة تحت ضغطة من مجموعة عمّاليّة يطلب أجور جيّدة ومن معارضة تنظيمات, مثل الأخوة مسلمة, يدفع لإصلاحات سياسيّة. قد ركّز دعوات لتغير ال يوسّع حالة الفقراء يتلقّون ل [أوبّر كلسّ] هم يعتبرون بما أنّ فاسدة وبمعزل إلى الأمة مشاكل.

يتلقّى الدكاترة [أونيون] تاريخ التورط مع الأخوة مسلمة, أيّ يريد مصر يحكم بقانون [إيسلميك] ويرى مئات الأعضاء يوقف بأمن قوات يبحث أن يحدث المجموعة فرص في إنتخابات قادمة محلّية. قد كان الدكاترة حريصة في مظاهرات أخيرة لا أن ترك سببهم لرواتب [هيغر] كنت ضممت داخل يوسع وأكثر مناقشة خطرة سياسيّة.

غير أنّ يشعر كثير طبيبات أنّ, رغم أنّ هم بعد يأمرون درجة الإحترام في مجتمعة, هم جزء من يغيب [ميدّل كلسّ]. "يتلقّى نحن اثنان أصناف اليوم في مصر -- قال الرأسماليات والفقراء," [فرهت]. "يتلقّى نحن ما من [ميدّل كلسّ] بعد الآن. يعطي هذا شروط, هناك ينبغي كنت إضرابات عمّاليّة. "

زميلته, محمّد [سد], إختصاصية تجبيريّة, يوافق. "خمسة سنون [أغو] كان إضراب بدكاترة غير وارد," هو قال. "إجماليّة, يتمّ الاقتصاد جيّدا, غير أنّ المال لا يحصل إلى الالناس. هو يذهب إلى النخبة. في الستينات وسبعينات, تلقّى مصر الناس غنيّة غير أنّ هم كان [سلف-مد], البنات ال [فرمرس] الذي أتى من نيل دلتا. اليوم, يأتي الأغنياء من الصنف غنيّة; هم قد أتمّوا لاشيء أن يعمل ل هو. نحن نسأل لطلب معقولة من 1,000 باوندات [ا] شهر. "

المصريّة حكومة قد خلق [أوندرفوندينغ] ال [هلثكر] نظامة عامّة في أيّ الفقراء يكون أجبرت أن يدفع لتداوي, غرز وأخرى مواد أنّ عادة كنت غطّيت بإعانات. الأمة [هلثكر] قسمت نظامة داخل عامّة ومؤسسات خاصّة, غير أنّ كثير مستشفى أسرّة موّلت بالدولة. تضخم وإمداد تموين يمنع نقوص مريضات من يملأ أوصاف, [رسولتينغ ين] [إيلّنسّس] موسّعة وطويلة إستعادة أوقات.

"يواجه نحن صعوبات في حصة مريضات لأنّ [هلثكر] عامّة يكون, [إين فّكت], يكون خصخص في طريق قاسية," قال يقول [سد], ناطق بلسان للدكاترة [أونيون], أيّ يمثّل مصر 167,000 طبيبات. "نحن يستطيع لا يخدم المريضة فقيرة في مستشفيات عامّة. "

محمّد [سد], قشر, رجل مناسبة, يقال يعمل هو [ا نومبر وف] تغيرات [24-هوور] [ا] شهر, أيّ يكسبه إضافيّة $10. حتّى قبل الإرتفاع سريعة في تضخم [, ه سيد,] أنّ كان مجموعة منخفضة [مدّنينغلي].

قال صديقته, محمّد [ول] سعد, جراحة في نيل مستشفى, كثير مصريات منظرة دكاترة ك [سنغلرلي] غيريّة ويجد هو غريبة أنّ هم اعتبروا يصيب على أوامر ماليّة.

"يفكّر الناس نحن إلى ما بعد مال. غير أنّ كيف يستطيع نحن عشت? "قال سعد. "كيف يستطيع أنا أعطيت الجيّدة عندما يعمل أنا ساعات طويلة ويكسب مثل كثير بما أنّ ممرضة أو مطحنة عاملة? يحتاج رواتبنا أن يكون مناسبة مع [بروسكتورس'.]. هم يكسبون 2,000 باوندات [حوالي $365] شهر. هكذا, يكون هو أكثر مهمّة أن يضع أحد ما في سجن أو أن ينقذ أحد ما من يصبغ? "

[جفّر.فليشمن] latimes.com

[نوها] أسهم [إل-هنّوي] من الأوقات قاهرة مكتب إلى هذا تقرير.

Rice Sets New Mideast Trip Amid Gaza Turmoil, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the Middle East again next week amid tensions over Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza and Israeli strikes against Gaza militants. Rice, on tour this week in Asia, is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Thursday in Tokyo. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.


Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) shakes hands with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) prior to a meeting in Jerusalem, 19 Feb 2008
Mr. Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas committed, at the U.S.-organized Annapolis conference last November, to work for a settlement of the Mideast conflict by the end of this year.

But prospects for an agreement in 2008 have receded amid slow-moving talks between the sides, and chronic Gaza-related violence.

On Wednesday, Israeli air strikes in Gaza aimed at quelling rocket fire from the territory killed at least 10 Palestinians including several Hamas militants, while one of at least 20 rockets fired at the Israel town of Sderot from Gaza killed one person on a college campus.

State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey, who confirmed Rice's Middle East travel plans, condemned what he termed unprovoked attacks on innocent Israeli civilians but also counseled Israel to be measured in its response.

"Our long-standing view is that Israel has a right to defend itself," he said. "However, we always ask that, in doing so, they consider the consequences of those actions and the potential effect it might have. And we remain concerned about the civilian population in Gaza that continues to suffer as a result of Hamas's misrule and of Hamas's not only toleration but active support and promotion of these kinds of attacks on Israel."


Condoleezza Rice
Rice, now in Japan on the last stop of an Asian trip, will fly to the Middle East for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Ramallah next Tuesday and Wednesday.

By coincidence, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is visiting Tokyo and is to confer with Rice there Thursday in preparation for the Secretary's Jerusalem visit, her second this year.

Mr. Olmert, whose government is under heavy domestic pressure for stronger action to stop the Gaza rocket fire, said in Tokyo the problem will not halt peace negotiations with Mr. Abbas.

The Israeli leader said he is not sure an agreement in 2008 is achievable but said the sides are determined to make what he termed a "giant step forward" to end the dispute once and for all.

After her Middle East talks, Rice goes on to Brussels for a NATO foreign ministers' meeting next Thursday expected to be dominated by discussion of Kosovo and Afghanistan.

Le riz place le nouveau voyage de Moyen-Orient parmi l'agitation de Gaza,
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Le riz place le nouveau voyage de Moyen-Orient parmi l'agitation de Gaza, États-Unis Le secrétaire d'état Condoleezza Rice visite le Moyen-Orient encore la semaine prochaine parmi des attaques palestiniennes de fusée d'excédent de tensions à partir de Gaza et l'Israélien frappe contre des militants de Gaza. Le riz, voyagent dessus cette semaine en Asie, rencontre le premier ministre israélien Ehud Olmert jeudi à Tokyo. David Gollust de VOA rapporte du département d'état.


Le premier ministre israélien Ehud Olmert (l) serre la main au Président palestinien Mahmud Abbas (r) avant une réunion à Jérusalem, M.
du 19 fév. 2008. Olmert et Président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas ont commis, conférence organisée à États-Unis - Annapolis novembre passé, au travail pour un règlement du conflit de Moyen-Orient vers la fin de cette année.

Mais les perspectives pour un accord dans 2008 ont reculé parmi des entretiens lent-mobiles entre les côtés, et la violence Gaza-connexe chronique.

Mercredi, les attaques aériennes israéliennes dans Gaza ont visé à apaiser le feu de fusée du territoire ont tué au moins 10 Palestiniens comprenant plusieurs militants de Hamas, alors qu'une au moins de 20 fusées mises le feu à la ville de l'Israel de Sderot de Gaza tuait une personne sur un campus d'université.

Énoncez député Spokesman Tom Casey de département, qui a confirmé les plans de voyage de Moyen-Orient du riz, a condamné ce qu'il a nommé unprovoked des attaques sur les civils israéliens innocents mais a également conseillé l'Israel être mesuré dans sa réponse.

« Notre vue de longue date est que l'Israel a un droit de se défendre, » lui a dit. « Cependant, nous demandons toujours que, de cette manière, ils considèrent les conséquences de ces actions et de l'effet potentiel qu'il pourrait avoir. Et nous restons intéressés au sujet de la population civile dans Gaza qui continue à souffrir en raison du misrule de Hamas et de la tolérance de Hamas non seulement mais de l'appui et de la promotion actifs de ces genres d'attaques sur l'Israel. Le « 


riz
de Condoleezza Rice, maintenant au Japon sur le dernier arrêt d'un voyage asiatique, volera à le Moyen-Orient pour des réunions avec les fonctionnaires israéliens et palestiniens à Jérusalem et la ville de la Cisjordanie de Ramallah mardi et le mercredi prochains.

Par coïncidence, le premier ministre israélien Olmert visite Tokyo et doit conférer avec du riz là jeudi en vue de la visite de Jérusalem du secrétaire, sa seconde cette année.

M. Olmert, dont le gouvernement est sous la forte pression domestique pour qu'une action plus forte arrête le feu de fusée de Gaza, a indiqué à Tokyo que le problème ne stoppera pas des négociations de paix avec M. Abbas.

Le chef israélien a dit il n'est pas sûr un accord en 2008 est réalisable mais a dit que les côtés sont déterminés pour faire ce qu'il a nommé « un pas en avant géant » pour finir le conflit une fois pour toutes.

Après que son Moyen-Orient parle, le riz continue à Bruxelles pour une réunion des ministres des affaires étrangères de l'OTAN le jeudi prochain prévu pour être dominé par discussion de Kosovo et de l'Afghanistan.

El arroz fija el nuevo viaje de Medio Oriente en medio de la agitación de Gaza,
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El arroz fija el nuevo viaje de Medio Oriente en medio de la agitación de Gaza, los E.E.U.U. La secretaria del estado Condoleezza Rice visita el Oriente Medio otra vez la semana próxima en medio de ataques palestinos del cohete del excedente de las tensiones de Gaza y el israelí pulsa contra los militants de Gaza. El arroz, encendido viaja esta semana en Asia, está satisfaciendo a primer ministro israelí Ehud Olmert jueves en Tokio. David Gollust de VOA divulga del departamento del estado.


El primer ministro israelí Ehud Olmert (l) sacudare las manos con presidente palestino Mahmud Abbas (r) antes de una reunión en Jerusalén, Sr.
del 19 Feb de 2008. Olmert y presidente palestino Mahmoud Abbas confiaron, en conferencia organizada de los E.E.U.U. - Annapolis el pasado mes de noviembre, al trabajo para un establecimiento del conflicto de Medio Oriente antes de fin de este año.

Pero las perspectivas de un acuerdo en 2008 han retrocedido en medio de negociaciones de lento-mudanza entre los lados, y de violencia Gaza-relacionada crónica.

El miércoles, los ataques aéreos israelíes en Gaza dirigido calmando el fuego del cohete del territorio mataron por lo menos a 10 palestinos incluyendo varios militants de Hamas, mientras que uno por lo menos de 20 cohetes encendidos en la ciudad de Israel de Sderot de Gaza mató a una persona en un campus de la universidad.

Indique a diputado Spokesman Tom Casey del departamento, que confirmó los planes del recorrido de Medio Oriente del arroz, condenó lo que él llamó unprovoked ataques contra civiles israelíes inocentes pero también aconsejó a Israel que fuera medido en su respuesta.

“Nuestra opinión de muchos años es que Israel tiene una derecha de defenderse,” él dijo. “Sin embargo, preguntamos siempre que, al hacer eso, consideran las consecuencias de esas acciones y del efecto potencial que puede ser que tenga. Y seguimos siendo en cuestión sobre la población civil en Gaza que continúe sufriendo como resultado del misrule de Hamas y de la tolerancia de Hamas no sólo pero de la ayuda y de la promoción activas de estas clases de ataques contra Israel. El “


arroz
de Condoleezza Rice, ahora en Japón en la parada pasada de un viaje asiático, volará a el Oriente Medio para las reuniones con los funcionarios israelíes y palestinos en Jerusalén y la ciudad de Cisjordania de Ramallah martes y el miércoles próximos.

Por coincidencia, el primer ministro israelí Olmert está visitando Tokio y debe conferir con el arroz allí jueves con objeto de la visita de Jerusalén de la secretaria, su segundo este año.

Sr. Olmert, que gobierno está bajo mucha presión doméstica para que una acción más fuerte pare el fuego del cohete de Gaza, dijo en Tokio que el problema no parará negociaciones de la paz con Sr. Abbas.

El líder israelí dijo él no es seguro un acuerdo en 2008 es realizable pero dijo que los lados están determinados para hacer lo que él llamó un “paso adelante gigante” para terminar el conflicto de una vez por todas.

Después de que su Medio Oriente hable, el arroz se enciende a Bruselas para una reunión de los Ministros de Asuntos Exteriores de la OTAN el jueves próximo esperado para ser dominado por la discusión de Kosovo y de Afganistán.

Il riso regola il nuovo viaggio del Medio Oriente in mezzo di agitazione del Gaza,
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Il riso regola il nuovo viaggio del Medio Oriente in mezzo di agitazione del Gaza, Stati Uniti Il ministro ancora le chiamate il Medio Oriente di Condoleezza Rice la settimana prossima in mezzo degli attacchi palestinesi del razzo dell'eccedenza di tensionamenti da Gaza e l'israeliano colpisce contro i militanti del Gaza. Il riso, sopra fa un giro di questa settimana in Asia, sta venendo a contatto del Primo Ministro israeliano Ehud Olmert giovedì a Tokyo. Rapporti di David Gollust del VOA da State Department.


Il Primo Ministro israeliano Ehud Olmert (l) agita le mani con il presidente palestinese Mahmud Abbas (r) prima di una riunione a Gerusalemme, il sig.
del 19 feb. 2008. Olmert ed il presidente palestinese Mahmoud Abbas hanno commesso, congresso organizzato agli Stati Uniti - Annapolis novembre scorso, a lavoro per uno stabilimento del conflitto del Medio Oriente per la fine di questo anno.

Ma i prospetti per un accordo in 2008 hanno retroceduto in mezzo dei colloqui dispostamento fra i lati e della violenza Gaza-relativa cronica.

Il mercoledì, i colpi di aria israeliani in Gaza puntato su acquietando il fuoco del razzo dal territorio hanno ucciso almeno 10 Palestinesi compreso parecchi militanti di Hamas, mentre uno almeno di 20 razzi infornati alla città dell'Israele di Sderot da Gaza ha ucciso una persona su una città universitaria dell'università.

Il delegato Spokesman Tom Casey di State Department, che ha confermato i programmi di corsa di Medio Oriente del riso, ha condannato che cosa ha chiamato unprovoked gli attacchi ai civili israeliani non colpevoli ma inoltre ha consigliato l'Israele essere misurato nella relativa risposta.

“Il nostro punto di vista di vecchia data è che l'Israele ha una destra difendersi,„ lui ha detto. “Tuttavia, chiediamo sempre che, in tal modo, considerano le conseguenze di quelle azioni e dell'effetto che potenziale potrebbe avere. E rimaniamo interessati circa la popolazione civile in Gaza che continua a soffrire come conseguenza del misrule del Hamas e di tolleranza del Hamas non solo ma di supporto e della promozione attivi di questi generi di attacchi all'Israele. “


Il riso
di Condoleezza Rice, ora nel Giappone sull'ultimo arresto di un viaggio asiatico, volerà al Medio Oriente per le riunioni con i funzionari israeliani e palestinesi a Gerusalemme e la città della Riva a Ovest di Ramallah martedì e mercoledì prossimi.

Dalla coincidenza, il Primo Ministro israeliano Olmert sta visitando Tokyo e deve conferire con riso là giovedì in preparazione per la chiamata de Gerusalemme della segretaria, il suo secondo questo anno.

Sig. Olmert, di cui il governo è sotto pressione domestica forte affinchè l'azione più forte arrestasse il fuoco del razzo del Gaza, ad esempio a Tokyo che il problema non fermerà le trattative di pace con il sig. Abbas.

Il capo israeliano ha detto non è sicuro un accordo in 2008 è realizzabile ma ha detto che i lati sono determinati per fare che cosa ha chiamato “un passo avanti gigante„ per concludere la disputa una volta per tutte.

Dopo i suoi colloqui di Medio Oriente, il riso accende a Bruxelles per una riunione dei ministri stranieri di NATO giovedì prossimo previsto per essere dominato dalla discussione su Kosovo e sull'Afghanistan.

Reis stellt neue Mittlerer Osten Reise unter Gaza Tumult ein,
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Reis stellt neue Mittlerer Osten Reise unter Gaza Tumult, US ein Staatssekretär Condoleezza Rice besucht den Mittlere Osten wieder folgende Woche unter palästinensischen Angriffen Rakete des Spannungen überschusses von Gaza und Israeli schlägt gegen Gaza militants an. Reis, bereist an diese Woche in Asien, trifft israelischen Premierminister Ehud Olmert Donnerstag in Tokyo. David Gollust VOAS berichtet von der Zustand-Abteilung.


Israelischer Premierminister Ehud Olmert (L) rüttelt Hände mit palästinensischem Präsidenten Mahmud Abbas (R) vor einer Sitzung in Jerusalem, 19. Feb. 2008
Herr. Olmert und palästinensischer Präsident Mahmoud Abbas legten, an den US- organisierte Annapolis Konferenz letzter November, an der Arbeit für eine Regelung des Mittlerer Osten Konflikts Ende dieses Jahres fest.

Aber Aussichten für eine Vereinbarung in 2008 sind unter langsam-bewegenden Gesprächen zwischen die Seiten und chronischer Gaza-in Verbindung stehender Gewalttätigkeit zurückgetreten.

Am Mittwoch strebten israelische Luftschläge in Gaza an, Rakete Feuer von der Gegend zu unterdrücken töteten mindestens 10 Palästinenser einschließlich einige Hamas militants, während eine von mindestens 20 Raketen, die an der Israel Stadt von Sderot von Gaza abgefeuert wurden, eine Person auf einem Hochschulcampus tötete.

Geben Sie Abteilung Abgeordneten Spokesman Tom Casey, der Mittlere Osten-Spielraumpläne des Reises bestätigte, verurteilte was er unprovoked Angriffe auf unschuldigen israelischen Zivilisten benannte, aber riet auch Israel, in seiner Antwort gemessen zu werden an.

„Unsere althergebrachte Ansicht ist, daß Israel ein Recht hat, sich zu verteidigen,“ er sagte. „Jedoch, fragen wir immer, daß, wenn sie so tun, sie die Konsequenzen jener Tätigkeiten und des möglichen Effektes betrachten, die es haben konnte. Und wir bleiben über die Zivilbevölkerung in Gaza beteiligt, der fortfährt, resultierend aus misrule Hamass und Hamass nicht nur von der Duldung aber von der aktiven Unterstützung und von der Förderung dieser Arten von Angriffen auf Israel zu leiden. „


Condoleezza Rice
Reis, jetzt in Japan auf dem letzten Anschlag einer asiatischen Reise, fliegt zum Mittlere Osten für Sitzungen mit den israelischen und palästinensischen Beamten in Jerusalem und in der West Bankstadt von Ramallah folgender Dienstag und Mittwoch.

Durch übereinstimmung besichtigt israelischer Premierminister Olmert Tokyo und soll mit Reis dort Donnerstag konferieren in der Vorbereitung für den Besuch Jerusalem der Sekretärin, ihre Sekunde dieses Jahr.

Herr. Olmert, dessen Regierung unter starkem inländischem Druck ist, damit stärkere Tätigkeit das Gaza Rakete Feuer stoppt, sagte in Tokyo, welches das Problem nicht Friedensvermittlungen mit Herrn anhält. Abbas.

Der israelische Führer sagte, er nicht eine Vereinbarung 2008 ist erreichbar aber sagte sicher ist, daß die Seiten festgestellt werden, um zu bilden, was er einen „riesigen Vorwärts Schritt“ benannte, um die Debatte ein für allemal zu beenden.

Nachdem ihr Mittlere Osten spricht, geht Reis nach Brüssel für eine NATO Sitzung der Außenminister folgender Donnerstag weiter, der erwartet wird, durch Diskussion über Kosovo und Afghanistan vorherrsch.

O arroz ajusta o desengate novo de Mideast entre o Turmoil de Gaza,
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O arroz ajusta o desengate novo de Mideast entre o Turmoil de Gaza, ESTADOS UNIDOS. A secretária de estado Condoleezza Rice visita o Oriente Médio outra vez semana seguinte entre ataques Palestinian do foguete do excesso das tensões de Gaza e o Israeli golpeia de encontro aos militants de Gaza. O arroz, excursiona sobre esta semana em Ásia, está encontrando-se com o ministro principal Israeli Ehud Olmert quinta-feira em Tokyo. David Gollust de VOA relata do departamento do estado.


O ministro principal Israeli Ehud Olmert (L) agita as mãos com presidente Palestinian Mahmud Abbas (R) antes de uma reunião em Jerusalem, Sr. de 19 fevereiro
2008. Olmert e o presidente Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas cometeram, conferência organizada nos ESTADOS UNIDOS - Annapolis último novembro, ao trabalho para um estabelecimento do conflito de Mideast para o fim deste ano.

Mas os prospetos para um acordo em 2008 receded entre conversas lento-móveis entre os lados, e a violência Gaza-relacionada crônica.

Em quarta-feira, as batidas de ar Israeli em Gaza visaram quelling o fogo do foguete do território mataram pelo menos 10 Palestinians including diversos militants de Hamas, quando um pelo menos de 20 foguetes ateados fogo na cidade de Israel de Sderot de Gaza matou uma pessoa em um campus da faculdade.

Indique o deputado Spokesman Tom Casey do departamento, que confirmou plantas do curso do leste médio do arroz, condemned o que denominou unprovoked ataques em civis Israeli inocentes mas aconselhou também Israel ser medido em sua resposta.

“Nossa vista long-standing é que Israel tem uma direita se defender,” ele disse. “Entretanto, nós perguntamos sempre que, em fazer assim, consideram as conseqüências daquelas ações e do efeito que potencial pôde ter. E nós remanescemos interessados sobre a população civil em Gaza que continua a sofrer em conseqüência do misrule de Hamas e do toleration de Hamas não somente mas da sustentação e do promotion ativos destes tipos dos ataques em Israel. De “


o arroz
Condoleezza Rice, agora em Japão no último batente de um desengate Asian, voará a o Oriente Médio para reuniões com os oficiais Israeli e Palestinian em Jerusalem e na cidade do banco ocidental de Ramallah terça-feira e quarta-feira seguintes.

Pela coincidência, o ministro principal Israeli Olmert está visitando Tokyo e deve conferenciar com arroz lá quinta-feira na preparação para a visita de Jerusalem da secretária, seu segundo este ano.

Sr. Olmert, cujo o governo está sob a pressão doméstica forte para que uma ação mais forte pare o fogo do foguete de Gaza, dito em Tokyo o problema não parará negociações da paz com Sr. Abbas.

O líder Israeli disse não é certo um acordo em 2008 é achievable mas disse que os lados estão determinados fazer o que denominou “uma etapa gigante para diante” para terminar a disputa uma vez e para tudo.

Depois que seu leste médio fala, o arroz vai sobre a Bruxelas para uma reunião de ministros extrangeiros da OTAN quinta-feira seguinte esperada ser dominado pela discussão de Kosovo e de Afeganistão.

Riceuppsättningar nya Mideast snubblar Amid Gaza Turmoil,
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Riceuppsättningar nya Mideast snubblar Amid Gaza Turmoil, U.S. UtrikesministerCondoleezza Rice besöker Mellanösten igen den nästa veckan amid spänningar över palestinska raketattacker från Gaza, och israelen slår mot Gaza kämpar. Rice turnerar på denna vecka i Asien, är premiärministerEhud Olmert för mötet den israeliska torsdagen i Tokyo. VOAS David Gollust rapporter från utrikesdepartementet.


Israeliska premiärministerEhud Olmert (v) skakor räcker med den palestinska presidenten Mahmud Abbas (R) före ett möte i Jerusalem, 19 februari 2008
Herr Olmert och palestinsk president Mahmoud Abbas som begås, på U.S.NA - organiserad Annapolis konferensjumbo November, till arbete för en bosättning av den Mideast konflikten av avsluta av detta år.

Men utsikter för en överenskommelse i 2008 har receded amid långsam-flyttning samtal mellan sidorna och kroniskt Gaza-släkt våld.

På onsdag luftar israelen slag i Gaza som siktas på det quelling raket, avfyrar från territoriet dödade åtminstone 10 palestinier däribland flera Hamas kämpar, stunder en av åtminstone 20 raket som avfyras på den Israel townen av Sderot från Gaza, dödade en person på en högskolauniversitetsområde.

Reser den ställföreträdande talesmannen Tom Casey, som för utrikesdepartementet bekräftade rices Mellanösten, planerar, fördömde vad han benämnde unprovoked attacker på oskyldiga israeliska civilister, men counseled också Israel att mätas i dess svar.

”Beskådar våra long-standing är, att Israel har rakt till ett försvar sig själv,” honom sade. ”Emellertid, frågar vi alltid att, i att göra så, de betraktar följderna av de handlingar och det potentiellt verkställer som det styrkan har. Och vi återstår angick om civilbefolkningen i Gaza som fortsätter för att lida som ett resultat av Hamass misrule och av Hamass inte endast toleration men aktivservice och befordran av dessa sorter av attacker på Israel. ”


Snubblar Condoleezza
RiceRice, nu i Japan på det sist stoppet av en asiat, packar ihop den ska flugan till Mellanösten för möten med israeliska och palestinska representanter i Jerusalem och det västra townen av Ramallah den nästa tisdagen och onsdagen.

Vid tillfällighet besöker ska den israeliska premiärministern Olmert Tokyo och tilldela med torsdag för Rice där i förberedelsen för sekreterare det Jerusalem besök, henne understöder detta år.

Herr Olmert vars regering är under skurkrollhemhjälp, pressar för att starkare handling ska stoppa det Gaza raket avfyrar, sade i Tokyo problemet ska inte stoppfredförhandlingarna med Herr Abbas.

Den israeliska ledare sade han inte är säker en överenskommelse i 2008 är uppnåelig men sade att sidorna är beslutsamma att göra vad han benämnde ”en jätte kliver framåtriktat” för att avsluta tvisten en gång och för alla.

Efter hennes Mellanösten har talat, går Rice på till Bryssel för NATO-utrikesminister möte den nästa torsdagen som förväntas för att domineras av diskussion av Kosovo och Afghanistan.

Рис устанавливает новое отключение Mideast между суматохой Gaza,
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Рис устанавливает новое отключение Mideast между суматохой Gaza, США. Государственный секретарь Кондолиза Райс посещает The Middle East снова следующая неделя между напряжениями над палестинскими нападениями ракеты от Gaza и израильтянин поражает против militants Gaza. Рис, дальше путешествует эта неделя в Азии, встречает израильского премьер-министра Ehud Olmert четверга в токио. Отчеты о Дэвид Gollust VOA от Государственного департамента.


Израильский премьер-министр Ehud Olmert (l) трястиет руки с палестинским президентом Mahmud Abbas (r) до встречи в Иерусалиме, ге-н
19-ое фев. 2008. Olmert и палестинский президент Mahmoud Abbas порученное, на США - организованном конференции Annapolis последний ноябрь, к работе для выселка конфликта Mideast by the end of этот год.

Но перспективности для согласования в 2008 receded между медленн-двигая беседами между сторонами, и хроническим Gaza-родственным расправой.

На среде, израильские забастовки воздуха в Gaza aim at quelling пожар ракеты от территории убили по крайней мере 10 палестинцев включая несколько militants Hamas, пока одна из по крайней мере 20 ракет ых на городке Израиля Sderot от Gaza убил одну персону на campus коллежа.

Депутат Оратор Tom Casey Государственного департамента, который подтвердил планы перемещения Ближнего Востока риса, засудил он термин unprovoked нападения на невиновных израильских civilians но также консультировал, что Израиль был измерен в своей реакции.

«Наш многолетний взгляд что Израиль имеет право защитить,» им сказал. «Однако, мы всегда спрашиваем что, in doing so, они рассматривают последствия тех действий и потенциального влияния, котор оно могло иметь. И мы остаем concerned о вольнонаемной населенности в Gaza продолжается вытерпеть в результате misrule Hamas и toleration Hamas not only но активно поддержки и промотирования этих видов нападений на Израиле. «


Рис
Кондолиза Райс, теперь в японии на последнем стопе азиатского отключения, летит к The Middle East для встреч с израильскими и палестинскими должностными лицами в Иерусалиме и западном городке крена Ramallah следующие вторник и среда.

совпадением, израильский премьер-министр Olmert посещает токио и должен посовещаться с рисом там четвергом in preparation for посещение Иерусалима секретарши, ее секунда этот год.

Г-н. Olmert, правительство которого находится под тяжелым отечественным давлением для более сильного действия остановить пожар ракеты Gaza, сказанное в токио проблема не остановит мирные переговоры с гом-н. Abbas.

Израильский руководитель сказал он не уверен согласование в 2008 достижим но сказало обусловлены, что делают стороны он термин «огромному шагу вперед» для того чтобы кончать спор once and for all.

После того как ее Ближний Восток говорит, рис идет дальше к Brussels для встречи министра иностранных дел НАТО следующий четверг предпологаемые, что будет преобладан обсуждением Kosovo и Афганистана.

De rijst plaatst Nieuwe Reis Mideast Amid de Opschudding van Gaza,
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De rijst plaatst Nieuwe Reis Mideast Amid de Opschudding van Gaza, de V.S. De Staatssecretaris Condoleezza Rice bezoekt volgende week het Midden-Oosten opnieuw amid spanningen over Palestijnse raketaanvallen van Gaza en Israëlische stakingen tegen de militanten van Gaza. De rijst, op reis deze week in Azië, ontmoet de Israëlische Donderdag van Ehud Olmert van de Eerste Minister in Tokyo. De rapporten van voa- David Gollust van de Afdeling van de Staat.


De Israëlische Eerste Minister Ehud Olmert (l) schudt handen met Palestijnse voorzitter Mahmud Abbas (r) voorafgaand aan een vergadering in Jeruzalem, 19 M. van Februari
2008. Olmert en Palestijnse President Mahmoud Abbas begingen, bij de V.S. - georganiseerde Annapolis conferentie laatste November, aan het werk voor een regeling van het conflict Mideast tegen eind dit jaar.

Maar de vooruitzichten voor een overeenkomst in 2008 zijn amid slow-moving besprekingen tussen de kanten, en chronisch op Gazabetrekking hebbend geweld achteruitgegaan.

Voor Woensdag, doodden de Israëlische luchtstakingen in Gaza die op het onderdrukken van raketbrand worden gericht van het grondgebied minstens 10 Palestijnen met inbegrip van verscheidene militanten Hamas, terwijl één van minstens 20 raketten die bij de stad van Israël van Sderot van Gaza in brand worden gestoken één persoon op een universiteitscampus doodde.

De Woordvoerder Tom Casey van de Afgevaardigde van de Afdeling van de staat, die de reisplannen van het Midden-Oosten van de Rijst bevestigde, veroordeelde wat hij noemde aanvallen op onschuldige Israëlische burgers unprovoked maar ook adviseerde dat Israël werd gemeten in zijn reactie.

„Onze al lang bestaande mening is dat Israël een recht heeft te verdedigen,“ hij zei. „Nochtans, vragen wij altijd dat, zo doende, zij de gevolgen van die werking en potentieel effect overwegen het zou kunnen hebben. En wij blijven bezorgd over de burgerlijke bevolking in Gaza dat als resultaat van Hamas misrule en van de tolerantie van Hamas niet alleen maar actieve steun en bevordering van deze soorten aanvallen op Israël blijft lijden. De „


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van Condoleezza Rice, nu in Japan op het laatste einde van een Aziatische reis, zal aan het Midden-Oosten voor vergaderingen met Israëlische en Palestijnse ambtenaren in Jeruzalem en de stad van Cisjordanië van Ramallah aanstaande dinsdag en Woensdag vliegen.

Door toeval, bezoekt de Israëlische Eerste Minister Olmert Tokyo en moet met de Donderdag van de Rijst daar als voorbereiding op het bezoek van Jeruzalem van de Secretaresse, haar seconde overleggen dit jaar.

M. Olmert, de waarvan overheid onder zware binnenlandse druk voor sterkere actie is om de de raketbrand van Gaza tegen te houden, zei in Tokyo het probleem vredes geen onderhandelingen met M. zal stoppen. Abbas.

De Israëlische leider zei hij niet zeker is een overeenkomst in 2008 is uitvoerbaar maar zei de partijen worden bepaald om te maken wat hij een „reuze voorwaartse stap“ noemde om het geschil voor eens en voor altijd te beëindigen.

Na haar besprekingen van het Midden-Oosten, de Rijst op Brussel voor een vergadering die van de ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken van de NAVO aanstaande donderdag wordt verondersteld gaat om door bespreking van Kosovo en Afghanistan worden overheerst.

أرز يثبت جديدة الشرق الأوسط رحلة وسط غزّة إضطراب,
Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo
أرز يثبت جديدة الشرق الأوسط رحلة وسط غزّة إضطراب, الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة يزور وزير الدولة [كندوليزّا] أرز [ث ميدّل ست] ثانية أسبوع تالية وسط [تنسونس] على فلسطينيّة صاروخ هجوم من غزّة وإسرائيلية يصيب ضدّ غزّة مناضلات. يجول أرز, فوق هذا أسبوع في آسيا, يلتقي رئيس وزراء إسرائيليّة [إهود] [ألمرت] يوم الخميس في طوكيو. [فوأ] يفيد دايفيد [غلّوست] من الدولة قسم.


يهزّ رئيس وزراء إسرائيليّة [إهود] [ألمرت] [(ل)] أيادي مع رئيس فلسطينيّة محمود [أبّس] [(ر)] قبل اجتماع في القدس, 19 فبراير - شباط 2008
[مر.]. [ألمرت] ورئيس فلسطينيّة [مهموود] [أبّس] يرتكب, في الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة - ينظّم أنّابوليس مؤتمر نوفمبر - تشرين الثّاني متأخّرة, إلى عمل لاستقرار من الشرق الأوسط نزاع [بي ث ند وف] هذا سنة.

غير أنّ قد تراجع توقعات لإتفاق في 2008 وسط [سلوو-موفينغ] محادثات بين الجوانب, وعنف مزمنة [غز-رلتد].

في يوم الأربعاء, إسرائيليّة هواء اتّجه إضرابات في غزّة يلطّف صاروخ نار من الأرض قتل على الأقلّ 10 فلسطينيات بما في ذلك عدّة حماس مناضلات, بينما واحدة من على الأقلّ 20 صواريخ أطلق النار في إسرائيل مدينة [سدروت] من غزّة قتل واحدة شخص على كلية حرم جامعيّ.

أفدت قسم نائبة [سبوكسمن] توم [كسي], الذي أكّد أرز [ميدّل ست] سفر خطط, أدان ماذا هو دعا [أونبروفوك] هجوم على مدنيات بريئة إسرائيليّة غير أنّ أيضا [كونسلد] إسرائيل أن يكون قست في إستجابته.

"منظرتنا قديم العهد أنّ يتلقّى إسرائيل حق أن يدافعبنفسي," هو قال. "مهما, يسأل نحن دائما أنّ, [إين دوينغ س], هم يعتبرون النتيجات من أنّ أعمال والتأثير ممكنة هو أمكن يتلقّى. ويبقى نحن يقلق حول الالسّكان مدنيّة في غزّة أنّ يستمرّ أن يعاني نتيجة حماس [ميسرول] ومن حماس ليس فحسب تسامح غير أنّ نشطة دعم وترقية من هذا أنواع الهجوم على إسرائيل. "


[كندوليزّا] أرز
سيطير أرز, الآن في اليابان على الموقف متأخّرة من رحلة آسيويّة, إلى [ث ميدّل ست] لاجتماعات مع إسرائيليّة ومسؤولات فلسطينيّة في القدس الضفّة الغربيّة مدينة [رملّه] تالية يوم الثلاثاء ويوم الأربعاء.

بصدفة, يزور رئيس وزراء إسرائيليّة [ألمرت] طوكيو وأن يقلّل مع أرز هناك يوم الخميس [إين بربرأيشن فور] السكرتيرة القدس زيارة, ه ثانية هذا سنة.

[مر.]. قال [ألمرت], الذي حكومة يكون تحت ضغطة ثقيلة محلّية لعمل قوّيّة أن يتوقّف غزّة صاروخ نار, في طوكيو المشكلة لن يتوقّف سلام مفاوضات مع [مر.]. [أبّس].

قال الزعيمة إسرائيليّة هو ليس يوقن إتفاق في 2008 ممكنة غير أنّ قال الجوانب حدثت أن يجعل ماذا هو دعا "خطوة عملاقة أماميّة" أن ينهي المجادلة [أنس ند فور لّ].

عقب يتحدّث [ميدّل ست] ه, أرز يذهب فوق إلى بركسيل لمنظّمة حلف شمال الأطلسي وزير الخارجيّة اجتماع يوم الخميس تالية يتوقّع أن يكون سيطرت بنقاشة من [كوسفو] وأفغانستان.

Tourists warned of UAE drug laws,Travellers to the United Arab Emirates are being warned about its severe drug laws which have seen dozens detained for apparently minor offences.
Fair Trials International said arrests were being made over tiny quantities of drugs and over-the-counter medicines.

British tourist Keith Brown was sentenced to four years in prison after Dubai customs officers found a 0.003g trace of cannabis stuck to his shoe.

Fair Trials, a legal charity, said it has seen a steep rise in such cases.

Golden beaches

Possession of painkillers like codeine and some cold and flu medication could result in a mandatory four-year prison sentence, Fair Trials International said.

In one of the most extreme cases, it reported a man being held after poppy seeds from a bread roll were found on his clothes.

In recent years, chic hotels, skyscrapers and golden beaches have turned Dubai and Abu Dhabi into popular tourist destinations.


Many have no idea what risks they're taking or their vulnerability to this very strict approach
Catherine Wolthuizen, Fair Trials International chief executive
Businesses too have flocked to the UAE, which promises a high standard of living because of its oil wealth.

However, while it is considered one of the most liberal countries in the Gulf, the Muslim country's drugs laws are severe.

Last year, 59 Britons were arrested in the UAE on drugs-related charges, according to the Foreign Office.


HELD IN THE UAE
Keith Brown, 43, Middlesex: Four-year jail term for possession of 0.003g of cannabis
Robert Dalton, 25, Kent: On trial for alleged possession of 0.03g of cannabis
20-year-old, West Yorkshire: On trial for alleged possession of 0.02g of cannabis
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, West Sussex: Held in custody for eight weeks for possession of codeine before release
Swiss national: Four-year jail term after poppy seeds found on his clothes
Source: Fair Trials International
Catherine Wolthuizen, chief executive of Fair Trials International, said customs authorities were using highly sensitive new equipment to conduct thorough searches on travellers.

"So many people now travel to Dubai and, as we're seeing, many have no idea what risks they're taking or their vulnerability to this very strict approach," she said.

"If they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence.

"What many travellers may not realise is that they can be deemed to be in possession of such banned substances if they can be detected in their urine or bloodstream, or even in tiny, trace amounts on their person."

Jet-lag tablets

Keith Brown and his wife had been on their way from London to Ethiopia when they were stopped and searched at Dubai airport.

At first customs officers found nothing, but then a roll-up cigarette was spotted caught in the tread of his shoe.

The 43-year-old, from Middlesex, was charged with possession of 0.003g of cannabis and was sentenced to four years in prison.


I suppose there's a sense of disbelief more than anything else
Cat Le-Huy, held in Dubai
British resident Cat Le-Huy was arrested in Dubai for carrying Melatonin jet-lag tablets, which are sold over the counter in the US and Dubai.

Mr Le-Huy told BBC News he was forced to sign a document in Arabic and was refused a translator.

He said once the tablets were proved to be Melatonin, police took what he described as dirt from his bag and said they were now testing it to see if it was cannabis.

Speaking from inside the prison, he said he knew nothing of any drugs in his bag.

"I suppose there's a sense of disbelief more than anything else. I miss my friends and family back in London and I'm also aware of the other stress this is causing to friends and family.

"As far as my welfare, I'm being treated relatively well and I have to go through the system and whatever path that takes, I'll just have to deal with it."

Bread roll

Aside from illegal substances, travellers have also been held for possession of prescription drugs.

Tracy Wilkinson was held in custody for eight weeks before customs officers accepted the codeine she was carrying had been prescribed by her doctor for back pains.

Meanwhile, a Swiss national is serving a four-year jail term after three poppy seeds from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow airport were found on his clothes.

Fair Trials International has published a full list of banned substances on its website.

The Foreign Office is advising all travellers carrying any prescription drugs to take a doctor's letter detailing exactly why they need the medicine and the exact dose.

The UAE Embassy in London said it would not comment at this stage.

Les touristes ont averti des lois de drogue des EAU.
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Les touristes ont averti des lois de drogue des EAU, voyageurs vers les Emirats Arabes Unis sont avertis au sujet de ses lois graves de drogue qui ont vu des douzaines détenues pour des offenses apparent mineures.
Arrestations internationales d'épreuves justes lesdites étaient faites des quantités minuscules finies de drogues et d'excédent - les contre- médecines.

Le brun de touristes britannique de Keith a été condamné à quatre ans en prison après que les dirigeants de douane de Dubaï aient trouvé une trace 0.003g de cannabis coincée à sa chaussure.

Les épreuves justes, une charité légale, dite lui a vu dans ces cas-ci une forte élévation.

La possession d'or

de plages des calmeurs comme la codéine et un certain médicament de froid et de grippe a pu avoir comme conséquence une phrase de quatre ans obligatoire de prison, dit international d'épreuves justes.

Dans un des cas les plus extrêmes, il a rapporté un homme étant tenu après que des clous de girofle d'un roulement de pain aient été trouvés sur ses vêtements.

Ces dernières années, les hôtels chics, les gratte-ciel et les plages d'or ont transformé Dubaï et l'Abu Dhabi en destinations de touristes populaires.


Beaucoup n'ont aucune idée quels risques elles prennent ou leurs vulnérabilités à cette approche très stricte
Catherine Wolthuizen, les entreprises internationales de cadre supérieur d'épreuves
justes aussi se sont assemblées aux EAU, qui promet un niveau élevé la vie en raison de sa richesse d'huile.

Cependant, alors qu'on le considère un des pays les plus libéraux dans le Golfe, les lois des drogues du pays musulman sont graves.

L'année dernière, 59 Britanniques ont été arrêtées aux EAU sur les frais drogue-connexes, selon le Foreign Office.


TENU DANS le brun
des EAU Keith, 43, Middlesex : Limite de quatre ans de prison pour la possession de 0.003g de cannabis
Robert Dalton, 25, Kent : Sur l'épreuve pour la possession alléguée de 0.03g du cannabis
20-year-old, West Yorkshire : Sur l'épreuve pour la possession alléguée de 0.02g de cannabis
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, le Sussex occidental : Tenu dans la garde pendant huit semaines pour la possession de la codéine avant national
suisse de dégagement : La limite de quatre ans de prison après des clous de girofle a trouvé sur sa source
de vêtements : Les épreuves justes Catherine
internationale Wolthuizen, cadre supérieur des épreuves justes internationales, ledit service des douanes utilisaient le nouvel équipement extrêmement sensible pour conduire des recherches complètes sur des voyageurs.

« Tant de personnes voyagent maintenant à Dubaï et, comme nous voyons, beaucoup n'ont aucune idée quels risques elles prennent ou leurs vulnérabilités à cette approche très stricte, » elle ont dit.

« S'ils trouvent n'importe quelle quantité - n'importe comment minute - elle sera assez pour attirer une phrase de quatre ans obligatoire de prison.

« Ce que beaucoup de voyageurs ne peuvent pas réalisez est qu'ils peuvent être considérés être en possession de telles substances interdites s'ils peuvent être détectés en leur urine ou circulation sanguine, ou même dans minuscule, traces sur leur personne.  »

Voyager en jet-traînent le brun

de Keith de comprimés et son épouse avait été sur leur chemin de Londres en Ethiopie quand ils ont été arrêtés et recherchés à l'aéroport de Dubaï.

Au début les dirigeants de douane n'ont trouvé rien, mais alors une cigarette de roll-up a été repèrée a attrapé dans la bande de roulement de sa chaussure.

43 ans, de Middlesex, ont été chargés de la possession de 0.003g de cannabis et ont été condamnés à quatre ans en prison.


Je suppose qu'il y a un sens d'incrédulité davantage que toute autre chose
le chat Le-Huy, tenu chez le chat
résident britannique Le-Huy de Dubaï a été arrêté à Dubaï pour porter Melatonin voyager en jet-traîne les comprimés, qui sont vendus au-dessus du compteur aux USA et à Dubaï.

M. Le-Huy dit des nouvelles de BBC l'a été forcé de signer un document en arabe et a été refusé un traducteur.

Il a dit une fois qu'on s'avérait que les comprimés sont Melatonin, police a pris ce qu'il a décrit pendant que la saleté de son sac et dite elles l'examinaient maintenant pour voir si c'était cannabis.

Parlant de l'intérieur de la prison, il a dit qu'il n'a connu rien d'aucune drogue dans son sac.

« Je suppose qu'il y a un sens d'incrédulité davantage que toute autre chose. Je m'ennuie de mes amis et le dos de famille à Londres et moi me rends également compte de l'autre effort que ceci cause aux amis et à la famille.

« Jusque mon bien-être, je suis traité relativement bien et je dois passer par le système et quelque chemin qui prend, je devrai simplement traiter lui.  »

Panez le roulement

hormis les substances illégales, voyageurs ont été également tenus pour la possession des drogues de prescription.

Tracy Wilkinson a été tenu dans la garde pour pendant huit semaines avant que les dirigeants de douane ont accepté la codéine qu'elle portait avait été prescrite par son docteur pour des douleurs dorsales.

En attendant, un national suisse sert une limite de quatre ans de prison après que trois clous de girofle d'un roulement de pain qu'il a mangé à l'aéroport de Heathrow ont été trouvés sur ses vêtements.

Les épreuves justes internationales a édité une pleine liste de substances interdites sur son site Web.

Le Foreign Office conseille tous les voyageurs portant toutes les drogues de prescription pour prendre la lettre d'un docteur détaillant exactement pourquoi elles ont besoin de la médecine et de la dose exacte.

L'ambassade des EAU à Londres a indiqué qu'elle ne commenterait pas à ce stade.

Los turistas advirtieron de leyes de la droga de los UAE.
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Los turistas advirtieron de los leyes de la droga de los UAE, viajeros a los emiratos árabes unidos se están advirtiendo sobre sus leyes severos de la droga que han considerado las docenas detenidas para las ofensas al parecer de menor importancia.
Las detenciones dichas internacionales de los ensayos justos eran hechas las cantidades minúsculas excesivas de drogas y de excedente - las medicinas contrarias.

El marrón turístico británico de Keith fue condenado a cuatro años en la prisión después de que los oficiales de costumbres de Dubai encontraran un rastro 0.003g del cáñamo pegado a su zapato.

Los ensayos justos, una caridad legal, dicha le han considerado una subida escarpada en tales casos.

La posesión de oro

de las playas de painkillers como la codeína y alguna medicación del frío y de la gripe podía dar lugar a una oración de cuatro años obligatoria de la prisión, dicho internacional de los ensayos justos.

En uno de los casos más extremos, divulgó a hombre que era sostenido después de que las semillas de amapola de un rodillo del pan fueran encontradas en sus ropas.

Estos últimos años, los hoteles elegantes, los rascacielos y las playas de oro han dado vuelta a Dubai y a Abu Dhabi en destinaciones turísticas populares.


Muchos no tienen ninguna idea qué riesgos están llevando o su vulnerabilidad este acercamiento muy terminante
Catherine Wolthuizen, los negocios internacionales del ejecutivo de los ensayos
justos se han reunido también a los UAE, que promete un alto estándar vivir debido a su abundancia del aceite.

Sin embargo, mientras que se considera uno de los países más liberales del golfo, los leyes de las drogas del país musulmán son severos.

El año pasado, arrestaron a 59 británico en los UAE en cargas droga-relacionadas, según la oficina extranjera.


SOSTENIDO EN el marrón
de los UAE Keith, 43, Middlesex: Término de cuatro años de la cárcel para la posesión de 0.003g de los cáñamos
Roberto Dalton, 25, Kent: En el ensayo para la posesión alegada de 0.03g de los cáñamos
20-year-old, West Yorkshire: En el ensayo para la posesión alegada de 0.02g de los cáñamos
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, Sussex del oeste: Sostenido en la custodia por ocho semanas para la posesión de la codeína antes de nacional
suizo del lanzamiento: El término de cuatro años de la cárcel después de semillas de amapola encontró en su fuente
de las ropas: Los ensayos justos Catherine
internacional Wolthuizen, ejecutivo de los ensayos justos internacionales, las autoridades aduaneras dichas utilizaban el equipo nuevo altamente sensible para conducir búsquedas cuidadosas en viajeros.

“Tan mucha gente ahora viaja a Dubai y, como estamos viendo, muchas no tienen ninguna idea qué riesgos están llevando o su vulnerabilidad este acercamiento muy terminante,” ella dijeron.

“Si encuentran cualquier cantidad - no importa cómo minuto - será bastante para atraer una oración de cuatro años obligatoria de la prisión.

“Qué no pueden muchos viajeros realice es que pueden ser juzgados ser en la posesión de tales sustancias prohibidas si pueden ser detectados en su orina o circulación sanguínea, o aún en minúsculo, cantidades de rastro en su persona. ”

Jet-se retrasa el marrón

de Keith de las tabletas y su esposa había estado en su manera de Londres a Etiopía cuando los pararon y fueron buscados en el aeropuerto de Dubai.

Los oficiales de costumbres no encontraron al principio nada, pero entonces un cigarrillo del roll-up fue manchado cogió en la pisada de su zapato.

Los 43 años, de Middlesex, fueron cargados con la posesión de 0.003g de cáñamos y condenados a cuatro años en la prisión.


Supongo que hay un sentido de la incredulidad más que jet-se retrasa
todo lo demás el gato Le-Huy, sostenido en
el gato residente británico Le-Huy de Dubai fue arrestada en Dubai para llevar Melatonin las tabletas, que se venden sobre el contador en los E.E.U.U. y el Dubai.

Sr. Le-Huy dicho las noticias de BBC lo forzaron firmar un documento en árabe y fueron rechazado un traductor.

Él dijo una vez que las tabletas fueran demostradas ser Melatonin, policía tomó lo que él describió mientras que la suciedad de su bolso y dicha él ahora lo probaba para considerar si era cáñamo.

Hablando por dentro de la prisión, él dijo que él no sabía nada de ningunas drogas en su bolso.

“Supongo que hay un sentido de la incredulidad más que todo lo demás. Falto a mis amigos y la parte posteriora de la familia en Londres y mí está también enterada de la otra tensión que ésta está causando a los amigos y a la familia.

“Hasta mi bienestar, me están tratando relativamente bien y tengo que pasar a través del sistema y cualquier trayectoria que tome, apenas tendré que tratar de ella. ”

Empane el rodillo

aparte de las sustancias ilegales, viajeros también se han sostenido para la posesión de las drogas de la prescripción.

Sostuvieron a Tracy Wilkinson en la custodia para ocho semanas antes de que los oficiales de costumbres aceptaron la codeína que ella llevaba había sido prescrita por su doctor para los dolores de espalda.

Mientras tanto, un nacional suizo está sirviendo un término de cuatro años de la cárcel después de que tres semillas de amapola de un rodillo del pan que él comió en el aeropuerto de Heathrow fue encontrado en sus ropas.

Los ensayos justos internacionales han publicado una lista completa de sustancias prohibidas en su Web site.

La oficina extranjera está aconsejando a todos los viajeros que llevan cualquier droga de la prescripción para tomar la letra de un doctor que detalla exactamente porqué ella necesita la medicina y la dosis exacta.

La embajada de los UAE en Londres dijo que no haría ninguna observación respecto en esta etapa.

I turisti hanno avvertito delle leggi della droga dei UAE.
Automatically translated into Italian thanks to WorldLingo
I turisti hanno avvertito delle leggi della droga dei UAE, viaggiatori negli Emirati Arabi Uniti stanno avvertendi circa le relative leggi severe della droga che hanno visto le dozzine ritenute per le offese apparentemente secondarie.
Gli arresti detti internazionali di prove giuste stavano facendi quantità molto piccole eccessive di droghe e di eccedenza - le contro medicine.

Il colore marrone turistico britannico del Keith è stato sentenziato a quattro anni in prigione dopo che gli ufficiali di dogana di Doubai trovassero una traccia 0.003g della canapa attaccata al suo pattino.

Le prove giuste, una carità legale, ad esempio esso ha visto un aumento ripido in tali casi.

Il possesso dorato

delle spiagge dei painkillers come la codeina e un certo farmaco di flu e di freddo ha potuto provocare una frase quadriennale obbligatoria della prigione, detto internazionale di prove giuste.

In uno dei casi più estremi, ha segnalato un uomo che è tenuto dopo che i semi di papavero da un rullo del pane fossero trovati sui suoi vestiti.

Negli ultimi anni, gli hotel chic, i grattacieli e le spiagge dorate hanno trasformato in Doubai e nell'Abu Dhabi le destinazioni turistiche popolari.


Molti non hanno idea che responsabilità stanno assumendo o la loro vulnerabilità a questo metodo molto rigoroso
Catherine Wolthuizen, i commerci internazionali dell'esecutivo principale di prove
giuste anche si sono affollati nei UAE, che promette un livello elevato of vivere a causa della relativa ricchezza dell'olio.

Tuttavia, mentre è considerato uno dei paesi più liberali nel golfo, le leggi delle droghe del paese musulmano sono severe.

L'anno scorso, 59 Britanni sono stati arrestati nei UAE sulle spese droga-relative, secondo il Foreign Office.


TENUTO nel colore marrone
dei UAE Keith, 43, Middlesex: Termine quadriennale della prigione per il possesso di 0.003g della canapa
Robert Dalton, 25, Risonanza: Sulla prova per il possesso presunto di 0.03g della canapa
20-year-old, West Yorkshire: Sulla prova per il possesso presunto di 0.02g della canapa
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, Sussex ad ovest: Tenuto nella custodia per otto settimane per il possesso della codeina prima del cittadino
svizzero del rilascio: Il termine quadriennale della prigione dopo i semi di papavero ha trovato sulla sua fonte
dei vestiti: Le prove giuste Catherine
internazionale Wolthuizen, esecutivo principale delle prove giuste internazionali, uffici dogane detti stavano utilizzando la nuova apparecchiatura altamente sensibile per condurre le ricerche complete sui viaggiatori.

“Tanta gente ora viaggia a Doubai e, come stiamo vedendo, molte non hanno idea che responsabilità stanno assumendo o la loro vulnerabilità a questo metodo molto rigoroso,„ lei hanno detto.

“Se trovano qualsiasi importo - non importa come minuto - sarà abbastanza per attrarre una frase quadriennale obbligatoria della prigione.

“Che cosa molti viaggiatori non possono realizzi è che possono essere ritenuti essere in possesso di tali sostanze vietate se possono essere rilevati in loro urina o circolazione sanguigna, o persino in molto piccolo, tracce sulla loro persona. „

Getto-si ritarda il colore marrone

del Keith dei ridurre in pani e la sua moglie era stata sulla loro direzione da Londra in Etiopia quando sono stati arrestati e cercato stati all'aeroporto di Doubai.

Inizialmente gli ufficiali di dogana non hanno trovato niente, ma allora una sigaretta di roll-up è stata macchiata ha interferito nell'impronta del suo pattino.

43 anni, da Middlesex, sono stati caricati del possesso di 0.003g della canapa e sono stati sentenziati a quattro anni in prigione.


Suppongo che ci è un senso di disbelief più di niente altro
gatto Le-Huy, tenuto nel gatto
residente britannico Le-Huy di Doubai è stato arrestato in Doubai per trasportare Melatonin getto-si ritarda ridurre in pani, che sono venduti sopra il contatore negli Stati Uniti e Doubai.

Il sig. Le-Huy detto a notizie di BBC al è stato costretto a firmare un documento in arabo ed è stato rifiutato un traduttore.

Ha detto una volta che i ridurre in pani si rivelassero essere Melatonin, polizia ha preso che cosa ha descritto mentre la sporcizia dal suo sacchetto e detta ora stava esaminandolo per vedere se fosse canapa.

Parlando dall'interno della prigione, ha detto che non ha conosciuto niente di alcune droghe nel suo sacchetto.

“Suppongo che ci è un senso di disbelief più di niente altro. Manco i miei amici e la parte posteriore della famiglia a Londra ed io sono inoltre informata dell'altro sforzo che questa sta causando agli amici ed alla famiglia.

“Fino al mio benessere, sto curando relativamente bene e devo passare attraverso il sistema e che cosa percorso che prende, dovrò semplicemente occuparmi di esso. „

Impani il rullo

oltre alle sostanze illegali, viaggiatori inoltre sono stati tenuti per il possesso delle droghe di prescrizione.

Tracy Wilkinson è stato tenuto nella custodia per otto settimane prima che gli ufficiali di dogana accettassero la codeina che stava trasportando si era prescritta dal suo medico per i dolori alla schiena.

Nel frattempo, un cittadino svizzero sta servendo un termine quadriennale della prigione dopo che tre semi di papavero da un rullo che del pane ha mangiato all'aeroporto di Heathrow è stato trovato sui suoi vestiti.

Le prove giuste internazionali ha pubblicato una lista completa delle sostanze vietate sul relativo Web site.

Il Foreign Office sta raccomandando tutti i viaggiatori che trasportano tutte le droghe di prescrizione per prendere la lettera del medico che dettaglia esattamente perchè hanno bisogno della medicina e della dose esatta.

L'ambasciata dei UAE a Londra ha detto che non commenterebbe in questa fase.

Touristen warnten von den UAE Drogegesetzen.
Automatically translated into German thanks to WorldLingo
Die Touristen, die von den UAE Drogegesetzen, Reisende zu den vereinigten arabischen Emiräten gewarnt werden, werden über seine strengen Drogegesetze gewarnt, die die Dutzende gesehen haben, die für anscheinend kleine Handlungen zurückgehalten werden.
Angemessene Versuche internationale besagte Anhalten wurden kleine übermäßigquantitäten Drogen und im Freiverkehr gehandelte Medizin gebildet.

Britisches touristisches Keith Braun wurde zu vier Jahren im Gefängnis verurteilt, nachdem Dubai Gewohnheiten Offiziere eine Spur 0.003g des Hanfs fanden, der an seinem Schuh gehaftet wurde.

Angemessene Versuche, eine zugelassene Nächstenliebe, gesagt ihm hat einen steilen Aufstieg in solchen Fällen gesehen.

Goldener Strände

Besitz der schmerzstillender Mittel wie Kodein und irgendeine Kälte- und Grippemedikation konnte einen vorgeschriebenen vierjährlichen Gefängnissatz, angemessene Versuche internationales besagtes ergeben.

In einem der Extremfälle, berichtete es über einen Mann, der gehalten wurde, nachdem Mohn von einer Brotrolle auf seiner Kleidung gefunden wurde.

In den letzten Jahren haben chic Hotels, Wolkenkratzer und goldene Strände Dubai und Abu Dhabi zu populäre touristische Bestimmungsörter gemacht.


Viele haben keine Idee welche Gefahren sie nehmen oder zu dieser sehr strengen Annäherung Catherine Wolthuizen
ihre Verwundbarkeit, angemessene Versuche haben internationale
Hauptgeschäftsführer Geschäfte auch sich in die UAE geschart, das einen hohen Standard des Lebens wegen seiner ölfülle verspricht.

Jedoch während es eins der liberalsten Länder im Golf betrachtet wird, sind die moslemischen Drogegesetze des Landes streng.

Letztes Jahr, wurden 59 Briten in den UAE auf Droge-in Verbindung stehenden Aufladungen, entsprechend dem Auswärtigen Amt festgehalten.


GEHALTEN im UAE
Keith Braun, 43, Middlesex: Vierjährliche Gefängnisbezeichnung für Besitz von 0.003g des Hanfs
Robert Dalton, 25, Kent: Auf Versuch für angeblichen Besitz von 0.03g des Hanfs
20-year-old, West Yorkshire: Auf Versuch für angeblichen Besitz von 0.02g des Hanfs
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, Westsussex: Gehalten im Schutz für acht Wochen für Besitz des Kodeins vor schweizer
Staatsangehörigem der Freigabe: Vierjährliche Gefängnisbezeichnung nach Mohn fand auf seiner Kleidung
Quelle: Angemessene Versuche internationale
Catherine Wolthuizen, Hauptgeschäftsführer der angemessenen internationalen Versuche, besagte Zollbehörden benutzten in hohem Grade empfindliche neue Ausrüstung, um vollständige Suchen auf Reisenden zu leiten.

„So viele Leute reisen jetzt nach Dubai und, wie wir sehen, haben viele keine Idee welche Gefahren sie nehmen oder zu dieser sehr strengen Annäherung ihre Verwundbarkeit,“ sie sagten.

„Wenn sie irgendeine Menge - egal wie Minute finden - sie ist genug, zum eines vorgeschriebenen vierjährlichen Gefängnissatzes anzuziehen.

„Was viele Reisende nicht können, ist verwirklichen Sie, daß sie gemeint werden können, im Besitz solcher verbotener Substanzen, wenn sie in ihrem Urin oder in Blutstrom ermittelt werden können, oder sogar in kleinem, Spur Mengen zu sein auf ihrer Person. “

Strahl-verlangsamt Tabletten

Keith Braun und seine Frau war auf ihrer Weise von London nach Äthiopien gewesen, als sie am Dubai Flughafen gestoppt und gesucht wurden.

Anfangs fanden Gewohnheiten Offiziere nichts, aber dann wurde eine Roll-upzigarette sich verfing im Schritt seines Schuhes beschmutzt.

Das 43 Einjahres, von Middlesex, wurde mit Besitz von 0.003g des Hanfs aufgeladen und wurde zu vier Jahren im Gefängnis verurteilt.


Ich nehme an, daß es eine Richtung der Ungläubigkeit mehr gibt, als noch etwas
die Katze Le-Huy, gehalten Dubai
in der britischen Residentkatze Le-Huy in Dubai für das Tragen von Melatonin Strahl-verlangsamen Tabletten festgehalten wurde, die über dem Kostenzähler in den US und im Dubai verkauft werden.

Herr Le-Huy erklärte BBC Nachrichten wurde er gezwungen, ein Dokument auf Arabisch zu unterzeichnen und wurde einem übersetzer abgelehnt.

Er sagte, sobald die Tabletten Melatonin gewesen wurden, Polizei nahm, was er beschrieb, während der Schmutz von seinem Beutel und gesagt sie ihn jetzt prüfte, um zu sehen, wenn es Hanf war.

Sprechend aus dem Gefängnis heraus, sagte er, daß er nichts aller möglicher Drogen in seinem Beutel wußte.

„Ich nehme an, daß es eine Richtung der Ungläubigkeit mehr als noch etwas gibt. Ich vermisse meine Freunde und Familie Rückseite in London und in mir berücksichtigen auch den anderen Druck, den diese den Freunden und der Familie verursacht.

„Bis zu meiner Wohlfahrt, werde ich verhältnismäßig gut behandelt und ich muß das System durchlaufen und mit was Weg, der nimmt, ich nur ihn beschäftigen muß. “

Panieren Sie Rolle

neben ungültigen Substanzen, Reisende sind auch gehalten worden für Besitz der Verordnungdrogen.

Tracy Wilkinson wurde im Schutz für gehalten, acht Wochen bevor Gewohnheiten Offiziere das Kodein annahmen, das sie war vorgeschrieben worden von ihrem Doktor für die rückseitigen Schmerz trug.

Unterdessen dient ein schweizer Staatsangehöriger eine vierjährliche Gefängnisbezeichnung, nachdem drei Mohn von einer Brotrolle, die er am Heathrow Flughafen wurde gefunden auf seiner Kleidung aß.

Die angemessenen internationalen Versuche hat eine volle Liste der verbotenen Substanzen auf seiner Web site veröffentlicht.

Das Auswärtige Amt berät alle Reisenden, die alle mögliche Verordnungdrogen tragen, um den Brief eines Doktors zu nehmen, der genau genau schildert, warum sie die Medizin und die genaue Dosis benötigen.

Die UAE Botschaft in London sagte, daß sie nicht gegenwärtig kommentieren würde.

Os turistas advertiram de leis da droga dos UAE.
Automatically translated into Portuguese thanks to WorldLingo
Os turistas advertidos de leis da droga dos UAE, Travellers aos Emirates árabes unidos estão sendo advertidos sobre suas leis severas da droga que viram as dúzias detidas para ofensas aparentemente menores.
As apreensões ditas internacionais das experimentações justas eram feitas quantidades minúsculas excedentes das drogas e do excesso - as medicinas contrárias.

O marrom tourist britânico de Keith foi sentenciado a quatro anos na prisão depois que os oficiais de costumes de Dubai encontraram um traço 0.003g do cannabis furado a sua sapata.

As experimentações justas, um charity legal, dito lhe viram uma ascensão íngreme nesses casos.

A possessão dourada

das praias dos painkillers como a codeína e o algum medication do frio e do flu podia resultar em uma sentença four-year imperativa da prisão, dito internacional das experimentações justas.

Em uma dos casos os mais extremos, relatou um homem que está sendo prendido depois que as sementes de poppy de um rolo do pão foram encontradas em sua roupa.

Em anos recentes, os hotéis chic, os skyscrapers e as praias douradas giraram Dubai e Abu Dhabi em destinos tourist populares.


Muitos não têm nenhuma idéia que riscos estão fazendo exame ou suas vulnerability a esta aproximação muito estrita
Catherine Wolthuizen, os negócios internacionais do executivo principal das experimentações
justas demasiado reuniram-se aos UAE, que promete um padrão elevado de viver por causa de sua riqueza do óleo.

Entretanto, quando se considerar um dos países os mais liberais no golfo, as leis das drogas do país muçulmano são severas.

O ano passado, 59 Britânicos foram prendidos nos UAE em cargas droga-relacionadas, de acordo com o escritório extrangeiro.


PRENDIDO no marrom
dos UAE Keith, 43, Middlesex: Termo Four-year da cadeia para a possessão de 0.003g do cannabis
Robert Dalton, 25, Kent: Na experimentação para possessão alegada de 0.03g do cannabis
20-year-old, ocidental - yorkshire: Na experimentação para possessão alegada de 0.02g do cannabis
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, Sussex ocidental: Prendido na custódia por oito semanas para a possessão da codeína antes do nacional
suíço da liberação: O termo Four-year da cadeia após sementes de poppy encontrou em sua fonte
da roupa: As experimentações justas Catherine
internacional Wolthuizen, executivo principal das experimentações justas internacionais, autoridades de costumes ditas usavam o equipamento novo altamente sensível conduzir buscas completas em travellers.

“Assim muitos povos viajam agora a Dubai e, como nós estamos vendo, muitos não têm nenhuma idéia que riscos estão fazendo exame ou suas vulnerability a esta aproximação muito estrita,” ela disseram.

“Se encontram uma qualquer quantidade - não importa como minuto - será bastante para atrair uma sentença four-year imperativa da prisão.

“O que muitos travellers não podem realize é que podem ser julgados ser na possessão de tais substâncias proibidas se puderem ser detectados em seu urine ou bloodstream, ou nivelam em minúsculas, quantidades de traço em sua pessoa. ”

Jato-retarda-se o marrom

de Keith das tabuletas e sua esposa tinha estado em sua maneira de Londres a Etiópia quando foram parados e procurarados no aeroporto de Dubai.

Nos primeiros oficiais de costumes encontrados nada, mas em um cigarro do roll-up foi manchado então travou no passo de sua sapata.

Os 43 year-old, de Middlesex, foram carregados com a possessão de 0.003g do cannabis e sentenciados a quatro anos na prisão.


Eu suponho que há um sentido do disbelief mais do que qualquer outra coisa
o gato Le-Huy, prendido no gato
residente britânico Le-Huy de Dubai foi prendido em Dubai para carregar Melatonin jato-se retarda as tabuletas, que são vendidas sobre o contador nos E.U. e no Dubai.

O Sr. Le-Huy dito notícia de BBC foi forçado a assinar um original no árabe e recusado um tradutor.

Disse uma vez que as tabuletas foram provadas ser Melatonin, polícias fêz exame de o que descreveu enquanto a sujeira de seu saco e dita ele o testava agora para ver se fosse cannabis.

Falando dentro da prisão, disse que não soube nada de nenhumas drogas em seu saco.

“Eu suponho que há um sentido do disbelief mais do que qualquer outra coisa. Eu falto meus amigos e a parte traseira da família em Londres e no mim está também ciente do outro stress que esta está causando aos amigos e à família.

“Até meu bem-estar, eu estou sendo tratado relativamente bem e eu tenho que atravessar o sistema e o que trajeto que faz exame, eu terei que apenas tratar do ele. ”

Bread o rolo

com exceção das substâncias ilegais, travellers foram prendidos também para a possessão de drogas da prescrição.

Tracy Wilkinson foi prendido na custódia para oito semanas antes que os oficiais de costumes aceitaram a codeína que carregava tinha sido prescrita por seu doutor para dores traseiras.

Entrementes, um nacional suíço está servindo a um termo four-year da cadeia depois que três sementes de poppy de um rolo que do pão comeu no aeroporto de Heathrow foi encontrado em sua roupa.

As experimentações justas internacionais publicaram uma lista cheia de substâncias proibidas em seu Web site.

O escritório extrangeiro está recomendando todos os travellers que carregam todas as drogas da prescrição para fazer exame da letra de um doutor que detalha exatamente porque necessitam a medicina e o dose exato.

O Embassy dos UAE em Londres disse que não comentaria neste estágio.

Turister som varnas av UAE-droglagar.
Automatically translated into Swedish thanks to WorldLingo
Turister som varnas av UAE, förgiftar lagar, handelsresandear till de eniga arabiska emiratesna varnas om dess stränga droglagar som har sett dussin som som synes fördröjas för minderårigförseelsear.
Sagda gripanden för mässaförsök gjordes landskampen över mycket litet antal av droger och över - kontra mediciner.

Den brittiska turist- Keith bruntet dömdes till fyra år i fängelse, efter Dubai egenar har kommenderat har grundat en trace 0.003g av cannabisen som klibbas till his, har skott.

Mässaförsök, en laglig välgörenhet som sägs det, har sett en brant löneförhöjning i sådan fall.

Guld- strand

besittning av den lika kodeinet för smärtstillande medel och någon förkylning- och influensaläkarbehandling kunde resultera i ett four-year fängelsestraff för ombud, den sagda mässaförsöklandskampen.

I ett av de mest ytterlighetfallen anmälde det en man som rymdes, efter vallmofrön från en brödrulle fanns på hans kläder.

Under senare år har chic hotell, skyskrapor och guld- stränder vänt Dubai och Abu Dhabi in i populära turist- destinationer.


Många har ingen idé vad riskerar dem tar eller deras sårbarhet till detta mycket strikt att närma sig
Catherine Wolthuizen, verkställande direktör för mässaförsöklandskampen som
affärer har flockats för till UAENA, som lovar en en hög klass av att bo på grund av dess olje- rikedom.

Emellertid stunder är den ansedd av de mest frisinnade länderna i golfen, Muslimlandets droger som lagar är stränga.

I fjol arresterades 59 britter i UAENA på drog-släkta laddningar, enligt det utländska kontoret.


RYMT I bruntet
för UAE Keith, 43, Middlesex: Den Four-year arresten benämner för besittning av 0.003g av cannabisen
Robert Dalton, 25, Kent: På försök för föregiven besittning av 0.03g av cannabisen
20-year-old som är västra - yorkshire: På försök för föregiven besittning av 0.02g av cannabisen
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, västra Sussex: Rymt i arresten för åtta veckor för besittning av kodeinet för schweizisk
medborgare för frigörare: Den Four-year arresten benämner efter vallmofrön som finnas på hans kläder
källa: Mässaförsöklandskampen
Catherine Wolthuizen, verkställande direktör av mässaförsöklandskampen, said egna myndigheter använde högt känslig ny utrustning för att föra grundliga sökanden på handelsresandear.

”Reser så många folk nu till Dubai, och, som vi ser, har många ingen idé vad riskerar dem tar eller deras sårbarhet till detta mycket strikt att närma sig,” sade hon.

Var nog som tilldrar ett four-year fängelsestraff för ombud, ”om de finner något belopp - ingen materia, hur minimalt - det ska.

”Vad många handelsresandear inte kan realisera är att de kan ansas för att vara i besittning av sådan förböd vikter, om de kan avkännas i deras urine eller bloodstream, eller even i mycket litet, tracebelopp på deras person. ”

Spruta ut-komma på efterkälken den tablets

Keith bruntet, och hans fru hade varit på deras långt från London till Etiopien, då de stoppades och söktes på den Dubai flygplatsen.

Först kommenderar egenar grundar ingenting, men därefter var en roll-upcigarett prickigt som fångades i däckmönstret av his, skor.

43na som var åriga, från Middlesex, laddades med besittning av 0.003g av cannabisen och dömdes till fyra år i fängelse.


Jag antar att det finns en avkänning av misstro mer, än något annat
katten Lesom rymdes i Dubai
den brittiska invånarekatten Le-Huy arresterades i Dubai för att bära Melatonin spruta ut-kommer på efterkälken tablets, som säljs över kontra i USEN och Dubaien.

Herr Lesom berättades BBC-nyheterna tvingades vägrades han, för att underteckna ett dokument i arabiska och en översättare.

Han sade, när tabletsna bevisades att vara Melatonin, polisen tog vad han beskrev, som smuts från his hänger lös, och sagt de testade nu den för att se, om det var cannabisen.

Tala från insida fängelset, sade han han visste att ingenting av några droger i his hänger lös.

”Antar jag att det finns en avkänning av misstro mer än något annat. Jag missa min vänner, och familjbaksida i den London och I-förmiddagen också som är medveten av den annan spänningen som detta orsakar till vänner och familjen.

”Så långt som min välfärd, I-förmiddagen som den är måste den behandlad förhållandevis brunnen och jag, att gå till och med systemet, och allt vad bana, som tar, jag ska precis, måste att handla med den. ”

Panera olagliga

vikter för rulle förutom, handelsresandear har också rymts för besittning av receptdroger.

Tracy Wilkinson rymdes i arresten för, åtta veckor för egenar kommenderar accepterade kodeinet som hon bar hade ordinerats av henne manipulerar för tillbaka plågor.

Under tiden är en schweizisk medborgare portionen som en four-year arrest benämner, efter tre vallmofrön från en brödrulle han åt på den Heathrow flygplatsen fanns på hans kläder.

Mässaförsök som landskampen har publicerat ett fullt, listar av förböd vikter på dess website.

Det utländska kontoret råder alla handelsresandear som bär några receptdroger för att ta en doktor, märker att specificera exakt varför de behöver medicinen och avkrävadosen.

Uae-ambassaden i London sade att den skulle inte kommentar på denna arrangerar.

Туристы предупреженные законов снадобья cUae.
Automatically translated into Russian thanks to WorldLingo
Туристы предупреженные законов снадобья cUae, путникы к Объединенным эмиратам предупреждаются о своих строгих законах снадобья которые увидели дюжины задержанные для явно незначительня преступление.
Арестования справедливый суд международные сказанные делались излишек малюсенькие количества снадобиь и микстур продаваемых в розницу.

Великобританский туристский коричневый цвет Кейт был присужен до 4 лет в тюрьме после того как таможенный чиновник Дубай считали след 0.003g cannabis после того как они вставлены к его ботинку.

Справедливый суд, законное сказанное призрение, ему видели крутой подъем in such cases.

Золотистое владение

пляжей painkillers как кодеин и некоторое лекарство холода и flu было в состоянии привести к в необходимом четырехклассном предложении тюрьмы, сказанном справедливый суд международное.

В одном из весьма случаев, оно сообщило будучи придержанным человека после того как маковые семенена от крена хлеба были найдены на его одеждах.

In recent years, chic гостиницы, небоскребы и золотистые пляжи поворачивали Дубай и Abu Dhabi в популярные туристские назначения.


Много не имеют никакую идею что рисков они принимают или их уязвимость к этому очень только подходу
Катрин Wolthuizen, дела главы исполнительной власти справедливый суд
международные слишком flocked к cUae, который обещает высокию уровню жизни из-за своего богатства масла.

Однако, пока рассмотрено одна из самых либеральных стран в заливе, законы снадобиь мусульманской страны строги.

В прошлом году, 59 Britons были арестованы в cUae на снадобь-родственных обязанностях, согласно Форину Оффису.


ПРИДЕРЖАЛИ В коричневом цвете
cUae Кейт, 43, Middlesex: Четырехклассный термин тюрьмы для владения 0.003g cannabis
Роберт Dalton, 25, Kent: На пробе для alleged владения 0.03g cannabis
20-year-old, западного - yorkshire: На пробе для alleged владения 0.02g cannabis
Трейси Wilkinson, 45, западный Sussex: Придержали в custody на 8 неделей для владения кодеина перед соотечественником
отпуска швейцарским: Четырехклассный термин тюрьмы после маковых семенен нашел на его источнике
одежд: Справедливый суд международное
Катрин Wolthuizen, главы исполнительной власти справедливый суд международных, сказанные представителей таможни использовали высоки чувствительное новое оборудование для того чтобы дирижировать тщательные поиски на путниках.

«Настолько много людей теперь перемещают к Дубай и, по мере того как мы видим, много не имеют никакую идею что рисков они принимают или их уязвимость к этому очень только подходу,» она сказали.

«Если они находят любое количество - no matter how минута -, то она будет достаточно для того чтобы привлечь необходимое четырехклассное предложение тюрьмы.

«Много путников не могут осуществьте будет что они можно считать, что были в владении таких запрещенных веществ если их можно обнаружить в их моче или bloodstream, то or even в малюсеньком, итоги трассировки на их персоне. »

Двигател-запаздывает коричневый цвет

Кейт таблеток и его супруга находился на их дороге от лондона к эфиопии когда они были остановлены и поисканы на авиапорте Дубай.

Во-первых таможенный чиновник не нашли ничего, но после этого сигарета roll-up была запятнана уловила в проступи его ботинка.

43 year-old, от Middlesex, был поручен с владением 0.003g cannabis и присужен до 4 лет в тюрьме.


Я полагаю будет чувство неверия больше чем что-нибудь еще
кот le-Huy, котор держат в коте
le-Huy Дубай великобританском resident было арестовано в Дубай для носить Melatonin двигател-запаздывает таблетки, которые проданы над счетчиком в США и Дубай.

Г-н le-Huy сказанный новостям BBC он принудился подписать документ в Arabic и отказался переводчику.

Он сказал как только были доказаны, что были таблетки Melatonin, полиции принял он описал по мере того как сказанный dirt от его мешка и они теперь испытывал его для того чтобы увидеть если это было cannabis.

Говорящ from inside тюрьма, он сказал он не знало ничего из любых снадобиь в его мешке.

«Я полагаю будет чувство неверия больше чем что-нибудь еще. Я пропускаю моих друзей и задняя часть семьи в лондоне и мне также осведомленна другого усилия, котор это причиняет к друзьям и семье.

«Далеко как мое благосостояние, я обрабатываюсь относительно наилучшим образом и я должен пойти через систему и любой курс который принимает, я как раз общаться с им. »

Обвалите крен в сухарях

кроме противозаконных веществ, путников также держите для владения снадобиь рецепта.

Трейси Wilkinson держалось в custody для 8 неделей прежде чем таможенный чиновник приняли кодеин, котор она носила была предписана ее доктором для боли в спине.

Между тем, швейцарский соотечественник служит четырехклассный термин тюрьмы после того как 3 макового семенени от крена хлеба, котор он съел на авиапорте Heathrow был найден на его одеждах.

Справедливый суд международные опубликовывали полный перечень запрещенные вещества на своем web site.

Форин Оффис советует всем путникам нося VSе снадобья рецепта для того чтобы принять письмо доктора детализируя точно почему им нужна микстура и точно доза.

Посольство cUae в лондоне сказало оно не прокомментирует на этой стадии.

Toeristen die van V.A.E- drugwetten worden gewaarschuwd.
Automatically translated into Dutch thanks to WorldLingo
De toeristen die van V.A.E- drugwetten worden gewaarschuwd, worden Reizigers aan de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten gewaarschuwd over zijn strenge drugwetten die dozens gezien hebben die voor blijkbaar minder belangrijke inbreuken wordt vastgehouden.
De eerlijke Internationale bovengenoemde arrestaties van Proeven werden gemaakt meer dan uiterst kleine hoeveelheden drugs en geneesmiddelen over de toonbank.

De Britse toerist Keith Brown werd veroordeeld aan vier jaar in gevangenis nadat de de douaneambtenaren van Doubai een spoor 0.003g van cannabis vonden die aan zijn schoen wordt geplakt.

De eerlijke Proeven, een wettelijke liefdadigheid, zeiden het een steile stijging in zulke gevallen heeft gezien.

Het gouden stranden

Bezit van pijnstillers zoals codeïne en één of ander koude en griepmedicijn kon in een verplichte gevangeniszin van vier jaar, Eerlijke bovengenoemd Internationaal van Proeven resulteren.

In één van de extreemste gevallen, meldde het een mens die nadat de papaverzaden van een broodje op zijn kleren werden gevonden wordt gehouden.

De laatste jaren, hebben de elegante hotels, de wolkenkrabbers en de gouden stranden Doubai en Abu Dhabi in populaire toeristenbestemmingen veranderd.


Velen hebben geen idee welke risico's zij nemen of hun aan deze zeer strikte benadering Catherine
Wolthuizen kwetsbaarheid, Eerlijke Proeven de Internationale president
Ondernemingen ook aan de V.A.E zijn bijeengekomen, wat een hoge levensstandaard wegens zijn olierijkdom belooft.

Nochtans, terwijl het één van de meest liberale landen in de Golf wordt overwogen, zijn de de drugswetten van het Moslimland streng.

Vorig jaar, werden 59 Britten gearresteerd in de V.A.E op op drugbetrekking hebbende lasten, volgens het Buitenlandse Bureau.


GEHOUDEN IN de V.A.E
Keith Brown, 43, Middlesex: De gevangenistermijn van vier jaar voor bezit van 0.003g van cannabis
Robert Dalton, 25, Kent: Op proef voor zogenaamd bezit van 0.03g van 20-jaar-oude
cannabis, West-Yorkshire: Op proef voor zogenaamd bezit van 0.02g van cannabis
Tracy Wilkinson, 45, West-Sussex: Gehouden in bewaring acht weken voor bezit van codeïne vóór versie
Zwitserse nationaal: De gevangenistermijn van vier jaar na papaverzaden die op zijn klerenBron
wordt gevonden: De eerlijke Proeven Internationale
Catherine Wolthuizen, president van Eerlijke Internationale Proeven, zeiden de douaneautoriteiten hoogst gevoelig nieuw materiaal gebruikten om grondige onderzoeken op reizigers te leiden.

„Zo vele mensen reizen nu naar Doubai en, zoals wij zien, hebben velen geen idee welke risico's zij nemen of hun aan deze zeer strikte benadering kwetsbaarheid,“ zij zeiden.

„Als zij vinden om het even welk bedrag - geen kwestie hoe minuut - het genoeg zal zijn om een verplichte gevangeniszin aan te trekken van vier jaar.

„Wat vele reizigers niet kunnen realiseren is dat zij kunnen worden geacht om in bezit van dergelijke verboden substanties te zijn als zij in hun urine of bloedsomloop, of zelfs in uiterst kleine, spoorbedragen op hun persoon kunnen worden ontdekt. De“

tabletten Keith

Brown van de straal-vertraging en zijn vrouw waren op hun manier van Londen aan Ethiopië geweest toen zij werden tegengehouden en bij de luchthaven van Doubai werden gezocht.

Eerst vonden de douaneambtenaren niets, maar toen was een broodje-omhooggaande sigaret bevlekt gevangen in het loopvlak van zijn schoen.

De 43 éénjarigen, van Middlesex, werden belast met bezit van 0.003g van cannabis en werden veroordeeld aan vier jaar in gevangenis.


Ik veronderstel er een betekenis van disbelief is meer dan iets anders
Kat le-Huy, die bij de Britse ingezetene
Kat le-Huy wordt gehouden van Doubai in Doubai voor het dragen van Melatonin straal-vertragingstabletten werd gearresteerd, die over de teller in de V.S. en Doubai worden verkocht.

M. Le-Huy vertelde BBC Nieuws hij werd gedwongen om een document in Arabisch te ondertekenen en een vertaler werd geweigerd.

Hij zei zodra de tabletten om Melatonin werden bewezen te zijn, nam de politie wat hij als vuil van zijn zak beschreef en zei zij het nu testten om te zien of was het cannabis.

Sprekend van binnenuit de gevangenis, zei hij hij niets van om het even welke drugs in zijn zak kende.

„Ik veronderstel er een betekenis van disbelief meer dan iets anders is. Ik mis mijn vrienden en familie terug in Londen en ik ben me ook bewust van de andere spanning dit aan vrienden en familie veroorzaakt.

„Voor zover mijn welzijn, ik vrij goed word behandeld en ik door het systeem moet gaan en de weg die neemt, zal ik enkel het moeten behandelen. “

Is het broodje

ongeacht onwettige substanties, reizigers ook gehouden voor bezit van voorschriftdrugs.

Tracy Wilkinson werd gehouden in bewaring acht weken alvorens de douaneambtenaren goedkeurden de codeïne zij droeg door haar arts voor rugpijnen was voorgeschreven.

Ondertussen, dient een Zwitserse ingezetene een gevangenistermijn van vier jaar na drie papaverzaden van een broodje dat hij bij de luchthaven van Heathrow heeft gegeten werd gevonden op zijn kleren.

De eerlijke Internationale Proeven heeft een volledige lijst van verboden substanties op zijn website gepubliceerd.

Het buitenlandse Bureau adviseert alle reizigers die om het even welke voorschriftdrugs dragen om de brief van een arts te nemen precies detaillerend waarom zij de geneeskunde en de nauwkeurige dosis nodig hebben.

De ambassade van de V.A.E in Londen zei het niet in dit stadium zou becommentariëren.

سائحات يحذّر من [أو] عقار قانون.
Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo
حذّرت سائحات يحذّر من [أو] عقار قانون, مسافرات إلى الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة يكون حول ه قاسية عقار قانون أيّ قد رأى دزينات يحتجز لمخالفات ثانويّة ظاهريّا.
محاكمات عادلة دوليّة يقول جعلت إعتقالات كان يكون على كميات بالغ الصّغر من عقارات وعلى ال - الطبّ مضادّة.

بريطانيّة سياحيّة [كيث] حكمت بني كان إلى أربعة سنون في سجن عقب دبي [كستوم وفّيسر] أسّسوا [0.003غ] أثر الحشيش ب التصق إلى حذاءه.

قد رأى محاكمات عادلة, جائز إحسان, يقال هو إرتفاع شديد انحدار [إين سوش كسس].

ذهبيّة شواطئ

امتلاك ال [بينكيلّر] مثل كوديين وبعض برد وإنفلونزا تداوي استطاع نتجت في إجباريّة لمدّة أربع سنوات سجن جملة, محاكمات عادلة دوليّة يقول.

في واحدة من الحالة قصوى أكثر, أفاد هو رجل يكون يمسك عقب [بوبّي سد] من خبز لف كان أسّست على ملابسه.

[إين رسنت رس], قد التفت فنادق [شك], ناطحة سحاب وشواطئ ذهبيّة دبي و [أبو دهبي] داخل غايات شعبيّة سياحيّة.


كثير يتلقّى ما من فكرة ما أخطار هم يكون يأخذون أو جروحيتهم إلى هذا مقاربة
صارمة [كثرين] [وولثويزن] جدّا, محاكمات عادلة دوليّة رئيس
قد احتشد أعمال أيضا إلى ال [أو], أيّ يعد معيار عال من يعيش بسبب ه زيت ثروة.

مهما, بينما هو يكون اعتبرت واحدة من البلاد ليبراليّة أكثر في الخليج, المسلمة بلاد عقارات قانون قاسية.

[لست ر], 59 أوقفت [بريتون] كان في ال [أو] على حشوات [دروغس-رلتد], وفقا ل المكتب أجنبيّة.


يمسك في ال [أو]
[كيث] بني, 43, [ميدّلسإكس]: لمدّة أربع سنوات سجن عبارة لامتلاك ال [0.003غ] من حشيش
روبرت دالتون, 25, كانت: على محاكمة لامتلاك مزعومة [0.03غ] من حشيش
[20-ر-ولد], [وست-وركشير]: على محاكمة لامتلاك مزعومة [0.02غ] من حشيش
[ترسي] [ويلكينسن], 45, [سوسّإكس] غربيّة: يمسك في رعاية لثمانية أسابيع لامتلاك الكوديين قبل إطلاق
مواطنة سويسريّة: لمدّة أربع سنوات سجن أسّس عبارة بعد [بوبّي سد] على ه ملابس
مصدر: استعمل محاكمات عادلة [كثرين] دوليّة
[وولثويزن], رئيس من محاكمات عادلة دوليّة, يقول [كستوم وثوريتي] كان تجهيز حسّاسة جديدة جدّا أن يوصل بحوت كاملة على مسافرات.

"يسافر هكذا كثير الناس الآن إلى دبي و, بما أنّ نحن يكون نرى, كثير يتلقّى ما من فكرة ما أخطار هم يكون يأخذون أو جروحيتهم إلى هذا مقاربة صارمة جدّا," هو قال.

"إن هم يجدون أيّ مبلغة - [نو متّر هوو] دقيقة - سيكون هو كافي أن يجذب إجباريّة لمدّة أربع سنوات سجن جملة.

"ماذا كثير مسافرات يمكنون لا يحقّق يكون أنّ هم يستطيع كنت اعتبرت أن يكون في امتلاك من هذا يحظر مواد إن هم يستطيع كنت كشفت في هم بول أو دورة دمويّة, [أر فن] في بالغ الصّغر, [ترس موونت] على شخصهم. "

[جت-لغ] قروص

[كيث] بني وكان زوجته قد كان على طريقهم من لندن إلى أثيوبيا عندما هم كان توقّفت وبحثت في دبي مطار.

أوّلا أسّس [كستوم وفّيسر] لاشيء, غير أنّ بعد ذلك [رولّ-وب] سيجارة كان [سبوتّد] مسك في الأثر من حذاءه.

ال 43 حمّلت [ير-ولد], من [ميدّلسإكس], كان مع امتلاك ال [0.003غ] من حشيش وكان حكمت إلى أربعة سنون في سجن.


أنا أفترض هناك إحساس الإنكار أكثر من أوقفت [أنثينغ لس]
قطة [ل-هوي], يمسك في دبي
قطة بريطانيّة مقيمة [ل-هوي] كان في دبي ل يحمل [ملتونين] [جت-لغ] قروص, أيّ يكون بعت على العداد في ال [أوس] ودبي.

سيد [ل-هوي] يقال [بّك] أخبار أجبرت هو كان أن يقع وثيقة في العربية وكان رفضت مترجمة.

هو قال ما إن القروص كان برهنت أن يكون [ملتونين], شرطة أخذ ماذا هو وصف بما أنّ وسخ من حقيبته ويقول هم كان الآن اختبر هو أن يرى إن هو كان حشيش.

يتكلّم [فروم ينسد] السجن, قال هو هو عرف لاشيء من أيّ عقارات في حقيبته.

"يفترض أنا هناك إحساس الإنكار أكثر من [أنثينغ لس]. أنا أفتقد صديقاتي وأسرة ظهر في لندن وأنا أيضا مدركة من الأخرى إجهاد هذا يكون يسبّب إلى صديقات وأسرة.

"لغاية خيري, عاملت أنا يكون نسبيّا جيّدا وأنا يضطرّ ذهبت من خلال النظامة وأيّما ممر أنّ يأخذ, أنا فقط سأضطرّ عالجت مع هو. "

كسا بفتات الخبز لف

[أسد فروم] مواد غير شرعيّ, مسافرات يتلقّى أيضا يكون أمسكت لامتلاك من وصف عقارات.

أمسكت [ترسي] [ويلكينسن] كان في رعاية لثمانية أسابيع قبل أن [كستوم وفّيسر] قبلوا الكوديين هو كان حمل تلقّى يكون وصفت بدكتورته ل [بك بين].

في الوقت نفسه, يخدم مواطنة سويسريّة لمدّة أربع سنوات سجن عبارة عقب ثلاثة [بوبّي سد] من خبز لف هو أكل في [هثروو] مطار كان أسّست على ملابسه.

قد نشر محاكمات عادلة دوليّة يشبع قائمة ميلان إلى جانب من يحظر مواد على موقعته.

[أدفيز] المكتب أجنبيّة كلّ مسافرات يحمل أيّ وصف عقارات أن يأخذ دكتورة حرف يفصل تماما لما هم يحتاجون الالطبّ والجرعة دقيقة.

ال [أو] قال سفارة في لندن هو لم يعلق [أت ثيس ستج].

Egypt arrests militants from Gaza,Egypt has arrested 15 Palestinians armed with weapons and explosives who are believed to have crossed the Gaza border since it was breached last week.
The men, who were detained in the Sinai peninsula, also had detonators, flak jackets and grenades.

The arrests came as Egyptian government officials held talks with the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, on how to re-establish border controls.

A Hamas official said progress had been made, but no agreement was reached.

The group, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in June, is pressing for a role in how the border crossing is operated in the future.

Hamas has indicated that it could prevent Egypt from sealing the frontier if it is not officially recognised. A previous Egyptian attempt last Friday ended with militants bulldozing a second hole in the border.


Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had been crossing freely into Egypt near the town of Rafah since 23 January to buy essential supplies made scarce by a recent tightened Israeli blockade.

The Israeli government imposed the restrictions a week earlier after a sharp rise in rocket attacks by militants based in Gaza.

Weapons smuggling

Egyptian officials said suspected militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad were among the 15 Palestinians arrested near the border town of al-Arish and in remote parts of Sinai in recent days.


We will not give up our legitimacy to anybody
Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar
All of those detained had entered Egypt via Rafah, apart from two who had travelled from Gulf Arab states, they added.

Police are reportedly looking for four other armed Palestinians who are believed to have crossed the border.

Israel has said it is concerned that militants are taking advantage of the freedom of movement to bolster their stores of weapons and explosives.

It has also warned that foreign militants might use the opportunity to infiltrate the coastal territory and launch attacks on Israel.


GAZA BLOCKADE
17 January: Israel seals border following rise in rocket attacks
20 January: Gaza's only power plant shuts down
22 January: Israel eases restrictions
22 January: Egyptian border guards disperse Palestinian protest against closure
23 January: Border wall breached

In order to limit such activity, Egyptian security forces have maintained a tight security cordon in place around the border area to keep Palestinians from travelling further into Egypt.

Barbed wire and cement has also been used to close sections of the border and Egyptian troops have been deployed along the breaches.

On Friday, the forces began preventing Palestinian vehicles crossing into Egypt, but are still allowing people to enter on foot. Heavily-laden Egyptian trucks are also being allowed to continue transporting supplies into Gaza.

A senior Egyptian security official told Reuters news agency on Thursday that there had still not been official word on when the borders would be closed completely.

He said any closure would be incremental to avoid friction with Palestinians.

'Contradicts reality'

The Egyptian government has held talks in Cairo with both Hamas, which controls Gaza, and the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters that Thursday's talks had "concentrated on the facilitation of movement and the entry of Palestinians on the Egyptian-Palestinian border".


"It is still early to talk about details," he said.

Mr Abbas has rejected Hamas' claim over the border and reiterated his refusal to negotiate with Hamas leaders.

"Hamas has to end its coup in Gaza, accept all international obligations, and accept holding early elections," he told a press conference. "After that, our hearts are open for any dialogue."

But Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar said yesterday that discussion about shared control "contradicts reality".

"The reality is that there is a legitimate government. We will not give up our legitimacy to anybody," he said.

Nevertheless, Mr Zahhar said that while no agreement had been reached, some progress had been made.

Cairo wants to see a return to a 2005 agreement by which the border would be controlled by the Palestinian Authority and monitored by the EU and Israel.

Contredit la réalité.
Automatically translated into French thanks to WorldLingo
L'Egypte arrête des militants de Gaza, l'Egypte a arrêté 15 Palestiniens armés avec des armes et les explosifs qui sont censés avoir franchi la frontière de Gaza puisqu'elle a été ouverte une brèche la semaine dernière.
Les hommes, qui ont été détenus dans la péninsule de Sinai, ont également eu des détonateurs, des gilets pare-balles et des grenades.

Les arrestations sont venues comme les fonctionnaires de gouvernement égyptiens tenus parle avec le groupe militant palestinien, Hamas, sur la façon dont rétablir des commandes de frontière.

Progrès officiel de Hamas ledit avait été accompli, mais aucun accord n'a été conclu.

Le groupe, qui a saisi la commande de la bande de Gaza en juin, encourage un rôle dans la façon dont le passage des frontières est actionné à l'avenir.

Hamas a indiqué qu'il pourrait empêcher l'Egypte de sceller la frontière si on ne l'identifie pas officiellement. Une tentative égyptienne précédente le vendredi passé a fini avec des militants aplanissant au bulldozer un deuxième trou dans la frontière.


Les centaines de milliers de Palestiniens avaient croisé librement en l'Egypte près de la ville de Rafah depuis le 23 janvier pour acheter les approvisionnements essentiels rendus rares par un blocus israélien serré récent.

Le gouvernement israélien a imposé les restrictions par semaine plus tôt après qu'une élévation pointue dans la fusée attaque par des militants ait basé dans Gaza.

Les armes passant

les fonctionnaires égyptiens dits ont suspecté que les militants de Hamas et le Jihad islamique aient été parmi les 15 Palestiniens aient arrêté près de la ville de frontière d'Al-Arish et dans les parties à distance de Sinai en jours récents.


Nous n'abandonnerons pas à notre légitimité à quiconque
le Chef Mahmoud Zahhar de Hamas que
toute la ceux détenus était entré dans l'Egypte par l'intermédiaire de Rafah, indépendamment de deux qui avaient voyagé des états arabes de Golfe, ils nous sommes ajoutés.

La police recherche censément quatre autres Palestiniens armés qui sont censés avoir franchi la frontière.

L'Israel a indiqué qu'on le concerne que les militants tirent profit de la libre circulation pour soutenir leurs stocks d'armes et d'explosifs.

Il a également averti que les militants étrangers pourraient employer l'occasion d'infiltrer le territoire côtier et de lancer des attaques sur l'Israel.


BLOCUS le 17 janvier
de GAZA : L'élévation suivante de frontière de joints de l'Israel dans la fusée attaque
le 20 janvier : La seule centrale de Gaza s'arrête
le 22 janvier : L'Israel soulage des restrictions
le 22 janvier : Les gardes égyptiennes de frontière dispersent la protestation palestinienne contre la fermeture
le 23 janvier : Encadrez le mur ouvert une brèche

afin de limiter une telle activité, les forces égyptiennes de sécurité ont maintenu un cordon serré de sécurité en place autour de la zone frontalière pour garder des Palestiniens du déplacement plus loin en l'Egypte.

Le barbelé et le ciment a été également employé pour fermer des sections de la frontière et des troupes égyptiennes ont été déployées le long des infractions.

Vendredi, les forces ont commencé à empêcher les véhicules palestiniens croisant en l'Egypte, mais permettent toujours à des personnes d'entrer à pied. on permet aux des camions égyptiens Lourd-chargés également de continuer de transporter des approvisionnements dans Gaza.

Un fonctionnaire égyptien aîné de sécurité a dit l'agence de nouvelles de Reuters jeudi qu'il n'y avait toujours pas eu mot officiel sur quand les frontières seraient fermées complètement.

Il dit n'importe quelle fermeture serait par accroissement pour éviter le frottement avec des Palestiniens.

« Contredit la réalité » que

le gouvernement égyptien a tenu des entretiens au Caire avec Hamas, qui commande Gaza, et le président de l'autorité palestinienne Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas Sami officiel Abu Zuhri a indiqué à Reuters que les entretiens de jeudi « s'étaient concentrés sur la facilitation du mouvement et de l'entrée des Palestiniens sur la frontière Égyptien-Palestinienne ».


« Il est encore tôt pour parler des détails, » il a dit.

M. Abbas a rejeté la réclamation de Hamas au-dessus de la frontière et a réitéré son refus pour être en pourparlers avec des chefs de Hamas.

« Hamas doit finir son coup dans Gaza, accepter tous les engagements internationaux, et accepter tenir des élections tôt, » il a dit une conférence de presse. « Après celui, nos coeurs sont ouverts pour n'importe quel dialogue.  »

Mais le Chef Mahmoud Zahhar de Hamas a dit hier que la discussion sur la commande partagée « contredit la réalité ».

« La réalité est qu'il y a un gouvernement légitime. Nous n'abandonnerons pas notre légitimité à quiconque, « il a dit.

Néanmoins, M. Zahhar a dit que tandis qu'aucun accord n'avait été conclu, du progrès avait été accompli.

Le Caire veut voir un retour à un accord 2005 par lequel la frontière serait commandée par l'autorité palestinienne et surveillée par l'UE et l'Israel.

Contradice realidad.
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Egipto arresta militants de Gaza, Egipto ha arrestado a 15 palestinos armados con las armas y los explosivos que se creen haber cruzado la frontera de Gaza puesto que fue practicada una abertura la semana pasada.
Los hombres, que fueron detenidos en la península de Sinaí, también tenían los detonadores, las chaquetas del fuego antiaéreo y granadas.

Las detenciones vinieron como los oficiales del gobierno egipcios sostenidos hablan con el grupo militante palestino, Hamas, en cómo reestablecer controles de la frontera.

Un progreso dicho oficial de Hamas había sido hecho, pero no se alcanzó ningún acuerdo.

El grupo, que agarró el control de la tira de Gaza en junio, está presionando para un papel en cómo el paso de frontera se funciona en el futuro.

Hamas ha indicado que podría evitar que Egipto selle la frontera si no se reconoce oficialmente. Una tentativa egipcia anterior el viernes pasado terminó con los militants bulldozing un segundo agujero en la frontera.


Los centenares de millares de palestinos se habían estado cruzando libremente en Egipto cerca de la ciudad de Rafah desde el 23 de enero para comprar fuentes esenciales hechas escasas por un bloqueo israelí apretado reciente.

El gobierno israelí impuso las restricciones a la semana anterior después de que una subida aguda del cohete ataque por los militants basara en Gaza.

Las armas que pasaban de contrabando

a funcionarios egipcios dichos sospecharon que los militants de Hamas y de Jihad islámico estaban entre los 15 palestinos arrestaron cerca de la ciudad de la frontera del al-Arish y en partes alejadas de Sinaí en días recientes.


No daremos para arriba a nuestra legitimidad cualquiera
el líder Mahmoud Zahhar de Hamas que
todos los ésos detenidos había entrado en Egipto vía Rafah, aparte de dos quiénes habían viajado de estados árabes del golfo, ellos agregamos.

El policía está buscando según se informa a cuatro otros palestinos armados que se crean haber cruzado la frontera.

Israel ha dicho que está referido que los militants se están aprovechando de la libertad movimiento para alentar sus almacenes de armas y de explosivos.

También ha advertido que los militants extranjeros pudieron utilizar la oportunidad de infiltrar el territorio costero y de lanzar ataques contra Israel.


BLOQUEO el 17 de enero
de GAZA: La subida de siguiente de la frontera de los sellos de Israel del cohete ataca
el 20 de enero: La única central eléctrica de Gaza cierra
el 22 de enero: Israel facilita las restricciones
el 22 de enero: Los protectores egipcios de la frontera dispersan protesta palestina contra el encierro
el 23 de enero: Confine la pared practicada una abertura

para limitar tal actividad, las fuerzas egipcias de la seguridad han mantenido un cordón apretado de la seguridad en lugar alrededor de la zona fronteriza para guardar a palestinos de viajar más lejos en Egipto.

El alambre de púas y el cemento también se ha utilizado para cerrar las secciones de la frontera y han desplegado a las tropas egipcias a lo largo de las aberturas.

El viernes, las fuerzas comenzaron a prevenir los vehículos palestinos que se cruzaban en Egipto, pero todavía están permitiendo que la gente entrara a pie. los carros egipcios Pesado-cargados también se están permitiendo continuar transportando fuentes en Gaza.

Un funcionario egipcio mayor de la seguridad dijo la agencia de noticias de Reuters el jueves que todavía no hubiera habido palabra oficial en cuando las fronteras serían cerradas totalmente.

Él dicho cualquier encierro sería incremental evitar la fricción con los palestinos.

“Contradice realidad” que

el gobierno egipcio ha llevado a cabo negociaciones en El Cairo con Hamas, que controla a Gaza, y el presidente de la autoridad palestina Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas Sami oficial Abu Zuhri dijo a Reuters que las negociaciones de jueves “se hubieran concentrado en la facilitación del movimiento y de la entrada de palestinos en la frontera Egipcio-Palestina”.


“Sigue siendo temprano hablar de los detalles,” él dijo.

Sr. Abbas ha rechazado la demanda de Hamas sobre la frontera y ha reiterado su denegación para negociar con los líderes de Hamas.

“Hamas tiene que terminar su golpe en Gaza, aceptar todas las obligaciones internacionales, y aceptar celebrar elecciones tempranas,” él dijo una rueda de prensa. “Después de ése, nuestros corazones están abiertos para cualquier diálogo. ”

Solamente el líder Mahmoud Zahhar de Hamas dijo ayer que la discusión sobre control compartido “contradice realidad”.

“La realidad es que hay un gobierno legítimo. No daremos para arriba nuestra legitimidad cualquiera, “él dijo.

Sin embargo, Sr. Zahhar dijo que mientras que no se había alcanzado ningún acuerdo, un cierto progreso había sido hecho.

El Cairo desea ver una vuelta a un acuerdo 2005 por el cual la frontera sería controlada por la autoridad palestina y supervisada por el EU y el Israel.

Contraddice la realtà.
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L'Egitto arresta i militanti da Gaza, l'Egitto ha arrestato 15 Palestinesi muniti con le armi e gli esplosivi che si credono attraversare il bordo del Gaza poiché è stato aperto un varco ultima settimana.
Gli uomini, che sono stati ritenuti nella penisola del Sinai, inoltre hanno avuti i detonatori, i rivestimenti del flak e granate.

Gli arresti sono venuto come colloqui tenuti egiziani dei funzionari di governo con il gruppo palestinese del militante, Hamas, su come ristabilire i comandi del bordo.

I progressi detti ufficiali di Hamas erano stati realizzare, ma nessun accordo è raggiunto stato.

Il gruppo, che ha grippato il controllo della striscia di Gaza in giugno, sta facendo pressione per un ruolo in come l'incrocio di bordo è funzionato in avvenire.

Hamas ha indicato che potrebbe impedire l'Egitto il sigillamento della frontiera se non è riconosciuto ufficialmente. Un tentativo egiziano precedente ultimo venerdì si è concluso con i militanti che bulldozing un secondo foro nel bordo.


Le centinaia dei migliaia dei Palestinesi stavano attraversando liberamente dal 23 gennaio in Egitto vicino alla città di Rafah per comprare i rifornimenti essenziali resi limitati da un blocco israeliano stretto recente.

Il governo israeliano ha imposto più presto le limitazioni un la settimana dopo che un brusco aumento in razzo attacasse dai militanti basasse in Gaza.

I funzionari egiziani

di contrabbando delle armi detti hanno ritenuto sospetto che i militanti da Hamas e da Jihad islamico erano fra i 15 Palestinesi hanno arrestato vicino alla città del bordo di Al-Arish e nelle parti a distanza del Sinai nei giorni recenti.


Non daremo in su alla nostra legittimità a qualcuno
il capo Mahmoud Zahhar che di Hamas
tutti i quelli ritenuti aveva entrato nell'Egitto via Rafah, oltre a due chi aveva viaggiato dall'arabo del golfo dichiara, ha aggiunto.

La polizia secondo come riferito sta cercando altri quattro Palestinesi muniti che si credono attraversare il bordo.

L'Israele ha detto che è interessato che i militanti stanno approfittando della libertà di movimento per sostenere i loro depositi delle armi e degli esplosivi.

Inoltre ha avvertito che i militanti stranieri potrebbero usare l'occasione infiltrarsi nel territorio litoraneo e lanciare gli attacchi all'Israele.


BLOCCO il 17 gennaio
del GAZA: L'aumento seguente del bordo delle guarnizioni dell'Israele in razzo attaca
il 20 gennaio: L'unica centrale elettrica del Gaza interrompe
il 22 gennaio: L'Israele facilita le limitazioni
il 22 gennaio: Le protezioni egiziane del bordo disperdono la protesta palestinese contro chiusura
il 23 gennaio: Border la parete aperta un varco

per limitare tale attività, forze egiziane di sicurezza hanno effettuato un cordone stretto di sicurezza sul posto intorno alla zona di frontiera per mantenere i Palestinesi dal viaggiare più ulteriormente in Egitto.

Il filo spinato ed il cemento inoltre è stato usato per chiudere le sezioni del bordo e le truppe egiziane sono state schierate lungo le fratture.

Il venerdì, le forze hanno cominciato ad impedire i veicoli palestinesi che attraversano in Egitto, ma ancora che stanno permettendo che la gente entrasse a piedi. i camion egiziani Pesante-carichi inoltre stanno permettendi continuare a trasportare i rifornimenti in Gaza.

Un funzionario egiziano maggiore di sicurezza ha detto all'agenzia di notizie di Reuters il giovedì che ci ancora non fosse stato parola ufficiale su quando i bordi sarebbero chiusi completamente.

Detto tutta la chiusura sarebbe incrementale evitare l'attrito con i Palestinesi.

“Contraddice la realtà„ che

il governo egiziano ha tenuto i colloqui a Cairo con sia Hamas, che controlla Gaza che il presidente dell'autorità palestinese Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas Sami ufficiale Abu Zuhri ha detto a Reuters a che i colloqui del giovedì “si fossero concentrati sulla facilitazione di movimento e dell'entrata dei Palestinesi sul bordo Egiziano-Palestinese„.


“È ancora in anticipo parlare dei particolari,„ ha detto.

Il sig. Abbas ha rifiutato il reclamo del Hamas sopra il bordo ed ha ripetuto il suo rifiuto per negoziare con i capi di Hamas.

“Hamas deve concludere il relativo colpo in Gaza, accettare tutti gli obblighi internazionali ed accettare le elezioni iniziali della tenuta,„ ha detto ad una conferenza stampa. “Dopo quello, i nostri cuori sono aperti per tutto il dialogo. „

Ma il capo Mahmoud Zahhar di Hamas ha detto ieri che la discussione circa controllo comune “contraddice la realtà„.

“La realtà è che ci è un governo legittimo. Non daremo in su la nostra legittimità a qualcuno, “ha detto.

Tuttavia, il sig. Zahhar ha detto che mentre nessun accordo era stato raggiunto, i certi progressi erano stati realizzare.

Cairo desidera vedere un ritorno ad un accordo 2005 da cui il bordo sarebbe controllare dall'autorità palestinese ed è stato verificato dall'UE e dall'Israele.

Widerspricht Wirklichkeit.
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Ägypten hält militants von Gaza fest, hat Ägypten 15 Palästinenser festgehalten, die mit Waffen bewaffnet werden und Explosivstoffe, die geglaubt werden, den Gaza Rand gekreuzt zu haben, da er letzte Woche durchgebrochen wurde.
Die Männer, die in der Sinai Halbinsel zurückgehalten wurden, hatten auch Zündkapseln, Flakfeuerjacken und Granaten.

Die Anhalten kamen, wie die ägyptischen gehaltenen Regierungsbeamten mit der palästinensischen militanten Gruppe spricht, Hamas, auf, wie man Randkontrollen wieder herstellt.

Ein Hamas amtlicher besagter Fortschritt war gebildet worden, aber keine Vereinbarung wurde erreicht.

Die Gruppe, die Steuerung des Gazastreifens im Juni ergriff, betätigt sich für eine Rolle in, wie die Grenzüberschreitung zukünftig bearbeitet wird.

Hamas hat angezeigt, daß es verhindern könnte, daß Ägypten die Grenze versiegelt, wenn es nicht offiziell erkannt wird. Ein vorhergehender ägyptischer Versuch letzter Freitag beendete mit den militants, die eine zweite Bohrung im Rand aus dem Weg räumen.


Hunderte Tausenden Palästinenser hatten frei in Ägypten nahe der Stadt von Rafah seit dem 23. Januar gekreuzt, um die wesentlichen Versorgungsmaterialien gebildet knapp zu kaufen durch eine neue festgezogene israelische Blockade.

Die israelische Regierung erlegte die Beschränkungen ein Woche früh auf, nachdem ein scharfer Aufstieg in der Rakete durch militants gründete in Gaza angreift.

Die Waffen, welche die ägyptischen

gesagten Beamten schmuggeln, vermuteten, daß militants von Hamas und von islamischem Jihad zu den 15 Palästinensern festhielten nahe der Randstadt des Als-Arish und in den Remoteteilen von Sinai an den neuen Tagen gehörten.


Wir geben oben unserer Legitimität zu jedem Hamas
Führer Mahmoud Zahhar nicht
allen denen zurückgehalten Ägypten über Rafah betreten hatte, abgesehen von zwei wer von den arabischen Zuständen des Golfs gereist waren, sie hinzufügten.

Polizei sucht angeblich vier andere bewaffnete Palästinenser, die geglaubt werden, den Rand gekreuzt zu haben.

Israel hat gesagt, daß es betroffen wird, daß militants die Bewegungsfreiheit nutzen, um ihre Speicher der Waffen und der Explosivstoffe zu polstern.

Es hat auch gewarnt, daß fremde militants die Gelegenheit verwenden konnten, die Küstengegend einzusickern und Angriffe auf Israel auszustoßen.


GAZA BLOCKADE
17. Januar: Folgender Aufstieg des Israel Dichtungen Randes in der Rakete nimmt
20. Januar in Angriff: Schließt einziges Kraftwerk Gazas
22. Januar: Israel erleichtert Beschränkungen
22. Januar: Ägyptischer Randschutz zerstreut palästinensischen Protest gegen Schliessen
23. Januar: Fassen Sie die Wand ein, die durchgebrochen wird

, um solche Tätigkeit zu begrenzen, ägyptische Sicherheit Kräfte, haben beibehalten eine feste Sicherheit Schnur an der richtigen Stelle um das Grenzgebiet, um Palästinenser vom Reisen weiter in Ägypten zu halten.

Stacheldraht und Kleber ist auch benutzt worden, um Abschnitte des Randes zu schließen und ägyptische Truppen sind entlang den Brüchen entfaltet worden.

Am Freitag fingen die Kräfte an, die palästinensischen Träger zu verhindern, die in Ägypten kreuzen, aber erlauben noch Leuten, auf Fuß hereinzukommen. Schwer-beladene ägyptische LKWas werden auch Versorgungsmaterialien in, Gaza zu transportieren fortfahren lassen.

Ein älterer ägyptischer Sicherheit Beamter erklärte Reuters Nachrichtenagentur am Donnerstag, daß es noch nicht amtliches Wort auf gegeben hatte, als die Ränder vollständig geschlossen würden.

Er besagt jedes mögliches Schliessen würde zusätzlich sein, Friktion mit Palästinensern zu vermeiden.

„Widerspricht Wirklichkeit,“, welches

die ägyptische Regierung Gespräche in Kairo mit Hamas, das Gaza steuert und dem Präsidenten der palästinensischen Berechtigung Mahmoud Abbas gehalten hat.

Hamas amtlicher Sami Abu Zuhri erklärte Reuters, daß Gespräche Donnerstags „sich auf die Erleichterung der Bewegung und der Eintragung der Palästinenser auf dem Ägyptisch-Palästinensischen Rand konzentriert hatten“.


„Es ist noch früh, über Details zu sprechen,“ sagte er.

Herr Abbas hat Anspruch Hamas über dem Rand zurückgewiesen und seine Ablehnung reiteriert, um mit Hamas Führern zu vermitteln.

„Hamas muß seinen Coup in Gaza beenden, alle internationalen Verpflichtungen anzunehmen, und das Halten der frühen Wahlen anzunehmen,“ erklärte er eine Pressekonferenz. „Nach dem, sind unsere Herzen für jeden möglichen Dialog geöffnet. “

Aber Hamas Führer Mahmoud Zahhar sagte gestern, daß Diskussion über geteilte Steuerung „Wirklichkeit“ widerspricht.

„Die Wirklichkeit ist, daß es eine gesetzmaßige Regierung gibt. Wir geben jedem oben unsere Legitimität nicht, „er sagte.

Dennoch sagte Herr Zahhar, daß, während keine Vereinbarung erreicht worden war, etwas Fortschritt gebildet worden war.

Kairo möchte eine Rückkehr zu einer Vereinbarung 2005 sehen, durch die der Rand durch die palästinensische Berechtigung gesteuert würde und durch das EU und das Israel überwacht.

Contradicts a realidade.
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Egipto prende militants de Gaza, Egipto prenderam 15 Palestinians armados com as armas e os explosivos que são acreditados ter cruzado a beira de Gaza desde que foi rompida última semana.
Os homens, que foram detidos na península de Sinai, tiveram também detonators, revestimentos do flak e grenades.

As apreensões vieram como os oficiais de governo Egyptian prendidos falam com o grupo militant Palestinian, Hamas, em como re-establish controles da beira.

Um progresso dito oficial de Hamas tinha sido feito, mas nenhum acordo foi alcançado.

O grupo, que apreendeu o controle da tira de Gaza em junho, está pressionando para um papel em como o cruzamento de beira é operado no futuro.

Hamas indicou que poderia impedir que Egipto sele a fronteira se não se reconhecesse oficialmente. Uma tentativa Egyptian precedente última sexta-feira terminou com os militants que bulldozing um segundo furo na beira.


As centenas dos milhares dos Palestinians têm-se cruzado livremente em Egipto perto da cidade de Rafah desde 23 janeiro para comprar as fontes essenciais feitas escassas por um blockade Israeli apertado recente.

O governo Israeli impôs as limitações um a semana mais cedo depois que uma ascensão afiada no foguete ataca por militants baseou em Gaza.

As armas que smuggling

os oficiais Egyptian ditos suspeitaram que os militants de Hamas e de Jihad Islamic eram entre os 15 Palestinians prenderam perto da cidade da beira do al-Arish e em partes remotas de Sinai em dias recentes.


Nós não daremos acima a nosso legitimacy a qualquer um
o líder Mahmoud Zahhar que de Hamas
toda a aqueles detidos tinha entrado em Egipto através de Rafah, aparte de dois quem tinham viajado dos estados árabes do golfo, eles adicionamos.

As polícias estão procurando reportedly outros quatro Palestinians armados que são acreditados ter cruzado a beira.

Israel disse que se concerne que os militants estão fazendo exame da vantagem da liberdade de movimento para bolster suas lojas das armas e dos explosivos.

Advertiu também que os militants extrangeiros puderam usar a oportunidade de infiltrate o território litoral e de lançar ataques em Israel.


BLOCKADE de GAZA
17 janeiro: A ascensão seguindo da beira dos selos de Israel no foguete ataca
20 janeiro: Planta de poder de Gaza a única fecha abaixo
22 janeiro: Israel facilita limitações
22 janeiro: Os protetores Egyptian da beira dispersam o protesto Palestinian de encontro ao fechamento
23 janeiro: Limite a parede rompida

a fim limitar tal atividade, forças Egyptian da segurança mantiveram um cordon apertado da segurança no lugar em torno da área de beira para manter Palestinians de viajar mais mais em Egipto.

O arame farpado e o cimento foram usados também fechar seções da beira e as tropas Egyptian foram desdobradas ao longo das rupturas.

Em sexta-feira, as forças começaram a impedir os veículos Palestinian que cruzam-se em Egipto, mas estão permitindo ainda que os povos entrassem no pé. os caminhões Egyptian Pesado-laden estão sendo permitidos também continuar transportando fontes em Gaza.

Um oficial Egyptian sênior da segurança disse a agência de notícia de Reuters em quinta-feira que não tinha havido ainda uma palavra oficial em quando as beiras seriam fechadas completamente.

Dito todo o fechamento seria incremental evitar a fricção com Palestinians.

“Contradicts a realidade” que

o governo Egyptian prendeu conversas no Cairo com o Hamas, que controla Gaza, e o presidente da autoridade Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas Sami oficial Abu Zuhri disse a Reuters que as conversas de quinta-feira “tinham concentrado no facilitation do movimento e da entrada dos Palestinians na beira Egyptian-Palestinian”.


“Está ainda adiantado falar sobre detalhes,” disse.

O Sr. Abbas rejeitou a reivindicação de Hamas sobre a beira e reiterated sua recusa para negociar com os líderes de Hamas.

“Hamas tem que terminar seu coup em Gaza, para aceitar todas as obrigações internacionais, e para aceitar prender eleições adiantadas,” disse uma conferência de imprensa. “Após aquele, nossos corações estão abertos para todo o diálogo. ”

Mas o líder Mahmoud Zahhar de Hamas disse ontem que a discussão sobre o controle compartilhado “contradicts a realidade”.

“A realidade é que há um governo legitimate. Nós não daremos acima nosso legitimacy a qualquer um, “disse.

Não obstante, o Sr. Zahhar disse que quando nenhum acordo tinha sido alcançado, algum progresso tinha sido feito.

O Cairo quer ver um retorno a um acordo 2005 por que a beira seria controlada pela autoridade Palestinian e monitorada pelo EU e pela Israel.

Säger emott verklighet.
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Противоречит реальности.
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Египт арестовывает militants от Gaza, Египт арестовывали 15 палестинцев подготовленных с оружиями и взрывчатки который поверены, что пересекают границу Gaza в виду того что она была пробита брешь последняя неделя.
Люди, которые были задержаны в полуострове Sinai, также имели детонаторы, куртки flak и гранаты.

Арестования пришли по мере того как египетские держат государственные чиновники, котор разговаривают с палестинской militant группой, Hamas, на как восстановить управления граници.

Прогресс Hamas официальный сказанный был сделан, но никакое согласование не достиглось.

Группа, которая заела управление прокладки Gaza в Джун, отжимает для роли в как скрещивание граници эксплуатируется in the future.

Hamas показывало что оно смогло предотвратить Египт от герметизировать frontier если официально не узнано. Ранее египетская попытка последняя пятница закончилась при militants сгребая второе отверстие бульдозером в границе.


Сотниы тысяч палестинцев пересекали свободно в Египт почти городок Rafah с 23-его января для того чтобы купить необходимые поставкы сделанные вряд недавней затягиванной израильской блокадой.

Израильское правительство навело ограничения неделя более раньше после того как острый подъем в ракету атакует militants основал в Gaza.

Сказанные

должностные лица контрабанды оружия египетские заподозрили militants от Hamas и исламского Jihad находилось среди 15 палестинцев арестовало почти городок граници al-Arish и в дистанционных частях Sinai в недавних днях.


Задержанные мы не передадим вверх нашей легитимности к
anybody руководитель Mahmoud Zahhar
Hamas всему из тех вошл Египт через Rafah, отдельно от 2 переместили от положений залива арабских, они добавили.

Полиции сообщено ищут 4 других вооруженных палестинца поверены, что пересекают границу.

Израиль говорил относится что militants take advantage of свобода передвижения подпиреть их магазины валиком оружий и взрывчаток.

Оно также предупреждало что чужие militants могли использовать возможность проинфильтрировать прибрежную территорию и запустить нападения на Израиле.


БЛОКАДА 17-ое января
GAZA: Подъем граници уплотнений Израиля следуя за в ракету атакует
20-ое января: Электрическая станция Gaza единственное shuts down
22-ое января: Израиль облегчает ограничения
22-ое января: Египетские предохранители граници разметывают палестинский протест против закрытия
23-ье января: Граничьте стену пробитую брешь

для того чтобы ограничивать такую RABOTу, египетские силы безопасности поддержите плотно кордон обеспеченностью in place вокруг зоны граници для того чтобы держать палестинцев от перемещать более далее в Египт.

Barbed - провод и цемент также были использованы для того чтобы закрыть разделы граници и египетские войска были раскрыны вдоль проломов.

На пятнице, усилия начали предотвращать палестинские корабли пересекая в Египт, но все еще позволяют людей войти on foot. Тяжел-laden египетские тележки также позволяются продолжать транспортировать поставкы в Gaza.

Старшее египетское должностное лицо обеспеченностью сказало агентство новостей Reuters на четверге что все еще не было официального слова на когда граници были бы закрыны вполне.

Он сказанный любое закрытие был бы дифференциальн для избежания трения с палестинцами.

«Противоречит реальности»

египетское, котор правительство держало беседы в Каире как с Hamas, которое контролирует Gaza, так и с президентом палестинского авторитета Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas официальное Sami Abu Zuhri сказало Reuters что беседы четверга «сконцентрировали на facilitation движения и входа палестинцев на Египетск-Палестинской границе».


«Оно все еще предыдуще для того чтобы talk about детали,» он сказал.

Г-н Abbas излучал заявку Hamas над границей и reiterated его неоказание для того чтобы обсудить с руководителями Hamas.

«Hamas должно закончить свой переворот в Gaza, признавать все международные обязательства, и признавать держать досрочные выборы,» он сказал пресс-конференцию. «После того, наши сердца открыты для любого диалога. »

Только руководитель Mahmoud Zahhar Hamas сказал вчера что обсуждение о, котор делят управлении «противоречит реальности».

«Реальность что будет правомерное правительство. Мы не передадим вверх наша легитимность к anybody, «он сказал.

Однако, г-н Zahhar сказал что пока никакое согласование не достиглось, некоторый прогресс был сделан.

Каир хочет увидеть возвращение к согласованию 2005 граница была бы проконтролирована палестинским авторитетом и бы проконтролирована EU и Израилем.

Spreekt werkelijkheid tegen.
Automatically translated into Dutch thanks to WorldLingo
Egypte arresteert militanten van Gaza, heeft Egypte 15 Palestijnen gearresteerd die met wapens en explosieven worden bewapend die worden verondersteld om de grens van Gaza overschreden te hebben aangezien het vorige week werd overtreden.
De mensen, die in het Sinai schiereiland werden vastgehouden, hadden ook detonators, flak jasjes en granaten.

De arrestaties kwamen aangezien de Egyptische overheidsambtenaren besprekingen met de Palestijnse militante groep, Hamas, op hoe te om grenscontroles opnieuw te vestigen hielden.

Een ambtenaar Hamas zei vooruitgang was geboekt, maar een geen akkoord werd bereikt.

De groep, die controle van de Gazastrook in Juni greep, is aandringend op een rol in hoe de grensovergang in de toekomst in werking wordt gesteld.

Hamas heeft erop gewezen dat het Egypte kon verhinderen de grens te verzegelen als het niet officieel wordt erkend. Een vorige Egyptische poging vorige Vrijdag beëindigde met militanten die een tweede gat in de grens bulldozing.


De honderdduizenden Palestijnen hadden vrij in Egypte dichtbij de stad van Rafah sinds 23 Januari gekruist om essentiële levering te kopen die schaars door een recente aangehaalde Israëlische blokkade wordt gemaakt.

De Israëlische overheid legde de beperkingen een week vroeg na een scherpe stijging van raketaanvallen door op militanten die in Gaza worden gebaseerd.

De wapens die Egyptische

ambtenaren smokkelen zeiden veronderstelde militanten van Hamas en Islamitische Jihad was onder de 15 Palestijnen arresteerde dichtbij de grensstad van al-Arish en in verre delen van Sinai in recente dagen.


Wij zullen onze legitimiteit niet aan om het even wie Hamas
leider Mahmoud Zahhar opgeven
Elk van vastgehouden die Egypte via Rafah, behalve twee wie van de Arabische staten hadden gereist van de Golf waren ingegaan, voegden zij toe.

De politie zoekt naar verluidt vier andere bewapende Palestijnen die worden verondersteld om de grens overschreden te hebben.

Israël heeft gezegd het vreest dat de militanten uit de vrijheid van verkeer voordeel halen hun opslag van wapens en explosieven te ondersteunen.

Het heeft ook ervoor gewaarschuwd dat de buitenlandse militanten de kans zouden kunnen gebruiken om het kustgrondgebied te infiltreren en aanvallen op Israël te lanceren.


BLOKKADE 17
van GAZA Januari: Israël verzegelt grens na stijging van raketaanvallen
20 Januari: Sluit de enige de machtsinstallatie van Gaza
22 Januari: Israël verlicht beperkingen
22 Januari: De Egyptische grenswachten verspreiden Palestijns protest tegen sluiting
23 Januari: De muur van de grens wordt overtreden

die dergelijke activiteit te beperken, heeft Egyptische veiligheidskrachten een strak veiligheidskordon op zijn plaats rond het grensgebied gehandhaafd om Palestijnen te houden van het reizen verder in Egypte.

Het prikkeldraad en het cement zijn ook gebruikt aan dichte secties van de grens en de Egyptische troepen zijn opgesteld langs de breuken.

Voor Vrijdag, begonnen de krachten verhinderend Palestijnse voertuigen kruisend in Egypte, maar staan nog mensen toe om te voet binnen te gaan. De zwaar-geladen Egyptische vrachtwagens worden ook toegestaan blijven vervoerend levering in Gaza.

Een hogere Egyptische veiligheidsambtenaar vertelde het nieuwsagentschap van Reuters op Donderdag dat er nog geen officieel woord was geweest wanneer de grenzen volledig worden gesloten.

Hij zei om het even welke sluiting stijgend zou zijn om wrijving met Palestijnen te vermijden.

„Spreekt werkelijkheid tegen“

de Egyptische overheid besprekingen in Kaïro met zowel Hamas heeft gehouden, die Gaza, en de Voorzitter van de Palestijnse Instantie Mahmoud Abbas controleert.

Hamas officiële Sami Abu Zuhri vertelde Reuters dat de besprekingen van de Donderdag „op het vergemakkelijken van beweging en de ingang van Palestijnen op de Egyptisch-Palestijnse grens“ de nadruk hadden gelegd.


„Het is nog vroeg om over details te spreken,“ hij zei.

M. Abbas heeft de eis van Hamas over de grens verworpen en zijn weigering om met leiders herhaald te onderhandelen Hamas.

„Hamas moet zijn staatsgreep in Gaza beëindigen, alle internationale verplichtingen goedkeuren, en holdings vroege verkiezingen goedkeuren,“ hij vertelde een persconferentie. „Na dat, zijn onze harten open voor om het even welke dialoog. “

Maar Hamas de leider Mahmoud Zahhar zei gisteren dat de bespreking over gedeelde controle „werkelijkheid“ tegenspreekt.

De „werkelijkheid is dat er een wettige overheid is. Wij zullen onze legitimiteit niet aan om het even wie opgeven, „hij zei.

Niettemin, zei M. Zahhar dat terwijl een geen akkoord was bereikt, wat vooruitgang was geboekt.

Kaïro wil een terugkeer aan een overeenkomst van 2005 zien waardoor de grens door de Palestijnse Instantie worden beheerst en zou gecontroleerd worden door de EU en Israël.

يناقض حقيقة.
Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo

Middle East tour diary,George W Bush has concluded a Middle East tour which included his first visit as US president to Israel and the Palestinian territories, as well as stops in the Gulf and Egypt. BBC correspondent Matthew Price, who travelled with him, wrote a diary on his progress.


16 JANUARY - 2230 GMT


I suppose the strangest thing about travelling on Air Force One is the knowledge that just a few metres in front of you on the same plane are some of the worlds most powerful people: Bush, Rice, Hadley. Sitting just up in front. Or in the case of Bush possibly lying in his bed, which is right up in the nose of the plane.

After our mad dash to the airport we rushed to the back of the plane where secret service men checked our passes off on a list and we went on board. Not where you walk on a commercial flight but much lower, similar to where the luggage goes. Up the stairs, probably 20 in all and then there's a landing with the media area, the staff area and the secret service too.

Inside - well, it's grey. Pretty nasty actually. And the media cabin is a bit like being in business seats with economy service. First timers like me get a goody bag. It used to have a box of cigarettes inside with the presidential seal on them, but Nancy Reagan, I'm told, objected, so now you get White House seal M&Ms.

There's no safety announcement. I guess if you're looking after the big man everyone else can fend for themselves. And we didn't have to turn off mobiles - although there's no signal at 33,000 feet! There are 14 seats in the journo area and a couple of TVs.

Bill Clinton used to come back and chat. The photographer next to me said it was bad. You'd be trying to sleep after a gruelling trip and he'd be trying to banter. No such problem with GW. He stays well away from us.

The most interesting thing was how this is the REAL bubble. The motorcade raced us to the tarmac then the plane then we taxied and flew and never once met a real person properly. I know that's modern politics, but I can't help thinking that George W Bush had hardly been abroad when he was elected president and then for the last seven years he has been in a presidential bubble - he's been subjected to this! And he lives in Washington, divorced as that place can be from real life too!


I just realised while writing that I woke up this morning in Riyadh, dropped in on Sharm el-Sheikh, and am now in Washington DC. And all day I think I've had only one chat with a person from any of the three countries.

We landed a little early, around half-seven, and trotted out into a cold Andrew's Air Force Base. To the right Marine One, the presidential helicopter. And there, the man himself walking towards it.

He cuts a lonely figure, slightly hunched. The chopper taxied then lifted off, at 7.48. Back to the White House, the end of a visit that has seemed to be more about keeping up good relations, than real achievements.

Me? I shared a taxi into town, to a funky little hotel. It's been an amazing trip. I think I'll sleep well tonight.


16 JANUARY - 1230 GMT

Now in the motorcade, but the old hands are nervous. We're too far back from the front of the motorcade.

Finally into Air Force One! And back to the US with the president. More to follow the other end.

16 JANUARY - 1145 GMT

Not sure if I've ever seen so many secret service people. Men in black glasses are everywhere here at the hotel where President Bush and President Mubarak hold their news conference in a few minutes.


The Egyptians are big on security. There have been several bomb attacks in Sinai in recent years so along our route here were dozens of plain clothes agents sitting out in the desert by the road side.
So now a moment of quiet while we wait for the two leaders.

I'm flying home on Air Force One, and the White House people are saying we have to run for the motorcade when it finishes. There's a frantic American woman who keeps telling us the president won't wait for us!

The photographers are telling us all to stay sitting so as not to obscure their view. Everyone's a little on edge. When they get here I'll be a couple of metres away from arguably the world's most powerful leader. Whatever your opinion of the man that's pretty exciting.

Or have I been in the bubble too long?

16 JANUARY - MORNING

One hour and twenty minutes of sleep. In a week of hardly any rest. The radio producer Yolande got no sleep. She was packing the equipment.


It's 0630. The sun is just about to come up. The sky is clear.

It is going to be one of those beautiful days you get so often in the Middle East when the light makes everything appear so sharp, so well defined.

The cars are swerving across the lane in front of our bus. But the traffic on the way to the airport is moving fast and we'll be there soon.

Off to Egypt for a few hours. Then back to the USA.

I always feel the same when leaving the Middle East. Slightly sad.

This is a special place, a place that has suffered so much, a place that is so misunderstood by so many people.

I wonder if George Bush now feels he understands it a little better?

15 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

I got out of "the bubble" today - for a whole 45 minutes.

I jumped in a taxi, and asked the driver to take me to a shopping street. The driver, from Bangladesh, laughed when I asked if he likes it here.


"It's not a good place," he said.

He's here, like all of the foreign workers, to earn money - in his case for family back home.

We pulled up and I got out. In a stationary shop a man in the red and white chequered headscarf favoured by Saudis said: "George Bush? Don't like."

In a cafe round the corner, BBC World TV was showing on the flat screen television, and at one table sat a man with a laptop watching YouTube on wireless internet.

I asked about Mr Bush's "Freedom Speech" in Abu Dhabi the other day.

"He always says this, this is his usual speech about freedom and democracy and things. Even in America they don't have this," he smiled.

"George Bush is not a peaceful man. He just, you know, starts a lot of wars."

We drove back to the hotel. I asked the Bangladeshi taxi driver about the cost of fuel here.

"No, not expensive," he said. Not sure that will make US consumers, nor George Bush, feel any better about the cost of a barrel of oil!


14 JANUARY - EVENING

What a day. Everyone covering this visit says today they hit a brick wall.

I think the White House press people did too. Everyone looks exhausted. The schedule is gruelling.


The story nose dived a bit so there was no adrenalin fuelling us all.
Journalists like a bit of meat on the bones of the story, but today all we really found out about the president was that he was shown what he said were "beautiful birds" of prey.


Then we got his dinner menu - artichoke soup, and apple pie with ice cream.

And you'll be glad to know no doubt that the Saudis held that dinner "relatively early for our early-to-bed president" according to his press secretary. Like I said, no news.

So the American journalists had to satisfy their networks with stories about how tomorrow we might witness the first snowfall in Riyadh in decades.

"At least they won't have to go far to find sand for the roads" one correspondent reported.

14 JANUARY - MIDDAY

"Welcome to the Middle Ages, baby!"

That's what someone in the travelling White House press corps said as we hit the ground in Saudi Arabia. Women on board discussed whether they have to wear headscarves. The gulf of understanding (or misunderstanding) is obvious.

On the bus to the hotel women were told that since we're on a high-level visit they can choose whether or not to wear a headscarf.


Since we're in a very conservative Muslim society where women are obliged to cover up, that seems strange official advice.
The Bush family is friendly with the Saudi royal family, so the president will know the limits of his so-called "freedom agenda" here.

A day after he called for countries across the Middle East to be more democratic and liberal, to introduce economic and social reforms, this is as good a place as you get to see that's not going to happen in any meaningful way during George W Bush's presidency.

He says each country must manage changes in its own way, but here to many it feels like he's trying to impose Western cultural values on the Arab world.

There's also a question over whether Mr Bush's strategy to isolate Iran because of its nuclear ambitions will work here. The short answer is "no it won't".

The Saudis have always played a very clever balancing act to maintain regional stability. They've been worried recently about Iran, but seem to have adopted an approach of trying to reach out to Tehran to diffuse tension.


President Bush will spend much of his two days in Saudi Arabia sightseeing rather than talking politics
There's an understanding among states in the region that Tehran doesn't react positively to aggression of either a political or military type.
In Saudi Arabia, and also the other states in this region, there's a sense that Iran's nuclear ambitions have changed the rules of the game.

When once the Saudis, like the Egyptians, called for a nuclear-free Middle East (remember Israel is believed to have dozens of nuclear warheads - although it never admits this) now they have shifted their position.

They say they want to develop their nuclear capability to diversify their energy resources, but the stated ambition is a clear response to Iran.

As usual the Saudis have to work hard to balance what's good for their close ally the United States, and what their regional neighbours, including Iran, need.

Perhaps that's why President Bush will spend much of his time here in the next two days sightseeing rather than talking politics.

14 JANUARY - MORNING

An early start today. Another early start!

We piled onto minibuses, with all our gear and drove the half hour or so to the airport.

Air Force One is a stunning sight on the tarmac to my left. The sun rising behind it and lots of reporters getting their photos taken in front.

On board, we get offered a mimosa - one last drink before arriving in Saudi Arabia.

We've just been reminded there's no alcohol in Saudi. And the women travelling on the trip have been told to dress appropriately.

Prepare for take off. Better go!

13 JANUARY - EVENING

It's not just the Bush White House I'm learning about on this trip. It's also the American media machine.

The people who work alongside me in the radio reporting operation are all seasoned correspondents. One is a household name in the US after years of service and renowned journalism.


And yet they all spend most of the day filing the shortest of radio pieces. So short indeed that they call them "spots"!
Sometimes they get to do longer analysis, and their work is professional and of a high standard. But it seems their stations no longer want more than a few seconds of coverage.

One of them, I'll not say for which network, the other day lamented the stories being covered on the station's website. Entertainment and wacky tales dominated.

Then today, I was doing a recording to camera with an American TV crew. I spoke for about a minute and a half to try to explain some of the background to the president's speech. That's almost a book, the cameraman said when I finished. He said in the US it's just a lot shorter.


There is good journalism in the States, of course. Newspapers have quality stories and TV and radio deal with some weighty issues. And I'm travelling in the main with some excellent journalists who take their jobs seriously.
This isn't a criticism of them, but overall the coverage most of their companies provide is dominated by quick, catchy stories. And it seems even their own president doesn't get much of a look in.

Some would argue the British media have already started down that path. If that's the case, the future doesn't look to be a terribly well informed one.

Enough! To sleep, briefly. Tomorrow we're off early to Saudi Arabia on the next leg of the trip. Day six. Country five.

13 JANUARY - MORNING

They call it the bubble, and when we touched down in Bahrain it felt like we were stuck right inside it.


The bus drove us out of the airport, it had parked next to the aeroplane and we simply walked onto it. For some reason our convoy had a police escort, and we passed junctions where the local traffic had to wait for us as we drove through red lights. We drove along the causeway towards the skyscrapers of Manama.
Other journalists took their cameras out, asking questions about what we were seeing. Excited tourists. Then we got to the hotel and were whisked in.

The reason they call it the bubble, is because this whole process means that from touchdown to media centre you literally look out of the bubble at the real world around you. In Kuwait I don't think I met a single Kuwaiti. Though to be fair most hotel staff there are from Asia or elsewhere.

It's basically like being embedded with the president - with all the issues that raises for journalists. Not that the White House in any way tries to affect our reporting.


They have never approached me about a story I've been filing. I've got total freedom, but because of the tight schedules don't get to meet the people of the country we're passing through. That's okay. The job is to report on the president's visit, but it does mean you need other sources of information about where you are.
One other quick thing. Mr Bush while here in Bahrain welcomed a new Iraqi law that allows thousands of former junior supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to take up government jobs. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Journal intime d'excursion de Moyen-Orient.
Automatically translated into French thanks to WorldLingo
Le journal intime d'excursion de Moyen-Orient, George W Bush a conclu une excursion de Moyen-Orient qui a inclus sa première visite comme président des USA en Israel et les territoires palestiniens, aussi bien que des arrêts le Golfe et en Egypte. Le prix correspondant de BBC Matthew, qui a voyagé avec lui, a écrit un journal intime sur son progrès.


16 janvier - GMT 2230 que


je suppose que la chose la plus étrange au sujet du déplacement sur l'Armée de l'Air une est la connaissance que juste quelques mètres devant toi sur le même avion sont certains des mondes la plupart des personnes puissantes : Bush, riz, Hadley. Se reposer juste vers le haut dans l'avant. Ou dans le cas de Bush se situant probablement dans son lit, qui est exact vers le haut dans le nez de l'avion.

Après notre tiret fou à l'aéroport nous nous sommes précipités au dos de l'avion où les hommes secrets de service ont vérifié nos passages au loin sur une liste et nous sommes allés à bord. Pas où vous marchez sur un vol commercial mais beaucoup inférieur, semblable à où le bagage disparaît. Vers le haut des escaliers, probablement 20 en tout et il y a alors un atterrissage avec le secteur de médias, le secteur de personnel et le service secret aussi.

À l'intérieur de - bien, il est gris. Joli méchant réellement. Et la carlingue de médias est un peu comme être dans des sièges d'affaires avec le service d'économie. Les premiers chronométreurs comme moi obtiennent un sac de sucrerie. Il avait une boîte de cigarettes à l'intérieur avec le joint présidentiel sur elles, mais Nancy Reagan, je suis dit, objecté, tellement maintenant vous obtiens le joint M&Ms de la Maison Blanche.

Il n'y a aucune annonce de sûreté. Je devine si vous vous occupez du grand homme que chacun autrement peut défendre pour eux-mêmes. Et nous n'avons pas dû arrêter des mobiles - bien qu'il n'y a aucun signal à 33.000 pieds ! Il y a 14 sièges dans le secteur de journo et des couples des TV.

Bill Clinton pour revenir et causer. Le photographe à côté de moi a dit que c'était mauvais. Vous essayeriez de dormir après un voyage d'exténuant et il essayerait de plaisanter. Aucun un tel problème avec le gw. Il reste bon loin de nous.

La chose la plus intéressante était comment c'est la VRAIE bulle. Le cortège de voitures nous a emballés au macadam puis l'avion alors que nous avons roulé au sol et a volé et jamais par le passé a rencontré une vraie personne correctement. Je sais qui est la politique moderne, mais je ne peux m'empêcher de penser que George W Bush à l'étranger quand il a été élu président et puis avait à peine été pendant les sept dernières années qu'il a étées dans une bulle présidentielle - il a été soumis à ceci ! Et il habite à Washington, divorcé comme cet endroit peut être de réel aussi !


J'ai juste réalisé tout en écrivant que j'ai réveillé ce matin dans Riyadh, me suis laissé tomber dedans sur le Sharm el-Sheikh, et l'AM maintenant dans DC de Washington. Et toute la journée je pense que j'ai eu seulement une causerie avec une personne des trois pays l'uns des.

Nous avons débarqué peu un tôt, autour de la moitié-sept, et avons trotté dehors dans la base aérienne d'un Andrew froid. À la marine droite une, l'hélicoptère présidentiel. Et là, l'homme lui-même marchant vers lui.

Il coupe une figure isolée, légèrement voûtée. Le découpeur a roulé au sol alors enlevé, à 7.48. De nouveau à la Maison Blanche, la fin d'une visite qui a semblé être plus au sujet de maintenir de bonnes relations, que de vrais accomplissements.

Je ? J'ai partagé un taxi dans la ville, à un petit hôtel génial. C'a été un voyage étonnant. Je pense que je dormirai bien ce soir.


16 janvier - GMT 1230

maintenant dans le cortège de voitures, mais les experts sont nerveux. Nous sommes loin trop de l'avant du cortège de voitures.

Enfin dans l'Armée de l'Air une ! Et de nouveau aux USA avec le président. Plus pour suivre l'autre extrémité.

16 janvier - GMT 1145

non sûr si j'ai jamais vu tant de personnes secrètes de service. Les hommes en verres noirs sont partout ici à l'hôtel où le Président Bush et le Président Mubarak tiennent leur conférence de nouvelles en quelques minutes.


Les Egyptiens sont grands sur la sécurité. Il y a eu plusieurs des attaques de bombe dans Sinai ces dernières années ainsi le long de notre itinéraire ici étaient les douzaines d'agents plats de vêtements se reposant dehors dans le désert par le côté de route.
Tellement maintenant un moment de tranquillité tandis que nous attendons les deux chefs.

Je suis vol à la maison sur l'Armée de l'Air une, et les personnes de la Maison Blanche sont disant nous doivent courir pour le cortège de voitures quand elle finit. Il y a une femme américaine effrénée qui continue à nous dire que le président ne nous attendra pas !

Les photographes nous disent tous de rester se reposants pour pour ne pas obscurcir leur vue. Chacun. A. peu sur le bord. Quand ils obtiennent ici je serai un couple des mètres partis discutablement du chef le plus puissant du monde. Quoi que votre avis de l'homme qui est assez passionnant.

Ou est-ce que j'ai été dans la bulle trop longue ?

16 janvier - MATIN

une heure et vingt minutes de sommeil. En semaine de à peine tout repos. Le producteur par radio Yolande n'a obtenu aucun sommeil. Elle emballait l'équipement.


Il est 0630. Le soleil est sur le point juste de monter. Le ciel est clair.

Il va être l'un de ces beaux jours où vous obtenez tellement souvent dans le Moyen-Orient quand les marques légères tout apparaissent ainsi dièse, si bien défini.

Les voitures font un écart à travers la ruelle devant notre autobus. Mais le trafic sur le chemin à l'aéroport se déplace rapidement et nous serons là bientôt.

Outre de à l'Egypte pendant quelques heures. Alors de nouveau aux Etats-Unis.

Je sens toujours la même chose en quittant le Moyen-Orient. Légèrement triste.

C'est un endroit spécial, un endroit qui a souffert tellement, un endroit qui est ainsi mal compris par tant de personnes.

Je me demande si George Bush juge maintenant qu'il le comprend peu un meilleur ?

15 janvier - APRÈS-MIDI

je suis sorti « de la bulle » aujourd'hui - pour une totalité 45 minutes.

J'ai sauté dans un taxi, et ai demandé au conducteur de me porter à une rue d'achats. Le conducteur, du Bangladesh, a ri quand j'ai demandé s'il l'aime ici.


« Ce n'est pas un bon endroit, » il a dit.

Il est ici, comme tous les ouvriers étrangers, pour gagner l'argent - dans sa caisse pour la maison de dos de famille.

Nous avons tiré vers le haut et je suis sorti. Dans un magasin stationnaire un homme dans le headscarf quadrillé rouge et blanc favorisé par Saoudien a dit : « George Bush ? N'aimez pas. « 

Dans un café autour du coin, le monde TV de BBC montrait à la télévision d'écran plat, et à une table a reposé un homme avec un ordinateur portable observant YouTube sur l'Internet sans fil.

Je me suis enquis du « discours de liberté » de M. Bush en Abu Dhabi l'autre jour.

« Il dit toujours ceci, c'est son discours habituel concernant la liberté et la démocratie et les choses. Même en Amérique qu'ils n'ont pas ceci, « il a souri.

« George Bush n'est pas un homme paisible. Il juste, vous savent, beaucoup de débuts de guerres. « 

Nous avons conduit de nouveau à l'hôtel. J'ai demandé le conducteur bangladais de taxi sur le coût de carburant ici.

« Non, non cher, » il a dit. Non sûr que fera des consommateurs des USA, ni George Bush, sentez mieux au sujet du coût d'un baril d'huile !


14 janvier - MÊME

quel jour. Chacun qui couvre cette visite indique qu'aujourd'hui ils frappent un mur de brique.

Je pense que les personnes de pression de la Maison Blanche aussi. Chacun semble épuisé. Le programme est exténuant.


Le nez d'histoire a plongé un peu tellement là n'était aucune adrénaline nous remplissant de combustible tous.
Les journalistes aiment un peu de viande sur les os de l'histoire, mais aujourd'hui tout que nous avons vraiment trouvé dehors au sujet du président était qu'il a été montré que ce qu'il a dit étaient les « beaux oiseaux » de la proie.


Alors nous avons obtenu son menu de dîner - potage d'artichaut, et pâté en croûte de pomme avec la crême glacée.

Et vous serez heureux de ne savoir aucun doute que les Saoudiens ont jugé ce dîner « relativement tôt pour notre président de tôt-à-lit » selon son secrétaire de pression. Comme je disais, aucunes nouvelles.

Ainsi les journalistes américains ont dû satisfaire leurs réseaux avec des histoires au sujet de la façon dont demain nous pourrions être témoin des premières chutes de neige dans Riyadh en quelques décennies.

« Au moins ils ne devront pas aller loin trouver le sable pour les routes » un correspondant rapporté.

14 janvier - bienvenue

de MIDI « aux âges moyens, bébé !  »

Est qui ce que quelqu'un dans les corps de pression de déplacement de la Maison Blanche a indiqué pendant que nous frappions la terre en Arabie Saoudite. Les femmes ont discuté à bord si elles doivent porter des headscarves. Le golfe de l'arrangement (ou du malentendu) est évident.

Sur l'autobus à l'hôtel les femmes ont été dites que puisque nous sommes sur une visite à niveau élevé elles peuvent choisir si de porter un headscarf.


Puisque nous sommes dans une société musulmane très conservatrice où des femmes sont obligées de dissimuler, cela semble conseil officiel étrange.
La famille de Bush est amicale avec la famille royale saoudienne, ainsi le président saura les limites de son prétendu « ordre du jour de liberté » ici.

Un jour après qu'il ait réclamé des pays à travers le Moyen-Orient pour être plus démocratique et libéral, pour présenter des réformes économiques et sociales, ceci est aussi bon un endroit que vous obtenez de voir qui ne va pas ne se produire d'aucune manière signicative pendant la présidence de George W Bush.

Il dit que chaque pays doit contrôler des changements de sa propre manière, mais ici à beaucoup il se sent comme il essaye d'imposer des valeurs culturelles occidentales au monde arabe.

Il y a également un excédent de question si la stratégie de M. Bush isoler l'Iran en raison de ses ambitions nucléaires fonctionnera ici. La réponse courte est « aucune il pas ».

Les Saoudiens ont toujours joué un acte de équilibrage très intelligent pour maintenir la stabilité régionale. Ils ont été inquiétés récemment de l'Iran, mais semblent avoir adopté une approche de l'essai d'atteindre dehors à Téhéran à la tension diffuse.


Le Président Bush passera beaucoup de ses deux jours en Arabie Saoudite visitant le pays plutôt que de la politique parler
il y a un arrangement parmi des états dans la région que Téhéran ne réagit pas franchement à l'agression d'un type politique ou militaire.
En Arabie Saoudite, et également les autres états dans cette région, il y a un sens que les ambitions nucléaires de l'Iran ont changé les règles du jeu.

Quand une fois que les Saoudiens, comme les Egyptiens, réclamés un Moyen-Orient libre nucléaire (rappelez-vous que l'Israel est censé avoir des douzaines d'ogives nucléaires - bien qu'il n'admet jamais ceci) maintenant elles ont décalé leur position.

Ils disent qu'ils veulent développer leurs possibilités nucléaires pour diversifier leurs ressources énergétiques, mais l'ambition indiquée est une réponse claire vers l'Iran.

Comme d'habitude les Saoudiens doivent travailler dur pour équilibrer de ce qui est bon pour leur allié étroit les Etats-Unis, et de ce qui leurs voisins régionaux, y compris l'Iran, ont besoin.

Peut-être qui est pourquoi le Président Bush passera beaucoup de son temps ici en deux jours suivants visitant le pays plutôt que de la politique parler.

14 janvier - MATIN

un début tôt aujourd'hui. Des autres tôt commencent !

Nous avons empilé sur des minibus, avec toute notre vitesse et avons conduit la demi-heure ou ainsi à l'aéroport.

L'Armée de l'Air une est une vue renversante sur le macadam vers ma gauche. Le soleil se levant derrière lui et un bon nombre de journalistes obtenant leurs photos prises dans l'avant.

À bord de, nous obtenons avons offert une mimosa - une dernière boisson avant l'arrivée en Arabie Saoudite.

Nous juste avons été rappelés là n'est aucun alcool dans le Saoudien. Et les femmes voyageant en voyage ont été dites pour s'habiller convenablement.

Préparez-vous à décollent. Meilleur allez !

13 janvier - SOIRÉE

il n'est pas simplement la Maison Blanche de Bush que j'apprends environ en ce voyage. C'est également la machine américaine de médias.

Le peuple qui travaillent à côté de moi dans l'opération de reportage par radio est toute les correspondantes assaisonnées. On est un nom de ménage aux USA après des années de service et de journalisme renommé.


Mais ils tous dépensent la majeure partie du jour classant le plus court des morceaux par radio. Court-circuitez ainsi en effet qu'ils les appellent des « taches » !
Parfois ils obtiennent de faire une plus longue analyse, et leur travail est professionnel et d'un niveau élevé. Mais il semble que leurs stations ne veulent plus plus que quelques secondes d'assurance.

L'un d'entre eux, je ne dirai pas pour quel réseau, l'autre jour a déploré les histoires étant couvertes sur le site Web de la station. Les contes de divertissement et de farfelu ont dominé.

Puis aujourd'hui, je faisais un enregistrement à l'appareil-photo avec une TV américaine sers d'équipier. J'ai parlé pour qu'environ une minute et une moitié essaye d'expliquer une partie du fond au discours du président. C'est presque un livre, le cameraman dit quand j'ai fini. Il a dit aux USA qu'il est beaucoup plus court simplement.


Il y a de bon journalisme dans les états, naturellement. Les journaux ont des histoires de qualité et l'affaire de TV et de radio avec quelques questions importantes. Et je voyage principalement avec quelques excellents journalistes qui prennent leurs travaux sérieusement.
Ce n'est pas une critique de eux, mais global l'assurance la plupart de leurs compagnies fournissent est près dominées des histoires rapides et entraînantes. Et il semble que même leur propre président n'obtient pas beaucoup d'un regard po.

Certains discuteraient les médias britanniques ont déjà commencé en bas de ce chemin. Si c'est le cas, le futur ne regarde pas pour être terriblement bien informé.

Assez ! Pour dormir, brièvement. Demain nous ne sommes pas en ligne en avance en Arabie Saoudite sur la prochaine jambe du voyage. Jour six. Pays cinq.

Le 13 janvier - MATIN où

ils l'appellent la bulle, et quand nous avons atterri au Bahrain il s'est senti comme nous étions coincés bien à l'intérieur de lui.


L'autobus nous a conduits hors de l'aéroport, il s'était garé à côté de l'avion et nous avons simplement marché sur lui. Pour quelque raison notre convoi a eu une escorte de police, et nous avons passé des jonctions où le trafic local a dû nous attendre pendant que nous conduisions par les lumières rouges. Nous avons conduit le long de la chaussée vers les gratte-ciel de Manama.
D'autres journalistes ont enlevé leurs appareils-photo, posant des questions sur ce que nous voyions. Touristes passionnants. Alors nous sommes arrivés à l'hôtel et avons été battus po.

La raison ils l'appellent la bulle, est parce que ce processus entier signifie que de l'atterrissage aux médias centrez-toi regardent littéralement hors de la bulle le réel autour de toi. Au Kowéit je ne pense pas que j'ai rencontré un Koweitien simple. Pour être cependant juste la plupart de personnel d'hôtel il y a l'Asie ou ailleurs.

Il est fondamentalement comme être enfoncé avec le président - avec toutes questions qui augmente pour des journalistes. Pas que la Maison Blanche essaye de quelque façon d'affecter notre reportage.


Ils ne m'ont jamais approché au sujet d'une histoire que j'avais classée. J'ai la liberté totale, mais en raison des programmes serrés n'obtenez pas de rencontrer les personnes du pays que nous traversons. C'est correct. Le travail est de rendre compte de la visite du président, mais il vous signifie le besoin d'autres sources d'informations sur où vous êtes.
Une autre chose rapide. M. Bush tandis qu'ici au Bahrain a fait bon accueil à une nouvelle loi irakienne qui permet à des milliers d'anciens défenseurs juniors de partie de Baath de Saddam Hussein de prendre les travaux de gouvernement. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Diario del viaje de Medio Oriente.
Automatically translated into Spanish thanks to WorldLingo
El diario del viaje de Medio Oriente, George W Bush ha concluido un viaje de Medio Oriente que incluyó su primera visita como presidente de los E.E.U.U. a Israel y a los territorios palestinos, así como paradas en el golfo y el Egipto. El precio correspondiente de BBC Matthew, que viajó con él, escribió un diario en su progreso.


16 de enero - GMT 2230 que


supongo que la cosa más extraña sobre viajar en la fuerza aérea una es el conocimiento que apenas algunos metros delante de usted en el mismo plano son algunos de los mundos la mayoría de la gente de gran alcance: Bush, arroz, Hadley. El sentarse apenas para arriba en frente. O en el caso de Bush que miente posiblemente en su cama, que correcta para arriba en la nariz del plano.

Después de nuestra rociada enojada al aeropuerto acometimos a la parte posteriora del plano donde los hombres secretos del servicio comprobaron nuestros pasos apagado en una lista y fuimos a bordo. No donde usted camina en un vuelo comercial pero mucho más bajo, similar a donde va el equipaje. Encima de las escaleras, probablemente 20 en todos y entonces allí es un aterrizaje con el área de los medios, el área del personal y el servicio secreto también.

Dentro de - bien, es gris. Repugnante bonito realmente. Y la cabina de los medios es un pedacito como estar en asientos del negocio con servicio de la economía. Los primeros contadores de tiempo como mí consiguen un bolso del goody. Tenía una caja de cigarrillos adentro con el sello presidencial en ellos, pero Nancy Reagan, me dicen, opuesto, tan ahora usted consigo el sello blanco M&Ms de la casa.

No hay aviso de seguridad. Conjeturo si usted se está ocupando del hombre grande que cada uno puede apartar para sí mismos. ¡Y no tuvimos que dar vuelta apagado a móviles - aunque no hay señal en 33.000 pies! Hay 14 asientos en el área del journo y pares de las TV.

Bill Clinton volverse y charlaba. El fotógrafo al lado de mí dijo que era malo. Usted estaría intentando dormir después de un viaje gruelling y él estaría intentando bromear. Ningún tal problema con el GW. Él permanece bien lejos de nosotros.

La cosa más interesante era cómo ésta es la burbuja VERDADERA. El motorcade nos compitió con a la pista de despeque entonces el plano entonces que carreteamos y voló y satisfizo nunca una vez a persona verdadera correctamente. ¡Sé que es políticas modernas, pero no puedo dejar de pensar que George W Bush al exterior cuando lo eligieron presidente y después había sido apenas por los siete años pasados que él ha estado en una burbuja presidencial - lo han sujetado a esto! ¡Y él vive en Washington, divorciado como ese lugar puede ser de de la vida real también!


Acabo de realizar mientras que escribía que desperté esta mañana en Riyadh, caí adentro en el EL-Jeque de Sharm, y la est ahora en la C.C. de Washington. Y pienso todo el dia que he tenido solamente una charla con una persona de tres países uces de los.

Aterrizamos un poco temprano, alrededor de mitad-siete, y trotamos hacia fuera en la base de fuerza aérea de un Andrew frío. Al infante de marina adecuado uno, el helicóptero presidencial. Y allí, el hombre mismo que camina hacia él.

Él corta una figura sola, hunched levemente. El interruptor carreteó entonces quitado, en 7.48. De nuevo a la casa blanca, el final de una visita que se ha parecido ser más sobre continuar buenas relaciones, que logros verdaderos.

¿Yo? Compartí un taxi en ciudad, a un pequeño hotel cobarde. Ha sido un viaje asombroso. Pienso que dormiré bien esta noche.


16 de enero - el GMT 1230

ahora en el motorcade, pero las viejas manos es nerviosos. Somos parte posteriora demasiado lejana del frente del motorcade.

¡Finalmente en la fuerza aérea una! Y de nuevo a los E.E.U.U. con el presidente. Más para seguir el otro extremo.

16 de enero - GMT 1145

no seguro si he visto siempre a tan mucha gente secreta del servicio. Los hombres en cristales negros son por todas partes aquí en el hotel en donde presidente Bush y presidente Mubarak llevan a cabo su conferencia de las noticias en algunos minutos.


Los egipcios son grandes en seguridad. Ha habido varios los ataques de la bomba en Sinaí estos últimos años así que a lo largo de nuestra ruta aquí estaban las docenas de agentes llanos de las ropas que se sentaban hacia fuera en el desierto por el lado del camino.
Tan ahora un momento de la tranquilidad mientras que esperamos a dos líderes.

Soy vuelo casero en la fuerza aérea una, y la gente blanca de la casa es diciendo nosotros tiene que funcionar para el motorcade cuando acaba. ¡Hay una mujer americana frenética que guarda el decir nos que el presidente no nos espere!

Los fotógrafos nos están diciendo todos permanecer que se sientan para no obscurecer su opinión. Cada uno. A. poco en el borde. Cuando consiguen aquí seré un par de metros lejos discutible del líder más de gran alcance del mundo. Lo que su opinión del hombre que es bastante emocionante.

¿O he estado en la burbuja demasiado larga?

16 de enero - MAÑANA

una hora y veinte minutos de sueño. En una semana de apenas cualquier resto. El productor de radio Yolande no consiguió ningún sueño. Ella embalaba el equipo.


Es 0630. El sol es justo alrededor subir. El cielo está claro.

Va a ser uno de esos días hermosos que usted consigue tan a menudo en el Oriente Medio cuando aparecen las marcas ligeras todo tan sostenido, tan bien definido.

Los coches están desviando a través del carril delante de nuestro autobús. Pero el tráfico en la manera al aeropuerto se está moviendo rápidamente y estaremos allí pronto.

A Egipto por algunas horas. Entonces de nuevo a los E.E.U.U.

Siento siempre igual al salir de el Oriente Medio. Levemente triste.

Esto es un lugar especial, un lugar que ha sufrido tanto, un lugar que sea así que entendido mal por tan mucha gente.

¿Me pregunto si George Bush ahora se siente que él lo entiende un poco mejor?

15 de enero - TARDE

salí “de la burbuja” hoy - para un conjunto 45 minutos.

Salté en un taxi, y pedí que el conductor me llevara a una calle de las compras. El conductor, de Bangladesh, rió cuando pregunté si él tiene gusto de él aquí.


“No es un buen lugar,” él dijo.

Él es aquí, como todos los trabajadores extranjeros, ganar el dinero - en su caja para el hogar de la parte posteriora de la familia.

Nos levantamos y salí. En una tienda inmóvil un hombre en el rojo y el blanco chequered el headscarf favorecido por Saudis dicho: ¿“George Bush? No tenga gusto. “

En un café alrededor de la esquina, mundo TV de BBC demostraba en la televisión de la pantalla plana, y en una tabla sentó a hombre con una computadora portátil que miraba YouTube en Internet sin hilos.

Pregunté por “discurso de la libertad” de Sr. Bush en Abu Dhabi el otro día.

“Él dice siempre esto, éste es su discurso generalmente acerca de la libertad y democracia y las cosas. Incluso en América que no tienen esto, “él sonrió.

“George Bush no es un hombre pacífico. Él apenas, usted sabe, los muchos del comienzo de guerras. “

Condujimos de nuevo al hotel. Pedí el conductor del taxi de Bangladeshi acerca del coste de combustible aquí.

“No, no costoso,” él dijo. ¡No seguro que hará consumidores de los E.E.U.U., ni George Bush, siéntase mejor sobre el coste de un barril de aceite!


14 de enero - IGUALAR

un qué día. Cada uno que cubre esta visita dice que golpean hoy una pared del ladrillo.

Pienso que lo hizo la gente blanca de la prensa de la casa también. Cada uno parece agotado. El horario gruelling.


La nariz de la historia se zambulló un pedacito tan allí no era ninguna adrenalina que nos aprovisionaba de combustible todos.
Los periodistas tienen gusto de un poco carne en los huesos de la historia, pero hoy todos lo que realmente encontramos hacia fuera sobre el presidente eran que le demostraron que lo que él dijo eran los “pájaros hermosos” de la presa.


Entonces conseguimos su menú de la cena - sopa de la alcachofa, y empanada de manzana con helado.

Y usted estará alegre no saber ninguna duda que los Saudis llevaron a cabo esa cena “relativamente temprano para nuestro presidente de la temprano-a-cama” según su secretaria de prensa. Como dije, ningunas noticias.

Los periodistas americanos tuvieron que satisfacer tan sus redes con historias sobre cómo puede ser que atestigüemos mañana las primeras nevadas en Riyadh en décadas.

“Por lo menos no tendrán que ir lejos a encontrar la arena para los caminos” un correspondiente divulgada.

¡14 de enero - recepción

a las edades medias, bebé del MEDIODÍA “! ”

Que es lo que dijo alguien en el cuerpo de prensa blanco de la casa que viajaba mientras que golpeamos la tierra en la Arabia Saudita. Las mujeres a bordo discutieron si tienen que usar headscarves. El golfo de entender (o de entender mal) es obvio.

En el autobús al hotel dijeron las mujeres que puesto que estamos en una visita de alto nivel pueden elegir si o no usar un headscarf.


Puesto que somos en una sociedad musulmana muy conservadora donde obligan a las mujeres a cubrir para arriba, ése se parece consejo oficial extraño.
La familia de Bush es amistosa con la familia real Saudi, así que el presidente sabrá los límites de su “agenda supuesta de la libertad” aquí.

Un día después de que él llamara para los países a través de el Oriente Medio para ser más democrático y liberal, introducir las reformas económicas y sociales, ésta es tan bueno un lugar como usted consigue ver que no va a suceder de ninguna manera significativa durante la presidencia de George W Bush.

Él dice que cada país debe manejar cambios en su propia manera, pero aquí a muchos se siente como él está intentando imponer valores culturales occidentales ante el mundo árabe.

Hay también un excedente de la pregunta si la estrategia de Sr. Bush aislar Irán debido a sus ambiciones nucleares trabajará aquí. La respuesta corta es “ninguna él no”.

Los Saudis han jugado siempre un acto que balanceaba muy listo para mantener estabilidad regional. Se han preocupado recientemente de Irán, pero se parecen haber adoptado un acercamiento de intentar alcanzar hacia fuera a Tehran a la tensión difusa.


Presidente Bush pasará mucho de sus dos días en la Arabia Saudita que visita puntos de interés más bien que la política que habla
allí es una comprensión entre estados en la región que Tehran no reacciona positivamente a la agresión de un tipo político o militar.
En la Arabia Saudita, y también los otros estados en esta región, hay un sentido que las ambiciones nucleares de Irán han cambiado las reglas del juego.

Cuando una vez que los Saudis, como los egipcios, ahora llamados para un Medio Oriente libre nuclear (recuerde que Israel está creído tener docenas de cabezas nucleares nucleares - aunque nunca admite esto) han cambiado de puesto su posición.

Dicen que desean desarrollar su capacidad nuclear para diversificar sus recursos energéticos, pero la ambición indicada es una respuesta clara a Irán.

Como de costumbre los Saudis tienen que trabajar difícilmente para balancear cuál es bueno para su aliado cercano los Estados Unidos, y qué necesitan sus vecinos regionales, incluyendo Irán.

Quizás que es porqué presidente Bush pasará mucho de su tiempo aquí en los dos días próximos que visita puntos de interés más bien que política que habla.

14 de enero - MAÑANA

un comienzo temprano hoy. ¡Otros temprano comienzan!

Llenamos sobre los microbús, con todo nuestro engranaje y condujimos la media-hora o tan al aeropuerto.

La fuerza aérea una es una vista imponente en la pista de despeque a mi izquierda. El sol que se levanta detrás de él y de porciones de reporteros que consiguen sus fotos tomadas en frente.

A bordo de, conseguimos ofrecimos un mimosa - una bebida pasada antes de llegar en la Arabia Saudita.

Acabamos de recordarse allí no somos ningún alcohol en Saudi. Y han dicho las mujeres que viajaban en el viaje para vestir apropiadamente.

Prepárese para sacan. ¡Mejor vaya!

13 de enero - TARDE

no es justo la casa blanca de Bush que estoy aprendiendo alrededor en este viaje. Es también la máquina americana de los medios.

La gente que trabaja junto a mí en la operación de divulgación de radio es toda correspondientes sazonados. Uno es un nombre de la casa en los E.E.U.U. después de años del servicio y del periodismo renombrado.


Pero todos pasan la mayor parte de el día que archiva el más corto de los pedazos de radio. ¡Ponga en cortocircuito tan de hecho que los llaman los “puntos”!
Consiguen a veces hacer un análisis más largo, y su trabajo es profesional y de una mayor nivel. Pero se parece que sus estaciones desean no más más que algunos segundos de la cobertura.

Uno de ellos, no diré para qué red, el otro día lamentó de las historias que eran cubiertas en el Web site de la estación. La hospitalidad y los cuentos wacky dominaron.

Entonces hoy, hacía una grabación a la cámara fotográfica con un equipo americano de la TV. Hablé para que alrededor de un minuto y una mitad intenten explicar algo del fondo al discurso del presidente. Eso casi es un libro, el cameraman dicho cuando acabé. Él dijo en los E.E.U.U. que es mucho más corto justo.


Hay buen periodismo en los estados, por supuesto. Los periódicos tienen historias de la calidad y reparto de la TV y de la radio con algunas ediciones pesadas. Y estoy viajando en la cañería con algunos periodistas excelentes que tomen sus trabajos seriamente.
Ésta no es una crítica de ellos, pero total la cobertura la mayor parte de que sus compañías proporcionan es cerca dominadas historias rápidas, pegadizas. Y se parece que incluso su propio presidente no consigue mucha de una mirada pulg.

Algunos discutirían los medios británicos han comenzado ya abajo de esa trayectoria. Si ése es el caso, el futuro no mira para ser terrible bien informado.

¡Bastantes! Para dormir, brevemente. Somos mañana apagado tempranos a la Arabia Saudita en la pierna siguiente del viaje. Día seises. País cinco.

El 13 de enero - MAÑANA que

lo llaman la burbuja, y cuando aterrizamos en Bahrein él se sentía como a la derecha nos pegaron dentro de él.


El autobús nos condujo del aeropuerto, había parqueado al lado del avión y caminamos simplemente sobre él. Por alguna razón nuestro convoy tenía un acompañamiento del policía, y pasamos las ensambladuras donde el tráfico local tuvo que esperarnos mientras que condujimos a través de luces rojas. Condujimos a lo largo de la calzada hacia los rascacielos de Manama.
Otros periodistas tomaron sus cámaras fotográficas hacia fuera, haciendo preguntas acerca de lo que veíamos. Turistas excitados. Después conseguimos al hotel y fuimos batidos pulg.

La razón la llaman la burbuja, son porque este proceso entero significa que de momento del aterrizaje a los medios céntrele miran literalmente fuera de la burbuja el del mundo real alrededor de usted. En Kuwait no pienso que satisfice a solo Kuwaiti. Sin embargo para ser justo la mayoría del personal del hotel hay de Asia o a otra parte.

Es básicamente como ser encajado con el presidente - con todas las ediciones que levanta para los periodistas. No que la casa blanca de cualquier manera intenta afectar nuestra divulgación.


Nunca me han acercado sobre una historia que he estado archivando. Tengo la libertad total, pero debido a los horario apretados no consiga satisfacer a la gente del país que estamos pasando a través. Eso es aceptable. El trabajo es divulgar sobre la visita del presidente, pero le significa necesidad otras fuentes de la información sobre donde usted está.
Una otra cosa rápida. Sr. Bush mientras que aquí en Bahrein dio la bienvenida a una nueva ley iraquí que permite que los millares de partidarios menores anteriores del partido de Baath de Saddam Hussein tomen trabajos del gobierno. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Diario di giro di Medio Oriente.
Automatically translated into Italian thanks to WorldLingo
Il diario di giro di Medio Oriente, George il W Bush ha concluso un giro di Medio Oriente che ha incluso la sua prima chiamata come presidente degli Stati Uniti nell'Israele ed i territori palestinesi, così come gli arresti il golfo e nell'Egitto. Il prezzo corrispondente di BBC Matthew, che ha viaggiato con lui, ha scritto un diario sul suo progresso.


16 gennaio - GMT 2230


suppongo che la cosa più sconosciuta circa viaggiare sull'aeronautica una è la conoscenza che appena alcuni tester davanti voi sullo stesso aereo sono alcuni dei mondi la maggior parte della gente potente: Bush, riso, Hadley. Sedendosi appena in su nella parte anteriore. O nel caso di Bush possibilmente che si trova nella sua base, che è di destra in su nel naso dell'aereo.

Dopo il nostro precipitare pazzo all'aeroporto abbiamo scorso veloce alla parte posteriore dell'aereo in cui gli uomini segreti di servizio hanno controllato i nostri passaggi fuori su una lista e siamo andato a bordo. Non dove camminate su un volo commerciale ma molto più basso, simile a dove il bagaglio va. Sulle scale, probabilmente 20 in tutto ed allora là sono un atterraggio con la zona di mezzi, la zona del personale ed il servizio segreto anche.

All'interno di - bene, è grigio. Nasty grazioso realmente. E la baracca di mezzi è una punta come essere nelle sedi di affari con servizio di economia. I primi temporizzatori come me ottengono un sacchetto del goody. Ha usato avere una scatola di sigarette all'interno con la guarnizione presidenziale su loro, ma Nancy Reagan, mi dico a, obiettato, così ora voi ottengo la guarnizione M&Ms della Casa Bianca.

Non ci è annuncio di sicurezza. Indovino sesiete occupando iete occupando dell'uomo che grande tutto altrimenti può arrangiarsi se stesso. E non abbiamo dovuto spegnere i mobiles - anche se non ci è segnale a 33.000 piedi! Ci sono 14 sedi nella zona di journo e lle coppie delle TV.

Bill Clinton ha usato ritornare e chiacchierare. Il photographer vicino me ha detto che era difettoso. Stavate provando a dormire dopo un viaggio gruelling e stava provando a banter. Nessun tale problema con il GW. Rimane buono via da noi.

La cosa più interessante era come questa è la bolla REALE. Il motorcade li ha corsi al tarmac allora l'aereo allora che abbiamo rullato ed ha volato e mai una volta ha venuto a contatto di una persona reale correttamente. So che è politiche moderne, ma non posso contribuire a pensare che George il W Bush appena all'estero quando è stato scelto presidente ed allora sia stato per i sette anni che ultimi è stato in una bolla presidenziale - è stato sottoposto a questo! E vive a Washington, divorziata come quel posto può provenire da in vivo anche!


Ho realizzato appena mentre scrivevo che ho svegliato questa mattina in Riyadh, sono caduto dentro sullo EL-Sceicco di Sharm e sull'ora in DC di Washington. E penso tutto il giorno che abbia avuto soltanto una chiacchierata con una persona da c'è ne dei tre paesi.

Abbiamo atterrato poco un in anticipo, intorno alla metà-sett'ed abbiamo trottato fuori nella base di aeronautica del Andrew freddo. Al fante di marina di destra uno, l'elicottero presidenziale. E là, l'uomo egli stesso che cammina verso esso.

Taglia una figura sola, hunched un po'. Il selettore rotante rullato allora tolto, a 7.48. Di nuovo alla Casa Bianca, la conclusione di una chiamata che ha sembrato essere più circa continuare i buoni rapporti, che i successi reali.

Me? Ho ripartito un tassì nella città, ad un hotel piccolo funky. È stato un viaggio stupefacente. Penso che dorma bene stasera.


16 gennaio - il GMT 1230

ora nel motorcade, ma gli esperti è nervosi. Siamo parte posteriore troppo lontana dalla parte anteriore del motorcade.

Infine nell'aeronautica una! E di nuovo agli Stati Uniti con il presidente. Più per seguire l'altra estremità.

16 gennaio - GMT 1145

non sicuro se ho visto mai tanta gente segreta di servizio. Gli uomini in vetri neri sono dappertutto qui all'hotel in cui il presidente Bush ed il presidente Mubarak tengono il loro congresso di notizie in alcuni minuti.


Gli Egiziani sono grandi su sicurezza. Ci sono stati vari attacchi della bomba nel Sinai negli ultimi anni in modo da lungo il nostro itinerario qui erano le dozzine degli agenti normali dei vestiti che si siedono fuori nel deserto dal lato della strada.
Così ora un momento del quiet mentre aspettiamo i due capi.

Sono volo domestico sull'aeronautica una e la gente della Casa Bianca è dicendo noi deve funzionare per il motorcade quando rifinisce. Ci è una donna americana frantic che continua a dirci che il presidente non li aspetti!

I photographers stanno dicendoci tutti di rimanere sedentesi per non oscurare il loro punto di vista. Tutto. A. piccolo sul bordo. Quando ottengono qui sarò discutibilmente una coppia dei tester assenti dal capo più potente del mondo. Qualunque il vostro parere dell'uomo che è abbastanza emozionante.

O sono stato nella bolla troppo lunga?

16 gennaio - MATTINA

un'ora e venti minuti di sonno. In una settimana di appena qualsiasi riposo. Il produttore radiofonico Yolande non ha ottenuto sonno. Stava imballando l'apparecchiatura.


È 0630. Il sole è giusto circa venire in su. Il cielo è chiaro.

Sta andando essere uno di quei giorni che bei ottenete così spesso nel Medio Oriente quando le marche chiare tutto compaiono così sharp, così ben definito.

Gli automobili swerving attraverso il vicolo davanti il nostro bus. Ma il traffico sul senso all'aeroporto sta muovendosi velocemente e saremo là presto.

Fuori all'Egitto per alcune ore. Allora di nuovo agli S.U.A.

Ritengo sempre lo stesso quando lascia il Medio Oriente. Un po'triste.

Ciò è un posto speciale, un posto che ha sofferto così tanto, un posto che è in modo da compreso male da tanta gente.

Mi domando se George Bush ora ritiene che lo capisce poco un migliore?

15 gennaio - POMERIGGIO

ho uscito oggi “della bolla„ - per un tutto 45 minuti.

Ho saltato in un tassì ed ho chiesto al driver di prenderlo ad una via di shopping. Il driver, dalla Bangladesh, ha riso quando ho chiesto se la gradisce qui.


“Non è un buon posto,„ ha detto.

È qui, come tutti gli operai stranieri, guadagnare i soldi - nella sua cassa per la sede della parte posteriore della famiglia.

Abbiamo tirato su ed ho uscito. In un negozio stazionario un uomo nel rosso e nel bianco chequered il headscarf favorito da Saudis detto: “George Bush? Non gradisca. “

In un caffè intorno al angolo, il mondo TV di BBC stava mostrando sulla televisione dello schermo piano e ad una tabella ha seduto un uomo con un laptop che guarda YouTube sul Internet senza fili.

Ho chiesto notizie “su discorso di libertà„ del sig. Bush nell'Abu Dhabi l'altro giorno.

“Dice sempre questo, questo è il suo discorso usuale sulla libertà e democrazia e cose. Anche in America che non hanno questo, “lui ha sorriso.

“George Bush non è un uomo pacifico. Appena, voi sa, guerre molto di inizio. “

Abbiamo guidato di nuovo all'hotel. Ho interrogato il driver del tassì di Bangladeshi riguardo al costo di combustibile qui.

“No, non costoso,„ ha detto. Non sicuro che farà i consumatori degli Stati Uniti, né George Bush, ritenga affatto più meglio circa il costo di un barilotto di olio!


14 gennaio - ANCHE

ché giorno. Tutto che riguarda questa chiamata dice che oggi colpiscono una parete del mattone.

Penso che la gente della pressa della Casa Bianca anche. Tutto sembra esaurito. Il programma gruelling.


Il naso di storia si è tuffato una punta così là era adrenalina che li rifornisce di combustibile tutti.
I giornalisti gradiscono un po'di carne sulle ossa della storia, ma oggi tutto realmente trovassimo fuori circa il presidente era che è stato indicato che che cosa ha detto erano “gli uccelli bei„ della preda.


Allora abbiamo ottenuto il suo menu del pranzo - minestra del carciofo e torta di mela con il gelato.

E sarete felici di non conoscere dubbio che i Saudis giudichino quel pranzo “relativamente presto per il nostro presidente della presto--base„ secondo la sua segretaria di pressa. Come ho detto, nessun notizie.

Così i giornalisti americani hanno dovuto soddisfare le loro reti con le storia circa quanto domani potremmo testimoniare i primi snowfall in Riyadh nelle decadi.

“Almeno non dovranno andare lontano trovare la sabbia per le strade„ un corrispondente segnalata.

14 gennaio - benvenuto

a Medio Evo, bambino di MEZZOGIORNO “! „

Che è che cosa qualcuno nel corpo mobile della pressa della Casa Bianca ha detto mentre abbiamo colpito la terra in Arabia Saudita. A bordo delle donne discusso se devono portare i headscarves. Il golfo di capire (o di equivoco) è evidente.

Sul bus all'hotel le donne si sono dette a che poiché siamo su una chiamata ad alto livello potessero scegliere se o non portare un headscarf.


Poiché siamo in una società musulmana molto conservatrice in cui le donne sono obbligate a dissimulare, quello sembra consiglio ufficiale sconosciuto.
La famiglia di Bush è amichevole con la famiglia reale saudita, in modo da il presidente conoscerà i limiti del suo cosiddetto “ordine del giorno di libertà„ qui.

Un giorno dopo che abbia richiesto i paesi attraverso il Medio Oriente per essere più democratico e liberale, introdurre le riforme economiche e sociali, questa è buono un posto come ottenete vedere che non stanno andando accadere in alcun senso espressivo durante la presidenza del George il W Bush.

Dice che ogni paese deve controllare i cambiamenti nel relativo proprio senso, ma qui a molti ritiene come sta provando ad imporre i valori culturali occidentali al mondo arabo.

Ci è inoltre un'eccedenza di domanda se la strategia del sig. Bush isolare l'Iran a causa delle relative ambizioni nucleari funzionerà qui. La risposta corta è “nessuna esso non„.

I Saudis hanno giocato sempre un atto d'equilibratura molto intelligente per effettuare la stabilità regionale. Sono stati preoccupati recentemente per l'Iran, ma sembrano adottare un metodo di provare a raggiungere fuori a Tehran a tensionamento diffuso.


Il presidente Bush spenderà molto dei suoi due giorni in Arabia Saudita che sightseeing piuttosto che la politica di comunicazione
là è una comprensione fra dichiara nella regione che Tehran non reagisce positivamente ad aggressione di un tipo politico o militare.
In Arabia Saudita ed inoltre l'altro dichiara in questa regione, ci è un senso che le ambizioni nucleari dell'Iran hanno cambiato le regole del gioco.

Quando una volta che i Saudis, come gli Egiziani, richiedessero Medio Oriente libero nucleare (ricordi di l'Israele si crede avere dozzine dei warheads nucleari - anche se non ammette mai che questo) ora hanno spostato la loro posizione.

Dicono che desiderano sviluppare la loro possibilità nucleare per differenziare le loro risorse energetiche, ma l'ambizione dichiarata è una risposta libera nell'Iran.

Come di consueto i Saudis devono lavorare duro per equilibrare di che cosa è buono per il loro alleato vicino gli Stati Uniti e di che cosa i loro vicini regionali, compreso l'Iran, hanno bisogno.

Forse ecco perché il presidente Bush spenderà molto del suo tempo qui nei due giorni prossimi che sightseeing piuttosto che la politica di comunicazione.

14 gennaio - MATTINA

un inizio iniziale oggi. Un altro presto cominciano!

Abbiamo accatastato sui minibuses, con tutto l'nostro ingranaggio ed abbiamo guidato la mezza ora o così all'aeroporto.

L'aeronautica una è una vista sbalorditiva sul tarmac a mia parte di sinistra. Il sole che aumenta dietro esso ed i lotti dei reporter che ottengono le loro foto prese nella parte anteriore.

A bordo, otteniamo abbiamo offerto un mimosa - una ultima bevanda prima di arrivare in Arabia Saudita.

Siamo stati ricordati a appena là siamo alcool in saudito. E le donne che viaggiano sul viaggio si sono dette a per vestirsi giustamente.

Prepari per tolgono. Migliore vada!

13 gennaio - SERA

non è giusto la Casa Bianca che di Bush sto imparando circa su questo viaggio. È inoltre la macchina americana di mezzi.

La gente che lavora accanto me nel funzionamento di segnalazione radiofonico è tutto corrispondenti conditi. Uno è un nome della famiglia negli Stati Uniti dopo gli anni di servizio e di giornalismo renowned.


Ma tutti spendono la maggior parte del giorno che archivia il più corto delle parti radiofoniche. Così metta effettivamente che li denominano “punti„!
A volte ottengono fare l'analisi più lunga ed il loro lavoro è professionale e di alto livello. Ma sembra che le loro stazioni più non desiderano più di alcuni secondi di riempimento.

Uno di loro, non dirò per quale rete, l'altro giorno ha deplorato le storia che sono coperte sul Web site della stazione. Intrattenimento e racconti wacky dominati.

Allora oggi, stavo facendo una registrazione alla macchina fotografica con una squadra americana della TV. Ho parlato affinchè circa un minuto e una metà provi a spiegare alcuni dei precedenti al discorso del presidente. Quello è quasi un libro, il cineoperatore detto quando ho rifinito. Ha detto negli Stati Uniti che è mólto più corto solo.


Ci è buon giornalismo in dichiara, naturalmente. I giornali hanno le storia di qualità ed affare della radio e della TV con alcune edizioni pesanti. E sto viaggiando principalmente con alcuni giornalisti eccellenti che prendono seriamente i loro lavori.
Ciò non è una critica di loro, ma generale il riempimento più delle loro aziende fornisce è storia rapide e catchy vicino dominate. E sembra che neppure il loro proprio presidente non ottiene molto di uno sguardo poll.

Alcuni discuterebbero i mezzi britannici già hanno cominciato giù quel percorso. Se quello è il caso, il futuro non osserva per essere terribile bene informato.

Abbastanza! Per dormire, brevemente. Domani siamo fuori presto in Arabia Saudita sul piedino seguente del viaggio. Giorno sei. Paese cinque.

Il 13 gennaio - MATTINA che

lo denominano la bolla e quando abbiamo atterrato in Bahrain esso ha ritenuto come siamo stati attaccati a destra all'interno di esso.


Il bus li ha guidati dall'aeroporto, aveva parcheggiato vicino all'aeroplano ed abbiamo camminato semplicemente su esso. Per qualche motivo il nostro convoglio ha avuto un escort della polizia ed abbiamo passato le giunzioni in cui il traffico locale ha dovuto aspettarlo mentre abbiamo guidato attraverso le luci rosse. Abbiamo guidato lungo il causeway verso i grattacieli di Manama.
Altri giornalisti hanno eliminato le loro macchine fotografiche, facendo le domande riguardo a che cosa stavamo vedendo. Turisti eccitati. Allora abbiamo ottenuto all'hotel e siamo stati sbattuti poll.

Il motivo lo denominano la bolla, sono perché questo processo intero significa che dal touchdown ai mezzi seli concentri letteralmente osservano dalla bolla il nell'ambiente intorno voi. Nel Kuwait non penso che abbia venuto a contatto di singolo kuwaitiano. Comunque per essere giusto la maggior parte del personale dell'hotel ci proviene dall'Asia o altrove.

È basicamente come l'incastonatura con il presidente - con tutte le edizioni che si alza per i giornalisti. Non che la Casa Bianca in tutto il senso prova ad interessare la nostra segnalazione.


Non si sono avvicinato mai circa una storia che sto archiviando. Ho ottenuto la libertà totale, ma a causa dei programmi stretti non ottenga venire a contatto della gente del paese che stiamo attraversando. Quello è giusto. Il lavoro è di segnalare sulla chiamata del presidente, ma li significa bisogno altre fonti delle informazioni su dove siete.
Altra una cosa rapida. Il sig. Bush mentre qui in Bahrain ha accolto favorevolmente una nuova legge irachena che permette che le migliaia dei sostenitori minori precedenti del partito di Baath del Saddam Hussein prendano i lavori di governo. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Mittlere Ostentourtagebuch.
Automatically translated into German thanks to WorldLingo
Mittlere Ostentourtagebuch, George W Bush hat eine Mittlere Ostentour gefolgert, die seinen ersten Besuch als US Präsident zu Israel und zu den palästinensischen Gegenden, sowie Anschläge im Golf und im Ägypten einschloß. BBC entsprechender Matthew Preis, der mit ihm reiste, schrieb ein Tagebuch auf seinen Fortschritt.


16. Januar - GMT 2230, das


ich annehme, daß die merkwürdigste Sache über das Reisen auf Luftwaffe man das Wissen ist, daß gerade einige Meßinstrumente vor Ihnen auf der gleichen Fläche einige der Welten die meisten leistungsfähigen Leute sind: Bush, Reis, Hadley. Sitzen gerade oben in der Frontseite. Oder im Falle Bushs, der vielleicht in seinem Bett liegt, das oben in der Nase der Fläche recht ist.

Nach unserem wütenden Schlag zum Flughafen hetzten wir zur Rückseite der Fläche, in der geheime Service-Männer unsere Durchläufe weg auf einer Liste überprüften und wir an Bord gingen. Nicht wo Sie auf einen kommerziellen Flug aber viel niedriger gehen, ähnlich zu, wo das Gepäck geht. Herauf die Treppe vermutlich ist 20 in allen und dann dort eine Landung mit dem Mittelbereich, dem Personalbereich und dem geheimen Service auch.

Innerhalb - gut ist es grau. Hübsches böses wirklich. Und die Mittelkabine ist eine Spitze wie Sein in den Geschäft Sitzen mit Wirtschaftservice. Erste Timer wie ich erhalten einen Sachebeutel. Es verwendete, einen Kasten Zigaretten nach innen mit der Präsidentendichtung auf ihnen zu haben, aber Nancy Reagan, werde ich erklärt, eingewendet, so jetzt Sie erhalte Hausdichtung M&Ms.

Es gibt keine Sicherheit Ansage. Ich schätze, wenn Sie um den grossen Mann sich kümmern, den jeder für selbst sonst abwehren kann. Und wir mußten nicht Mobiles abstellen - obgleich es kein Signal bei 33.000 Fuß gibt! Es gibt 14 Sitze im Journobereich und Paare von Fernsehapparaten.

Bill Clinton verwendete zurückzukommen und zu plaudern. Der Photograph nahe bei mir sagte, daß es schlecht war. Sie würden versuchen, nach einer gruelling Reise zu schlafen und er würde versuchen zu necken. Kein solches Problem mit GW. Er bleibt weg von uns wohl.

Die interessanteste Sache war, wie dieses die REALE Luftblase ist. Das motorcade lief uns zum Tarmac dann die Fläche dann, das wir mit einem Taxi fuhren und flog und traf nie einmal eine wirkliche Person richtig. Ich weiß, der moderne Politiken ist, aber ich kann nicht zu denken, helfen, daß George W Bush kaum im Ausland, als er Präsidenten gewählt wurde und dann für die letzten sieben Jahre gewesen war, die er in einer Präsidentenluftblase gewesen ist - er ist diesem unterworfen worden! Und er wohnt in Washington, geschieden, wie dieser Platz vom realen Leben auch sein kann!


Ich verwirklichte gerade beim Schreiben, daß ich heute morgen in Riyadh aufwachte, fiel innen auf Sharm ELScheich und morgens jetzt in Washington DC. Und aller Tag denke ich, daß ich nur ein Schwätzchen mit einer Person aus irgendwelchen der drei Länder gehabt habe.

Wir landeten ein wenig frühes, um Hälfte-sieben und trotteten heraus in Luftwaffenstützpunkt eines kalten Andrews. Zur rechten Marine eine, der Präsidentenhubschrauber. Und dort, der Mann selbst, der in Richtung zu es geht.

Er schneidet eine einsame Abbildung, etwas gebuckelt. Der Zerhacker fuhr dann weggehoben, bei 7.48 mit einem Taxi. Zurück zu dem Weißen Haus das Ende eines Besuchs, der geschienen hat, mehr über das Aufrechterhalten der guten Relationen zu sein, als reale Ausführungen.

Ich? Ich teilte ein Taxi in Stadt, zu einem funky kleinen Hotel. Es ist eine erstaunliche Reise gewesen. Ich denke, daß ich gut heute abend schlafe.


16. Januar - GMT 1230

jetzt im motorcade, aber die alten Hände sind nervös. Wir sind zu weite Rückseite von der Frontseite des motorcade.

Schließlich in Luftwaffe eine! Und zurück zu den US mit dem Präsidenten. Mehr, zum des anderen Endes zu folgen.

16. Januar - GMT 1145

nicht sicher, wenn ich überhaupt so viele geheime Service-Leute gesehen habe. Männer in den schwarzen Gläsern sind überall hier im Hotel, in dem Präsident Bush und Präsident Mubarak ihre Nachrichten Konferenz in einigen Minuten halten.


Die ägypter sind auf Sicherheit groß. Es hat mehrere Bombe Angriffe in Sinai in den letzten Jahren gegeben, also entlang unserem Weg hier waren Dutzende der normalen Kleidungmittel, die heraus in der Wüste durch die Straße Seite sitzen.
So jetzt ein Moment der Ruhe, während wir die zwei Führer warten.

Ich bin das Fliegen, das auf Luftwaffe eine Haupt ist, und die Hausleute sind sagend wir müssen für das motorcade laufen, wenn sie beendet. Es gibt eine wild amerikanische Frau, die hält, zu erklären uns, daß der Präsident uns nicht wartet!

Die Photographen bitten uns alle, sitzend zu bleiben damit, ihre Ansicht nicht undeutlich zu machen. Jeder. A. wenig auf Rand. Wenn sie hier erhalten, bin ich ein Paar der Meßinstrumente, die diskutierbar vom leistungsfähigsten Führer der Welt weg sind. Was auch immer Ihre Meinung des Mannes, der recht aufregend ist.

Oder bin ich in der langen Luftblase zu gewesen?

16. Januar - MORGEN

eine Stunde und Zwanzig Minuten Schlaf. In einer Woche kaum irgendeines Restes. Der Radioproduzent Yolande erhielt keinen Schlaf. Sie verpackte die Ausrüstung.


Es ist 0630. Die Sonne ist im Begriff oben kommen gerecht. Der Himmel ist frei.

Es wird einer jener schönen Tage sein, die erhalten Sie so häufig im Mittlere Osten, wenn die hellen Marken alles so Scharfes erscheinen, so gut definiert.

Die Autos swerving über dem Weg vor unserem Bus. Aber der Verkehr auf der Weise zum Flughafen bewegt schnell und wir sind dort bald.

Weg von nach Ägypten einige Stunden lang. Dann zurück zu den USA.

Ich glaube immer dem selben, wenn ich den Mittlere Osten lasse. Etwas traurig.

Dieses ist ein spezieller Platz, ein Platz, der soviel gelitten hat, ein Platz, der ist, also mißverstanden durch so viele Leute.

Ich wundere mich, wenn George Bush jetzt glaubt, daß er ihn ein wenig besseres versteht?

15. Januar - NACHMITTAG

verließ ich „eine Luftblase“ heute - für ein Ganzes 45 Minuten.

Ich sprang in ein Taxi und bat den Treiber, mich zu einer Einkaufenstraße zu nehmen. Der Treiber, von Bangladesh, lachte, als ich fragte, ob er es hier mag.


„Es ist nicht ein guter Platz,“ sagte er.

Er ist hier, wie alle fremden Arbeiter, Geld - in seinem Kasten für Familie Rückseite Haus zu erwerben.

Wir zogen hoch und ich ging hinaus. In einem stationären Geschäft chequered ein Mann im Roten und im Weiß das headscarf, das von gesagtem Saudi bevorzugt wurde: „George Bush? Mögen Sie nicht. „

In einem Kaffee ringsum die Ecke, BBC Welt-Fernsehapparat stellte auf dem Fernsehen des flachen Schirmes dar, und bei einem Tisch saß einen Mann mit einem Laptop YouTube aufpassend auf drahtlosem Internet.

Ich fragte nach „Freiheit Rede“ Herr-Bushs in Abu Dhabi der andere Tag.

„Er sagt immer dieses, ist dieses seine übliche Rede über Freiheit und Demokratie und Sachen. Sogar in Amerika, das sie nicht dieses, „er haben, lächelte.

„George Bush ist nicht ein ruhiger Mann. Er gerade, Sie weiß, eine Anfangsmenge Kriege. „

Wir fuhren zurück zu dem Hotel. Ich bat um um den Bangladeshi Taxitreiber nach den Kosten des Kraftstoffs hier.

„Das Nr., nicht kostspielig,“ sagte er. Nicht sicher, daß US Verbraucher noch George Bush bildet, glauben Sie irgendwie besser über die Kosten eines Fasses öls!


14. Januar - GLÄTTEN

eines welches Tages. Jeder, das diesen Besuch umfaßt, sagt, daß heute sie eine Ziegelsteinwand schlagen.

Ich denke, daß die Hauspresseleute auch. Jeder schaut erschöpft. Der Zeitplan gruelling.


Die Geschichtenase tauchte eine Spitze so dort war kein Adrenalin, das uns alle tankt.
Journalisten mögen ein wenig Fleisch auf den Knochen der Geschichte, aber heute war aller, den wir wirklich heraus über den Präsidenten fanden, daß er gezeigt wurde, daß was sagte er, waren „schöne Vögel“ des Opfers.


Dann erhielten wir sein Abendessenmenü - Artischocke Suppe und Apfelkuchen mit Eiscreme.

Und Sie sind froh, keinen Zweifel zu kennen, dem die Saudis dieses Abendessen „verhältnismäßig früh für unseren Früh-zubett Präsidenten“ nach Ansicht seines Pressesekretärs hielten. Wie ich sagte, keine Nachrichten.

So mußten die amerikanischen Journalisten erfüllen ihre Netze mit Geschichten über, wie morgen wir die ersten Schneefälle in Riyadh in den Dekaden zeugen konnten.

„Mindestens sie müssen nicht weit gehen, Sand für die Straßen zu finden“ ein Korrespondent berichtet.

14. Januar - MITTAGS

„Willkommen zum mittleren Alter, Baby! “

Das ist, was jemand im reisenden HausPressecorpse sagte, während wir den Boden in Saudi-Arabien schlugen. Frauen an Bord besprochen, ob sie headscarves tragen müssen. Der Golf des Verstehens (oder des Mißverständnisses) liegt auf der Hand.

Auf dem Bus zum Hotel wurden die Frauen erklärt, daß, da wir auf einem hochqualifizierten Besuch sind, sie wählen ob oder ein headscarf nicht tragen können.


Da wir in einer sehr konservativen moslemischen Gesellschaft sind, in der Frauen verbunden werden, oben zu bedecken, scheint der merkwürdiger amtlicher Rat.
Die Bush Familie ist mit der saudischen königlichen Familie freundlich, also kennt der Präsident die Begrenzungen auf seine sogenannte „Freiheit Tagesordnung“ hier.

Ein Tag, nachdem er Länder über dem Mittlere Osten verlangte, um demokratischer und liberal zu sein, die ökonomischen und Sozialverbesserungen, diese vorzustellen ist ein Platz so gut, wie Sie erhalten zu sehen, das nicht in irgendeiner sinnvollen Weise während George W Bush des Vorsitzes geschehen wird.

Er sagt, daß jedes Land änderungen in seiner eigenen Weise handhaben muß, aber hier zu vielen es glaubt, wie er versucht, westliche kulturelle Werte der arabischen Welt aufzuerlegen.

Es gibt auch einen Frage überschuß, ob man die Strategie Herrn Bushs den Iran wegen seines Kernehrgeizes arbeitet hier lokalisiert. Die kurze Antwort ist „keine es wird nicht“.

Die Saudis haben immer eine sehr gescheite ausgleichende Tat gespielt, um regionale Stabilität beizubehalten. Sie sind vor kurzem um den Iran gesorgt worden, aber scheinen, eine Annäherung des Versuchens angenommen zu haben, zu Tehran zur verbreiteten Spannung heraus zu erreichen.


Präsident Bush verbringt viel seiner zwei Tage in der Saudi-Arabien Besichtigung, anstatt ist sprechen
politik dort ein Verständnis unter Zuständen in der Region, daß Tehran positiv nicht zum Angriff entweder einer politischen oder militärischen Art reagiert.
In Saudi-Arabien und auch in den anderen Zuständen in dieser Region, gibt es eine Richtung, daß des Irans Kernehrgeiz die Richtlinien des Spiels geändert hat.

Wenn sich erinnern Sie, sobald die Saudis, wie die ägypter, einen freien KernMittlere Osten verlangten (Israel geglaubt wird, Dutzende der Kernwarheads zu haben - obgleich es nie zuläßt, daß diesem) jetzt sie ihre Position verschoben haben.

Sie sagen, daß sie ihre Kernfähigkeit entwickeln möchten, um ihre Energiebetriebsmittel zu variieren, aber der angegebene Ehrgeiz eine freie Antwort nach den Iran ist.

Wie üblich, müssen die Saudis stark arbeiten, um auszugleichen, was für ihren nahen Verbündeten die Vereinigten Staaten gut ist und was ihre regionalen Nachbarn, einschließlich den Iran, benötigen.

Möglicherweise, das ist, warum Präsident Bush viel seiner Zeit hier in der folgenden zwei TagesBesichtigung anstatt sprechenpolitik verbringt.

14. Januar - MORGEN

ein früher Anfang heute. Andere früh beginnen!

Wir häuften auf Kleinbusse, mit unserem ganzem Zahnrad an und fuhren die halbe Stunde oder so zum Flughafen.

Luftwaffe man ist ein erstaunlicher Anblick auf dem Tarmac mein links. Die Sonne, die hinter sie und Lose Reporter erhalten ihre Fotos genommen in der Frontseite steigt.

An Bord, erhalten wir anboten eine Mimose - ein letztes Getränk, bevor wir in Saudi-Arabien ankommen.

Wir sind gerade dort sind kein Spiritus auf Saudi erinnert worden. Und die Frauen, die auf die Reise reisen, sind erklärt worden, um passend anzukleiden.

Bereiten Sie sich für sich entfernen vor. Besser gehen Sie!

13. Januar - ABEND

ist es nicht das Bush Weiße Haus gerecht, das ich ungefähr auf dieser Reise erlerne. Es ist auch die amerikanische Mittelmaschine.

Die Leute, die neben mir im Radioberichtenbetrieb arbeiten, sind aller gewürzte Korrespondenten. Eins ist ein Haushalt Name in den US nach Jahren des Services und des berühmten Journalismus.


Und doch alle wenden sie die meisten des Tages das kürzeste der Radiostücke einordnend auf. Schließen Sie so in der Tat kurz, daß sie sie „Punkte“ nennen!
Manchmal erhalten sie, längere Analyse zu tun, und ihre Arbeit ist und von einem hohen Standard professionell. Aber es scheint, daß ihre Stationen nicht mehr mehr als einige Sekunden der Deckung wünschen.

Eins von ihnen, sage ich nicht für, welches Netz, der andere Tag die Geschichten bejammerte, die auf der Web site der Station bedeckt wurden. Unterhaltung und wacky Geschichten beherrscht.

Dann heute, tat ich eine Aufnahme zur Kamera mit einer amerikanischen Fernsehapparat Mannschaft. Ich sprach, damit eine ungefähr Minute und eine Hälfte versucht, etwas von dem Hintergrund der Rede des Präsidenten zu erklären. Das ist fast ein Buch, der gesagte Kameramann, als ich beendete. Er sagte in den US, die es gerechtes viel kürzeres ist.


Es gibt guten Journalismus in den Zuständen, selbstverständlich. Zeitungen haben Qualitätsgeschichten und Fernsehapparat und Radioabkommen mit einigen gewichtigen Ausgaben. Und ich reise in die Hauptleitung mit einigen ausgezeichneten Journalisten, die ihre Jobs ernst nehmen.
Dieses ist nicht eine Kritik von ihnen, aber gesamt stellen die Deckung die meisten ihren Firmen ist vorherrsch vorbei schnelle, catchy Geschichten zur Verfügung. Und es scheint, daß sogar ihr eigener Präsident nicht viel eines Blickes inch erhält.

Einige würden die britischen Mittel haben begonnen bereits hinunter diesen Weg argumentieren. Wenn der der Fall ist, schaut die Zukunft nicht, um ein schrecklich gut informiertes zu sein.

Genug! Schlafen, kurz. Morgen sind wir aus nach Saudi-Arabien auf dem folgenden Bein der Reise früh. Tag sechs. Land fünf.

13. Januar - MORGEN, den

sie es die Luftblase und nennen als wir in Bahrain aufsetzten, es, glaubte, wie wir nach rechts innerhalb es gehaftet wurden.


Der Bus fuhr uns aus dem Flughafen heraus, hatte er nahe bei dem Flugzeug geparkt und wir gingen einfach auf es. Aus irgendeinem Grund hatte unser Konvoi eine Polizeieskorte, und wir führten Verzweigungen, in denen der Ortsverkehr uns warten mußte, während wir durch rote Lichter fuhren. Wir fuhren entlang den Causeway in Richtung zu den Wolkenkratzern von Manama.
Andere Journalisten nahmen ihre Kameras heraus und stellten Fragen über, was wir sahen. Aufgeregte Touristen. Dann kamen wir zum Hotel und wurden inch gewischt.

Der Grund nennen sie ihn die Luftblase, sind, weil dieser vollständige Prozeß bedeutet, daß von Touchdown zu Mittel Sie schauen buchstäblich aus der Luftblase heraus auf das realistische um Sie zentrieren Sie. In Kuwait denke ich nicht, daß ich einen einzelnen Kuwaiter traf. , angemessen zwar zu sein der meiste Hotelstab gibt es aus Asien oder anderwohin.

Es ist im Allgemeinen wie mit dem Präsidenten - mit allen Ausgaben eingebettet werden, der für Journalisten anhebt. Nicht daß das Weiße Haus in jeder Hinsicht versucht, unseren Bericht zu beeinflussen.


Sie haben mir sich nie über eine Geschichte genähert, die ich eingeordnet habe. Ich habe Gesamtfreiheit, aber wegen der festen Zeitpläne erhalten Sie nicht, die Leute des Landes zu treffen, das wir durch führen. Das ist okay. Der Job ist, über den Besuch des Präsidenten zu berichten, aber er bedeutet Sie Notwendigkeit andere Quellen der Informationen über, denen Sie sind.
Eine andere schnelle Sache. Herr Bush während hier in Bahrain begrüßte ein neues irakisches Gesetz, das Tausenden der ehemaligen Juniorverfechter Partei Baath Saddam Husseins erlaubt, Regierung Jobs aufzunehmen. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Diário da excursão do leste médio.
Automatically translated into Portuguese thanks to WorldLingo
O diário da excursão do leste médio, George W Bush concliu uma excursão do leste médio que incluísse sua primeira visita como o presidente dos E.U. a Israel e aos territórios Palestinian, as well as batentes no golfo e no Egipto. O preço correspondente de BBC Matthew, que viajou com ele, escreveu um diário em seu progresso.


16 JANEIRO - GMT que 2230


eu suponho que a coisa a mais estranha sobre viajar na força aérea uma é o conhecimento que apenas alguns medidores na frente de você no mesmo plano são alguns dos mundos a maioria de povos poderosos: Bush, arroz, Hadley. Sentar-se apenas acima na parte dianteira. Ou no exemplo de Bush que encontra-se possivelmente em sua cama, que é direita acima no nariz do plano.

Após nosso traço louco ao aeroporto nós apressamo-nos à parte traseira do plano onde os homens secretos do serviço verificaram nossas passagens fora em uma lista e nós fomos na placa. Não onde você anda em um vôo comercial mas muito mais baixo, similar a onde a bagagem vai. Acima das escadas, provavelmente 20 em tudo e então lá são uma aterragem com a área dos meios, a área da equipe de funcionários e o serviço secreto demasiado.

Dentro de - bem, é cinzento. Nasty bonito realmente. E a cabine dos meios é um bocado como estar em assentos do negócio com serviço da economia. Os primeiros temporizadores como mim começam um saco do goody. Usou-se ter uma caixa dos cigarros para dentro com o selo presidencial neles, mas Nancy Reagan, eu sou dito, objetado, assim agora você começo o selo branco M&Ms da casa.

Não há nenhum anúncio de segurança. Eu suponho se você estiver olhando depois que o homem grande todos mais pode afastar para se. E nós não tivemos que desligar móbeis - embora não há nenhum sinal em 33.000 pés! Há 14 assentos na área do journo e uns pares das tevês.

Bill Clinton usou-se voltar e chat. O fotógrafo ao lado de mim disse que era mau. Você estaria tentando dormir após um desengate gruelling e estaria tentando banter. Nenhum tal problema com GW. Permanece bem longe de nós.

A coisa a mais interessante era como esta é a bolha REAL. O motorcade competiu-nos ao tarmac então o plano então que nós taxied e voou-o e encontrou-se com nunca uma vez uma pessoa real corretamente. Eu sei que é política moderna, mas eu não posso ajudar pensar de que George W Bush tinha sido mal no exterior quando foi elegido presidente e então por os últimos sete anos onde estêve em uma bolha presidencial - foi sujeitado a este! E vive em Washington, divorciado como esse lugar pode ser da vida real demasiado!


Eu realizei apenas ao escrever que eu acordei esta manhã em Riyadh, deixei cair dentro no EL-Sheikh de Sharm, e no am agora na C.C. de Washington. E o dia inteiro eu penso que eu tive somente um bate-papo com uma pessoa de alguns dos três países.

Nós aterramos um pouco adiantado, em torno da metade-sete, e trotamos para fora na base de força aérea de um Andrew frio. Ao fuzileiro naval direito um, o helicóptero presidencial. E lá, o homem ele mesmo que anda para ele.

Corta uma figura só, hunched ligeiramente. O interruptor inversor taxied levantado então fora, em 7.48. Para trás à casa branca, o fim de uma visita que parecesse ser mais sobre proseguir relações boas, do que realizações reais.

Mim? Eu compartilhei de um táxi na cidade, a um hotel pequeno funky. Foi um desengate surpreendente. Eu penso que eu dormirei bem hoje à noite.


16 JANEIRO - o GMT 1230

agora no motorcade, mas as mãos velhas é nervosos. Nós somos parte traseira demasiado distante da parte dianteira do motorcade.

Finalmente na força aérea uma! E traseiro aos E.U. com o presidente. Mais para seguir a outra extremidade.

16 JANEIRO - GMT 1145

nao certo se eu vir sempre assim muitos povos secretos do serviço. Os homens em vidros pretos são em toda parte aqui no hotel onde o presidente Bush e o presidente Mubarak prendem sua conferência da notícia em alguns minutos.


Os Egyptians são grandes na segurança. Houve diversos ataques da bomba em Sinai em anos recentes assim que ao longo de nossa rota aqui eram as dúzias dos agentes lisos da roupa que sentam-se para fora no deserto pelo lado da estrada.
Assim agora um momento do quiet quando nós esperarmos os dois líderes.

Eu sou vôo home na força aérea uma, e os povos brancos da casa são dizendo nós têm que funcionar para o motorcade quando termina. Há uma mulher americana frantic que se mantenha nos dizer que o presidente não nos esperará!

Os fotógrafos estão dizendo-nos todos para permanecer sentando-se de modo a para não obscurecer sua vista. Todos. A. pouco na borda. Quando começam aqui eu serei um par dos medidores longe arguably do líder o mais poderoso do mundo. O que quer que sua opinião do homem que é consideravelmente emocionante.

Ou eu estive na bolha demasiado longa?

16 JANEIRO - MANHÃ

uma hora e vinte minutos do sono. Em uma semana de mal algum descanso. O produtor de rádio Yolande não começou nenhum sono. Embalava o equipamento.


É 0630. O sol é justo aproximadamente vir acima. O céu está desobstruído.

_ est v para um aquele bonito dia você começ assim frequentemente o Oriente Médio quando claro makes tudo apareç assim afiado, assim bom defin.

Os carros swerving através da pista na frente de nossa barra-ônibus. Mas o tráfego na maneira ao aeroporto está movendo-se rapidamente e nós estaremos lá logo.

Fora a Egipto por algumas horas. Suporte então aos EUA.

Eu sinto sempre o mesmo ao sair de o Oriente Médio. Ligeiramente sad.

Este é um lugar especial, um lugar que sofra tanto, um lugar que seja assim que entendido mal por assim muitos povos.

Eu quero saber se George Bush sentir agora que o compreende um pouco melhor?

15 JANEIRO - TARDE

eu saí “da bolha” hoje - para um todo 45 minutos.

Eu saltei em um táxi, e pedi que o excitador fizesse exame de me a uma rua do shopping. O excitador, de Bangladesh, riu quando eu perguntei se gostasse d aqui.


“Não é um lugar bom,” disse.

É aqui, como todos os trabalhadores extrangeiros, para ganhar o dinheiro - em sua caixa para o repouso da parte traseira da família.

Nós puxamos para cima e eu saí. Em uma loja estacionária um homem no vermelho e no branco chequered o headscarf favorecido por Saudis dito: “George Bush? Não goste. “

Em um café em volta do canto, tevê do mundo de BBC estava mostrando na televisão da tela lisa, e em uma tabela sentou um homem com um laptop que presta atenção a YouTube no Internet wireless.

Eu inquiri sobre da “o discurso liberdade” do Sr. Bush em Abu Dhabi o outro dia.

“Diz sempre este, este é seu discurso usual sobre a liberdade e a democracia e as coisas. Mesmo em América que não têm este, “ele sorriu.

“George Bush não é um homem calmo. Apenas, você sabe, muitos dos começos das guerras. “

Nós dirigimos para trás ao hotel. Eu pedi o excitador do táxi de Bangladeshi sobre o custo do combustível aqui.

“No., nao caro,” disse. Nao certo que fará consumidores dos E.U., nem George Bush, sinta mais melhor sobre o custo de um tambor do óleo!


14 JANEIRO - NIVELANDO

que dia. Todos que cobre esta visita diz que hoje batem uma parede do tijolo.

Eu penso que os povos brancos da imprensa da casa demasiado. Todos olha esgotado. A programação gruelling.


O nariz da história não mergulhou um bocado assim lá era nenhuma adrenalina que abastece nos todos.
Os Journalists gostam de um pouco de carne nos ossos da história, mas hoje tudo que nós encontramos realmente para fora sobre o presidente era que estêve mostrado que o que disse eram “os pássaros bonitos” da rapina.


Então nós começamos seu menu do jantar - sopa da alcachofra, e torta de maçã com creme de gelo.

E você estará contente de não saber nenhuma dúvida que os Saudis mantiveram esse jantar “relativamente cedo para nosso presidente da cedo-à-cama” de acordo com sua secretária de imprensa. Como eu disse, nenhuma notícia.

Assim os journalists americanos tiveram que satisfer a suas redes com as histórias sobre como amanhã nós pudemos testemunhar os primeiros snowfall em Riyadh nas décadas.

“Pelo menos não terão que ir distante encontrar a areia para as estradas” um correspondente relatada.

14 JANEIRO - boa vinda

às idades médias, bebê do MEIO-DIA “! ”

Que é o que alguém no corpo de imprensa branco viajando da casa disse enquanto nós batemos a terra em Arábia.Saudita. As mulheres na placa discutiram se têm que desgastar headscarves. O golfo da compreensão (ou de entender mal) é óbvio.

Na barra-ônibus ao hotel as mulheres foram ditas que desde que nós estamos em uma visita high-level podem escolher se ou não desgastar um headscarf.


Desde que nós somos em uma sociedade muçulmana muito conservadora onde as mulheres sejam obrigadas cobrir acima, aquele parece conselho oficial estranho.
A família de Bush é amigável com a família real Saudi, assim que o presidente saberá os limites de sua da “agenda so-called liberdade” aqui.

Um dia depois que se chamou para países através de o Oriente Médio para ser mais democrático e liberal, para introduzir reformas econômicas e sociais, esta é tão bom um lugar como você começa ver que não está indo acontecer em nenhuma maneira significativa durante o presidency de George W Bush.

Diz que cada país deve controlar mudanças em sua própria maneira, mas aqui a muitos sente como está tentando impo valores cultural ocidentais no mundo árabe.

Há também um excesso da pergunta se a estratégia do Sr. Bush isolar Irã por causa de suas ambições nucleares trabalhará aqui. A resposta curta é “nenhuma ele não”.

Os Saudis jogaram sempre um ato balançando muito inteligente para manter a estabilidade regional. Têm sido preocupados recentemente sobre Irã, mas parecem ter adotado uma aproximação de tentar alcançar para fora a Tehran à tensão difusa.


O presidente Bush gastará muito de seus dois dias em Arábia.Saudita que sightseeing melhor que a política falando
lá é uma compreensão entre estados na região que Tehran não reage positivamente ao aggression de um tipo político ou militar.
Em Arábia.Saudita, e também nos outros estados nesta região, há um sentido que as ambições nucleares de Irã mudaram as réguas do jogo.

Quando uma vez que os Saudis, como os Egyptians, chamados para um leste médio livre nuclear (recorde que Israel está acreditada ter dúzias de warheads nucleares - embora nunca admite esta) agora deslocaram sua posição.

Dizem que querem desenvolver sua potencialidade nuclear para diversificar seus recursos de energia, mas a ambição indicada é uma resposta desobstruída a Irã.

Como usual os Saudis têm que trabalhar duramente para balançar o que são bom para seu aliado próximo os Estados Unidos, e o que seus vizinhos regionais, including Irã, necessitam.

Talvez que é porque o presidente Bush gastará muito de seu tempo aqui nos dois dias seguintes que sightseeing melhor que a política falando.

14 JANEIRO - MANHÃ

um começo adiantado hoje. Outros cedo começam!

Nós empilhamos em minibuses, com toda nossa engrenagem e dirigimos a metade - hora ou assim ao aeroporto.

A força aérea uma é uma vista stunning no tarmac a minha esquerda. O sol que levanta-se atrás dele e dos lotes dos repórteres que começam suas fotos feitas exame na parte dianteira.

Na placa, nós começamos oferecemos um mimosa - uma última bebida antes de chegar em Arábia.Saudita.

Nós não fomos lembrados apenas lá somos nenhum álcool no Saudi. E as mulheres que viajam no desengate foram ditas para vestir-se apropriadamente.

Prepare para retiram. Melhor vá!

13 JANEIRO - NOITE

não é justo a casa que branca de Bush eu estou aprendendo aproximadamente neste desengate. É também a máquina americana dos meios.

Os povos que trabalham ao lado de mim na operação de relatório de rádio são tudo correspondentes seasoned. Um é um nome da casa nos E.U. após anos do serviço e de journalism renowned.


No entanto todos gastam a maioria do dia que arquiva o mais curto das partes de rádio. Short assim certamente que os chamam “pontos”!
Às vezes começam fazer uma análise mais longa, e seu trabalho é profissional e de um padrão elevado. Mas parece que suas estações já não querem mais do que alguns segundos da cobertura.

Um deles, eu não direi para que rede, o outro dia lamented as histórias que estão sendo cobertas no Web site da estação. Entertainment e tales wacky dominados.

Então hoje, eu fazia uma gravação à câmera com um grupo americano da tevê. Eu falei para que aproximadamente um minuto e uma metade tente explicar algum do fundo ao discurso do presidente. Aquele é quase um livro, operador de câmara dito quando eu terminei. Disse nos E.U. que é muito mais curto justo.


Há um journalism bom nos estados, naturalmente. Os jornais têm histórias da qualidade e negócio da tevê e do rádio com algumas edições weighty. E eu estou viajando no cano principal com alguns journalists excelentes que fazem exame de seus trabalhos seriamente.
Este não é um criticism deles, mas total a cobertura mais de suas companhias fornece é histórias rápidas, catchy perto dominadas. E parece que mesmo seu próprio presidente não começa muito de um olhar dentro.

Alguns discutiriam os meios britânicos têm começado já abaixo esse trajeto. Se aquele for o caso, o futuro não olha para ser informed terrìvel bom.

Bastantes! Para dormir, momentaneamente. Amanhã nós estamos fora adiantados a Arábia.Saudita no pé seguinte do desengate. Dia seis. País cinco.

13 JANEIRO - MANHÃ onde

o chamam a bolha, e quando nós tocamos para baixo em Barém ele sentiu como nós fomos furados para a direita dentro dele.


A barra-ônibus dirigiu-nos fora do aeroporto, tinha estacionado ao lado do avião e nós andamos simplesmente nele. Para alguma razão nosso combóio teve uma escolta das polícias, e nós passamos as junções onde o tráfego local teve que nos esperar enquanto nós dirigimos através das luzes vermelhas. Nós dirigimos ao longo do causeway para os skyscrapers de Manama.
Outros journalists removeram suas câmeras, fazendo perguntas sobre o que nós víamos. Turistas excitados. Então nós começamos ao hotel e whisked dentro.

A razão chamam-na a bolha, são porque este processo inteiro significa que do touchdown aos meios o centre olham literalmente fora da bolha no mundo real em torno de você. Em Kuwait eu não penso que eu me encontrei com um único Kuwaiti. Though para estar justo a maioria de equipe de funcionários do hotel há de Ásia ou em outra parte.

É bàsicamente como ser encaixado com o presidente - com todas as edições que levanta para journalists. Não que a casa branca em toda a maneira tenta afetar nosso relatório.


Nunca aproximaram-me sobre uma história que eu tenho arquivado. Eu comecei a liberdade total, mas por causa das programações apertadas não comece encontrar-se com os povos do país que nós estamos passando completamente. Isso é aprovado. O trabalho é relatar na visita do presidente, mas significa-o necessidade outras fontes da informação sobre onde você está.
Outra uma coisa rápida. O Sr. Bush quando aqui em Barém deu boas-vindas a uma lei Iraqi nova a que permitisse milhares de supporters júniors anteriores do partido de Baath de Saddam Hussein fizessem exame acima de trabalhos do governo. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Mellanösten turnerar dagboken.
Automatically translated into Swedish thanks to WorldLingo
Mellanösten turnerar dagboken, har George W Bush avslutat en Mellanösten turnerar som inklusive hans första besök som US-president till Israel och de palestinska territorierna, as well as stopp i golfen och Egypten. BBC motsvarande Matthew prissätter, som reste med honom, skrev en dagbok på hans framsteg.


16 JANUARI - GMT 2230 som


jag antar att det konstigaste tinget om att resa på flygvapen ett är kunskapen att rättvist några räkneverk som är främre av dig på det samma plant är några av kraftigaste folket för världar det: Bush Rice, Hadley. Sammanträde precis upp framme. Eller i fallet av Bush som ligger eventuellt i hans säng, som är höger upp i näsan av det plant.

Efter vårt tokigt har rusat till flygplatsen, rusade vi till baksidaen av det plant var presidentens säkerhetstjänst som manar kontrollerade vårt passerar av på en lista och vi gick ombord. Inte var du går på ett reklamfilmflyg men mycket lägre, liknande till var bagaget går. Upp trappan är antagligen 20 sammanlagt och därefter där en landning med massmediaområdet, bemannaområdet och presidentens säkerhetstjänst för.

Väl insida -, är det grå färg. Nätt otäckt faktiskt. Och massmedia som kabinen är a, bet likt vara i affär placerar med tjänste- ekonomi. Första tidmätare gillar mig får en godbit hänger lös. Det som är van vid, har en boxas av cigaretter som är inre med det presidents- att försegla på dem, men Nancy Reagan, den berättade som I-förmiddagen anmärkas, så nu får du, Vita huset förseglar M&Ms.

Det finns inte något säkerhetsmeddelande. Jag gissar, om du ser, efter den stora manen alla annars har kunnat klara sig själv för dem. Och vi måste inte att vända av mobiler - även om det finns inget signalerar på 33.000 fot! Det finns 14 placerar i journoområdet och en koppla ihop av tv:er.

Bill Clinton van vid kommen baksida och pratstund. Fotografen bredvid mig sade att det var dåligan. Du skulle är pröva att sova, efter en gruelling har snubblat, och han skulle är pröva att skämta. Inget sådan problem med GW. Han stag väller fram i väg från oss.

Det mest intressant tinget var hur detta är det VERKLIGT bubblar. Motorcaden raced oss till tarmacen därefter som det plant vi taxade därefter, och flög och mötte aldrig en gång en verklig person riktigt. Jag vet som är modern politik, men jag kan inte hjälpa tänkande som George W Bush hade varit knappt utomlands när han valdes presidenten och därefter för de sist sju åren som han har varit i ett presidents- bubbla - han har betvingats till denna! Och han bor i Washington som skilja sig från, som det förlägger kan äga rum från verkliga livet för!


Rättvis realiserad handstil för stunder I som jag vaknade upp i morse i Riyadh som tappades in på den Sharm el-Sheikhen och förmiddag nu i Washington DC. Och all funderare för dag I har jag haft endast en pratstund med en person från några av de tre länderna.

Vi landade lite en tidig sort, runt om halva-sju, och travt ut in i en förkylningAndrews flygvapen basera. Till den högra flottan en, den presidents- helikoptern. Och där, självt gå för man in mot den.

Han klipper ett ensamt figurerar, litet krökat. Avbrytaren taxade därefter lyft av, på 7.48. Baksida till Vita huset, avsluta av ett besök, som har verkat för att vara mer om att hålla upp bra förbindelse, än verkliga prestationer.

Mig? Jag delade en taxa in i town, till ett skraj lite hotell. Det har varit förbluffa snubblar. Funderare I ska jag väl sömn ikväll.


16 JANUARI - GMT 1230

nu i motorcaden, men det gammalt räcker är nervösa. Vi är för avlägsen baksida framifrån av motorcaden.

Slutligen in i flygvapen ett! Och tillbaka till USEN med presidenten. Mer som följer annat, avslutar.

16 JANUARI - inte säker

GMT 1145, om jag har någonsin sett så många presidentens säkerhetstjänstfolk. Manar i svart exponeringsglas är överallt här på hotellet var presidenten Bush och presidenten Mubarak rymmer deras nyheternakonferens i några noterar.


Egyptierna är stora på säkerhet. Det har finnas flera bombarderar attacker i Sinai under senare år, så längs vår rutt här var dussintals sammanträde för slättklädermedel ut i öknen vid vägsidan.
Så nu ett ögonblick av tyst stunder oss väntan för de två ledarna.

Förmiddag som I hem flyger på flygvapen ett och Vita husfolket är ordstävet som vi måste att köra för motorcaden, när det avslutar sig. Det finns en utom sig amerikankvinna som träffande uppehällen oss presidenten ska inte väntan för oss!

Fotograferna är träffande alla att oss till stagsammanträde för inte till oklart deras beskåda. Alla. A. på kantar lite. När de får här, ska jag är en koppla ihop av räkneverk i väg från arguably världens kraftigaste ledare. Allt vad din åsikt av manen som är nätt spännande.

Eller har jag varit i den för långa bubbla?

16 JANUARI - MORGONEN

noterar en timme och tjugo av sömn. I en vecka av några vila knappt. Radiosände producenten som Yolande fick ingen sömn. Hon packade utrustningen.


Det är 0630. Sunen är rättvis omkring att komma upp. Skyen är frikänden.

Det går att vara en av de härliga dagar som du får så ofta i Mellanösten, när de ljusa makesna allt visas så kor, så definierat väl.

Bilarna swerving över lanen av vårt bussar framme. Men trafikera på till flygplatsen är långt röra fastar, och vi ska är där snart.

Av till Egypten för några timmar. Dra tillbaka därefter till USA.

Alltid känselförnimmelse I samma, när lämna Mellanösten. Litet ledset.

Denna är en sakkunnig förlägger, en förlägga, som har lidit så mycket, en förlägga, som är, så missförstått av så många folk.

Jag undrar, om George Bush känselförnimmelser honom förstår nu det ett lite bättre?

15 JANUARI - EFTERMIDDAG

jag fick ut ur ”bubbla” i dag - för en helhet 45 noterar.

Jag hoppade i en taxa och frågade chauffören att ta mig till en shoppinggata. Chauffören, från Bangladesh, skrattade, då jag frågade, om han gillar det här.


”Är det inte en goda förlägger,” sade han.

Han är här, gillar alla av utländska arbetare, för att tjäna pengar - i hans fall för familjbaksidahem.

Vi drog upp, och jag fick ut. I ett stationärt shoppa en man i den röd och för vit rutiga sjaletten som gynnas av sagda Saudier: ”George Bush? Gilla inte. ”

I en caferunda var tränga någon, BBC-världsTV visningen på lägenheten avskärmer televisionen och på en bordlägger satt en man med en bärbar dator som håller ögonen på YouTube på trådlösa internet.

Jag frågade om Herr Bush ”frihetsanförande” i Abu Dhabi häromdagen.

”Är han alltid något att säga detta, detta hans vanliga anförande om frihet och demokrati och saker. Även i Amerika som de inte har detta, ”honom, log.

”Är George Bush inte en fridsam man. Han precis, dig vet, starter som en radda kriger. ”

Oss drösbaksida till hotellet. Jag frågade bangladesharen taxar chauffören om kosta av tankar här.

”Nr.en som inte var dyr,” sade han. Inte säkert, att ska gör US-konsumenter nor George Bush, känselförnimmelse någon som är bättre om kosta av en trumma av olja!


14 JANUARI - AFTON

en vilken dag. Alla som täcker något att säga för detta besök i dag slogg de, en tegelstenvägg.

Funderare I Vita huspressfolket för. Alla ser utmattad. Schemat gruelling.


Berättelsenäsan dök a bet så där var ingen adrenalin som tankar alla oss.
Journalister gillar lite meat på benen av berättelsen, men i dag var som allt vi egentligen grundar ut om presidenten, att han visades att vad sade han, ”var härliga fåglar” av rovet.


Därefter fick vi hans matställemeny - kronärtskockasoup och äpplepie med glass.

Och du ska är glad att veta att inget tvivel, som saudierna rymde den tidig sort för matställen ”förhållandevis för vårt tidig sort-till-bädda ned presidenten” enligt hans pressekreterare. Något liknande sagd I, ingen nyheterna.

Så måste amerikanjournalisterna att tillfredsställa deras knyter kontakt med berättelser om hur i morgon vi kan vittne de första snowfallna i Riyadh i årtionden.

”Ska åtminstone de inte måste att gå långt att finna sanden för redden” en anmäld korrespondent.

14 JANUARI - den MIDDAG

”välkomnandet till medeltiden, behandla som ett barn! ”

Som är vad någon i den resande Vita huspresskåren sade, som vi slogg det slipat i Saudiarabien. Kvinnor diskuterade ombord huruvida dem måste att ha på sig sjaletter. Golfen av överenskommelse (eller missförståndet) är tydlig.

På bussa till hotellet berättades kvinnorna att, sedan vi är på ett high-level besök de kan välja huruvida eller inte ha på sig en sjalett.


Sedan vi är i ett mycket konservativt Muslim samhälle var kvinnor är skyldiga att täcka upp, verkar det konstig officiell rådgivning.
Den Bush familjen är vänlig med den kungliga familjen för saudier, så den ska presidenten vet att begränsar av hans so-called ”frihetsdagordning” här.

En dag, efter han kallade för länder över Mellanösten för att vara mer demokratisk och frisinnad, att introducera ekonomiska och sociala reformer, denna är så bra en förlägga, som du får se som inte går att hända i any meningsfullt långt under den George W Bush presidentsämbetet.

Han något att säga varje land måste klara av ändringar i dess eget långt, men här till många som det gillar känselförnimmelser honom är pröva att lägga på västra kulturvärden på den arabiska världen.

Det finns också en ifrågasätta över huruvida Herr Bush strategi till isolaten Iran på grund av dess ska kärn- ambitioner fungerar här. Det kort svaret är ”inget det ska inte”.

Saudierna har alltid lekt mycket klyftigt balansera agerar för att underhålla regional stabilitet. De har oroats för en tid sedan om Iran, men verkar för att ha adopterat en att närma sig av pröva till räckvidden ut till Tehran för att sprida ut spänning.


Den ska presidentbusken spenderar mycket av hans två dagar i den Saudiarabien sighten, i stället för samtal av politik
där är en överenskommelse bland påstår i regionen att Tehran inte reagerar positivt till agression av endera en politisk eller militär typ.
I Saudiarabien, och också påstår annat i denna region, finns det en avkänning att Iran kärn- ambitioner har ändrat härskar av leken.

(Minns när, när saudierna, gillar egyptierna, kallat för en kärn- fria Mellanösten att Israel tros för att ha dussintals kärn- warheads - även om den medger aldrig denna), nu de har skiftat deras, placera.

Dem något att säga som de önskar att framkalla deras kärn- kapacitet för att diversifiera deras energiresurser, men den påstod ambitionen är ett klart svar till Iran.

Som vanligt, måste saudierna att fungera hårt för att balansera vad är bra för deras nära bundsförvant Förenta staterna, och vad deras regionala grann, inklusive Iran, behov.

Kanske är det varför presidenten ska Bush spenderar mycket av hans tid här i den nästa två dagar sighten i stället för talande politik.

14 JANUARI - MORGON

en tidig sortstart i dag. En annan tidig sortstart!

Vi travde på minibuses, med allt vårt utrusta och drösen halvtimmen eller så till flygplatsen.

Flygvapen ett är en bedöva sikt på tarmacen till lämnat mitt. Sunresningen bak den och raddareporter som får deras foto tagna framme.

Ombord får vi erbjöd en mimosa - en sist drink, innan vi ankommer i Saudiarabien.

Vi precis har påmints där är ingen alkohol i saudier. Och kvinnorna som reser på snubbla, har berättats för att klä lämpligt.

Förbered sig för tar av. Bättre gå!

13 JANUARI - AFTONEN

är det inte rättvist förmiddagen för Bush Vita hus som I lärer omkring på denna, snubblar. Det är amerikanmassmedia bearbetar med maskin också.

Folket, som fungerar tillsammans med mig i, radiosände anmäla funktionen är all kryddade korrespondent. En är ett hushåll som är känt i USEN efter år av tjänste- och berömd journalistik.


Och yet dem som alla spenderar mest av dagen som sparar det kortast av, radiosände lappar. Kortsluta så sannerligen att dem appellen dem ”fläckar”!
Ibland får de göra längre analys, och deras arbete är yrkesmässigt och av en en hög klass. Men det verkar deras posterar önskar ej längre mer, än några understöder av täckning.

Ett av dem, jag ska inte något att säga för som knyter kontakt, häromdagen beklagat berättelserna som täckas på stationens website. Underhållning och knäpp sagor dominerade.

Därefter i dag, gjorde jag en inspelning till kameran med en amerikanTVbesättning. Jag talade för omkring ett minimalt och en halva till försök att förklara någon av bakgrunden till president anförande. Det är nästan en boka, den sagda cameramanen, då jag avslutade mig. Han sade i USEN som det är rättvist ett kortare lott.


Det finns bra journalistik i påstår, naturligtvis. Tidningar har kvalitets- berättelser och TV:N och radiosände avtal med något weighty utfärdar. Och I-förmiddag som reser i det huvudsakligt med några utmärkta journalister som tar deras jobb allvarligt.
Denna är inte en kritik av dem, men total- ger täckningen mest av deras företag domineras av snabba catchy berättelser. Och det verkar även deras egna president får inte mycket av en look in.

Några skulle argumenterar det brittiska massmedia har redan startat att besegra den bana. Om det är fallet, ser framtiden inte för att vara hemskt väl informed.

Nog! Att sova kort. I morgon är vi av tidig sort till Saudiarabien på det nästa lägger benen på ryggen av snubbla. Dag sex. Land fem.

13 JANUARI - MORGON

klädde med filt de appellen det bubbla, och, när vi som är berörda, besegrar i Bahrain, det något liknande som vi var klibbad höger insida det.


Bussadrösen oss ut ur flygplatsen, hade det parkerat bredvid flygplanet, och vi gick enkelt på det. För något resonera vår eskortfartyg hade en poliseskort, och vi passerade föreningspunkter var lokalen trafikerar måste väntan för oss som oss drösen till och med rött ljus. Oss drös längs causewayen in mot skyskraporna av Manama.
Andra journalister tog deras kameror ut och att fråga ifrågasätter om vad vi såg. Upphetsada turister. Därefter fick viftades vi till hotellet och in.

Resonera är de appellen det bubbla, därför att detta helt processaa hjälpmedel som från landningsögonblick till massmedia centrerar dig formligen looken ut ur bubbla på verklig värld runt om dig. I Kuwait jag inte funderare som jag mötte en singelkuwaitier. Though att vara mässa som mest hotell bemannar där är från Asien eller någon annanstans.

Det är i stort något liknande som bäddas in med presidenten - med alla utfärdar att lönelyfter för journalister. Inte att Vita huset i any långt försök att påverka vårt anmäla.


De har aldrig att närma sig mig om en berättelse som jag har sparat. Jag har fått sammanlagd frihet, men på grund av de åtsittande schemana få inte möta folket av landet som vi passerar igenom. Det är godkännandet. Jobbet är att anmäla på president besök, men det betyder dig behov andra källor av information om var du är.
Ett annat snabbt ting. Herr Bush stunder här i Bahrain välkomnade en ny irakisk lag som låter tusentals tidigare yngre supportrar av Saddam Hussein det Baath partit till tar upp regerings- jobb. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

Дневник путешествия Ближнего Востока.
Automatically translated into Russian thanks to WorldLingo
Дневник путешествия Ближнего Востока, George W. Bush заключал путешествие Ближнего Востока которое включило его первое посещение как президент США к Израилю и палестинским территориям, также, как стопы в залив и Египт. Цена BBC корреспондентское Matthew, которое переместило с им, написало дневник на его прогрессе.


16-ое января - GMT, котор 2230


я полагаю самой странной вещью о перемещать на Военно-воздушные силы одно будет знание что как раз немного метров перед вами на такой же плоскости некоторые из миров большинств мощные люди: Кустик, рис, Hadley. Сидеть как раз вверх в фронте. Или в случае кустика по возможности лежа в его кровати, которая права вверх в носе плоскости.

После нашей сумашедшей черточки к авиапорту мы поспешили к задней части плоскости где люди секретной службы проверили наши пропуски на список и мы пошли на борту. Не куда вы гуляете на коммерчески полет но очень низко, подобно к куда багаж идет. Вверх по лестницам, вероятно 20 в всех и после этого там будут посадкой с зоной средств, зоной штата и секретной службой слишком.

Внутри - наилучшим образом, оно серо. Милое гадкое фактическ. И кабина средств будет битом как находиться в местах дела с обслуживанием экономии. Первые отметчики времени как я получают goody мешок. Оно использовало иметь коробку сигарет внутрь с президентским уплотнением на их, но Нэнси Рейган, я сказан, после того как я возражен, настолько теперь вы получаю уплотнение M&Ms Белого дома.

Не будет объявления безопасности. Я угадываю если вы look after большой человек, котор каждое еще может fend для себя. И мы не должны повернуть черни - хотя не будет сигнала на 33.000 футах! Будут 14 места в зоне journo и пары TVs.

Билл Клинтон использовало come back и побеседовать. Photographer рядом с мной сказал было плох. Вы пытались бы спать после gruelling отключения и он пытался бы подшутить. Отсутствие такой проблемы с GW. Он остается наилучшим образом далеко от нас.

Самая интересная вещь была как это будет РЕАЛЬНЫМ пузырем. Motorcade участвовало в гонке мы к tarmac после этого плоскость после этого, котор мы ездили на такси и летало и никогда раз встречало реальную персону правильн. Я знаю будет самомоднейшими политиками, но я не могу помочь думать что George W. Bush трудно был зарубежом когда он был избран президентом и после этого на последние 7 лет, котор он находился в президентском пузыре - он подвергался к этому! И он живет в вашингтоне, divorced как то место может быть от реальной жизни слишком!


Я как раз осуществил пока пишущ что я wake up это утро в Riyadh, упал внутри на el-Sheikh Sharm, и am теперь в DC вашингтона. И весь день я думаю я имело только одну бормотушк с персоной от любых 3 стран.

Мы приземлились немного предыдущее, вокруг половины-7, и пошлись рысью вне в военно-воздушную базу холодного Андрюа. К правому морскому пехотинцу одно, президентский вертолет. И там, человек себя гуляя к ему.

Он режет сиротливый рисунок, небольш hunched. Тяпка ездила на такси после этого после того как она поднята, на 7.48. Back to Белый дом, конец посещения которое казалось, что будет больше о keep up хорошие отношения, чем реальные достижения.

Я? Я делил таксомотор в городок, к funky маленькой гостинице. Было amazing отключением. Я думаю я будет спать наилучшим образом tonight.


16-ое января - GMT 1230

теперь в motorcade, но старые руки слабонервны. Мы будем слишком далекой задней частью от фронта motorcade.

Окончательно в Военно-воздушные силы одно! И back to США с президентом. Больше для того чтобы последовать за другим концом.

16-ое января - GMT 1145

уверенный если я всегда видел настолько много людей секретной службы. Люди в черных стеклах везде здесь на гостинице где президент Кустик и президент Mubarak держат их конференцию новостей в немного минут.


Египтянин большие на обеспеченности. Несколько нападения бомбы в Sinai in recent years поэтому вдоль нашей трассы здесь находились дюжины обыкновенных толком веществ одежд сидя вне в пустыне стороной дороги.
Настолько теперь момент тиши пока мы ждем 2 руководителей.

Я буду летанием домашним на Военно-воздушных силах одно, и люди Белого дома будут говорящ нами должны побежать для motorcade когда они заканчивают. Будет оголтелая американская женщина держит сказать нам президент не ждет нас!

Photographers говорят нам всем остаться сидящ для того НОП не затемнить их взгляд. Каждое. A. маленькое на крае. Когда они получит здесь я буду парой метров далеко от arguably руководителя мира самого мощного. Ваше мнение человека довольно exciting.

Или я находился в пузыре слишком длиной?

16-ое января - УТРО

один час и 20 MINUT сна. В неделе трудно любых остальных. Radio производитель Yolande не получил никакой сон. Она паковала оборудование.


Оно 0630. Солнце справедливо около для того чтобы come up. Небо ясно.

Оно идет быть одним из тех красивейших дней, котор вы получаете настолько часто в The Middle East когда светлые модели все кажутся настолько острыми, настолько определенным хорошим.

Автомобили swerving через майну перед нашей шиной. Но движение на дороге к авиапорту двигает быстро и мы будем там скоро.

С к Египта на немного часов. После этого back to США.

Я всегда чувствую эти же выходя The Middle East. Небольш уныло.

Это будет специальное место, место которое терпело so much, место которое поэтому после того как оно misunderstood настолько много людей.

Я интересую если Джордж Буш теперь чувствует, то он понимает его немного лучшее?

15-ое января - ПОСЛЕ ПОЛУДНЯ

я get out «пузыря» сегодня - на целый 45 MINUT.

Я поскакал в таксомотор, и спросил, что водитель принял меня к улице покупкы. Водитель, от Бангладеша, смеялся над когда я спросил если он любит он здесь.


«Не будет хорошим местом,» он сказал.

Он здесь, как все иностранные рабочие, заработать деньг - в его доме задней части семьи аргументы за.

Мы pull up и я get out. В неподвижном магазине человек в красной и белизне chequered headscarf ое сказанным жителем Саудовской Аравии: «Джордж Буш? Не полюбите. «

В кафе вокруг угла, мира TV BBC показал на телевидении плоского экрана, и на одной таблице сидел человек с laptop наблюдая YouTube на беспроволочном интернете.

Я спросил о «речи свободы» га-н Кустика в Abu Dhabi другой день.

«Он всегда говорит это, это будет его обычная речь о свободе и народовластии и вещах. Даже в америке, котор они не имеют это, «он усмехнул.

«Джордж Буш не будет мирным человеком. Он как раз, вы знает, множество стартов войн. «

Мы управляли back to гостиница. Я спросил водителя таксомотора Bangladeshi о цене топлива здесь.

«Нет, дорогее,» он сказал. Уверенн что сделает едоков США, ни Джордж Буш, чувствуйте нисколько более лучше о цене бочонка масла!


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что день. Каждое покрывая это посещение говорит сегодня они ударяют стену кирпича.

Я думаю люди давления Белого дома сделали слишком. Каждое смотрит вымотанным. План-график gruelling.


Нос рассказа нырнул бит настолько там был никаким adrenalin заправляя топливом нас все.
Журналисты любят немного мясо на косточках рассказа, но сегодня все, котор мы реально нашли вне о президенте было что он был показан он сказал были «красивейшие птицы» prey.


После этого мы получили его меню обеда - суп артишока, и расстегай яблока с мороженым.

И вы будете радостны не знать никакое сомнение жителя Саудовской Аравии держали тот обед «относительно раньше для нашего президента раньше-к-кровати» согласно его пресс-секретаря. Как я сказал, отсутствие новостей.

Так американские журналисты должны удовлетворять их сети с рассказами о как завтра мы могли witness первые снежности в Riyadh в декадах.

«По крайней мере они пойти далеко считать песок для дорог» один корреспондент после того как они сообщены.

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к средние века, младенец MIDDAY «! »

Кто-то в перемещая корпусе давления Белого дома сказало по мере того как мы ударили землю в Саудовской Аравии. Обсуженные женщины на борту должны ли они нести headscarves. Залив понимать (или misunderstanding) очевиден.

На шине к гостинице женщины были сказаны что в виду того что мы находимся на визите на высоком уровне они могут выбрать ли или не нести headscarf.


В виду того что мы в очень консервативном мусульманском обществе где женщины обязаны покрыть вверх, то кажется странной официальной консультацией.
Семья кустика содружественна с Saudi королевской семьей, поэтому президент знает пределы его so-called «повестки дня свободы» здесь.

День после того как он вызвал для стран через The Middle East для того чтобы быть более демократическ и либеральн, ввести хозяйственные и социальные реформы, это как хорош место по мере того как вы получают, что видите которые не идут случиться в любой содержательной дороге во время президентства George W. Bush.

Он говорит каждая страна должна управлять изменениями в своей собственной дороге, но здесь к много она чувствует как он пытается навести западные культурные ценности на арабском мире.

Будет также вопрос над будет работать ли стратегия га-н Кустика изолировать Иран из-за своих ядерных гоноров здесь. Скоро ответ «никак оно не будет».

Жителя Саудовской Аравии всегда играли очень ухищренный балансируя поступок для поддержания регионарной стабилности. Они были потревожены недавн о Иране, но кажется, что принимают подход пытаться достигнуть вне к Tehran к диффузному напряжению.


Президент Кустик проводит много из его 2 дней в Саудовской Аравии sightseeing rather than говоря политикой
там будет вникание среди положений в зоне что Tehran не реагирует положительн к агрессии или политического или воинского типа.
В Саудовской Аравии, и также других положениях в этой зоне, будет чувство что гоноры Ирана ядерные изменяли правила игры.

Когда как только жителя Саудовской Аравии, как египтянин, вызванные для ядерного свободно Ближнего Востока (вспомните поверены, что имеет Израиль дюжины ядерная боеголовка - хотя он никогда не впускает это) теперь они переносили их положение.

Они говорят они хочет начать их ядерный потенциал для того чтобы разнообразить их энергетические ресурсы, но заявленным гонором будет ясная реакция к Ирану.

По мере того как обычно жителя Саудовской Аравии должны работать крепко для того чтобы сбалансировать хороши для их близкого союзника Соединенные Штаты, и их регионарным соседям, включая Иран, нужны.

Возможно почему президент Кустик потратит много из его времени здесь в следующих 2 днях sightseeing rather than говоря политику.

14-ое января - УТРО

наиболееа ранний срок начала сегодня. Другой наиболееа ранний срок начала!

Мы сложили на минибусы, с полностью нашей шестерней и управили получасом или так к авиапорту.

Военно-воздушные силы одно будут оглушать визированием на tarmac к моей левой стороне. Солнце поднимая за им и сериями репортеров получая их фотоих принято в фронт.

На, мы получаем предложили mimosa - одно последнее питье перед приезжать в Саудовскую Аравию.

Мы как раз были reminded там будем никаким спиртом в жителе Саудовской Аравии. И женщины перемещая на отключение были сказаны для того чтобы одетьть соотвествующе.

Подготовьте для take off. Лучше пойдите!

13-ое января - ВЕЧЕР

оно не справедливо дом кустика, котор Белый я учу около на этом отключении. Это будет также американской машиной средств.

Люди работают наряду с мной в radio сообщая деятельности будут всем приправленными корреспондентами. Одно будет именем домочадца в США после лет обслуживания и renowned публицистики.


And yet они все тратят большой часть из дня скоро radio частей. Так замкните накоротко деиствительно что они вызывают их «пятнами»!
Иногда они получают, что делают более длинний анализ, и их работа профессиональна и высокого стандарта. Но оно кажется их станции no longer не хотят больше чем немного секунд охвата.

Одно из их, я не скажу для которая сеть, другой день посетовала рассказы будучи покрыванной на web site станции. Зрелищность и wacky сказы преобладали.

После этого сегодня, я делал запись к камере с американским экипажем TV. Я поговорил для около минуты с половиной для того чтобы попытаться объяснить некоторую из предпосылки к речи президента. То будет почти книгой, сказанным cameraman когда я закончил. Он сказал в США, котор он справедливые много скоро.


Будет хорошая публицистика в положениях, of course. Газеты имеют рассказы качества и дело TV и радиоего с некоторыми вескими вопросами. И я перемещаю в основу с некоторыми превосходными журналистами принимают их работы серьезно.
Это не будет критицизм их, но обще охватом больше всего их компаний обеспечивает будет преобладанные мимо быстро, catchy рассказы. И оно кажется даже их собственный президент не получает много из взгляда cIn.

Некоторые поспорили бы великобританские средства уже начинали вниз с того курса. Если то будет случаем, то не смотрят, что будет будущее ужасно хорошее informed одним.

Достаточно! Спать, кратко. Завтра мы предыдущие к Саудовской Аравии на следующей ноге отключения. День 6. Страна 5.

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они вызывают его пузырем, и когда мы touch down в Бахрейне оно чувствовало как мы были вставлены справедливо внутри его.


Шина управляла нами из авиапорта, она припарковала рядом с aeroplane и мы просто погуляли на его. For some reason наш обоз имел сопроводителя полиций, и мы прошли соединения где местное сообщение должно ждать нас по мере того как мы управляли через красные света. Мы управляли вдоль causeway к небоскребам Manama.
Другие журналисты приняли их камеры вне, спрашивающ вопросы о мы видели. Возбуженные туристы. После этого мы получили к гостинице и были юркнуты cIn.

Причина они вызывают ее пузырем, потому что этот весь процесс намеревается что от touchdown к средствам центризуйте вас буквальн посмотрите из пузыря на реальном мире вокруг вас. В Кувейте я не думаю я встречало одиночный Kuwaiti. Однако быть справедливо большинств штат гостиницы от Азии или в другом месте.

Оно основно как быть врезанным с президентом - с всеми вопросами поднимает для журналистов. Не что Белый дом в любом случае пытается повлиять на наш сообщать.


Они никогда не причаливали мне о рассказе, котор я хранил. Я получаю полную свободу, но из-за уплотненный график не получите, что встретить людей страны, котор мы проходим до конца. То одобренн. Работой будет к отчет о посещение президента, но она намеревается вы потребность другие источники информации о где вы.
Одна другая быстро вещь. Г-н Кустик пока здесь в Бахрейне приветствовал новый иракский закон позволяет тысячи бывших младших сторонниц партии Baath Saddam Hussein take up работы правительства. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

De reisagenda van het Midden-Oosten.
Automatically translated into Dutch thanks to WorldLingo
De de reisagenda van het Midden-Oosten, George W Bush heeft een reis besloten van het Midden-Oosten die zijn eerste bezoek als voorzitter van de V.S. aan Israël en de Palestijnse gebieden, evenals einden in de Golf en Egypte omvatte. BBC overeenkomstige Matthew Price, die met hem reiste, schreef een agenda op zijn vooruitgang.


16 JANUARI - 2230 GMT


veronderstel ik het vreemdste ding over het reizen op Luchtmacht één de kennis is dat enkel een paar meter voor u op het zelfde vliegtuig enkele werelden de meeste krachtige mensen is: Bush, Rijst, Hadley. Het zitten enkel omhoog vooraan. Of in het geval van Bush dat misschien in zijn bed ligt, dat omhoog in de neus van het vliegtuig juist is.

Na ons gek streepje aan de luchthaven die wij aan de rug van het vliegtuig hebben meegesleept waar de geheime de dienstmensen controleerden onze passen op een lijst en wij gingen aan boord. Niet waar u loopt op een commerciële vlucht maar veel vermindert, gelijkaardig aan waar de bagage gaat. Op stairs, waarschijnlijk 20 alles bij elkaar en dan zijn er ook het landen met het media gebied, het personeelsgebied en de geheime dienst.

Binnen - goed, is het grijs. Vrij smerig eigenlijk. En de media cabine is een beetje als het zijn in bedrijfszetels met de economiedienst. De eerste tijdopnemers als me krijgen een goody zak. Het gebruikte om een doos van sigaretten met de presidentiële verbinding op hen binnen te hebben, maar Nancy Reagan, word ik verteld, had bezwaar, zo wordt u nu de verbinding M&Ms. van het Witte Huis.

Er is geen veiligheidsaankondiging. Ik veronderstel als u voor de grote man zorgt iedereen anders voor zich kan afweren. En wij moesten geen mobiles uitzetten - hoewel er geen signaal 33.000 voet bedraagt! Er zijn 14 zetels in het journogebied en een paar TVs.

Bill Clinton dat wordt gebruikt om terug te komen en te babbelen. De fotograaf naast me zei het slecht was. U zou aan slaap na een gruelling reis proberen en hij zou aan banter proberen. Geen dergelijk probleem met GW. Hij blijft goed vanaf ons.

Het interessantste ding was hoe dit de ECHTE bel is. Motorcade rende ons aan tarmac toen het vliegtuig wij taxi�den en behoorlijk vlogen en nooit eens een echte persoon toen ontmoetten. Ik weet het die moderne politiek ben, maar ik kan niet helpen denkend dat George W Bush nauwelijks was geweest in het buitenland toen hij voorzitter werd verkozen en dan voor de laatste zeven jaar hij in een presidentiële bel is geweest - hij is onderworpen aan dit! En hij leeft in Washington, gescheiden zoals die plaats van echt kan ook zijn!


Ik realiseerde enkel terwijl schrijvend dat ik vanochtend in Riyadh, daalde binnen op Gr-sjeik Sharm wekte, en ben nu in Washington gelijkstroom. En de hele dag denk ik ik slechts één praatje met een persoon van om het even welke drie landen heb gehad.

Wij landden een weinig vroeg, rond helft-zeven, en trotted uit in de Basis van de Luchtmacht van koude Andrew. Aan juiste Marine Één, de presidentiële helikopter. En daar, de man zelf die naar het loopt.

Hij snijdt een eenzaam lichtjes hunched figuur. De dan getaxi�de bijl lanceerde, bij 7.48. Terug naar het Witte Huis, het eind van een bezoek dat heeft geschenen te zijn meer over omhoog het houden van goede relaties, dan echte verwezenlijkingen.

Me? Ik deelde een taxi in stad, aan een funky klein hotel. Het is een verbazende reis geweest. Ik denk ik goed vanavond zal slapen.


16 JANUARI - 1230 GMT

nu in motorcade, maar de oude handen zijn zenuwachtig. Wij zijn te veel terug van de voorzijde van motorcade.

Tot slot in Luchtmacht! En terug naar de V.S. met de voorzitter. Meer om het andere eind te volgen.

16 JANUARI - niet zekere

1145 GMT als ik ooit zo vele geheime de dienstmensen heb gezien. De mensen in zwarte glazen zijn overal hier bij het hotel waar President Bush en President Mubarak hun nieuwsconferentie in een paar notulen houden.


De Egyptenaren zijn groot op veiligheid. Er zijn verscheidene bomaanslagen in Sinai de laatste jaren zo langs onze route hier was dozens agenten die in burger geweest uit in de woestijn door de wegkant zitten.
Zo nu een ogenblik van stil terwijl wij op de twee leiders wachten.

Ik vlieg huis op Luchtmacht Één, en de mensen van het Witte Huis zeggen wij voor motorcade moeten lopen wanneer het eindigt. Er is een gekke Amerikaanse vrouw die houdt vertellend ons de voorzitter niet zal wachten op ons!

De fotografen vertellen ons allen om te blijven zo zo zittend om hun mening niet te verduisteren. a. van iedereen. weinig op rand. Wanneer zij hier worden zal ik een paar meter vanaf betwistbaar de krachtigste leider van de wereld zijn. Wat ook uw advies is van de man die vrij opwekkend is.

Of is I in de te lange bel geweest?

16 JANUARI - OCHTEND

Één uur en twintig minuten slaap. In een week van nauwelijks om het even welke rust. De radioproducent Yolande kreeg geen slaap. Zij pakte het materiaal in.


Het is 0630. De zon staat enkel omhoog te komen op het punt. De hemel is duidelijk.

Het gaat één van die mooie dagen zijn u zo vaak in het Midden-Oosten wordt wanneer het licht alles zo scherp maakt lijken, zo goed bepaald.

De auto's wijken over de steeg voor onze bus af. Maar het verkeer op de manier aan de luchthaven beweegt zich snel en wij zullen daar spoedig zijn.

Van aan Egypte voor een paar uren. Dan terug naar de V.S.

Ik voel altijd het zelfde wanneer het verlaten van het Midden-Oosten. Lichtjes droevig.

Dit is een speciale plaats, een plaats die zo veel heeft geleden, een plaats die zo door zo vele mensen verkeerd wordt begrepen.

Ik ben benieuwd of vindt George Bush nu hij het een weinig beter begrijpt?

15 JANUARI - MIDDAG

die ik uit de „bel“ ben geworden vandaag - voor gehele 45 minuten.

Ik sprong in een taxi, en vroeg de bestuurder om me aan een het winkelen straat te nemen. De bestuurder, van Bangladesh, lachte toen ik vroeg of houdt hij hier van het.


„Het is geen goede plaats,“ hij zei.

Hij moet hier, als alle buitenlandse arbeiders, geld - in zijn geval voor familierug naar huis verdienen.

Wij trokken uit en ik ging weg. In een stationaire winkel ruitte een mens in rood en het wit headscarf goedgekeurd door bovengenoemde Saoedigers: „George Bush? Houd niet van. „

In een koffie om de hoek, BBC toonde TV van de Wereld op de vlakke het schermtelevisie, en bij één lijst zat een mens die met laptop op YouTube op draadloos Internet let.

Ik vroeg over de „Toespraak van de Vrijheid“ van M. Bush's in Abu Dhabi de andere dag.

„Hij zegt altijd dit, is dit zijn gebruikelijke toespraak over vrijheid en democratie en dingen. Zelfs in Amerika hebben zij dit niet, „hij glimlachte.

„George Bush is geen vreedzame mens. Hij enkel, weet u het, begint heel wat oorlogen. „

Wij dreven terug naar het hotel. Ik vroeg de Inwoner van Bangladesh taxibestuurder hier over de kosten van brandstof.

„Niet duur nr,“ hij zei. Niet zeker dat de consumenten zal maken van de V.S., noch voelt George Bush zich, beter over de kosten van een vat olie!


14 JANUARI - AVOND

wat een dag. Iedereen dat dit bezoek behandelt zegt zij vandaag een bakstenen muur raken.

Ik denk de de persmensen van het Witte Huis ook. Iedereen kijkt uitgeput. Het programma is gruelling.


De verhaalneus dook een beetje zodat was er geen adrenaline die ons van brandstof voorziet allen.
De journalisten houden van een weinig vlees op de beenderen van het verhaal, maar vandaag allen kwamen te weten wij werkelijk over de voorzitter was dat hij werd getoond wat zei hij waren „mooie vogels“ van prooi.


Dan kregen wij zijn dinermenu - artisjoksoep, en appelpastei met roomijs.

En u zult blij zijn om te weten zonder twijfel dat de Saoedigers vroeg dat diner „vrij voor onze vroeg-aan-bedvoorzitter“ volgens zijn perssecretaresse hielden. Als zei ik, geen nieuws.

Zo moesten de Amerikaanse journalisten hun netwerken met verhalen over tevredenstellen hoe morgen wij de eerste sneeuwval in Riyadh in decennia zouden kunnen getuigen.

„Minstens zullen zij niet moeten ver gaan zand voor de wegen“ vinden één gemelde correspondent.

14 JANUARI - Onthaal

van de MIDDAG het „aan de MiddenLeeftijden, baby! “

Dat is wat iemand in de reizende de perskorpsen van het Witte Huis zei aangezien wij de grond in Saudi-Arabië raakten. Vrouwen aan boord van besproken of zij moeten dragen headscarves. De golf van begrip (of misverstand) is duidelijk.

Op de bus aan het hotel werden de vrouwen verteld dat aangezien wij op een bezoek zijn op hoog niveau zij kunnen verkiezen om al dan niet om een headscarf te dragen.


Aangezien wij in de zeer conservatieve Moslimmaatschappij zijn waar de vrouwen verplicht om zijn omhoog te behandelen, schijnt dat vreemde officiële raad.
De familie van Bush is vriendschappelijk met de Saoedi-arabische koninklijke familie, zodat zal de voorzitter de grenzen van zijn zogenaamde „vrijheidsagenda“ hier kennen.

Een dag nadat hij landen over het Midden-Oosten om democratischer en liberaal verzocht te zijn, om economische en sociale hervormingen, dit te introduceren is een zo goede plaats aangezien u krijgt te zien die niet op om het even welke zinvolle manier tijdens George W Bush voorzitterschap gaan gebeuren.

Hij zegt elk land veranderingen in zijn eigen manier moet beheren, maar hier aan velen vindt het als hij probeert om Westelijke culturele waarden aan de Arabische wereld op te leggen.

Er is ook een vraag over of de strategie van M. Bush's om Iran wegens zijn kernambities te isoleren hier zal werken. Het korte antwoord is geen „het zal niet“.

De Saoedigers hebben altijd een zeer knappe in evenwicht brengende handeling gespeeld om regionale stabiliteit te handhaven. Zij zijn ongerust gemaakt onlangs over Iran, maar geschenen om een aanpak gevolgd te hebben van het proberen om Teheran diffuse spanning te bereiken.


President Bush zal veel van zijn twee dagen in Saudi-Arabië doorbrengen dat eerder dan politiek bezienswaardigheden bezoekt spreekt
daar is een begrip onder staten in het gebied dat Teheran niet positief aan agressie van of een politiek of militair type reageert.
In Saudi-Arabië, en ook de andere staten in dit gebied, is er een betekenis dat de kernambities van Iran de regels van het spel hebben veranderd.

Wanneer zodra de Saoedigers, zoals de Egyptenaren, het kern vrij Midden-Oosten (herinner me Israël wordt verondersteld om dozens kernkernkoppen te hebben - hoewel het nooit dit) toelaat nu verzochten hebben zij hun positie verplaatst.

Zij zeggen zij hun kernvermogen willen ontwikkelen om hun energiebronnen te diversifiëren, maar de verklaarde ambitie is een duidelijke reactie op Iran.

Aangezien gebruikelijk moeten de Saoedigers hard aan saldo werken wat voor hun dichte bondgenoot de Verenigde Staten goed is, en wat hun regionale buren, met inbegrip van Iran, nodig hebben.

Misschien is dat waarom President Bush veel van zijn tijd hier in de volgende twee dagen doorbrengen zal die eerder dan politiek bezienswaardigheden bezoeken spreken.

14 JANUARI - OCHTEND

een vroeg begin vandaag. Een ander vroeg begin!

Wij stapelden ons op minibussen, met al ons toestel op en dreven het half uur of zo aan de luchthaven.

De Luchtmacht één is een overweldigend gezicht op tarmac aan mijn linkerzijde. De zon die achter het en veel verslaggevers toeneemt die hun foto's krijgen die vooraan worden genomen.

Aan boord van, worden wij aangeboden een mimosa - één laatste drank alvorens in Saudi-Arabië aan te komen.

Wij zijn net eraan herinnerd er geen alcohol in Saoediger is. En de vrouwen die op de reis reizen zijn verteld om zich geschikt te kleden.

Tref voor start voorbereidingen. Beter ga!

13 JANUARI - AVOND

is het niet alleen het Witte Huis van Bush ik ongeveer op deze reis leer. Het is ook de Amerikaanse media machine.

De mensen die naast me in de radio rapporteringsverrichting werken zijn allen gekruide correspondenten. Men is een huishoudennaam in de V.S. na jaren van de dienst en renowned journalistiek.


En toch brengen zij allen het grootste deel van de dag door die kortst van radiostukken indient. Zo plotseling inderdaad dat zij hen „vlekken“ roepen!
Soms worden zij om langere analyse te maken, en hun werk is professioneel en van een hoge norm. Maar het schijnt hun posten meer dan een paar seconden van dekking niet meer willen.

Één van hen, zal ik niet zeggen voor welk netwerk, de andere dag de verhalen betreurde die op de website van de post worden behandeld. Overheerst vermaak en wacky verhalen.

Dan vandaag, deed ik een opname aan camera met een Amerikaanse bemanning van TV. Ik sprak voor een ongeveer minuut en de helft proberen om enkele achtergrond aan de toespraak van de voorzitter te verklaren. Dat is bijna een boek, de bovengenoemde cameraman toen ik eindigde. Hij zei in de V.S. het een enkel korter is.


Er is goede journalistiek in de Staten, natuurlijk. De kranten hebben kwaliteitsverhalen en TV en radio sommige belangrijke kwesties behandelen. En ik reis in de leiding met sommige uitstekende journalisten die hun banen ernstig nemen.
Dit is niet een kritiek van hen, maar globaal de dekking het grootste deel van hun bedrijven worden overheerst door snelle, boeiende verhalen verstrekken. En het schijnt zelfs hun eigen voorzitter veel van een blik niet binnenbrengt.

Sommigen zouden debatteren de Britse media reeds neer die weg zijn begonnen. Als dat het geval is, ziet de toekomst niet om te zijn eruit vreselijk goed geïnformeerde.

Genoeg! Aan slaap, kort. Morgen zijn wij weg vroeg aan Saudi-Arabië op de volgende etappe van de reis. Dag zes. Land vijf.

13 JANUARI - OCHTEND

roepen zij het de bel, en toen wij neer in Bahrein raakten het als wij voelde werden geplakt net binnen het.


De bus dreef ons uit de luchthaven, had het naast het vliegtuig geparkeerd en wij liepen eenvoudig op het. Met een bepaalde bedoeling had ons konvooi een politieescorte, en wij gingen verbindingen over waar het lokale verkeer op ons moest wachten aangezien wij door rode lichten dreven. Wij dreven langs de verhoogde weg naar de wolkenkrabbers van Manama.
Andere journalisten namen hun camera's, stellend vragen over wat wij zagen. Opgewekte toeristen. Dan kregen wij aan het hotel en werden binnen gezwaaid.

De reden zij het de bel roepen, is omdat dit gehele proces betekent dat van touchdown aan media centrum u letterlijk uit de bel naar de echte wereld rond u kijkt. In Koeweit dat ik niet ik ontmoette één enkele Kuwaiti denk. Niettemin om eerlijk te zijn is het meeste hotelpersoneel daar van Azië of elders.

Het is fundamenteel als wordt ingebed met de voorzitter - met alle kwesties die voor journalisten opheft. Niet dat het Witte Huis in elk geval probeert om onze rapportering te beïnvloeden.


Zij hebben nooit me over een verhaal benaderd ik heb ingediend. Ik heb totale vrijheid, maar wegens de strakke programma's krijg niet om de mensen van het land te ontmoeten wij door overgaan. Dat is o.k. De baan moet over het bezoek van de voorzitter rapporteren, maar het betekent u andere bronnen van informatie nodig hebt over waar u bent.
Één ander snel ding. M. Bush terwijl hier in Bahrein stemde in met een nieuwe Iraakse wet die duizenden vroegere ondergeschikte verdedigers van de partij van Baath van Saddam Hussein toestaat om overheidsbanen op te nemen. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.

[ميدّل ست] رحلة يومية.
Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo
[ميدّل ست] رحلة قد استنتج يومية, جورج ث بوش [ميدّل ست] رحلة أيّ تضمّن زيارته أولى ك [أوس] رئيس إلى إسرائيل والأراضي فلسطينيّة, [أس ولّ س] مواقف في الخليج ومصر. [بّك] ملائمة ماتيو كتب سعر, الذي سافر مع ه, يومية على تقدمه.


16 يناير - كانون الثّاني - 2230 حسب توقيت غرينتش


أنا أفترض الشيء غريبة حول يسافر على [أير فورس] واحدة المعرفة أنّ فقط [ا فو] أمتار أمام أنت على ال نفسه طائرة بعض من العوالم كثير الناس قوّيّة: بوش, أرز, [هدلي]. يجلس فقط فوق في جبهة. أو [إين ث كس وف] بوش من المحتمل يكذب في سريره, أيّ يكون يصحّ فوق في الأنف من الطائرة.

بعد إندفاعنا مجنونة إلى المطار استعجل نحن إلى الظهر من الطائرة حيث سرّيّة خدمة رجال فحصوا ممراتنا باتّجاه آخر على قائمة ميلان إلى جانب ونحن ذهبنا [أن بوأرد]. لا حيث أنت تمشي على رحلة تجاريّة غير أنّ كثير [لوور], مماثلة إلى حيث الحقيبة يذهب. فوق الدرجات, على الأرجح 20 في كلّ وبعد ذلك هناك عمليّة هبوط مع الأوساط منطقة, الملاكة منطقة والخدمة سرّيّة أيضا.

في - جيّدا, هو رماديّة. جميلة مقرفة واقعيّا. والأوساط مقصورة لقمة مثل يكون في عمل مقاعد مع اقتصاد خدمة. يحصل مؤقتات أولى مثل ي جذاب حقيبة. هو استعمل أن يتلقّى صندوق السجائر داخلا مع الختم صوف رئاسيّة على هم, غير أنّ [ننسي] ريغان, قلت أنا, يعترض, هكذا الآن أنت يحصل البيت الأبيض ختم صوف [م&مس].

هناك ما من أمان إعلان. أنا أخمّن إن أنت يكون رعى الرجل كبيرة كلّ شخص وإلّا يستطيع وقيت ل بنفسي. ونحن لم يضطرّ التفتت باتّجاه آخر هاتف جوّال - رغم أنّ هناك يكون ما من إشارة في 33,000 أقدام! هناك 14 مقاعد في ال [جوورنو] منطقة وزوج ال [تفس].

[بيلّ كلينتون] استعمل أن يعاود وتحدّثت. قال المصورة [نإكست تو] ي هو كان سيّئة. أنت كنت حاولت أن ينام بعد [غرولّينغ] رحلة وحاول هو كنت أن يمازح. ما من هذا مشكلة مع [غو]. هو يبقى جيّدة بعيدا من نا.

كان الشيء ممتعة أكثر كيف هذا يكون الفقاعات حقيقيّة. تسابقنا ال [موتوركد] إلى الحصباء مقيّرة بعد ذلك الطائرة بعد ذلك نحن تدحرجنا وطار وأبدا مرّة التقى شخص حقيقيّة بشكل صحيح. أنا أعرف أنّ يكون سياسة حديثة, غير أنّ أنا يستطيع لا يساعد يفكّر أنّ كان جورج ث بوش تلقّى بصعوبة في الخارج عندما هو كان انتخبت رئيس وبعد ذلك للمتأخّرة سبعة سنون هو قد كان في فقاعات رئاسيّة - هو يتلقّى يكون عرضت إلى هذا! ويعيش هو في واشنطن, يطلّ بما أنّ أنّ مكان يستطيع كنت من [رل ليف] أيضا!


أنا فقط حقّقت بينما يكتب أنّ أفاق أنا هذا صباح في رياض, سقط داخل على [شرم] [إل-شيكه], وقبل الظّهر الآن في واشنطن [دك]. و [ألّ دي] يفكّر أنا أنا قد تلقّيت فقط واحدة ثرثرة مع شخص من [أني وف ث] ثلاثة بلد.

نحن هبطنا قليلا مبكّرة, حول [هلف-سفن], وخبّ خارجا داخل أندرو باردة [أير فورس بس]. إلى ال يصحّ جندي مشاة البحريّة واحدة, الهليكوبتر رئاسيّة. وهناك, الرجل بنفسي يمشي نحو هو.

هو يقطع رقم وحيدة, قليلا ينحنى. القاطع متناوب يتدحرج بعد ذلك [ليفت وفّ], في 7.48. [بك تو] البيت الأبيض, النهاية من زيارة أنّ قد بدا أن يكون أكثر حول يتمادى علاقات جيّدة, من إنجازات حقيقيّة.

ي? أنا شاركت تاكسي داخل مدينة, إلى فندق فانكي صغيرة. هو قد كان رحلة مدهشة. أنا أفكّر سينام أنا جيّدا هذا المساء.


16 يناير - كانون الثّاني - 1230 حسب توقيت غرينتش

الآن في ال [موتوركد], غير أنّ ال [ألد هند] عصبيّة. نحن ظهر بعيدة أيضا من الجبهة من ال [موتوركد].

أخيرا داخل [أير فورس] واحدة! و [بك تو] ال [أوس] مع الرئيس. أكثر أن يتبع الأخرى نهاية.

16 يناير - كانون الثّاني - 1145 حسب توقيت غرينتش

لا يوقن إن أنا يتلقّى في أيّ وقت أرى هكذا كثير سرّيّة خدمة الناس. رجال في زجاج سوداء في كلّ مكان هنا في الفندق حيث رئيس بوش ورئيس مبارك يمسك هم أخبار مؤتمر في [ا فو] دقائق.


المصريات كبيرة على أمن. قد كان هناك عدّة قنبلة هجوم في سيناء [إين رسنت رس] لذلك على طول طريقنا هنا كانوا دزينات من جلّيّة ملابس عاملات يجلس خارجا في الصحراء بالطريق جانب.
هكذا الآن عزم ال [قويت] بينما نحن نّتظر لالاثنان زعيمات.

أنا طيران بيتيّة على [أير فورس] واحدة, البيت الأبيض الناس يقول نحن يضطرّ ركضت ل ال [موتوركد] عندما ينهي هو. هناك إمرأة مسعورة أمريكيّة الذي يحافظ يقولنا لن ينتظر الرئيس ل نا!

يقولنا المصورات كلّ أن يبقى يجلس [س س] لا أن يعتّم منظرتهم. [إفرون'س]. [أ.] بعض على حافة. عندما يحصل هم هنا أنا سأكون زوج الأمتار بعيدة من بالمناقشة العالم زعيمة قوّيّة أكثر. ماذا رأيك من الرجل أنّ يكون إلى حدّ ما مثيرة.

أو يتلقّى أنا أكون في الفقاعات أيضا طويلة?

16 يناير - كانون الثّاني - صباح

واحدة ساعة وعشرون دقائق النوم. في أسبوع من بصعوبة أيّ إستراحة. حصل المنتج لاسلكيّة [يولند] ما من نوم. هو كان حزم التجهيز.


هو 0630. الشمس صحيحة حوالي أن يتيح. السماء واضحة.

هو يذهب أن يكون واحدة من أنّ أيام جميلة أنت تحصل هكذا غالبا في [ث ميدّل ست] عندما يظهر الصنع خفيفة كلّ شيء هكذا طرف حادّ, هكذا [ولّ دفيند].

يحيد السيارات عبر الدرب أمام حافلتنا. غير أنّ يتحرّك الحركة مرور على الطريق إلى المطار سريعا ونحن سنكون هناك قريبا.

من إلى مصر ل [ا فو] ساعات. بعد ذلك [بك تو] ال [أوسا].

أنا دائما أشعر ال نفس عندما يترك [ث ميدّل ست]. قليلا حزينة.

هذا مكان خاصّة, مكان أنّ قد عانى كثيرا, مكان أنّ يكون لذلك يسيء ب هكذا كثير الناس.

أنا أتساءل إن جورج بوش الآن يشعر يفهم هو هو قليلا جيّدة?

15 يناير - كانون الثّاني - العصر

طلع أنا من "الفقاعات" اليوم - لكلّ 45 دقائق.

أنا قفزت في تاكسي, وسأل السائقة أن يأخذني إلى تسوق شارع. ضحك السائقة, من بنغلادش, عندما أنا سألت إن هو يحبّ هو هنا.


"ليس هو مكان جيّدة," هو قال.

هو هنا, مثل [ألّ وف ث] عاملات أجنبيّة, أن يكسب مال - في حالته لأسرة ظهر منزل.

نحن اقتلعنا وطلع أنا. في متجر ثابتة [شقور] رجل في الحمراء وأبيض [هدسكرف] يؤيّد ب [سوديس] يقال: "جورج بوش? لا يحبّ. أبدى "

في مقهى حول الركن, [بّك] عالم تلفزيون كان على ال [فلت سكرين] تلفزيون, وفي واحدة طاولة جلس رجل مع الحاسوب المحمول يراقب [يووتثب] على إنترنت لاسلكيّة.

أنا سألت حول سيد بوش "حرية خطبة" في [أبو دهبي] الأخرى يوم.

"يقول هو دائما هذا, هذا خطبته معتادة حول حرية وديموقراطيّة وأشياء. ابتسم حتّى في أمريكا هم لا يتلقّون هذا, "هو.

"ليس جورج بوش رجل سلميّة. يعرف هو فقط, أنت, بدايات [ا لوت] الحروب. "

قاد نحن [بك تو] الفندق. أنا سألت [بنغلدشي] تاكسي سائقة حول التكلفة الوقود هنا.

"رفض, لا غالية," قال هو. سيجعل لا يوقن أنّ [أوس] مستهلكات, ولا جورج بوش, شعرت أيّ على نحو أفضل حول التكلفة من برميل الزيت!


14 يناير - كانون الثّاني - مسائيّ

ما يوم. يقول كلّ شخص يغطّي هذا زيارة اليوم هم يضربون قرميد جدار.

أنا أفكّر البيت الأبيض صحافة أتمّ الناس أيضا. كلّ شخص ينظر يستنزف. [غرولّينغ] الجدول.


القصة غطس أنف لقمة هكذا هناك كان ما من أدرينالين يزوّدنا كلّ.
صحفيات يحبّون [ا بيت وف] لحظ على ال [بونس] من القصة, غير أنّ اليوم كان كلّ نحن حقّا أسّسنا خارجا حول الرئيس أنّ هو كان أبديت ماذا هو قال كانوا "عصافير جميلة" من فريسة.


بعد ذلك حصل نحن ه عشاء قائمة الطعام - خرشف حساء, و [أبّل بي] مع [إيس كرم].

وسيكون أنت سعيدة أن يعرف ما من شك أنّ [سوديس] أمسكوا أنّ عشاء "نسبيّا باكرا ل نا [إرل-تو-بد] رئيس" وفقا ل أمين شؤون الصحافته. مثل أنا قلت, ما من أخبار.

هكذا الصحفيات أمريكيّة اضطرّ أرضيت شبكهم مع قصص حول كيف غدا نحن أمكن شهدت ال [سنووفلّ] أولى في رياض في عقود.

"على الأقلّ لن يضطرّ هم ذهبت بعيدا أن يجد رمل للطرق" واحدة مراسلة يفاد.

14 يناير - كانون الثّاني - ظهر

"ترحيب إلى الأعمار متوسّطة, طفلة! "

أنّ يكون ماذا أحد ما في ال يسافر البيت الأبيض [برسّ كربس] قال بما أنّ نحن ضربنا الأرض في [سودي ربيا]. تناقش نساء [أن بوأرد] ما إذا هم يضطرّ ارتديت [هدسكرف]. الخليج من يفهم (أو يسيء) واضحة.

على الحافلة إلى الفندق قلت نساء كان أنّ بما أنّ نحن نكون على زيارة رفيع المستوى هم يستطيع اخترت ما إذا أو لا أن يرتدي [هدسكرف].


بما أنّ نحن نكون في مجتمعة محافظة مسلمة جدّا حيث نساء يكون أجبرت أن يغطّي فوق, يبدو أنّ إشعار غريبة رسميّة.
بوش أسرة ودّيّة مع الأسرة سعوديّة ملكيّة, لذلك سيعرف الرئيس الحدود من ه ما يسمّى "حرية جدول" هنا.

يوم عقب دعا هو لبلد عبر [ث ميدّل ست] أن يكون أكثر ديموقراطيّة وليبراليّ, أن يقدّم اقتصاديّة وإصلاحات اجتماعيّة, هذا جيّدة مكان مثل بما أنّ أنت تحصل أن يرى أنّ يكون لا يذهب أن يحدث في أيّ طريق ذو معنى أثناء جورج ث بوش رئاسة.

هو يقول كلّ بلد ينبغي أدرت تغيرات في ه خاصّة طريق, غير أنّ هنا إلى كثير يشعر هو مثل هو يكون يحاول أن يفرض قيم غربيّة ثقافيّة على العالم عربيّة.

هناك أيضا سؤال على ما إذا سيد بوش سيعمل إستراتيجية أن يعزل إيران بسبب طموحه نوويّة هنا. الجوابة قصيرة "ما من هو يريد لا".

يلعب [سوديس] يتلقّى دائما جدّا ذكيّة يوازن عمل أن يبقي استقرار إقليميّة. أقلقت هم يتلقّى يكون مؤخّرا حول إيران, غير أنّ يبدو أن يتلقّى تبنّيت مقاربة من يحاول أن يبلغ خارجا إلى [تهرن] إلى توتر منتشرة.


سينفق رئيس بوش كثير من ه اثنان أيام في [سودي ربيا] زار معلما سياحيّا [رثر ثن] يتحدّث سياسة
هناك تفهم بين دول في المنطقة أنّ [تهرن] لا يتجاوب إيجابيّا إلى إعتداء من إمّا سياسيّة أو نوع عسكريّة.
في [سودي ربيا], وأيضا الأخرى دول في هذا منطقة, هناك إحساس أنّ إيران قد غيّر طموح نوويّة ال [رول وف ث] لعبة.

تذكّرت عندما ما إن [سوديس], مثل المصريات, دعاوا ل [ميدّل ست] نوويّة حرّة (إسرائيل صدقت أن يتلقّى دزينات من رأس قذيفة نوويّة - رغم أنّ هو أبدا يعترف هذا) الآن هم قد غيّروا موقعتهم.

هم يقولون يريد هم أن يطوّر إمكانيتهم نوويّة أن ينوّع [إنرج رسورس] هم, غير أنّ ال يفاد طموح إستجابة واضحة إلى إيران.

بما أنّ معتادة [سوديس] يضطرّ عملت بشدّة أن يوازن ماذا يكون جيّدة لحليفهم قريبة الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة, وماذا جارهم إقليميّة, بما في ذلك إيران, يحتاجون.

ربّما أنّ يكون لما رئيس بوش سينفق كثير من وقته هنا في التالية اثنان أيام زار معلما سياحيّا [رثر ثن] يتحدّث سياسة.

14 يناير - كانون الثّاني - صباح

بداية مبكّرة اليوم. يبدأ آخر باكرا!

نحن كدّسنا على [مينيبوس], مع كلّنا ترس وقاد النصف ساعة أو هكذا إلى المطار.

[أير فورس] واحدة جهاز تسديد مذهلة على الحصباء مقيّرة إلى يساري. الشمس يرتفع خلف هو وحصص المراسلات يحصل صورهم يؤخذ في جبهة.

[أن بوأرد], يحصل نحن قدّم [ميموسا] - واحدة شراب متأخّرة قبل يصل في [سودي ربيا].

ذكّرت نحن يتلقّى فقط يكون هناك ما من كحول في [سودي]. وقلت النساء يسافر على الرحلة يتلقّى يكون أن يرتدي بشكل مناسب.

أعدّت ل [تك وفّ]. جيّدة ذهبت!

13 يناير - كانون الثّاني - مساء

ليس هو صحيحة بوش البيت الأبيض أنا أكون أعلم حوالي على هذا رحلة. هو أيضا الأمريكيّة أوساط آلة.

الالناس الذي يعمل إلى جانب ي في اللاسلكيّة يفيد عملية كلّ يتبّل مراسلات. واحدة منزل اسم في ال [أوس] بعد سنون من خدمة وصحافة مشهورة.


[أند ت] ينفق هم كلّ أكثر من اليوم يصنّف القصيرة من قطعات لاسلكيّة. هكذا قصّرت حقّا أنّ يدعوهم هم "بقع"!
أحيانا يحصل هم أن يتمّ تحليل طويلة, وعملهم محترفة ومن معيار عال. غير أنّ يبدو هو محطاتهم [نو لونجر] يريدون أكثر من [ا فو] ثانية تغطية.

واحدة من هم, لن يقول أنا ل الذي شبكة, الأخرى يوم ناح القصص يكون يغطّى على المحطة موقعة. ترفيه وحكايات [وكي] يسيطر.

بعد ذلك اليوم, أتمّ أنا كان تسجيل إلى آلة تصوير مع أمريكيّة تلفزيون طاقم بحّارة. أنا تكلّمت لدقيقة حوالي ونصف أن يحاول أن يفسّر بعض من الخلفيّة إلى الرئيس خطبة. أنّ تقريبا كتاب, المصوّر سينمائيّ يقال عندما أنهى أنا. هو قال في ال [أوس] هو يكون صحيحة كثيرا قصيرة.


هناك صحافة جيّدة في الدول, [أف كورس]. جرائد يتلقّون نوعية قصص وتلفزيون وراديو صفقة مع بعض إصدارات مهمّة. ويسافر أنا في الخطّ رئيسيّ مع بعض صحفيات ممتازة الذي يأخذ أشغالهم بجدّيّة.
هذا ليس نقد من هم, غير أنّ إجماليّة يزوّد التغطية أكثر من شركاتهم يسيطر جانبا سريعة, قصص جذّابة. ويبدو هو حتّى هم خاصّة رئيس لا يحصل كثير من نظرة [إين.].

بعض جادل الأوساط بريطانيّة يتلقّى سابقا يبدأ نزولا إلى أنّ ممر. إن أنّ يكون الحالة, لا ينظر المستقبل أن يكون بفظاعة [ولّ ينفورمد] واحدة.

كافي! أن ينام, بإيجاز. غدا [ب] نحن باتّجاه آخر مبكّرة إلى [سودي ربيا] على الساق تالية من الرحلة. يوم ستّة. بلد خمسة.

13 يناير - كانون الثّاني - صباح

هم يدعوون هو الفقاعات, وعندما [تووش دوون] نحن في بحرين هو [فلت] مثل نحن كان ب التصق بشكل صحيح في هو.


قادنا الحافلة من المطار, هو كان قد ركن [نإكست تو] الطائرة ونحن ببساطة مشينا على هو. [فور سم رسن] تلقّى قافلتنا شرطة مرافقة, ونحن مررنا ملتقيات حيث ال [لوكل ترفّيك] اضطرّ انتظرت ل نا بما أنّ نحن قدنا من خلال [رد ليغت]. نحن قدنا على طول المعبرة نحو الناطحة سحاب [منما].
أخرى أخذ صحفيات آلت تصويرهم خارجا, يسأل أسئلة حول ماذا نحن كان رأينا. يثار سائحات. بعد ذلك حصل نحن إلى الفندق وكان خفقت [إين.].

السبب يدعو هم هو الفقاعات, لأنّ هذا عملية كاملة يعني أنّ من لمس أرض إلى أوساط ركّزت أنت حرفيّا ينظر من الفقاعات في ال [رل وورلد] حول أنت. في كويت لا يفكّر أنا أنا التقيت [كوويتي] وحيدة. مع ذلك أن يكون عادلة كثير فندق ملاكة هناك من آسيا أو في مكان آخر.

هو أساسيّا مثل يكون يطمر مع الرئيس - مع [ألّ ث] إصدارات أنّ يرفع لصحفيات. لا أنّ يحاول البيت الأبيض في أيّ طريق أن يأثر نا يفيد.


يقاربني هم يتلقّى أبدا حول قصة أنا يتلقّى يكون أصنّف. لا يحصل أنا [هف جت] حرية إجماليّة, غير أنّ بسبب الجداول مشدودة أن يلتقي الالناس من البلد نحن يكون نمرّ كلّيّا. أنّ حسنة. الشغل أن يفيد على الرئيس زيارة, غير أنّ يعني هو أنت حاجة أخرى مصادر المعلومة حول حيث أنت تكون.
واحدة أخرى شيء سريعة. رحّب سيد بوش بينما هنا في بحرين قانون جديدة عراقيّة أنّ يسمح آلاف من مؤيدات سابقة صغرى من صدّام حسين [بث] حزب أن يقصّر حكومة أشغال. It's worth remembering that it was Mr Bush's administration that supported the removal of Baath party officials from office in the first place, soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The feeling in the region? Among many I suspect "Why didn't he follow the new line on former Baath party officials in the first place?"

Right, got to pack. We're now off to Abu Dhabi.

12 JANUARY - 1200 GMT

You can't miss George Bush in a crowd. That hand held high waving. That swagger and grin. I was quite surprised though when he walked through the Arifjan military camp in Kuwait at the reaction from the US soldiers and other personnel there.

They cheered of course, but I'd thought they would have cheered for longer. Perhaps his unpopularity back home is rubbing off here?

As he told the troops that the US would be victorious in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stood at the back, nodding in agreement behind her large black designer sunglasses.

Mr Bush has seemed more nuanced in his statements on this trip than he perhaps has in the past. He also seems to have a firm grip of the issues as he sees them, and there's a confidence about him.

It doesn't mean he's going to be successful of course.

Many here argue his presidency has done too much damage in the Middle East even to contemplate a bright future any time soon. But as one American official told me, maybe, with US domestic attention focused on Mr Bush's successor, perhaps he feels less constrained by US politics.

Perhaps, as this official speculated, he's enjoying simply the most powerful man in the world.

So. Now to Bahrain. We just boarded, after a mad rush of filing our stories. The plane's taxiing past Air Force One now. Another day, another country.


12 JANUARY - 0430 GMT

Early morning wake-up call again!

We're all in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait with a load of our kit laid out on the floor and us security agents going through it. We're off to Camp Arifjan, the biggest US military base here.

The president's going to speak to the troops and to his top general in Iraq. He'll meet the US ambassador to Iraq too. Today the agenda's certainly less about Israel and the Palestinians.

11 JANUARY - EVENING

Amazing. I just did something I never thought I would. I got on a plane and flew from Tel Aviv to Kuwait. It took about two hours. Easy.

When I lived in Jerusalem and travelled to Iraq I would go through Kuwait. But the journey would take over seven hours - because there are no direct flights between the two countries. Until you're travelling with the US president.


The reason there are no direct flights is because Kuwait like many Arab countries doesn't have normal relations with Israel.

That's something Mr Bush wants to address here. He's hoping to encourage allies of his, like Kuwait, to have some contact at least with Israel. Even before we'd stepped off the plane Condoleezza Rice had said we shouldn't expect any developments on that, but she says there is progress.

And most Arab states like Kuwait will always find it an unreasonable demand to form any sort of tie with Israel, as long as Israel occupies Palestinian land.

You can see how it's all interlinked. That's why George Bush's strategy is - while not new - probably the only sensible way to proceed. He's worked out the issues that he thinks need addressing, and he's trying to address all of them at the same time hoping progress on one will aid progress in others. A virtuous circle if you like.

If it works maybe one day everyone will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Kuwait in two hours.

11 JANUARY - AFTERNOON

The travelling press pack is now off to Kuwait, following hot on the heels of the president.

We are going to have to play catch-up on this leg as he will have done his official duties by the time we arrive.


The ride out from Jerusalem was beautiful. It is a bright sunny day and now, travelling out of Ben Gurion airport is proving so easy.

I spent four years getting all sorts of lengthy personal security questions coming in and out of this airport.

This time, after a very brief delay our bus simply drove into the airport and right up to the plane. We will be airborne within half an hour so.

The logistics that go into a trip like this are phenomenal.

It cost a huge amount of money - the White House is reluctant to say how much, but it is in the millions of dollars.

George Bush clearly thinks it is worth it. He left this troubled land still talking of his confidence.

Now he has to get some of his Arab allies on side to enlist their help in persuading the Palestinians and the Israelis to move forward.

10 JANUARY - EVENING

The great thing about being involved in a trip like this is that you get a special press pass that so far seems to open all sorts of doors.

When the rest of the city is shut down, I just whip out my "White House Middle East" card and sail through.


"The trip of the president to the Middle East" it says on it. Note, not any old president, just THE president!

And there is a confidence about the president and his people to be honest.

George Bush admitted today in an aside that he can sometimes be criticised for not speaking English so well. But on this trip so far he's appeared literate, on top of the issues and actually rather believable about the whole prospect of Middle East peace.

If I hadn't worked here for almost four years before covering the US, I might even be a little less sceptical about his chances of success.

His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley came and spoke to us today. He said that the meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had gone well, and that both sides had exchanged "reminiscences" during a working lunch.

He made it all sound very cordial.

And I spoke to another US official, who said he'd been in a private meeting of the president and US staff working here in Jerusalem.

The president - as he spoke about the chances of peace - had "welled up" he said. Visiting the Holy Land - as a religious man - has clearly affected George Bush deeply.

9 JANUARY - EVENING

Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him.

Clinton and Obama were names you heard far more frequently on the US networks on the first day of his trip here than you did the name Bush.


A friend of mine who works here for a big US network says they were seventh story in the running order and possibly not getting onto the main evening news. And he was working with the White House correspondent!
What I thought was most interesting today was what felt like an ever so slightly more critical approach towards the Israelis from the Bush administration.

They are still the closest of allies of course.

However, in the last 24 hours I think every White House briefing we've had has mentioned how Israel has to stop settlement expansion, just as the Palestinians have to stop attacks against Israelis.

For years you rarely heard more than a cursory mention of Israel's settlement growth (remember one of Israel's commitments is to stop building Jewish towns and villages on occupied Palestinian land).

It'll be surprising if it makes a huge difference on the ground - but as President Bush said with a smile to Prime Minister Olmert today, "if you need a little nudge then you know I will give a nudge." He sounded like he meant it too.

9 JANUARY - MORNING

The streets are quieter than I ever remember them, apart from when this country closes down on Yom Kippur.

People have stayed away from the city today, because the streets around the president's hotel are closed. There are police everywhere. When the president's convoy moves from venue to venue they simply shut down the route he takes to other traffic.


I walked up to the hotel, which is surrounded by Israeli and US security people. People hang around to take a quick photo and are told not to use their cameras.
There's a strange feeling in the air. I left a United States in the grip of early election fever where George W Bush feels somewhat irrelevant. Here he's greeted by all as the most powerful man on Earth.

He hopes that will help encourage the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to focus on what he wants them to do - launch a proper negotiating process.

The thing that's so noticeable is the difference between what you hear from Bush's aides, and what you hear from people on the streets here.

His aides tell us they're still confident that there can be a negotiated peace deal by the end of the year. And why not? After all most people understand the broad layout of what such a deal would look like. In theory and on paper it is possible.

But then you talk to the people here, like my taxi driver this morning, who told me with that weary sigh everyone here has when talking about such visits: "It won't achieve anything."

8 JANUARY

Midnight on a mild January night. Far warmer than the freezing conditions I left behind in Iowa after reporting on the first stage of the process to chose the next president of the world's most powerful nation.

The United States - caught up in the excitement of Clinton v Obama - almost seems to have almost forgotten that its current president has exactly a year left in office.

I wheel my case across the tarmac, towards the charter plane that's taking reporters to the Middle East on President Bush's eight-day trip, and chat to a colleague who covers the White House for another network.

"He's got to go abroad," we joke. "No one here's interested in him anymore!"

But if George W Bush - America's least popular president in years (both at home and abroad) - gets it right, there will be more than just interest in him.

In pre-trip interviews he's said he genuinely believes there can be a "comprehensive peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] signed by the end of this year".

Having left Jerusalem last August, after almost four years reporting from there, that strikes me as pretty unlikely.

As we taxi for take-off the steward makes a mistake during the safety announcement.

"In the event of a water execution..." he trails off.

"Do you mean water-boarding?" shouts a journalist. Much laughter.

Everyone here's covered President Bush's refusal to say whether he considers - as many do - the interrogation technique to be torture.

We settle back for the ride. In the next eight days we'll visit six countries, one occupied territory, and a host of world leaders.

It's going to be tiring, but fascinating.