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Africa: East
Stowaway on Bush press charter plane busted
2003-07-11
Scoop by Drudge? No reports yet on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, or AP sites to confirm...
Secret Service just arrested a stowaway who made it onto the Bush press charter plane in Pretoria, South Africa this morning and flew unmolested to Entebbe, Uganda, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned...

After getting on and off the 747 with absolutely no credentials, he boarded a bus with the rest of the White House press corps and was taken to the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel on the shore of Lake Victoria -- the same hotel where Bush arrived 90 minutes later! MORE....

The White House staff noticed that no one seemed to know the guy, so they alerted Secret Service, who arrested him at the hotel. There was a lot of shouting from the guy as he was hustled off to jail. Secret Service Agent Mark Sullivan assured reporters the president was never in danger, although he didn't say whether the same held true for the press. After all, there are reports of Al Qaeda presence in Uganda. MORE...

Man had no weapons, sources tell DRUDGE, and no passport. Man being charged by Ugandan authorities with illegal entry. He was nabbed after actually trying to enter the part of the hotel complex were the president was making his appearance... MORE...

There was the usual contingent of three Secret Service agents on the press plane. Also, although authorities stopped this guy from getting into the Bush event, some uncredentialed journalists gained entry!
Posted by:Dar

#4  Tom, it could still be Helen "the Harridan" Thomas.
Posted by: Chuck   2003-7-11 2:13:05 PM  

#3  Hunter? Is that you?
Posted by: mojo   2003-7-11 2:09:34 PM  

#2  I was sure that it would be Helen Thomas, but the report indicates that it was a man.
Posted by: Tom   2003-7-11 2:08:59 PM  

#1  "Rev. Jackson, what are you doing here?"
Posted by: Steve   2003-7-11 1:01:32 PM  

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