Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talk before a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Cairo June 22, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Brendan Smialowski/Pool
Kerry Checked By Security Before Meeting Egypt's President -- Huffington Post/Reuters
CAIRO, July 22 (Reuters) - Egyptian security officers checked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his top aides with a metal detector as they arrived for a meeting on Tuesday with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, an unusual screening for a senior State Department official.
Foreign officials usually extend every courtesy to Washington's top diplomat.
Footage taken at the Egyptian presidential palace and seen by Reuters showed an official briefly raising a handheld metal-detecting wand to the lower part of Kerry's jacket before waving him through for the meeting, which is to discuss how to stop the two-week conflict between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip.
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My Comment: Every detail is covered before these meetings take place .... especially on security. You have to wonder if this was done on purpose.
5 comments:
First: Whoa, major message being sent here!
Second: Why do these rooms where big shots meet in the middle east, eastern Europe, and Russia all look like an Alabama funeral home parlor?
I must humbly disagree James. It's a Russian funeral home parlor.
Or the TV set of a PTL show.
You know, just once I'd love to see that phone (that's always there) unexpectedly ring during the filming of one of these meetings. The reactions would be probably be priceless.
If the Egyptians were sending a message, it was lost on Kerry.
I can't think of Kerry without thinking ego at the same time. So I enjoy Kerry being humiliated. The problem is Kerry will wear it as a badge of honor.
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