Israeli Soldier Kills Self During Ceremony
French, Israeli PMs Rushed To Safety; Police Deny Assassination Attempt Reports
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Sarkozy, Israeli PM Take Cover
"Caught On Tape": French President Nicolas Sarkozy along with his wife, Carla Bruni, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are rushed to safety by guards after gunshots from an apparent suicide.
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Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said there had been no assassination attempt on the French leader.
Another police official said the shooting was a suicide, while a third said it may have been accidental.
Dark-suited men quickly ushered Sarkozy and his wife up the stairs of their plane. At the same time, security guards with guns drawn rushed Olmert and Israeli President Shimon Peres toward their cars.
Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, rushed up the stairs ahead of her husband.
The shooting occurred while a military band was playing, and the leaders apparently didn't hear anything.
The incident was over within minutes, and Olmert boarded the plane to inform Sarkozy what had transpired, witnesses said.
Police spokesman Shlomi Sagi confirmed that a policeman guarding the airport committed suicide just as Sarkozy was about to board his plane.
Officials said he shot himself in the head.
The area police commander, Nissim Mor, said police were looking into the incident.
"We are currently investigating the circumstances to see whether it was suicide or if he accidentally discharged his weapon," he said. "His mission was to secure an area to prevent people from reaching the ceremony."
Sarkozy's three-day trip to Israel was meant to improve relations between the two countries.
French presidential spokesman Franck Louvrier could not be reached for comment on his mobile phone. Another presidential spokesman who was on a separate scheduled flight out of Tel Aviv said he knew nothing about the incident.
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Posted by ibsteve2u
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Yea, really. Crazy stuff. I am hoping it was an accident but I bet you''re right.
Posted by JERSupporter at 12:24 PM : Jun 24, 2008
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My response:
Others would say, that as long as fascist, neocon conservative leaders around the world continue to act aggressively to violate,dominate, and harass peoples of other sovereign nations, that it will foster continued acts of violence in response!
The media can choose to obediently not report these events, but eventually word of them WILL leak out!
If they choose not to report them, they undercut their own ''reason to be''! And surely, there will come a point in time where they will have little or no credibility left!
Really, how could anyone live with themselves, knowing what pain and anguish they''ve afflicted on people, strictly because of their religious preferences or ethnicity?
And you believe that suicide BS. You are a lost, ignorant creature.
What a stupid comment.
Just as Americans took over the land that the Indians had, so did Mohammad drive the Jewish from their lands killing and raping as they went, Mohammad skited that he had taken land from the jews and chased them off their land taking all that they had possesed, and then in 1948 the Jews took over the lands of the Arabs. Much of it was brought and at the time the Arabs were only tooo happy to sell their land to the Jews, as the Arabs thought it was rubbish barren land anyway..
Duh - we constantly see you shoot yourself in the foot here.
Another police official said the shooting was a suicide, while a third said it may have been accidental.
-Israeli Zionism is not digesting well... IDF Soldiers kill themselves! This event has not cleared the way from an Assissination Attempt. Sarkozy himself is a hidden Zionist, but he needs to reflect his government''s position which cannot be blindly one-sided with Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3559821,00.html
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by tootall10142
June 25, 2008 9:59 AM PDT
- Dont those french look real pretty in thier uniforms ? They should they never get them dirty!
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