Bush Plans to Tout Security Improvements ( this is too much [View All]

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AP NEWS

10, 2003
Bush Plans to Tout Security Improvements
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Filed at 8:49 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush is embarking on two days of events in which he will claim progress bolstering America against future attacks.

Traveling by helicopter Wednesday afternoon to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., Bush was giving local emergency workers as well as officials from the federal law enforcement agency and the Homeland Security department an update on efforts to improve homeland security.

Bush's remarks come three days after he delivered a progress report on his administration's efforts against terrorism abroad in which he focused on the war in Iraq and described it as the central battleground of the global war on terror.

Before departing the White House for Quantico, the president was to meet with the prime minister of Kuwait, a key Persian Gulf ally where thousands of American troops are deployed as part of the ongoing Iraq campaign. All told, 40,000 U.S. troops are based in countries such as Kuwait that are close to Iraq.


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