Barack Obama will make his first trip as Democratic presidential nominee to London next week, at the start of a tour of Europe where a warm embrace may be overshadowed by his effort to explain how - and when - America's military should disentangle itself from Iraq. In his debut on the international stage Mr Obama will visit seven countries in as many days, with stops in Britain, France, Germany, Israel and Jordan. He is likely also to make undisclosed trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. His appearance in London is expected to be fleeting, British sources said. Mr Obama's advance team had made plain that he wants to get in and out of the city "as expeditiously as possible".
Barack Obama will make his first trip as Democratic presidential nominee to London next week, at the start of a tour of Europe where a warm embrace may be overshadowed by his effort to explain how - and when - America's military should disentangle itself from Iraq.
In his debut on the international stage Mr Obama will visit seven countries in as many days, with stops in Britain, France, Germany, Israel and Jordan. He is likely also to make undisclosed trips to Iraq and Afghanistan.
His appearance in London is expected to be fleeting, British sources said. Mr Obama's advance team had made plain that he wants to get in and out of the city "as expeditiously as possible".
"We would never disclose undisclosed disclosures," stated one of the legions of news aggregators operating as a virtual entity code-named Fran. "We trust and value our intelligence connections, so we wouldn't ever be guilty of undisclosed disclosures. Unless they were phone taps from berlusconni or sarcophagus, we protect our sources."
"We're onto them," stated an undisclosed Interpol source, "and we're trying to head off disclosure of Obama's pilgrimage to Mecca." "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
