Kerry, aides checked by security at Egyptian presidential palace
Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:58am GMT
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CAIRO (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.

More than 500 people, the vast majority Palestinians, have died in the
fighting.

Kerry appeared for only a few seconds in the footage, which showed his
senior aides walking through a stationary metal detector and being checked
with a handheld wand. At least one was asked to empty his pockets.

The aides included Kerry’s deputy chief of staff Jonathan Finer, senior
adviser David Thorne and spokeswoman Jen Psaki.


(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Michael Georgy and Louise Ireland)