Israeli soldier's suicide causes panic at Tel Aviv's airport

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during a departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, prompting security guards to whisk Sarkozy and his wife into their plane.

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Video showed Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, shaking hands with officials at the base of the stairs leading up to the plane when Israeli security guards interrupted them. The Sarkozys quickly walked up the stairs into the aircraft while the guards surrounded Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and moved him and other Israeli officials into a waiting car


http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/24/israel.blast/index.html

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1. I'm more interested in the dead soldier than

Sarkozy and Olmert being moved away

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2. Border Policeman dies from self-inflicted shot at Sarkozy farewell

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"An Israeli Border Policeman on the perimeter of a farewell airport ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently shot himself on Tuesday in a incident that did not endanger the visiting leader, Israel Radio said.

The shooting occurred while a military band was playing and went unnoticed by Sarkozy and Israeli leaders at the ceremony. Dark-suited men then quickly ushered Sarkozy and his wife up the stairs of their plane. In a panic, Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, rushed up the stairs ahead of her husband.

At the same time, security guards, with their guns drawn, rushed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres toward their cars. The incident was over within minutes, and Olmert returned and boarded the plane to inform Sarkozy what had transpired, witnesses said.

The plane departed without further incident.

Israel Radio said the soldier was stationed 100 meters to 200 meters away from the plane when the gunshot was fired. Two women soldiers who witnessed the shooting fainted and were treated by medics.

Police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, denied reports that there had been an
assassination attempt on the French leader."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/995777.html