Bush to tout US progress on war on terror
On the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George Bush embarked on two days of events in which he will claim progress in bolstering America against future attacks.
Travelling by helicopter today to the FBI Academy in Virginia, Bush was to give an update on efforts to improve homeland security.
Before leaving the White House, the president was to hold talks with the prime minister of Kuwait, a key Gulf ally.
Back in the White House tonight, Bush was playing host to a private dinner and screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary Twin Towers.
Tomorrow, the president takes part in a series of sober appearances: a prayer service at a nearby church, a moment of silence on the White House’s South Lawn at the hour of the first plane’s crash into the World Trade Centre towers in New York, and visiting soldiers recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital from wounds suffered in Iraq.
Bush is also due to meet the Dalai Lama in the White House.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, who has campaigned for the cause of a free Tibet since fleeing his land for India in 1959 after a failed revolt against Chinese rule, is on his first tour of the United States in more than two years.
