Laura Bush heckled in Jerusalem

Laura Bush heckled in Jerusalem: "Laura Bush heckled in Jerusalem
9.09AM, Mon May 23 2005


America's first lady Laura Bush has been heckled by protesters at two of Jerusalem's most sacred shrines.
As Mrs Bush visited the Wailing Wall, Israeli police locked arms and Secret Service agents packed tightly around her in a bid to restrain an increasingly angry crowd.
Dozens of protesters shouted, 'Free Pollard now' in reference to Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who is serving a life sentence in a US prison for spying for Israel.
She then went to the Dome of the Rock, a mosque on a hilltop compound known to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, and was heckled as she left.
Mrs Bush is on a tour of the Middle East in a bid to defuse anti-American sentiment in the area following the announcement of US plans to hand back Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. "