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NEWS ABOUT: bodyguard

bodyguard stories: 9 news summaries
OPINION

 Silly Security Overkill 
 Is Hurting Public Officials 

Are our precautions doing more harm than good?

Jul 30, 09 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, our public officials need protection—but things are getting out of hand, writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post. Since 9/11, “we have gotten so cranked up about security in the United States that senior officials travel in cocoons, as if they are under constant threat.” And... More »

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security • Secret Service • bodyguard • David Ignatius • public office

Jon Resumes Dad Duty as Kate Buys Suburban DC Pad

Jon puts 'career' second to family

Jul 29, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Gosselin is back with his kids, and it’s Kate’s turn to go out gallivanting. She’s buying a condo in the Washington, DC, suburbs, Radar reports—with the bachelorette pad just a block away from the Maryland office of bodyguard—and rumored lover—Steve Neild. From their... More »

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entertainment • reality TV • bodyguard • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin • Steve Neild

Buckingham Palace Guards 'Ran Porn, Poker Rings'

Accused palace Ponzi mastermind denounces colleagues' lax lifestyle

Jun 30, 09 4:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A royal bodyguard accused of running a multimillon dollar scam opened his defense yesterday by accusing his palace colleagues of running poker and porn enterprises, the Telegraph reports. Paul Page told the court that his fellow royal protection officers had an "easy life" and ran gambling operations and sold... More »

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Buckingham Palace • Britain • British royals • bodyguard • Paul Page

(Newser) - Chris Brown has beefed up his security detail after receiving death threats over his alleged beating of ex Rihanna, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Insiders say Brown is surrounded at all times by three beefy bodyguards and three or four “incognito” protectors who are often women “easily as tough... More »

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entertainment • crime • paparazzi • death threats • assault • Rihanna • bodyguard • Chris Brown • Women%u2019s Protection Action League

(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl has “renewed strength” after beginning a relationship with her bodyguard, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, 42, was held captive in an Austrian cellar and raped by her father, Josef, for 24 years; she and her six children by her father are now under police protection. “They are... More »

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rape • Austria • love • incest • bodyguard • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • protective custody

Mugabe's Wife Pounds Photog

Brit learns hard way not to mess with first lady and her diamond-encrusted rings

Jan 18, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - The wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attacked a photographer for the Times of London who caught her leaving a posh Hong Kong hotel, the newspaper reports. Grace Mugabe ordered her bodyguard to seize the shutterbug’s camera—and then joined in the fracas. The photographer suffered nine cuts, abrasions... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Hong Kong • photographers • assault • bodyguard

 Fire Blackwater: 
 State Dept. Panel 

Security firm's contract should not be renewed, advisory group says

Dec 17, 08 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - The US military should stop using contractors from Blackwater Worldwide, concludes a report by a State Department advisory panel, obtained by the AP. In light of numerous allegations of violent misconduct, Blackwater’s contract to defend American diplomats should not be renewed when it expires next year, the panel recommends.... More »

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Iraq • State Department • murder • Blackwater • manslaughter • security contractors • bodyguard • convoy

Iraq's First Lady Survives Attack on Motorcade

Road bomb injures
4 guards, capping an especially bloody week

May 4, 08 10:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The wife of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani escaped injury after a roadside bomb hit her motorcade in Baghdad this morning. Hiro Ahmed Ibrahim was on her way to a cultural festival when the blast hit, injuring four of the first lady's bodyguards. It is unclear whether the attack was random... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • bombing • Anbar • Jalal Talabani • fatalities • bodyguard • motorcade • Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed

No Cover-Up in Diana Crash, Survivor Says

Bodyguard refutes al-Fayed claim that Brits killed princess, Dodi

Jan 23, 08 1:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Still bearing scars on his face from the 1997 crash that killed Princess Diana, bodyguard Trevor Rees told the inquest into her death today that he isn't part of a British cover-up alleged by Mohammed al-Fayed, Reuters reports. "All I have ever done is give the truth as I... More »

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car accident • Princess Diana • conspiracy • Henri Paul • Diana inquest • Mohamed Al Fayed • Trevor Rees • bodyguard • Dodi al Fayed

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