[Lijahsbubbe]

Yes. I don't quite understand the details of the story. Was he separated from all of his detail? If he was, this is horribly frightening. From the pictures where he returns to retrieve the agent, it looks as though there are no agents who have his front, sides or back. I don't understand this.

[Right_in_Virginia]

From the pictures where he returns to retrieve the agent, it looks as though there are no agents who have his front, sides or back. I don't understand this.

I don't either. There's one photo where the President is completely alone..looking back at the near altercation taking place outside.

At that moment he should have been surrounded by the other members of his detail and whisked away.

This is inexcusably sloppy work by the Secret Service.

[DaughterofEve]

From the pictures where he returns to retrieve the agent, it looks as though there are no agents who have his front, sides or back. I don't understand this.

Although I am thoroughly enjoying the photos in one sense, I agree it seems this should not have happened this way!

[ThePythonicCow]

it looks as though there are no agents who have his front, sides or back

Aren't those Secret Service agents forming a wall that W. reaches over and through? Certainly, as someone else already noted, the lady in red is an agent - Laura's. And all the others in that wall of man power seem to be forming a blocking line, their backs to W, both them and W conscious of each others presence.

[FairOpinion]

"Chilean security tried to stop the president's Secret Service from accompanying him," said White House deputy press secretary Claire Buchan. "He told them they were with him and the issue was resolved."

I found it frightening as well.

First step, peel away his protection...

Thank God nothing happened.

The Chilean SS should be fired and the Chilean president reprimended.

[JonDavid]

President Bush decision to go back to get the USSS agent threw off the assassins.