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President loses watch, Albania denies involvement

President Bush may have had his watch stolen during a public appearance in Albania. The best protected man in the world was wearing his watch when he began shaking hands with enthusiastic well-wishers. When he stopped a few minutes and dozens of hearty handshakes later, he was not, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Pictures show the president starting his walk along the crowd with the watch on his left wrist. In the next picture, a firm hand covers the relevant part of his arm, and in the last his wrist is bare and Mr Bush is gazing down as if searching for something. What happened to the watch in between has become the subject of international speculation. Albanian media websites, which carried videos of the event, speculated that the president had been fleeced. Albania’s chief of police, perhaps sensitive to his countrymens’ reputation for petty crime, moaned: “This is not true.”

For those who wish to decide for themselves, Youtube have a video of the news footage from the scene.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .