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AWOL With the President
Last week, TIME photographer Chris Usher found himself hustled into a car by a White House press aide, driven to an airplane and warned not to contact his loved ones. His "kidnappers" flew him to Baghdad with President Bush

NO LONGER IN THE DARK
In the near total darkness of the cabin of Air Force 1, Terry Hunt of the Associated Press composes his story on being "AWOL With the President." Media organizations were only informed of the trip after President Bush's plane had left Baghdad.



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