Bush was on a visit recently to Albania. Lots of crowd so he shakes hands with the public.
Look closely at 0:55 were is his watch is being removed…

Bush gets relieved, as a ordinary tourist, from some possesions (and on youtube)

The incident in pictures

There is a pickpocket with balls…..

It was probably just a cheap Timex just for such a situation.

That’s ok. It looked like an analog watch, he probably couldn’t read it anyways

President Bush’s watch disappears when he meets the Albanian crowd, many reported that somebody from the audience stole it. But he U.S. embassy spokesman and the Albanian Police say those reports are untrue.

President Bush was given a hero’s welcome in Albania. In this video he meets the Albanians at a public place. At the beginning of the video you can watch him wearing a watch, but as the video rolls on and when he comes into contact with too many of them, his watch disappears at about 0:55 seconds into the video. Some newspapers, television stations and websites discussed about this episode and reported that somebody from that audience stole George Bush’s watch.

But today, the Albanian Police and the U.S. embassy vehemently denied it and said those reports are untrue and said the wristwatch was not stolen.

  “The story is untrue and the president did not lose his watch,“

a spokesman for the embassy in Tirana said.

The Albanian’s police director also said the same thing that the reports are not true.

Bush’s staff claims they still have the wrist watch, and say Bush handed the watch behind his back to his body guards.

I say: Show us the watch…

My husband said they showed a clip from a different angle on the news this morning, and you can clearly see bush taking off the watch and handing it to secret service.  I haven’t seen it yet, but my husband can be gullible for such a cynic.

I never trust what they deny…  *adjusts his alufoil hat*

I never heard anything about this on NPR, and it’s something they would have loved to talk about.  I was beginning to wonder if it hadn’t actually happened.

Congrats to whoever merged this thread.  Continuity is all there.

I think the merging bugs were fixed in the last update Alex made to the software.  Merging isn’t anywhere near the nightmare it used to be.

And here I was… thinking that denieals were filed under conspiracies.

That would be me who did the merge, but I can’t take credit for the continuity. The process is exactly the same, but the software actually does it correctly now.