Ehud Olmert, former mayor of Jerusalem and now Israeli prime minister, just happened to be in town for a little peace conference, so Martin O?Malley, his old pal as former mayor of Baltimore, had him over to the house for some chicken salad sandwiches and political talk.
Whisked in by flag-waving motorcade from his morning of talks and speeches with President Bush and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blocks away at the Naval Academy, Olmert and his hour-long lunch at the governor?s residence created an intense bubble of high security around the already well-patrolled State House complex.
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