The official briefing on Mr. Bush's speech said the new approach would be very different from that of the former president.

Other reporters - including this one - were sometimes excluded from official briefings inside the Green Zone.

A lesser reporter might be content to wait for the official briefing, but not him.

He turned and-with heavy heart-took his place in the crowd to wait for the official briefing.

"Will you ever learn to behave yourself during an official briefing?"

"This is an official briefing, is it not, Commander?"

To see evidence of this claim for yourself, look no further than an an official parliamentary briefing paper regarding this matter:

I wasn't one of them, see, so they couldn't give me an official briefing.

To an official briefing American reporters, threats like those, not a basic alienation from the idea of democracy, have been the biggest impediment.

When the official briefing was finally over, the scouting party was served an excellent dinner in the large hall.