US President George W. Bush has arrived back in the United States after a clandestine trip to Iraq to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with U.S. troops in Baghdad, an Air Force official said.
The president's plane landed at Andrews Air Force base just outside Washington, and the president was due to travel on to Texas and arrive back at his ranch early this morning.
From start to finish, Mr Bush's trip took a little over 30 hours, most of them spent in the air. With him were a handful of aides, U.S. Secret Service agents and reporters, all of whom had been sworn to secrecy