Operation White Cape

Operation White Cape is over. Halleluyah.

For those of you unclear as to what I'm talking about, this was the official police code name given to securing His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.

The laughable code name is no joke. For a country accustomed to military operations, the pope's visit was treated as such.

A ridiculous number of policemen, security operatives, guards, traffic cops, and undercover agents were deployed to protect the pontiff during his week-long pilgrimage.

Rumor had it that even Batman was on stand-by.

For anyone trying to get around Jerusalem last week, it was Via Dolorosa-like misery.

It's important to note that Israel's security industry is not feeling the recession one bit.

According to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, 80,000 people worked to secure the pope's visit last week.

The operation went off without a hitch, except for one small detail.

Using white paint, vandals carefully blotched out the pope's face on every single one of the fifty or so pontiff posters lining Highway 1 on the way out of Jerusalem.

Underneath the paint splatter, it reads "Jerusalem Welcomes Pope Benedict XVI..."

Let's assume, for the sake of Jewish/Muslim/Vatican relations, that the vandal was just upset about the congestion in the city.

Or that the Holy See was adjusting his robe on his way back to the airport and miraculously missed it.


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