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Summary George W Bush declined an invitation to join his successor Barack Obama in New York, officials said.
Obama is scheduled to visit Ground Zero, the simply named site of the felled World Trade Center in New York, on Thursday. Just days after a weekend US special forces raid on Osama bin Laden s compound in Pakistan that killed the al-Qaeda leader and planner of the attacks.Though Bush was asked to come to New York for the events, he decided against it, his spokesman said.A White House official confirmed Bush was invited but is not able to come, which we of course understand.
