President Bush's scheduled visit to O'ahu Saturday is still on, a White House Media Affairs official said yesterday. The president was scheduled to have lunch with U.S. troops during that visit, it was earlier reported.

"The president will be back on his original schedule," said White House spokeswoman Cynthia Bergman, referring to the president's unannounced trip to Iraq yesterday.

A brief Labor Day stopover scheduled at Hickam Air Force Base by Bush aboard Air Force One yesterday did not happen.

Bush was supposed to land at Hickam for refueling yesterday afternoon on his way to an international summit in Australia. He was not scheduled to leave the plane at that time, although that was subject to change, according to a White House media advisory issued earlier in the week.

Instead of flying to Australia, the president made a secret, unannounced trip to Iraq to visit U.S. troops in the desert more than a hundred miles north of Baghdad.

He had been scheduled to stop on O'ahu, with a luncheon layover, on his way back from Sydney.

Bergman said Bush should be back on his original return agenda by Saturday. She said the details of that visit have yet to be confirmed, but that the White House would be issuing an advisory later this week.

It was previously reported that Bush would arrive at Hickam at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday and take off at 3 p.m., with a luncheon with troops here sometime in between. The location of the luncheon was not announced.

The Secret Service on O'ahu said at the time that possible routes were still being considered for the brief Saturday motorcade.

The motorcade is made up of a mix of Secret Service agents and Honolulu police officers.

HPD officer Steve Favela, 30, died of injuries suffered during a motorcycle crash while escorting the president on Hickam Air Force Base last November.

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