FBI Lied to Clinton about Iraqi Assassination Attempt on BushSr

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

think the PNAC had a 'hand' in having a reason - a PNAC war lust,
to lie to then President Clinton ???????

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FBI Lied to Clinton about Iraqi Assassination Attempt on Bush Sr.


Baltimore Sun's Scott Shane reports, "In Nov. 1993, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh scrutinized the alleged in the New Yorker magazine and concluded that much of the evidence given by the FBI and CIA - and presented to the United Nations after the missile attack - was flawed or wrong. He suggested that the Kuwaitis might have invented the plot, its Iraqi connection or its focus on Bush, forcing one or more plotters to confess under torture." Subsequently Frederic Whitehurst, "the former FBI chemist who tested the explosive recovered in Kuwait says he told superiors it did not match known Iraqi explosives... When he later saw an official FBI document misstating his findings, he filed an official protest. The inspector general's report eventually confirmed that Whitehurst's findings had been distorted, but said government officials assured investigators that they had other evidence linking the plot to Iraq." OK, show us!

http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.plot23feb23.story

When the threat of Hussein hit home for Bush
Plot: Ten years ago, the world was told Iraqi agents tried to kill the president's father. But did it actually happen?


By Scott Shane
Sun Staff
Originally published February 23, 2003

As president, George W. Bush speaks daily of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Rarely does he mention the episode 10 years ago that made the threat very personal for him as a son, a husband and a brother.
In April 1993, Iraqi intelligence agents allegedly tried to assassinate Bush's father during a triumphal post-presidency visit to Kuwait, where he was lionized as the man who liberated the oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdom from Iraqi invaders.

As President Bush readies the country for war to remove the Iraqi regime that may have plotted to murder his father, the story of what happened a decade ago in Kuwait takes on fresh relevance.

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Many doubts

Though the government has long treated the plot as fact, some former intelligence officers and experts on Iraq believe the Kuwaitis may have exaggerated or even concocted the assassination case against the 17 people they arrested to inflame American anger against Iraq.
"It's very possible that the Iraqis tried to get Bush," says Sami G. Hajjar, a former Army War College expert on the Middle East, who says he leans toward that view. "But it wouldn't be at all a surprise if evidence emerged one day that it was staged by the Kuwaits to pump up the Iraqi threat and to ingratiate themselves with the U.S."

Others have even stronger doubts.

"I tend to be extremely skeptical about this," says a former CIA officer who worked in the region for years. "The Kuwaitis would not be reliable sources."
Most strikingly, the former FBI chemist who tested the explosive recovered in Kuwait says he told superiors it did not match known Iraqi explosives. He was astonished to hear Clinton and other officials tell the world exactly the opposite.

The chemist, Frederic Whitehurst, whose whistle-blowing in the mid-1990s led to sweeping reforms at the FBI laboratory, says he protested in letters to the Department of Justice inspector general and other top officials.

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[Cha]

1. I never believed it happened!

Bunch of warmongering Liars.

[sistersofmercy]

2. Well I always thought it was BS even in 93....

First of all, saddam was not that stupid or foolish to try such a thing. I equated it to willie horton and incubator babies. Secondly, I think something between saddam and the US gov privately occured between 88 and 90. It most likely had to do with oil. Personally I think saddam was encouraged by the US to attack Iran in 80. After all the Shah was their guy who had been overthrown.
In addition, Hillary stated in a press conference recently that Bush was not up holding his promise to Bill about a pet project of Bill's, the americorps. Apparently it has been a long held tradition for an incoming president to cater to one pet project of the outgoing president. She further stated that Bill had kept his promise to Papa Bush to honor and support his pet project. She didn't say what that pet project was but I think I know. Iraqi National Congress founded in 92 and funded through our at a tune of 25 mil a yr. In 2000 chalabi addressed congress (it's on-line) about saddam's imminent threat while asking for 95 mil.

[sistersofmercy]

3. Forget what they say about intel on Iraq coming from CIA..

It comes from INC who have been based in N Iraq since the no-fly zone.
They've been protected by the Kurds. Most defector accounts we've read have been from paid defectors.

[pansypoo53219]

4. which means even less reason

for GW 2, except OIL.

[Octafish]

5. Did BFEE tried to liquidate Poppy, Baker et al back then?

This may be OT, but there was a strange incident involving a planeload of the Glorious American Liberators of Kuwait. To my conspiratorial way of thinking, it appears a most sophisticated assassination was attempted on Bush Sr, Baker, Cheney and other top dogs of Gulf War 1 involving the Saudi king's personal Boeing 747.

As I remember the story: Bush, Baker, etc. were to receive all sorts of medals, gifts and treasure in honor of saving the Roils of the Gulf. So, the BFEE brass set off from Houston in this enormous luxurious palatial aircraft. They felt like Big Shots they no longer were, thanks to Clinton and Perot.

About a half-hour out, somewhere high above the Gulf of Mexico, an explosion ripped a large hole in the wing, near where the wing meets the fuselage. A photo I remember from the time showed what looked like a crater about three feet across, with the torn edges forced up, on the top of the wing.

The newspaper said the plane suffered an explosion and was forced to make an emergency return to Houston. I'd say. From the look of the hole, its location, and the passenger list, it looked like a hit. But, by whom?

PS: Please excuse any mistakes. I'm going from memory. This story has been sanitized, as far as I can tell. Please, anyone with information, post what you got.