Comments on: How Do We Know that Iraq Tried to Assassinate President George H.W. Bush?

By: Saddam and Al Qaeda Sitting in a Tree...of course they had a Collaborative Relationship, duh. | Pierre Legrand's Pink Flamingo Bar

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:41:46 +0000

[...] April 16, 1993 How Do We Know that Iraq Tried to Assassinate President George H.W. Bush? In late-April 1993, the United States learned that terrorists had attempted to assassinate Bush during his visit to Kuwait. The Kuwaiti authorities arrested 17 persons suspected in the plot to kill Bush using explosives hidden in a Toyota Landcruiser. The Kuwaitis recovered the Landcruiser, which contained between 80 and 90 kilograms of plastic explosives connected to a detonator ( the Bush device or Bush explosive device ). The Kuwaitis also recovered ten cube-shaped plastic explosive devices with detonators (the cube-bombs ) from the Landcruiser. Some of the suspects reportedly confessed that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS ) was behind the assassination attempt. [...]

By: Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar » The Problem Child Iran, thinking out of the box…yes we can!

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:10:37 +0000

[...] one arrives at when you consider Saddam’s previous efforts. The attempt to assassinate Former President Bush showed a distinct lack of fear and common sense, though Clinton lived up to Saddam’s low [...]

By: Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar » Andrew C McCarthy on why we are failing in Iraq and in the war against Islamic fundamentalism

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:05:26 +0000

By: Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar » Another riposte against those who think appeasement is the road to peace

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:49:31 +0000

[...] Why did Saddam attempt to assassinate Former President Bush and exactly what sort of precedence is there for another country to attempt to assassinate one of our Former Presidents? Why did Saddam host according to famed Neo Con Christopher Dickey terror conventions? Leading Link to article Dickey wrote describing Saddams Terror conventions That was in January 1993. I was there, and every time I hear diplomats and politicians, whether in Washington or the capitals of Europe, declare that Saddam Hussein is a “secular Baathist ideologue” who has nothing to do with Islamists or with terrorist calls to jihad, I think of that afternoon and I wonder what they’re talking about. If that was not a fledgling Qaeda itself at the Rashid convention, it sure was Saddam’s version of it. [...]

By: Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar » Saddam and Al Qaeda Connections and Collaboration

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:04:45 +0000