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.storyWhen 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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