“…the Clinton administration adopted the policy of ‘dual containment.’ This was announced in May 1993. The policy was designed to isolate Iran and Iraq, politically, economically and militarily. Iraq was recognized as posing the more immediate danger. The preferred tools were diplomatic and political measures, coupled with a rigorous enforcement of UN sanctions against Iraq. […]
4/23/1993
On April 23, 1993, militant Islamist Sheikh Omar “Abdel-Rahman’s translator had approached [reinstated FBI informant Emad] Salem in the Abu Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn. He said he was planning a series of bombings… [The plan] called for the simultaneous bombing of four major New York City landmarks: The Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the United Nations […]
4/20/1993
“An issue of the classified National Intelligence Daily reported on April 20 [1993] that hundreds of Islamist militants had passed through the [Afghan training] camps during the previous twelve months.” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 256 […]
4/16/1993
“Saddam Hussein also wanted to assassinate former American President George [H.W.] Bush between 14 and 16 April 1993 when Bush was visiting Kuwait to celebrate the allied victory in the Gulf War. Kuwaiti police seized hundreds of pounds of explosives and arrested 16 people, including 11 Iraqi nationals, led by a colonel in the Mukhabarat, […]
4/15/1993
“In April 1993, Kuwaiti intelligence uncovered a plot to kill former President George [H.W.] Bush. Bush was in Kuwait to receive an award for liberating that nation during the 1991 Gulf War. But his Gulf War enemy, Saddam Hussein, had other plans. Iraqi intelligence had supervised the construction of a massive car bomb to be […]
4/15/1993
According to the Riegle Report, which was delivered to the Senate on February 9, 1994, regarding the health of Gulf War veterans, “In April 1993, weapons inspectors from the United Nations charged with locating all of Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons by U.N. Resolution 687, confirmed that in Muthanna, 65 miles northwest of Baghdad, […]
4/15/1993
During a ceremony at Kuwait University on April 15, 1993, “No one on the stage or in the audience knew how close they might have come to death. Through a series of misadventures, the assassins had been caught shortly before [George H.W.] Bush went to the university. Had the plan worked, George W. [Bush’s]‘s father, […]
4/15/1993
“An Arab-language newspaper in London said [in April 1993] that there had been an assassination attempt on [former] President [George H.W.] Bush that was foiled by Kuwaiti police when the bomb laden vehicle was involved in a traffic accident.” [The 15th of the month is used for date sorting purposes only.] – Richard Clarke, Against […]
4/15/1993
“In April 1993, when George [H.W.] Bush made an emotional return to Kuwait, the Kuwaiti authorities revealed that they had uncovered an Iraqi plot to kill him. The Kuwaitis found a car packed with enough explosive to devastate the center of Kuwait City; the bomb was primed to detonate as Bush was driving through the […]
4/14/1993
On April 14, 1993, “two Iraqi nationals, Raad al-Asadi and Wali al-Ghazali, plotted to kill [former President George H.W.] Bush while he was visiting Kuwait. The Kuwaitis captured the two before they could carry out their plan and handed them over to the FBI. Under interrogation, they admitted that Iraqi intelligence agents had supplied them […]