Is there any real evidence that Saddam tried to kill Poppy?

[mike1963]

I know the story has floated around for years, but I con't recall ever
hearing any truly credible evidence of the 'plot.' It's just that I've
always kinda thought about it like the 'babies tossed out of incubators' tale that circulated. Guess I should've googled for it, but it just came to me as I was poking thru DU...

[Toby109]

1. I know wht you're saying

I sure don't remember any news stories about it at the time and you would think that would have been HUGE. WTF?

[PaDUer]

3. That's what they've been saying..

I've never seen anything about it other than * saying it..but remember this, it's been * right along saying it. Never have seen ANY news reports on it, nothing written, or anything...it's just an excuse because he knows that IF he says it, his asswipes will jump when he says jump.

[Carni]

2. I have read and heard around

That the story was a load of crap...but I don't have any concrete links/info to back that up.

[lastknowngood]

4. None at all just the word of a turncoat who said it was mentioned

by the Iraqi security force but Saddam vetoed it immediately.

[Bunny]

5. I don't know what the evidence was, but Bill Clinton

sent a message to Saddam over the allegations. So there was likely something going on, the truth, as always, remains elusive.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Nope. Just the usual nonsense spewing out from the NeoCons.

[grasswire]

7. look for Seymour Hersch's story...

..in the New Yorker. He discredited the "official" story.

Knowing the Bushes, we should assume anything they use for cover or for sympathy is bogus.

[Nlighten1]

11. This is all I have found so far...

http://www.fencing101.com/vb/showpost.php?p=48638&postcount=84

Endless repetition dulls the memory, but in 1993 (not 1994) the announcement of the Iraqi plot to kill the former President met a skeptical reception from many, including many current hawks. Many Republicans accused the new Clinton administration of seizing upon the first available excuse to demonstrate toughness against the Iraqi president. Seymour Hersch decisively discredited the supposed plot in a subsequent investigation for The New Yorker. Journalists on the ground in Kuwait reported widespread skepticism. Even the Washington Post wrote at the time that the United States had no evidence linking the alleged plot directly to Saddam.

The plot itself was revealed by Kuwaiti intelligence, which at the time had every reason to feel uneasy about the Clinton administration. During the campaign, Clinton had openly mused about the possibility of a new relationship with Iraq. But no president, not even Clinton, would be able to ignore such a provocation, and publicly presented with Kuwaiti evidence, he felt compelled to act. After former President Bush visited Kuwait in mid-April 1993, the Kuwaiti government arrested eleven Iraqis and five Kuwaitis who seem to have been involved in smuggling, and accused them of plotting Bush's assassination. Their confessions were produced under compulsion, presumably under torture. No corroborating evidence was ever produced. Indeed, at the time many news services with little reason to favor Saddam Hussein pointed out a wide range of holes in the story. Kuwait postponed the trial repeatedly, dismissed charges against the Kuwaiti citizens involved in the supposed plot, and then executed the others.

[punpirate]

8. I think the most accurate description of it...

... was written by Seymour Hersh in a New Yorker article a good while ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020930fr_archive02

Cheers.

[James T. Kirk]

9. I think Dick Clarke discusses this in his new book.

[WillyT]

10. A WP Story From The Time !!!

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm

Don't know if this helps or not...

:shrug:

[mike1963]

12. It does, thanks. I just realized that in June I was moving frrom Florida

to Minnesota and wasn't really keeping up with the news.

[leesa]

13. I've never seen anything coroberated. Probably just more Crime Family

"make war" propaganda.

[durutti]

14. No.

Sy Hersh wrote a good article on the topic a few years back.