UPI: Al Qaida may have tried to kill Clinton
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[quote] KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Al Qaida may have tried to kill former President Clinton, apparently while he was in office, and perhaps planned further attempts on world leaders, United Press International has learned.
Specific references to Clinton were found among handwritten notes and sketches of U.S. Secret Service protective methods recovered from the Shomali compound near Kabul where al Qaida members received specialized training in assassination and hostage taking.
"We have attempted to kill Clinton, but failed," documents in Arabic released exclusively to United Press International Monday state. Although the text indicates the attack was planned around some high-level conference or international summit, it does not mention an exact date. Analysts in Kabul believe the attempt was planned about two years ago.
Nor does the text reveal whether the plan was abandoned or had failed in some other way.
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An excerpt:
[quote] KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Al Qaida may have tried to kill former President Clinton, apparently while he was in office, and perhaps planned further attempts on world leaders, United Press International has learned.
Specific references to Clinton were found among handwritten notes and sketches of U.S. Secret Service protective methods recovered from the Shomali compound near Kabul where al Qaida members received specialized training in assassination and hostage taking.
"We have attempted to kill Clinton, but failed," documents in Arabic released exclusively to United Press International Monday state. Although the text indicates the attack was planned around some high-level conference or international summit, it does not mention an exact date. Analysts in Kabul believe the attempt was planned about two years ago.
Nor does the text reveal whether the plan was abandoned or had failed in some other way.
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Comments
<strong>Remember the big to-do in Italy a few years ago when people thought they went overboard on protecting world leaders at the IMF meeting, i.e., full military defenses at the conference and all over Genoa? (I think it was an IMF meeting anyway.)</strong><hr></blockquote>
That was less than two years ago. I bet it was Davos. No way Clinton would miss Davos.
I thought it was humorous that most of these papers were all hand scrawled and on notebook paper. With stick figures and poorly drawn schematics...funny in a sick way. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />