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History See other History Articles Title: More details emerge on the phony 1993 Saddam assassination threat against George H. W. Bush. After WMR's report on senior Bush's close relationship with Kuwait, a country that supported groups associated with "Al Qaeda" and the 9-11 attacks on the U.S., more details have been provided by State Department sources on the alleged 1993 assassination threat by Saddam Hussein against ex-President Bush. The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait during 1993 was Edward W. (Skip) Gnehm, an ardent Bush supporter who was appointed by Bush in August 1990. Gnehm presented his credentials to the Emir in April 1991 after serving as ambassador to the Kuwaiti government-in-exile in Taif, Saudi Arabia. Gnehm took up his position in Kuwait shortly after U.S. forces occupied Kuwait after the routing of Saddam's forces in Operation Desert Storm. President Clinton kept Gnehm on as ambassador to Kuwait until April 1994. FBI agents sent to Kuwait to investigate the car bomb assassination threat against Bush believed the entire operation was bogus. They believed the Kuwaiti government rounded up a few Iraqi whiskey smugglers, planted Iraqi ordnance left in Kuwait by Iraqi forces as "evidence," and staged the entire assassination plot in order to ingratiate themselves to Bush and put pressure on the Clinton administration to retaliate against Iraq. The FBI team that interrogated the accused Iraqi "assasins" sent their reports back to FBI headquarters by secure fax rather than official State Department communications channels because those circuits are routinely monitored by the CIA and National Security Agency and would have assuredly come to the attention of Woolsey and Bush's allies at Langley. The faxes consisted of 30 to 50 pages per night. A Kuwaiti judge later dismissed the assassination charges against Iraq due to lack of evidence. Another Bush family contrivance: The "assassination plot" against GHW Bush in Kuwait and a retaliatory attack on Saddam Hussein After the Clinton administration decided to send 23 cruise missiles into Iraq on June 27, 1993, Gnehm, eager to please Bush and Clinton, called Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.) at his home during the wee hours of the morning to request permission for the U.S. cruise missiles to overfly Kuwaiti airspace on their way into Iraq. (It was the daughter of Sabah named "Nayirah," it will be recalled, who made up a phony story about witnessing Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators on to the floor before a carefully contrived October 10, 1990 phony House "hearing" chaired by Democratic Representative from California Tom Lantos and organized by the Saudi and Kuwaiti shill public relations firm Hill & Knowlton. Nayirah was Nayirah al Sabah and she was not in Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation but in Washington, DC). Gnehm personally dictated the contents of the overflight permission cable to National Security Adviser Anthony Lake at the White House ("granted diplomatic overflight clearance for cruise missiles.") Some of the U.S. cruise missiles hit civilian residential areas in Baghdad, including the home of famous Arab artist Leyla Attar, who was killed in the attack. Gnehm, a fluent Arabic speaker, is reported by embassy staff to have been too close for comfort to the Kuwaiti government. That resulted in conflicts with embassy principals, including the Regional Security Officer and the US Marine contingent. September 11, 2005 -- G.H.W. Bush made Kuwait safe for Al Qaeda financing. George H. W. Bush's Operation Desert Storm made Kuwait safe for an important part of "Al Qaeda's" financing operations. Documents dating to 1993 and obtained from European intelligence sources by WMR indicate that after U.S. troops ran Saddam Hussein's forces out of the oil rich emirate, Kuwait became a significant base of operations for Osama bin Laden and his "Al Qaeda" support network. Kuwait was the headquarters for an Islamic "charity," Lajnat al Dawa al Islamiyah, a group designated by the Treasury Department as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organization. Lajnat gave financial support to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "Al Qaeda's" chief planner of the 911 attacks, which occurred exactly four years ago. Mohammed's brother ran Lajnat's operations in Peshawar, Pakistan. Lajnat has been linked to Chicago-based businessman Sulaiman al-Ali, an individual who the FBI said was a central money mover for such terrorist-funding front organizations as the International Islamic Relief Organization, Sana-Bell, Inc., Global Chemical Corporation, the Saar Foundation (which had close links with Karl Rove's friend and adviser Grover Norquist), BMI, Inc. (an investment bank), the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Safa Trust, P-Tech (a Boston-based software company having active contracts with the FAA and NORAD on 9-11 and which was tied to "Al Qaeda" via links between its director Yaqub Mirza and "Al Qaeda" financier Yasin Kadi), and the Muslim World League. Although these groups primarily funneled Saudi money to terrorist organizations like "Al Qaeda" and Hamas, it was Lajnat that transferred primarily Kuwaiti money from the emirate to "Al Qaeda" operations in Pakistan. According to documents obtained by WMR, Lajnat had the firm support of both the Kuwaiti and Pakistani governments. The first document is a letter, dated Aug. 3, 1993, from the Pakistani ambassador to Kuwait certifying Lajnat al Dawa al Islamiyah (LDI) as a charitable organization. The second is a letter from the Kuwait embassy in Pakistan stating much the same. A third letter is from the U.S. accounting firm of Ernst & Young giving LDI a clean bill of health from an audit. From April 14 to 16, 1993, former President George H. W. Bush visited Kuwait to accolades and awards from the Kuwaiti government for his role in "freeing" Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. It was also during Bush's trip to Kuwait that Saddam was accused of plotting to assassinate the elder Bush, an unsubstantiated charge that would influence junior Bush's decision to invade and occupy Iraq ten years later and one that prompted President Clinton to launch 27 cruise missiles to strike Iraqi targets in retaliation. In fact, after the "liberation" of Kuwait from Iraqi forces, the emirate quickly became an important base for "Al Qaeda" financing, an activity which George H. W. Bush as both an ex-President and ex-CIA director, as well as a close confidant of the Kuwaiti government, should have been fully aware as part of his periodic intelligence briefs by the CIA. Clinton said he struck Iraq with the cruise missiles as a result of "compelling evidence" that Bush was the target of an assassination plot by members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. However, the CIA in 1993 was headed by James Woolsey, an individual who later associated himself with the same neo-con elements who helped develop the phony reasons for George W. Bush's war against Iraq, including placing trust in convicted embezzler and "Curveball" patron, Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress (INC). Woolsey served as a paid consultant for the INC. In fact, it was Woolsey who presented the report to President Clinton that Iraq was behind a foiled car bomb attack on senior Bush in Kuwait. Based on the bogus reports the neo-cons have generated within the last few years, there is no reason to believe that Woolsey was on the level in 1993 or in 2003. In fact, it was Kuwait that had its hands involved in funding terrorism through its support for Lajnat, which in turn funded Osama Bin Laden and "Al Qaeda" in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And this support occurred after "Al Qaeda's" fingerprints and the involvement of its patrons in Khartoum, Sudan were discovered in the first attack on the World Trade Center earlier in 1993. The missing links in terrorist funding: Kuwait and Pakistan government documents provide more clues The following documents point to the support given terrorist front Lajnat by both the Kuwaiti and Pakistani governments and cover by U.S. interests: 1. August 3, 1993 letter from Pakistani Embassy in Kuwait re: Lajnat 2. August 8, 1993 letter from Kuwaiti Embassy in Kuwait re: Lajnat 3. June 25, 2003 letter from Ernst and Young "clean bill of health" audit for Lajnat. Ex-President Bush's close links with a government -- Kuwait (in addition to Saudi Arabia) -- a government that supported a group that funded "Al Qaeda" and the 9-11 attacks on the United States suggest that Mr. Bush may have had information concerning Kuwaiti (and Saudi) support for planned terrorist activities against the United States prior to 9-11. The business activities of ex-President Bush and those of George W. and Marvin Bush with the Kuwaiti government deserve a thorough investigation by U.S. law enforcement into the possible aiding and abetting of terrorist-supporting states that helped finance terrorist attacks against the United States. These are not high crimes and misdemeanors but acts of treason. On the fourth anniversary of 9-11, 3000 souls call out for justice.
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