1993-04 Bush assassination plot

Overview
Allegedly, Iraqi then-president Saddam Hussein had planned to have then-former 🇺🇸 president George H.W. Bush assassinated when Bush was visiting Kuwait in April of 1993, in retaliation for Bush's involvement in the Gulf War. The plot was used by US then-president Bill Clinton as justification for launching a missile attack on Baghdad in June.

The existence of the plot has since been called into question.

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The plot was real. Admiral Daniel J. Murphy (USN-ret.) former deputy director CIA and former chief of staff to VP Bush, and I help orchestrate the President Bush celebratory visit to Kuwait. We were briefed while in Kuwait. The threat was real and present.