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Iraqis targeted W ranch: terror team tried to sneak into Texas through Mexico
An Iraqi terror team armed with millions of dollars tried to get smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico to Crawford, Tex. — the site of President Bush's ranch, a law enforcement source said yesterday. The alarming attempt to infiltrate the country occurred this month. It is not known what the Iraqis planned to do in Crawford, but Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein tried to assassinate Bush's father, the former President George Bush, in 1993.
Duh, they wanted his autograph? They wanted to go drinking with Jenna and Barb? "It is not known". Good grief.
The unidentified Iraqis wanted to hire coyotes smugglers to sneak them into the U.S. because they "wanted to get to the Crawford ranch," according to the well-placed law enforcement source. They also asked a Mexican doctor and a lawyer named Claudio to change about $100 million in Iraqi dinars into U.S. currency — about $325 million.
That's a lot of cash, even for a doctor and a lawyer! I'd be looking into those two.
Secret Service officials would not comment yesterday about the possible threat or the suspects' whereabouts. The current President has not forgotten the attempt to kill his father. A red-faced Bush recently reminded a visitor of the 1993 plot by Saddam, and said, "The SOB tried to kill my dad."
Wasn't that in October? Maybe September? Guess it depends on your definition of recently...
Iraq's attempt to infiltrate the U.S. came to light as U.S. officials announced they had thwarted Iraqi-sponsored terrorism in two foreign countries, as well as plots directed at U.S. targets. "There are two countries where operations have been compromised, and we have information on plots in other countries," State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said.
I think that's a reference to the aborted diplo attacks in Jordan and Yemen.
Department officials declined to say whether the Mexico report had any connection to those Iraqi terrorist plots.
Walks like a duck ....
Posted by: Steve White 2003-03-29
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