Security fears for Clinton’s arrival

The Scotsman ^ | 11/19/2001 | Tracey Lawson

[CommiesOut]

Security fears for Clinton’s arrival

Tracey Lawson
(tlawson@scotsman.com)

BILL CLINTON’s visit to Scotland is at the centre of a security scare amid fears the Arab community is planning to stage a protest against his dealings with Israel.

The former US president is due to visit Glasgow next month, where he will be guest speaker at a dinner hosted by the Jewish National Fund. The dinner is being held to help raise £1 million towards a reservoir in Israel which will be named after Mr Clinton.

Security for his trip has already been tightened following the 11 September terrorist attacks, after which his wife, Hillary, cancelled a planned visit to the Scottish Parliament.

But fears for his safety will be further fuelled by reports that Strathclyde Police have been told by Palestinians that hundreds of Arabs will stage a protest at the Hilton Hotel, where the dinner is to be held.

Nobody from Strathclyde Police was available to comment on the reports last night. However, it is understood that secret-service officers from the US and Israel are liaising with UK Special Branch officers, with a £250,000 security operation swinging into place as Mr Clinton attends further JNF functions in Manchester and London as part of the three-day fundraising visit to the UK.

Last night, a spokesman for the JNF said it would be "surprised and disappointed" if Palestinians staged the protest.

Stanley Lovatt, the national vice-president of the JNF, said he had received no information from police to suggest such a protest would go ahead.

He added: "I would be very surprised if this happened. I have heard nothing about this.

"I would be disappointed. We are a non-political organisation and Mr Clinton has been invited for non-political reasons.

"We are raising money for a reservoir in Israel, and have invited Mr Clinton because he is a former president of the United States, a great speaker and we knew he would sell tickets.

"But nothing could overshadow Mr Clinton’s visit to the JNF dinner, which is something we are very proud of."

Tickets for the Glasgow event, which cost £125 a head, sold out within five weeks of going on sale.

Mr Lovatt, who has masterminded the coup of attracting Mr Clinton to the UK, said: " Mr Clinton will speak for an hour and answer questions for half an hour.

Mr Clinton is believed to charge around £100,000 for making speeches, however Mr Lovatt confirmed the President would be speaking to the JNF for a "nominal fee" which he was did not disclose.

JNF raises money for public projects such as irrigation schemes in Israel, but is also active in promoting Zionism in education, boasting a JNF-funded teacher in almost every Israeli school.

[jmp702]

The dinner is being held to help raise £1 million towards a reservoir in Israel which will be named after Mr Clinton.

We are raising money for a reservoir in Israel, and have invited Mr Clinton because he is a former president of the United States, a great speaker and we knew he would sell tickets.

Mr Lovatt confirmed the President would be speaking to the JNF for a "nominal fee"

A nominal fee which probably just so happens to be his normal fee?

Can a dike named after hilary be in the not too distant future?

Why this world wide love fest between Jewish groups and our former 1st felon?

Questions, questions, questions

[mountaineer]

a reservoir in Israel which will be named after Mr Clinton.

Someone remind me what x42 ever did for Israel (while he was entertaining Yasser Arafat innumerable times and Hitlery was busy laying big wet kisses on Mrs. A).

[Piquaboy]

Why is security afraid? The women there should be the ones that are afraid. Especially if he is carrying a cigar.

[norton]

Pretty amusing:
After spending his eight years sucking up to Arafat and any other terrorist he could find,
the Scots are all concerned that he'll get in a bind collecting a speaking fee from a Jewish fundraiser....

Any arab protesters in the UK should realize that all they'd need to do is offer him a bigger "nominal fee" and he'd happily pimp them instead.

It's also cute that they made it all seem so justified by adding that Swillery had cancelled her trip to Scotland after 9/11.
Connection please?

[packrat01]

...Swillery had cancelled her trip to Scotland after 9/11. Connection please?

Hitlery's fee was more nominal???

[Astronaut]

Israel is naming a reservoir after Clinton? Shame on them. The only thing you can name after Clinton is the local whorehouse, and even that isn't really fair to the whores. Instead of a reservoir, how about a cesspool or human waste treatment plant?

[CommiesOut]

I'm going to boycott Scottish whisky and www.reuters.co.il for 3 hours.

[freedomson]

He's in no danger. He was given a magical amulet by satan.
While wearing it, he is indestructable.
He could even be re-animated upon recieving a fatal head wound.

[Balding_Eagle]

Then every town would have a WJC Street to go with their MLK Street.

Not a bad idea. MLK streets generally go through the drug infested parts of town (they actually do). WJC streets would go through the red light districts!

[JD86]

I appreciate your point but I would just as soon not see WJC on every map of every town. There are enough reminders of him and his pitiful legacy already. Besides it would be insulting to the red light district. Those people work for a living.

[jmp702]

LOL. One must make sarcrifices too further the cause.

Maybe this naming of a reservoir after Clinton is actually a back handed slap in the face. After all, it is just an exaggerated water holding basin, much like the toilets in our homes.

With the ex-felons megomanical personality, he thinks it an honor, but actually Israel is giving him the finger for his families support of their enemy.

[jmp702]

oops- megomanical= megalomaniacal.

[Marysecretary]

Billyboy only HOPES the security forces are all out to protect him! What a fool. He's still trying to draw attention to himself as an endangered ex-president--as if anyone cares! Boo. Hissssssss!!!

[Godfollow]

I could care less about this man, only that he does no more harm than he's already done.

[doug from upland]

I'm one American who has no worries about Bill Clinton's security.

[texasbluebell]

He just wants to get in some golf while he's in Scotland.

[doug from upland]

Great --- the Bill Clinton boobs picture. Isn't he hot? Whoa. 38-C?

[tgslTakoma]

fyi

[Bitwhacker]

Bill got the reservoir in Israel, but Hillary is holding out for a Dike in Holland....

[Neets]

hehehehehehehe..keep em coming toots..i'm liking seeing you falter before I do!!!!!!!!!!!!1