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Iraqis targeted W ranch - Terror team tried to sneak into Texas through Mexico
New York Daily News ^
| 3/29/03
| JAMES GORDON MEEK
Posted on 03/29/2003 1:43:11 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON - 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, the source said. 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.
The unidentified Iraqis wanted to hire 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.
Secret Service officials would not comment yesterday about the possible threat or the suspects' whereabouts.
The President and First Lady Laura Bush spend most of their downtime on the 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch, nestled in the central Texas scrubland. Bush used the Texas White House to woo world leaders into his "coalition of the willing" against Saddam.
The assassination attempt on Bush's father came as the former President attended ceremonies in Kuwait celebrating the success of the Gulf War, which ousted Saddam's troops from Kuwait. Because of the failed assassination, then-President Bill Clinton ordered a Tomahawk missile barrage on Iraq.
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."
Other plots thwarted
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.
Department officials declined to say whether the Mexico report had any connection to those Iraqi terrorist plots.
In both foreign cases, the operatives were arrested, terrorist material was confiscated and the attacks were not carried out, said another State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher.
The U.S. has asked a number of countries to expel suspected Iraqi intelligence officers, based on "the significant threat posed by their presence," Boucher said.
With Thomas M. DeFrank
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assassinationplots; assassinations; crawford; foiled; homelandsecurity; ranchrescue; texas
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posted on
03/29/2003 1:43:11 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
The Lone Star State doesn't take kindly to such crap. A little Judge Roy Bean hanging justice is in order.
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posted on
03/29/2003 1:44:36 AM PST
by
Young Rhino
(France delenda est)
To: kattracks
clinton sent em...wanna bet ?
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posted on
03/29/2003 1:45:07 AM PST
by
cactusSharp
(( if pc skills named us,I'd be backspace delete))
To: kattracks
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...... Send in the Dixie Chicks! They're great at defending TX!
To: kattracks
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. This exchange rate seems backwards. $3.25 US = $1.00 Iraqi
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posted on
03/29/2003 1:49:48 AM PST
by
freepersup
(find the enemy... destroy the enemy... remain vigilant)
To: Young Rhino
I wish that's the way it was nowadays. Instead we've got Texas Rangers arresting members of Ranch Rescue for alerting BP to 2 illegals entering via the ranch they were watching
To: kattracks
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posted on
03/29/2003 1:51:09 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: kattracks
Secret Service officials would not comment yesterday about the possible threat or the suspects' whereabouts.I wonder if the coyotes took the $100,000,000 and left the slobs out in the desert as buzzard feed.
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posted on
03/29/2003 1:57:46 AM PST
by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
To: kattracks
tried to get smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico These tried. I'm concerned about the ones that made it.
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posted on
03/29/2003 2:05:10 AM PST
by
Flyer
(We Own The Streets!!)
To: kattracks
Look at the bright side, now maybe Bush will begin to be concerned about our borders.
10
posted on
03/29/2003 2:16:14 AM PST
by
wastoute
To: wastoute; Texas_Jarhead
>>now maybe Bush will begin to be concerned about our borders.
Exactly my response. We can only hope.
To: freepersup
Reporters and math ... a dangerous combination.
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posted on
03/29/2003 2:20:57 AM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: kattracks
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posted on
03/29/2003 2:24:23 AM PST
by
The Great Satan
(Revenge, Terror and Extortion: A Guide for the Perplexed)
To: kattracks
Bump!
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posted on
03/29/2003 2:34:25 AM PST
by
k2blader
(If one good thing can be said about the UN, it is that it taught me how to spell “irrelevant.”)
To: kattracks
Three Iraqis in Crawford, Texas wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb or anything. They wouldn't have gotten very far.
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
Buuuuuuuump!
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posted on
03/29/2003 2:58:51 AM PST
by
TLI
(Continuing the sporting tradition of "lights on in the kitchen, how many roaches can one stomp!")
To: kattracks
This must be total ficticious disinformation. Everyone knows the open border with Mexico is NEVER cause for concern.
To: TADSLOS; BlueLancer; ValerieUSA; MeeknMing; centexan; christine; DrewsDad
Central Texas ping.
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posted on
03/29/2003 3:05:30 AM PST
by
TxBec
(Tag! You're it!)
To: DoughtyOne; B4Ranch
makes one wonder if W will notice the gaping hole in security to the south of his ranch now...
hey, i can dream.
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posted on
03/29/2003 3:11:07 AM PST
by
glock rocks
(pray for our men and women in harm's way -- God bless America)
To: freepersup
This exchange rate seems backwards. $3.25 US = $1.00 Iraqi What is backwards? $325 Million US = 100 Million Dinars.
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posted on
03/29/2003 3:15:27 AM PST
by
BullDog108
(Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.)
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