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The cruise missiles strike on Iraq in June 1993 were ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton as both a retaliation and a warning triggered by the attempted assassination by Iraqi agents on former U.S. President George H. W. Bush while on a visit to Kuwait in April 14–16, 1993. ==Background== On the night of April 13, 1993, a day before George H. W. Bush was scheduled to visit Kuwait City to commemorate an Allied victory against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, Kuwaiti authorities arrested 17 persons suspected in the plot to kill Bush using explosives hidden in a Toyota Landcruiser. The Kuwaitis recovered the Landcruiser, which contained between 80 and 90 kilograms of plastic explosives connected to a detonator (the Bush device or Bush explosive device). They also recovered ten cube-shaped plastic explosive devices with detonators (the cube-bombs) from the Landcruiser.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bush assassination attempt )〕 Clinton was convinced the attack was masterminded by the Iraqi Intelligence Service by three compelling pieces of evidence. First, the suspects in the plot made detailed confessions to FBI agents in Kuwait, largely verifying that the Iraqi Intelligence Service was behind the attack. Second, FBI and CIA bomb experts linked the captured car bombs to the same explosives made in Iraq, including a 175-pound car bomb found in Kuwait City on April 14.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bush assassination attempt )〕 Third, intelligence reports confirmed that Saddam had been plotting to assassinate the former President for some time.〔(U.S. Strikes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush )〕〔(Saddam Tried to Kill Bush I )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cruise missile strikes on Iraq (1993)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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