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Rudenstine said he has spoken with the general counsel, though not in detail, about her investigation, and has been satisfied with the responses...
...talk on her all the time," he said. "Not in detail, but in the sense of her giving me an update, in the sense that...
...BOTTOM LINE: The winning ways of a tall baseball tale are sabotaged by sloppy detail work...
...nurse named Wali al-Ghazali and a coffee-shop owner named Raad al-Assadi, told FBI agents that their target was definitely George Bush. The agents, who had journeyed to Kuwait to interview the suspects, found that they told the same story down to the smallest, unforeseeable detail. Al-Ghazali even said that if the car explosives failed, he was supposed to don a bomb belt and rush toward the former President during his visit to Kuwait two months...
...assembling the evidence against Iraq, FBI agents traveled back and forth to Kuwait many times. The basic plot was known in detail: "The bomb was to be placed in an area where it could be detonated as President Bush's motorcade was to go by," a top intelligence official said. "The bomb, which weighed 175 lbs., had a fairly large lethal radius. Al-Ghazali was to move within a distance of 300 or 500 feet and detonate the bomb manually, using the radio remote-control device." If that plan failed, al-Ghazali was supposed to move the car to Bush...