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Clinton's Bosnia gunfire claim untrue
By Jitendra Joshi in Washington
March 25, 2008 02:11pm
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DEMOCRAT Hillary Clinton has been forced to admit her dramatic account of coming under life-threatening sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia was inaccurate.
Senator Clinton's spokesman Howard Wolfson admitted the former first lady may have "misspoke" when she recounted the story on the campaign trail, as she tried to talk up her national security experience.
Senator Clinton had last week told of coming under sniper fire when she arrived at Bosnia's Tuzla airbase in March 1996.
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base," Senator Clinton had recounted.
But reporters who accompanied her on the 1996 trip have since produced TV footage that shows nothing of the sort, as Senator Clinton, accompanied by her daughter Chelsea, greeted wellwishers on their arrival and paused to chat.
Reruns of TV reports from the time showed Senator Clinton being welcomed by smiling officials on the tarmac at Tuzla, and listening as an eight-year-old Bosnian girl read out a poem.
Mr Wolfson insisted the Tuzla trip, designed as a morale-booster for US troops keeping the peace after Bosnia's civil war, took place in an atmosphere of danger.
But he admitted: "Now it is possible in the most recent instance in which she discussed this that she misspoke with regard to the exit from the plane".
The comedian Sinbad, who was also on the 1996 trip with Senator Clinton but is supporting her rival Barack Obama in the presidential campaign, said the most worrying part of the trip was deciding where to go for dinner.
And Senator Clinton's White House schedules - released last week and detailing her activities as first lady - confirm the ceremonial greeting she received in Tuzla.
Senator Obama's campaign has used the schedules to buttress its claim that the New York senator dishonestly inflates her resume to argue that she is ready to be commander-in-chief.
The schedules also fail to shed much light on Senator Clinton's assertions that as first lady to president Bill Clinton, she played an instrumental role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland or in opening Macedonia's borders to Kosovo refugees.
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Clinton's Bosnia gunfire claim untrue
By Jitendra Joshi in Washington
March 25, 2008 02:11pm
Article from: Agence France-PresseFont size: + - Send this article: Print Email
DEMOCRAT Hillary Clinton has been forced to admit her dramatic account of coming under life-threatening sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia was inaccurate.
Senator Clinton's spokesman Howard Wolfson admitted the former first lady may have "misspoke" when she recounted the story on the campaign trail, as she tried to talk up her national security experience.
Senator Clinton had last week told of coming under sniper fire when she arrived at Bosnia's Tuzla airbase in March 1996.
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base," Senator Clinton had recounted.
But reporters who accompanied her on the 1996 trip have since produced TV footage that shows nothing of the sort, as Senator Clinton, accompanied by her daughter Chelsea, greeted wellwishers on their arrival and paused to chat.
Reruns of TV reports from the time showed Senator Clinton being welcomed by smiling officials on the tarmac at Tuzla, and listening as an eight-year-old Bosnian girl read out a poem.
Mr Wolfson insisted the Tuzla trip, designed as a morale-booster for US troops keeping the peace after Bosnia's civil war, took place in an atmosphere of danger.
But he admitted: "Now it is possible in the most recent instance in which she discussed this that she misspoke with regard to the exit from the plane".
The comedian Sinbad, who was also on the 1996 trip with Senator Clinton but is supporting her rival Barack Obama in the presidential campaign, said the most worrying part of the trip was deciding where to go for dinner.
And Senator Clinton's White House schedules - released last week and detailing her activities as first lady - confirm the ceremonial greeting she received in Tuzla.
Senator Obama's campaign has used the schedules to buttress its claim that the New York senator dishonestly inflates her resume to argue that she is ready to be commander-in-chief.
The schedules also fail to shed much light on Senator Clinton's assertions that as first lady to president Bill Clinton, she played an instrumental role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland or in opening Macedonia's borders to Kosovo refugees.
know when to hold em', know when to fold em', know when to walk away, know when to run.
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