‘Contract out on Bush’
NZPA-AP New York Colombian drug lords have taken out a SUS3O million ($50.8 million) contract on the life of President George Bush, according to a published report. At least one member of Congress believes the threat is real. Intelligence reports found that the cartels have tried to recruit Arab terrorists to kill Mr Bush, and tried to hire Colombian guerrillas to hit targets in the United States, according to an unidentified State Department official quoted by “Newsweek” magazine in its December 25 issue. Some of the reports “have prompted serious investigations,” the official said, but none has checked out. “I know nothing about that,” said a deputy White House press secretary, Roman Popadiuk. Senator Alfonse D’amato, however, believed the Colombians would try to kill Mr Bush. “They are desperate people,” he said. “They have used these tactics against their own people and they would resort to this kind of effort.
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