Do we really need any more evidence that this man is evil enough to be taken out?

Frankly it amazing me that some people are pushing the fiction that the planned American military action to remove Saddam is somehow an unprovoked 'first strike'. Read the last sentence to remind yourselves - this guy tried to assassinate an American President in 1993. He should really have been forcibly removed at that time. Actually, he should have been removed after his 1990 aggression...so much for the ridiculous notion of a 'rush to war'. The war is about a decade overdue!

Alleged Kuwaiti spy was planning to poison American troops
Associated Press

Kuwait City, January 18

A Kuwaiti soldier accused of spying for Iraq was working on plans to poison a large number of American soldiers, a well-connected Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Saturday.

The alleged spy, Sgt. Mohammed Hamad al-Juwayed of the Kuwaiti National Guards, was also helping Iraqi agents to infiltrate the country with the aim of assassinating Kuwaiti politicians and blowing up oil and power facilities, the newspaper Al-Watan said.

The Interior Ministry announced al-Juwayed's arrest on Friday, saying he "provided security and military information to the Iraqis and spied on movements of senior Kuwaiti officials with the intent of facilitating terrorist and sabotage operations."

The ministry did not mention any attempt to spy on or attack US forces in Kuwait.
But Al-Watan, an independent paper known to have reliable contacts in the Interior Ministry, said the 40-year-old sergeant was involved in a plot to kill "a large number of (US) soldiers through poisoning their food."

Al-Watan said the Iraqis had asked al-Juwayed, who was a food supervisor in the military, to provide information about the catering companies employed by the American forces in Kuwait.

Last month, more than 250 American military personnel went down with food poisoning at a camp south of Kuwait City. The US military concluded the outbreak was an isolated case of salmonella poisoning caused by unsanitary conditions.

State security had been watching al-Juwayed inside and outside Kuwait for almost a year, the daily said. He had reportedly been meeting Iraqi intelligence agents in the United Arab Emirates.

America has deployed more than 17,000 military personnel in Kuwait as part of a buildup for a possible war on Iraq. In 1993, Iraqi agents were arrested for plotting to assassinate former President George Bush with a car bomb during a visit to Kuwait.