The plot was foiled when Kuwaiti officials found the bomb and arrested the suspected bumbumins.

The Iraqi Intelligence Service, particularly Directorate 14, was accused of being behind the plot.

The President and First Family were not home at the time. Corder was the only casualty.

Nukes

A tourist named Harry Rakosky tackled Duran before he could injure anyone. Duran was found to have a suicide note in his pocket and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

get your facts right BEFORE you shoot

The U.S. Park Police claimed, according to CNN correspondent Eileen O’Connor, that the type of handgun that was confiscated was of a sophisticated type and had the shooter not been shooting from an obstructed angle view, the bullets would have reached the White House. However, numerous trees and bushes separated the sidewalk, where Pickett was, from the White House. Following a stand-off of about ten minutes, the incident ended when a Secret Service officer shot Pickett, resulting in an injury which required immediate hospital surgery. Pickett was found to have emotional problems and employment grievances. Although Pickett had written letters to the President about these grievances there was lack of conclusive evidence that President Bush was a personal target. A court in July 2001 sentenced Pickett to three years imprisonment in connection with the incident.

he got off easy

It is possible this was an bumbumination attempt modeled on the one used on anti-Taliban fighter and Northern Alliance military leader Ahmed Mbumoud two days earlier. The previous April, Mbumoud addressed the European Parliament and warned of the possibility of al-Qaeda attacking in the West.

Both Mooneyhan and the Observer reporter were questioned by the Secret Service, but the agency has not commented further.