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I did some research on Lexis Nexis last night (5.00 / 6) (#131)
by standingup on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 04:45:19 PM EST
The trip she made to Bosnia was on March 25, 1996.  I can't find anything in the press reports that supports the exact account that Hillary has recollected but Sinbad's account might be underscoring the risk too.  She did visit two outposts outside of the base camp in Tuzla without the celebrities there for the USO tour.  

Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Rodham Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawk helicopter Monday to deliver a personal "thank you, thank you, thank you" to U.S. troops.
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But this was a day of celebration and celebrities - a day for the U.S. troops helping to uphold the Bosnian peace accord. Mrs. Clinton hosted a USO show with comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow and briefly addressed the gathering.
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But the highlight of her trip were visits to two fortified posts outside the U.S. base in Tuzla. Even President Clinton, restricted to the base by bad weather in January, did not see as much of this war-wracked region as Mrs. Clinton did Monday.
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Riflemen rushed to the brush line as the helicopter landed and surrounded her as she walked into the post. Located in a "separation zone," the U.S. outpost nestles between two tree lines. Just months ago, one was Serbian territory, the other Bosnian.

Security was tight - fighter jets accompanied her C-17 cargo plane to Tuzla - but officials said the first lady took no extraordinary risks on the trip.
Lexis - By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press, March 25, 1996

Another report:

THE First Lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton, visited her country's troops at their fortified outposts in north-eastern Bosnia today and said their peacekeeping work was "extraordinary to behold".

Mrs Clinton's helicopter flight to Camp Alicia, home of a mechanised infantry outfit and a combat engineer batallion 15 miles east of Tuzla, took her over burned out villages and farm houses whose roofs had been blown off in the fierce fighting before last December's Paris peace agreement ended the 43 -month-old war in Bosnia.

A machine gun emplacement guarded the entrance of the outposts and marked Bosnian minefields were visible outside its perimeter.
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 After lunch with the troops in a makeshift dining hall surrounded by sandbags, she flew on to Camp Bedrock south of Tuzla to visit an army field hospital.

Mrs Clinton, who later returned to Tuzla for a show starring singer Sheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad, said she was "amazed at how much has been accomplished in such a short period of time" by US troops in Bosnia.
Source - Lexis - The Herald (Glasgow), March 26, 1996

And she did spend some time in the cockpit ;-)

So it was probably no accident that the C-17 pilot was a woman, Capt. Cheryl Beineke of Ohio. She is among just four female C-17 pilots out of about 100 in the Air Force.

"I'm loving every minute of this," the pilot said after Mrs. Clinton spent several minutes in the cockpit.
Source - Lexis - By RON FOURNIER, AP International, March 25, 1996



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Excellent digging -- and wow, those are (5.00 / 2) (#140)
by Cream City on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 05:17:16 PM EST
fairly scary accounts even to read.  Interesting, too, that the great source Sinbad wasn't along on a lot of the trip.

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Thank you (5.00 / 1) (#173)
by standingup on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 07:40:35 PM EST
I thought it was great that they chose a female pilot for the flight too.  

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but, but sinbad said! (5.00 / 2) (#148)
by hellothere on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 05:33:42 PM EST


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Sinbad said what? when? :) (5.00 / 2) (#162)
by nycstray on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 06:23:17 PM EST
"Singer also cited a Kansas City Star article from September 2000 that quoted Sinbad as describing the situation in Bosnia as "so tense. It was Crips and Bloods." (And that's how Sinbad continued to characterize the situation in our interview Monday. He said, "At the time, we didn't realize how crazy it was between the Bosnians and the Serbs. I didn't realize how much hate was going on.")"

http://tinyurl.com/2ol5ob

he's def a huge Obama supporter . . . .

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yup, i got that impression from watching (none / 0) (#166)
by hellothere on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 06:38:48 PM EST
an interview. on his particular trip that might well have been true, but as was pointed out hillary was over there other and more dangerous circumstances.

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Here's an interesting overview (5.00 / 2) (#170)
by nycstray on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 07:16:55 PM EST
of some of her FL work:

http://tinyurl.com/2ycf2f

Diplomats Back Clinton's Foreign Policy
The Clinton campaign is releasing a letter today signed by 32 former U.S. ambassadors and diplomats who served while Senator Clinton was First Lady that attests to her unique foreign policy experience.

somewhere either above or below I also posted a NYT article of another 'trip' she took, written at the time.


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Interesting (none / 0) (#175)
by standingup on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 07:43:55 PM EST
Now I'm going to have to go back to Lexis to see what articles come up with comments from Sinbad.  

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great work! (none / 0) (#202)
by GDKitty on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 04:07:52 AM EST
That's some excellent research--I've added it to my bookmarks :)

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Excellent. (5.00 / 1) (#203)
by BrandingIron on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 04:37:08 AM EST
Also might want to add this, even though it came from a WaPo article that gave the story 4 "Pinocchios":

UPDATE Friday 6:45 p.m.

Lissa Muscatine, who served as Hilary Clinton's chief speechwriter in 1996 and accompanied her on the Bosnia trip, feels that I have failed to provide a full picture of what took place. She gave me her "vivid recollections" of the arrival in Tuzla, which I quote below:

    I was on the plane with then First Lady Hillary Clinton for the trip from Germany into Bosnia in 1996. We were put on a C17-- a plane capable of steep ascents and descents -- precisely because we were flying into what was considered a combat zone. We were issued flak jackets for the final leg because of possible sniper fire near Tuzla. As an additional precaution, the First Lady and Chelsea were moved to the armored cockpit for the descent into Tuzla. We were told that a welcoming ceremony on the tarmac might be canceled because of sniper fire in the hills surrounding the air strip. From Tuzla, Hillary flew to two outposts in Bosnia with gunships escorting her helicopter.

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Thanks! Is this all? See noquarterusa.net also (none / 0) (#204)
by 1950democrat on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 03:00:34 PM EST
Very good work and sensible approach, thanks!

Lots of good info has come out at noquarterusa.net also, from ex-miliary people.

I can't believe there are only a few comments right here. This should be a big feature somewhere, digging out the scraps of solid info and sorting them out and piecing them together.

It looks like reports of the several stops were confused. People are applying the performer's word to side trips he wasn't even along on!


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