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Hillary Clinton in hospital amid speculation of plane accident in Iran
January 4, 2013
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
admittance to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Monday, Dec, 31 – with a
blood clot caused by concussion – gave wings to a cloud of rumor and conspiracy theories
surrounding her state of health. The hospital, where Saudi King
Abdullah was also treated two years ago, stated that the Secretary was
receiving anti-coagulents and her condition would be assessed after 48
hours.
However, NBC television’s medical
correspondent Robert Bazell was skeptical about the blood clot being
caused by an earlier concussion because, he said, it if were, it would
not be treated with anti-coagulents. “So either it’s not really related
to the concussion and she’s got a blood clot in her leg or something, or
there’s something else going on that we’re not being told.”
Speculation about her condition started
flying about in early December, when she cancelled without notice, her
participation in the Friends of Syrian forum in Marrakesh on Dec, 6. Not
only was she one of the founders of this forum, but her presence was
vitally needed at the time because NATO and Washington were picking up
suspicious movements of the Syrian army’s chemical weapons, which marked
a disastrous turn in the Syrian conflict.
She was first reported to have come down with flu and, three days later, on Dec, 9, with a stomach bug.
On Dec. 10, the day before she was due to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the September 11 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi – in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US diplomats lost there lives – the State Department which has been heavily under fire over the episode, announced that Clinton had sustained a concussion after fainting out from dehydration.
None of the details normally released in such cases, such as when exactly she fainted, the seriousness of the concussion she suffered or how she was being treated, was offered. A State Department source was only willing to say it was “not severe.”
According to another unofficial report, she was apparently working from home. No one in the office appeared to have been delegated her functions although the secretary herself has not been been absent for three weeks.
Then, Friday, Dec. 21, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry as next Secretary of State. Clinton had made it known for some time that she intended stepping down at the start of Obama’s second term of office. It was reported that she had talked to the president and Kerry, and commended the senator as having proven his mettle in a long and wide-ranging military, political and diplomatic career. Nothing was said on this occasion about her state of health.
On Dec. 10, the day before she was due to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the September 11 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi – in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US diplomats lost there lives – the State Department which has been heavily under fire over the episode, announced that Clinton had sustained a concussion after fainting out from dehydration.
None of the details normally released in such cases, such as when exactly she fainted, the seriousness of the concussion she suffered or how she was being treated, was offered. A State Department source was only willing to say it was “not severe.”
According to another unofficial report, she was apparently working from home. No one in the office appeared to have been delegated her functions although the secretary herself has not been been absent for three weeks.
Then, Friday, Dec. 21, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry as next Secretary of State. Clinton had made it known for some time that she intended stepping down at the start of Obama’s second term of office. It was reported that she had talked to the president and Kerry, and commended the senator as having proven his mettle in a long and wide-ranging military, political and diplomatic career. Nothing was said on this occasion about her state of health.
But around Tehran and the Gulf Emirates,
debkafile was already picking up insistent rumors claiming that Clinton
was seriously injured while on a secret mission in the region in the
first week of December. Some claimed that in the same incident,
Americans in her party – advisers and security personnel – were either
injured or killed. Those rumors did not say what her secret mission was.
However, the episode described occurred shortly after Dec. 1, when, as
debkafile reported at the time, Obama administration officials and senior representatives of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched secret talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Although our sources have not identified
the negotiators on either side of the table, one of the theories
floating around certain capitals claimed that Hillary Clinton three
weeks ago was on her way to a secret meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in
regard to those negotiations. The plane carrying her from Bahrain
logged its destination as Baghdad, but is described as having changed
direction in midair and headed for Ahvaz, capital of the south Iranian
province of Khuzestan. There, it was said, the Iranian president was
awaiting her arrival. But then the plane ran into technical trouble and
made an emergency landing and that was when she was injured, according
to this theory.
The unexplained death of Commander Job
Price, 42, SEALs commander in Afghanistan is tied by some of the
speculation to that incident. At the time, the Pentagon reported that
his sudden death on Dec. 22, in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, was under
investigation. It is now suggested that Commander Price was head of the
security detail attached to Clinton for her Iran mission and he was one
of the casualties of the accident.
In the nature of things, the
impact these kinds of rumors have lingers even when they are officially
denied – especially given Secretary Clinton’s unusually long absence
from the public eye. The medical report promised Wednesday after she is
monitored at the hospital for 48 hours to assess her condition,
“including other issues associated with her concussion,” is tensely
awaited. After that, said the hospital announcement, “her doctors will
determine if any further action is required.”
Clinton, known as the most traveled
Secretary of State in US diplomatic history, has been in the
international spotlight since 1992 when her husband Bill Clinton was
elected president and she became first lady. She then served in the US
Senate and later ran for the presidency against Barack Obama.
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