Tehran, YJC. Daily Mail has said in a report that a US Secret Service agent nearly shot the Iranian President during his visit to New York in 2006.
The source says in its news report "How the U.S. Secret Service
almost shot Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a United Nations
gathering” that as the agent who was escorting the George W. Bush convoy
decided to put a gun in place, it went off accidentally. The bullet is said to
have been shot in the direction of Ahmadinejad who was getting on his vehicle.
It is said that the complete story is included in a new book
named Deep State: Inside the
Government Secrecy Industry.
A
U.S. Secret Service agent nearly shot Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
during a United Nations assembly in New York in September of 2006, according to
a new book, Daily Mail says.
The
agent was adjusting a shotgun mounted to the side of a vehicle in President George
W. Bush's motorcade when the weapon was accidentally discharged, sending a
bullet in the direction of the Iranian
leader, write Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady in 'Deep State: Inside the
Government Secrecy Industry.'
The
uncomfortably close call was recorded in a memo shared with a dozen high-level
Bush administration officials, Daily Mail says.
'A U.S. Secret Service agent, in an apparent accident,
discharged his shotgun as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was loading his
motorcade at the InterContinental Hotel yesterday,' the memo read, according to
an official cited in the book.
'When I read that, I remember closing my eyes,' the official
said.