2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Barbara Boxer feared for her safety the same way Hillary dodged sniper fire [View all]cheapdate
(3,811 posts)as Bosnian and Serbian forces battled for control. It was bullet ridden, fire and bomb damaged. The runways had just been cleared and the airport had just been declared open for limited flights about a week before Hillary and her party arrived. Heavily armed and fortified military positions guarded the perimeter. Rockets and small arms had been fired at planes very recently.
There's almost nothing that could have convinced me to fly into Tuzla at that time. If for some reason I did, it would have been extraordinarily tense.
Yes. She misspoke when she recounted the story a decade or so later. There was no sniper fire that day.
The photographs of her arrival show everyone acting as if it was an ordinary arrival. They're putting on a show. It wasn't normal. Nothing about flying into Tuzla, Bosnia at that time was normal.