The footage of President Clinton watching Saddam Hussein make a statement on TV appears to be media footage of the President watching Saddam's response to the June 27, 1993 cruise missile attack the United States carried out against Iraqi Intelligence headquarters. The attack was retaliation for an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush by the Iraqi government. In April of that year former President Bush was visiting Kuwait on a goodwill mission to see how the country was fairing following the Iraqi invasion of 1990, which started the First Gulf War. During his visit both the CIA and Kuwait intelligence picked up chatter about a possible plot to assassinate President Bush while he was in country, further investigation revealed an elaborate plot by Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government to use a powerful bomb attached to the car President Bush was riding in to kill him as revenge for Bush's role in Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War; thankfully the Iraqi operatives involved were captured before the assassination attempt could be carried out. Upon learning of the assassination attempt against his predecessor, President Clinton ordered an immediate and through investigation to find out for certain who was behind this plot, by June there was conclusive evidence the men who had attempted to place the bomb were Iraqi Intelligence agents and were acting on orders from Hussein. So in retaliation for attempting to assassinate a former President of the United States, and as warning to anyone who would attempt it in the future, President Clinton ordered that the headquarters for Iraqi Intelligence be destroyed via a cruise missile attack. Between 1 and 2 AM, local time, on June 26, 1993 two U.S. Navy warships: the U.S.S. Peterson (DD-969), a Spruance-class destroyer in the Red Sea and the U.S.S. Chancellorsville (CG-62), a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf fired a total of 23 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles that targeted a series of buildings in Bagdad that made up Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters completely leveling the entire complex. It is unknown how many Iraqi Intelligence operatives were killed, in his statement Saddam Hussein claimed that 9 civilians were killed, dozens injured and three civilian homes were destroyed by the missile attack, but independent investigations into the aftermath of the attack did not confirm this fact. Considering the precision nature of the missile strike it is unlikely, although still possible, that civilians were killed by it.