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39. Clinton admits to error over sniper fire claim during Bosnia visit

Faced with video footage, candidate backs down
Film shows routine landing at Bosnia airport

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/26/hillaryclinton.barackobama

Wed 26 Mar 2008

Hillary Clinton has had to admit that she exaggerated her claim of coming under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the 1990s, after video footage showed the then first lady walking calmly from her plane. The Clinton campaign played down the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip". But it was seized on by supporters of her rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, as further evidence of Clinton inflating her foreign policy experience during her time in the White House.

The row centres on remarks she made during a campaign stop in Washington DC last week. Keen to talk up her experience, she spoke vividly of what seemed a harrowing and dangerous trip she made in March 1996 to Tuzla airport in Bosnia. "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

Reporters and others accompanying Clinton recalled the landing at Tuzla as being routine. On Monday night, after days of argument, CBS settled the matter, unearthing film confirming there had been no sniper fire. The outcome was a rare retreat by Clinton, the first time since she began campaigning more than a year ago that she has publicly admitted making an error. At a press conference in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, yesterday, she said: "So I made a mistake. That happens. It shows I'm human, which for some people is a revelation."

She sought to hit back by stoking up the row over Barack Obama's fiery pastor, claiming that she would have left any church where such intemperate remarks had been made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said, in her first public comment since the row began more than two weeks ago. Obama has remained in the pastor's church for 20 years. In a dig at Obama, she said: "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend. "Everyone will have to decide these matters for themselves. They are obviously very personal matters ... I think the choice would be clear for me." The Obama camp immediately accused her of trying to divert attention away form the Bosnia sniper incident.

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