Former President Bush will arrive in Kuwait on March 22 on his second visit since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, diplomats said Wednesday.
Bush, on a tour of Persian Gulf states, is expected to visit the site of a new U.S. embassy building under construction and hold talks with Kuwaiti leaders over several days, they said.Two Iraqis are on death row in Kuwait for their part in an alleged plot to assassinate Bush during a triumphal visit he made in April 1993 to commemorate the gulf war victory of a U.S.-led coalition that ended a seven-month Iraqi occupation.
Kuwaitis revere Bush for his role in orchestrating the 28-nation alliance that crushed Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.
A Kuwaiti appeal court last year upheld death sentences on two Iraqis convicted of plotting to blow up Bush but commuted or overturned death sentences against four other men.
Iraqis Raad Abdul-Amir al-Assadi and Wali Abdul-Hadi al-Ghazali, both in their 30s, at a state security court trial in 1993 admitted varying levels of involvement in a bomb plot they said was orchestrated by Iraqi intelligence.