Photo: Saudi King Faisal is taken for an Owen Falls dam tour. An hour later, the King called Uganda "paradise" while relaxing at the Mabira forest picnic garden.
Letter To The Telegraph UK (June 2015): Channel 4 Journalist Jon Snow Wanted To Assassinate Amin? Dear Telegraph editor, As I was perusing through your newspaper website, I discovered a November 2012 article where popular British news anchor Jon Snow claims he wanted to assassinate Idi Amin during a flight from Uganda's International Airport to Arua (telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9688018/Jon-Snow-thought-about-killing-Idi-Amin-Channel-4-News-presenter-admits.html> /news/ <http://telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9688018/Jon-Snow-thought-about-killing-Idi-Amin-Channel-4-News-presenter-admits.html> uknews <http://telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9688018/Jon-Snow-thought-about-killing-Idi-Amin-Channel-4-News-presenter-admits.html> /9688018/Jon-Snow-thought-about-killing-Idi-Amin-Channel-4-News-presenter- <http://telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9688018/Jon-Snow-thought-about-killing-Idi-Amin-Channel-4-News-presenter-admits.html> admits.html <http://telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9688018/Jon-Snow-thought-about-killing-Idi-Amin-Channel-4-News-presenter-admits.html> ). The same incident was written in more detail by Mr. Snow himself in the Guardian newspaper ten years earlier in 2002. (http:// <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21> theguardian.com <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21>/ <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21>theguardian <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21>/2002/jun/11/ <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21>features11 <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21>.g21 <http://theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jun/11/features11.g21>) In his story, he narrates how during the purported trip in 1978, he thought about taking Amin's pistol from it's side holster and pulling the trigger on him. He says they had been flying with a Swiss pilot and a bulky air stewardess together with his news crew, all squeezed in an executive Falcon jet to Arua. I immediately laughed out loud, but then said to myself; 'Look at this moron. What a parasite. Why did he write such hogwash?' Uganda's presidential jet was a Gulf Stream II number 5X-UPF. The same Chief pilot that flew Amin, still flies the presidential jet today. The crew has always been Ugandans. An incident during the second Arab-Israeli war (1973), forced Amin not to trust European pilots. The ones supposed to fly him on a Saudi leased jet from Riyadh where he had left his Gulf Stream jet, were British pilots who were later discovered by Saudi security to also be Israelis with Jewish passports. Yet they were to fly Amin to Syria and Jordan to discuss the Arab cause. Uganda's jet had once flown to Amin's hometown a couple of years earlier before Mr. Snow's fake trip. But because the Arua airstrip wasn't tarmacked as required for Gulf Streams, the front landing gear had broken after a rough landing. The plane was repaired a few days later, but Arua airfield was now clearly a no-go area for the jet. The airfield is still untarmarcked to this day. So it was in helicopters that Amin (RIP) would travel to Arua yet the British news reader alleges he flew with him in a Falcon jet with a "ginger-haired Swiss pilot". I did enjoy Jon Snows buffoonery though. Particularly as he pretended to be in painful remorse because he failed to assassinate my father. But what a cheap, fame-hungry opportunist Mr. Snow is right? Best Regards Hussein J. L. Amin Kampala, Uganda
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