Posted on 05/01/2010 11:44:26 AM PDT by darkside321
In her new memoir, former first lady Laura Bush writes that she, her husband and the American delegation may have been poisoned at the 2007 G-8 summit hosted by Germany. German federal investigators as well as the kitchen staff at the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm refute her account.
Steffen Duckhorn still remembers well the day Laura Bush thought she might die. He was feeling a bit worked up because he had heard that President George W. Bush, who was attending the G-8 summit in June 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany, wasn't feeling well. Duckhorn had cooked for the president, and Bush was now complaining he had a stomach ache.
"We immediately contacted the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation to find out if there was anything to it," Duckhorn told SPIEGEL. "There was nothing." During the summit, he said, toxicologists had been constantly present in the kitchen of the five-star hotel collecting samples in test tubes of every bit of food which had been prepared. "Before the meal, during the meal and after the meal," he said.
Almost three years later, Bush's stomach ache has somehow been recast as a possible murder attempt against close to a dozen US delegation members. In her memoir, which will land in bookstores this week, Laura Bush writes of a possible poisoning.
"In the past," she writes, "there had been several high-profile poisonings, including one with suspected nuclear material, in and around Europe. The overriding fear was that terrorists had gotten control of a dangerous substance and planted it at the resort."
The former first lady writes that she suddenly felt deathly ill one afternoon. She writes that other delegation members experienced the same.
'Every Chef Has His Honor'
Duckhorn, 34, who has now become head chef at the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm, is irritated...
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once treated so rudely in a fancy Paris restaurant waiting for the check, that I left with out paying, That will teach them to treat Americans with respect.
Your experience in Paris mirrors what my husband always reported after a business trip.
Well for me in personal i liked the food in france (as long as you don´t make the failure to order “Escargot” because it sounds so sweet i was fine ;-)
Well sorry for your bad experiance but usually americans
are treated fine (Has to do with the fact that most americans don´t know about the fact that tips are usually
included in the overall bill in europe so NO NEED to tip
that much :-)
So usually americans are VERY welcome.
You guys (canadians too) tip like crazy! No body
in europe would do the same.
“once treated so rudely in a fancy Paris restaurant waiting for the check, that I left with out paying, That will teach them to treat Americans with respect.”
They may send a couple of Foreign Legion guys to collect;))
Unless he is the culprit, the chef has no idea of weather his crap was laced with poison or not.
For crying out loud, the food could have been poisoned by a waiter or even a SS agent.
Were they eating at Artie Bucco’s?
Unless he is the culprit, the chef has no idea of weather his crap was laced with poison or not.
For crying out loud, the food could have been poisoned by a waiter or even a SS agent.
Well, sounds like Chef has quite an ego and not much consideration for his guests. More concerned about his rep. Or maybe he fancies himself as Dr. House. “It’s not cancer.” Sheesh.
So who would want to poison President Bush and or his wife Barbara and have the host country ,Germany take the blame?
Remember we were at war with the axis of evil.
Nancy Palosi sanctioning some immigrant mid eastern busboy who set the table with silverware brushed with poison?
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