Hillary Clinton's Trip to Iraq: The Back Story in Kuwait

Her public schedule for April 24 said she had no public appointments.  She was, in fact in the air headed for Kuwait - news that never broke for security reasons.  She arrived in the evening to the obvious delight of her Kuwaiti counterpart, Ambassador Ali Al-Sammak,  who met her at the airport with U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait Deborah K. Jones.  She met with Kuwaiti Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Al Sabah, spent the night in Kuwait, and left the next morning in a military transport for Baghdad.