The U.S. launched a missle attack aimed at Iraq's intelligence headquaters in Baghdad june 26, 1993. The U.S. justified the attack by citing evidence that Iraq has sponcered a pilot to kill former president George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in April 1993. In august 1995, two of Saddam Hussein's sons-in-law, hwo held high positions in the Iraq millitary, defected to jorden, both were killed after returning to Iraq in Feb 1996. After fighting between two Kurdish factions(one ailled in Iraq, the other with Iran) erupted in the protected zone of northern Iraq, the Baghdad Governament interviewed in the conflict by sending troops into Arbil, Augest 31 1996.