Iraq rounds up foreigners
- Title
- Iraq rounds up foreigners
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- 16 Aug 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
- Play audio
- To listen to the audio files, please log in.
- Duration
- 00:03:26
- Description
- Iraq announces that up to 6,500 British and US nationals in Kuwait are being rounded up for their own safety. Includes the warning as broadcast in Kuwait by the BBC World Service. Response by British Foreign Minister, William Waldegrave and Iraq’s Ambassador to London, Dr Azmi Shafiq Al-Salihi, who states that until the conflict is resolved the hostages will remain as Iraqi guests. An open letter from Saddam Hussein to US President George Bush - in which Hussein accuses Bush of being a liar - is read out on Iraqi television by an interpreter. Patricia Maine(?), who escaped to Britain from Kuwait, claims to have seen chemical weapons being transported into Iraq. Roger Walker reports.
- Contributors
- William Waldegrave; BBC World Service; Azmi Shafiq Al-Salihi; Patricia Maine(?); Roger Walker
- Keywords
- USA; UK; British; Hostages; Wars (events); Kuwait; Iraq; Foreigners; Chemical weapons; Gulf War (1990-1991); Saddam Hussein; George H. W. Bush
The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 227 times.