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As James Matthews reports from the Gulf Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has condemned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s use of foreigners as hostages in the Gulf crisis, whilst the British Ladies of Amman...
Hotel receptionist, Kathy McGregor(?) of Nottingham has arrived at Heathrow after escaping through the desert from occupied Kuwait dressed as a Bedouin woman in a 13-car convey of 50 to 60 people. She speaks...
News bulletin. The US naval blockade of Iraq is officially on - announced by the US Secretary of State, James Baker. A British man, Douglas Croskery, has been shot while trying to escape from Kuwait, and is...
8 o’clock news read by Steve Allen focusing on British businessman, Douglas Croskery from Whitley Bay on Tyneside, being shot dead whilst trying to escape from Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. British Foreign...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says it is a scandal that British nationals have been seized in Kuwait by Iraqi forces. Interviewer not heard.
Saddam Hussein appears in a propaganda video on Iraqi television, with some of the foreign hostages to whom he refers as guests. Speaking through an interpreter, he says he is holding them in order to...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says there will be no hostage deals with Iraq. Saddam Hussein makes a statement through an interpreter offering to hold talks with the USA; this is dismissed by White House...
Israelis are stocking up on food and buying gas-masks for fear of a chemical attack by Iraq. The European community has begun airlifting foreigners fleeing Kuwait and Iraq to Jordan. Filipino diplomat, Roger...
The Kuwaiti Ambassador to London, Ghazi al-Rayes, comments on the situation in Kuwait and urges foreigners in his country to hide in the homes of Kuwaitis. He says resistance to the Iraqi occupation is...
Labour leader Neil Kinnock stresses there should be no negotiation with Saddam Hussein whilst he holds British nationals hostage. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warns that the ill-treatment of British...
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