March 5th, 1991. On his namesake talk show Geraldo Rivera brings us the latest on threats to the homeland espoused by middle-eastern strongman Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War.
“Can it be said that many many Arabs feel a sense of pride in Saddam Hussein’s manly actions in standing up to the entire western alliance?”
We hear from Arnaud DeBorchgrave editor-in-chief of the Washington times, fresh off his meeting with the foreign minister of Egypt. Faris Bouhafa of the Arab American Institute talks about the different intellectual and emotional responses to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait. Frank Bose speaks about an incident with the FLAN bombing a New York City establishment and the differences between domestic and international terrorism. Towards the end of the segment David Whipple, ex-CIA chief, talks about the threat level inside America itself, and the difficulty terrorists will face achieving a successful attack. Arnaud closes out the segment with some history of international armed groups, and how the target in their minds has always been U.S. facilities abroad.
This show was taped days before a ceasefire was reached with Iraq, and the liberation of Kuwait on February 28th, 1991. Saddam Hussein was overthrown by a later U.S. military action in 2003.
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