LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

American missile attacks on Iraq

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

28 Jun 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:53

Description

Report on the UN Security Council meeting on US missile attacks on the Iraqi intelligence service headquarters in Baghdad in retaliation to a possible assassination attempt on former President George H W Bush when he was visiting Kuwait last year. US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright comments on photographs which she claims prove the assassination attempt. Iraqi ambassador to the UN Nizar Hamdoon comments, through an interpreter. Paul Woodley reports.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Madeleine Albright; Nizar Hamdoon

Keywords

USA; International relations; Military affairs; UN; Homicide; Presidents; Missiles; Intelligence service; Prisoners; Bombs; Kuwait; Photographs; Iraq; Baghdad; George H. W. Bush

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