My First Interview!?

First ever Saddam Hussein interview by Western Journalist

• I recently met a woman who, I was told, was the first ever Western journalist to inverview Saddam Hussein. I've tried searches on "saddam first ever interview", "first saddam interview western journalist", etc. Her name is Tara, and I believe she's from Arkensas. Ideally, I'd like to read a transcript of the interview. Unfortunately, I don't know her surname or when the interview took place. Any info would be very much appreciated!

• Answer:

  Hi Avril, First of all, thank you very much for your reply and for allowing me to post an answer. I used "Tara" in my initial search but I can find nothing that links the name to being the "first". I continued searching and found several references to a lady whose name begins with G. Born in September 2, 1935, Georgie Anne Geyer was the first Westerner to interview Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Below you'll find numerous links about her. Simply press the "Shift" key before clicking on a link so it will open a new window or right-click on the link and choose "Open in New Window" for your convenience. Infolease.com Georgie Anne Geyer http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0880173.html Here's are interviews with Georgie done by Insight magazine and The Oklahoma Daily: News World Communications, Inc. - Insight Geyer Spans Globe To Get the Story http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=207282 The Oklahoma Daily Foreign correspondent gives insight on war http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/03/3e8bbc260b599 Here's another "first westerner" -- Tony Benn: first westerner to interview Saddam Hussein in 12 years: Former British MP and Minister Interviews Saddam Hussein http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/2003_1-9/2003-6a/europe.html Guardian Newspapers Limited - MediaGuardian.co.uk Saddam interview goes to C4 http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,888730,00.html Search strategy: tara saddam interview "first western" -- in Google Web search ://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=tara+saddam+interview+%22first+western%22&btnG=Google+Search "Georgie Anne Geyer" "first westerner" saddam -- in Google Web search ://www.google.com/search?q=%22Georgie+Anne+Geyer%22+%22first+westerner%22+saddam&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&filter=0 "first westerner" saddam interview -- in Google Web search ://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22first+westerner%22+saddam+interview&btnG=Google+Search I hope this helps you. Should you have any comments/questions, please feel free to post your clarification before rating this and I'll attend to you as soon as possible. Thank you for visiting us and I hope you become a frequent and happy user of Google Answers. Best regards, Feilong