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Dan rather interview Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=91&ncid=91&e=5&u=/bpihw/20030225/en_bpihw/rather_lands_saddam_interview http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=91&ncid=91&e=5&u=/bpihw/20030225/en_bpihw/rather_lands_saddam_interview Entertainment - Hollywood Reporter Rather lands Saddam interview Tue Feb 25, 1:24 AM ET Add Entertainment - Hollywood Reporter to My Yahoo! By Andrew Grossman NEW YORK (The Hollywood Reporter) --- CBS has scored one of the news coups of the year as "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather landed an exclusive three-hour interview with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) on Monday in Baghdad. Rather broke the news of his big get on his CBS News Radio newscast Monday afternoon. During the interview, Rather said Saddam challenged President Bush (news - web sites) to a live, international debate on television and radio. According to Rather, the Iraqi leader also said that his al-Samoud advanced missile systems do not violate the United Nations (news - web sites)' disarmament mandates and thus indicated that he would not abide by U.N. demands that they be destroyed. But CBS News could not turn over the videotape fast enough to get sound bites onto its Monday night newscast, at least on the East Coast. On Monday's "Evening News," Rather said the delay was caused by "complications" in the transmission and translation of the interview. Both NBC and ABC referenced Rather's interviews on their evening newscasts Monday. CBS plans to use excerpts from the interview during "The Early Show" today as well on "Evening News" and "60 Minutes II" in primetime, though a CBS News spokeswoman said it was too soon to say whether CBS would devote the full hour to the interview. The one-day delay, however, does give the network time to promote the interview, which will likely elicit a generous amount of free media publicity. The score is a shot in the arm for the perennially bottom-rated newscast, which suffers partly from having weaker lead-ins from local newscasts than its rivals. Asked how Rather beat every other news organization to the story, CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius said: "He's Dan Rather. He did it the old-fashioned way: He went after it." In August 1990, Saddam gave Rather his first Western interview after the dictator invaded Kuwait. ABC's Peter Jennings interviewed Saddam three months later.

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