Interview with Sunshine Radio
Sunshine Radio interviews Dr. Patrick Treacy. Part 1 The Early Years
In this part he remembers his early years growing up in West Fermanagh and going to his first college, Queens University Belfast. He remembers the conflict in Northern Ireland and chooses the music of U2’s ‘ONE’ to bring back the memories of this periodSunshine Radio interviews Dr. Patrick Treacy. Part 4 Living in Iraq and Prisoner of Saddam.
Even by Treacy’s cavalier standards, his decision to tour Halabja, the city where Saddam Hussein massacred thousands of Kurds with nitrogen mustard gas during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War, and to take photographs of the sites along the way, was foolhardy. He aroused suspicion and was arrested by the Iraqi army. Improbably, he managed to bluff his way out of trouble before a judge, who sanctioned his release from prison. He left Iraq immediately, on July 28, 1990. Iraq invaded Kuwait five days later. “That could have had a different ending,” he says. “I would never have got out of Iraq. I’d have been held as a hostage on one of those bloody missile sites.
Sunshine Radio interviews Dr. Patrick Treacy. Part 4 Living in Iraq and Prisoner of Saddam.
Even by Treacy’s cavalier standards, his decision to tour Halabja, the city where Saddam Hussein massacred thousands of Kurds with nitrogen mustard gas during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War, and to take photographs of the sites along the way, was foolhardy. He aroused suspicion and was arrested by the Iraqi army. Improbably, he managed to bluff his way out of trouble before a judge, who sanctioned his release from prison. He left Iraq immediately, on July 28, 1990. Iraq invaded Kuwait five days later. “That could have had a different ending,” he says. “I would never have got out of Iraq. I’d have been held as a hostage on one of those bloody missile sites.
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