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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.

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Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.

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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't

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Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We

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are here talking about the lyrics of we Didn't Start

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the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes

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at a time, which is about to link the song,

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so it works out kind of nicely. So please join

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us as we dive into some new lyrics today. All right, guys,

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so here are the topics that we're going to.

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Speaker 2: Be covering today.

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Speaker 1: Terror on the airlines.

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Speaker 2: Ayatola's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistanine. Okay, do you tell

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us about terror.

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Speaker 1: On the airline? Okay. So, plane hijacking has been a

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thing almost as long as there have been planes. It

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was actually kind of an epidemic for a long period

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of time from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen sixty eight.

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But they put screenings and other safety measures in effect,

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and the amount of hijacking had seriously decreased by nineteen eighty.

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But in nineteen eighty a new form of hijacking began,

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and that was the hijacking of planes by organized terrorists.

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I remember hearing about these things frequently as a kid.

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Some of the most notable ones are Air India Flight

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one eighty two, which was hijacked and bombed over the

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Irish coast. In eighty eight, we had pan Am flight

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one oh three and it was bombed while flying over Scotland.

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This created the terror of being on airplanes, and obviously

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the nineties saw a significant decrease until, of course, two

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thousand and one we had the biggest terrorist plane hijacking

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in history. All right, Jason Iatola, who is he? And whyse?

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Speaker 2: And Iran Okay Iatola Ruhola Komani was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary,

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politician and religious leader who served as the First Supreme

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Leader of Iran from nineteen seventy nine until his death

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in nineteen eighty nine. He opposed the shaw's rights to women,

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He opposed land reforms, and he wanted to free Iran

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from the influence of the US and the uss R.

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He wanted to eliminate religious minorities and no state of Israel.

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He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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and the leader of the Iranian Revolution. Which overthrew the

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US supported Shaw that ended the Iranian monarchy. He turned

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Iran from a actually a Western friendly country into a

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theocratic rogue state. He called America the Great Satan and

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Russia the Blesser Satan. Komani served as Iran's ultimate political

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and religious authority for many years. He was involved in

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the US hostage crisis, and my favorite moment of his

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is when Leslie Nilsen punches him at the beginning of

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The Naked Gun.

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Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember that guy. I mean he

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the Beard, the white Beard, and the black Turban and

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he was the face of evil in the eighties for me. Yes, yeah, yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Do you tell us about Russians in Afghanistan?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So. The Soviet Afghan War was a protracted armed

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conflict in the Soviet controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It

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went from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty nine. The

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war was a major conflict of the Cold War, saw

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extensive fighting between the DRA the Soviet Union. The war

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was a major conflict of the Cold War. There was

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extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union, and allied

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paramilitary groups against the Afghan Mujahedeen and their allied foreign fighters.

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The Mujahadeen was backed by various countries and organizations. Most

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of their support came from Pakistan or the United States

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as part of the Operation Cyclone, the United Kingdom, China

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and Iran, and some of the Arab states of the

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Persian Gulf. The involvement of these foreign powers made it

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really more of a proxy war between the US and

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the Soviets. The combat went through the entire course of

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the eighties, mostly in the Aft countryside. It led to

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the deaths of between five hundred and sixty two thousand

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and two million Afghan citizens. Millions more fled from the

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country as refugees. Mostly they ended up in Pakistan and Iran.

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Approximately six and a half percent of the Afghanistan population

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is estimated to have been killed over the course of

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the conflict. The Soviet Afghan War caused destruction throughout Afghanistan

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and has been cited by scholars as a factor that

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contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formally ending

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the Cold War. A sad thing that we know now

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is that a lot of those arms that we supplied

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to them back then, they began using when they fought

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against us, and here in the twenty first century. Okay, guys,

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that does it for today's episode. Join us next time

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for five minutes of fire.