The speaker makes no overt threats to the US and did not directly call for attacks, according to transcripts of the tape obtained by several media organisations in the United States.
Security is another focus not just control policies but doing analytics which help us understand threats, attacksand vulnerability by using a probabilistic approach that is a little more technology-centered.
As long as Saddam Hussein believes that his allies and friends will not support American attacks that entail going beyond the status quo ante and as long as he judges that the United States will not unilaterally undertake such attacks against himself and his country, he is unlikely to view the Baker-Bush threats seriously.
It needs to be an environment where attacks, intimidations, harassments, abductions, arbitrary imprisonments, andthreats are the exceptions andnot the norm.