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During the waning days of the Gulf War, Conan was among a group of journalists who were captured by the Iraqi Republican Guard and detained for a week.

Conan hosted the talk show from September until its cancellation in Ted Clark, an editor of ATC in the late s, recalled when a production assistant working her first day on the show brought Conan a script. He tore it up and threw it back at her, he said. But it was always about the show. He was a tough boss and held reporters and producers to very high standards. He was unafraid of that. He lived by his own [rules]. The following spring, in April , Conan and Fischer travelled to Northern Ireland to cover violent clashes between Protestant loyalists and Catholics.

During that visit to Northern Ireland, Conan and Fischer were in close proximity to a number of bombings. On April 8, , the two journalists were outside the Europa hotel in Belfast, which had been evacuated under a bomb threat. When the bomb went off, they each had tape rolling from opposite ends of the street. Some 20 years later Conan had another harrowing experience covering armed conflict when he, along with Chris Hedges of the New York Times , was captured by the Iraqi Republican Guard near the end of the Gulf War.