World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-26

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-26
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[0:00] Then Bob and I [music] will be back with

[0:01] Channel 2 News at 6.

[0:02] >> See you at 6.

[0:03] >> On the desert today, a vast array of

[0:05] Allied tanks and armored personnel

[0:07] carriers. The US military says that

[0:10] retreating Iraqis are so confused by the

[0:13] order of battle, they do not know where

[0:15] to look next.

[0:17] This is the other great crowd on the

[0:19] desert floor. More than 30,000 Iraqi

[0:22] soldiers have now surrendered. Kuwait,

[0:25] it seems, was not worth fighting for.

[0:28] >> [music]

[0:30] >> From ABC, this is a special edition of

[0:34] World News Tonight with [music] Peter

[0:35] Jennings.

[0:36] >> Good evening. When Lieutenant General

[0:37] Thomas Kelly, the director of

[0:39] operations, was asked at the Pentagon

[0:40] today where's the fight in the Iraqi

[0:43] army, he said they have run into the

[0:45] finest army in the world. And he added

[0:48] 41 days of Allied bombing. With rare

[0:51] exceptions on the battlefield tonight,

[0:53] the Iraqi military qualifies for the

[0:55] description paper tiger. There is fight

[0:58] left in some units, but in almost every

[1:00] case, the US and its allies have

[1:02] apparently accomplished their individual

[1:04] objectives. The war is not over. For one

[1:07] thing, there's been a serious fight

[1:08] between US and Iraqi forces around the

[1:11] Kuwait International Airport, but the US

[1:14] embassy in Kuwait City has been visited

[1:16] by US Marines. And ABC's Forest Sawyer

[1:19] has arrived in Kuwait City as well. We

[1:22] talked to him less than an hour ago.

[1:26] Forest, you've been in Kuwait City for

[1:28] several hours now. What's your strongest

[1:30] impression?

[1:32] Uh that the city is absolutely deserted.

[1:35] So it appears. I am told that