CBS Evening News - 2001-07-26

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[0:00] or the school teacher murder and an

[0:02] aerial attack against a Relentless enemy

[0:05] fires running wild in the American

[0:10] [Music]

[0:12] West this is the CBS Evening News with

[0:16] Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:19] headquarters in New York good evening he

[0:22] is pushing he isting he is testing

[0:25] President Bush Saddam Hussein tried

[0:28] again today to bring down a US military

[0:30] aircraft enforcing what are supposed to

[0:32] be no fly zones in Iraq President Bush

[0:36] is not saying what if anything he plans

[0:38] to do about these challenges but they

[0:40] are coming more frequently now as CBS

[0:42] News National Security correspondent

[0:44] David Martin

[0:46] reports two Iraqi migs flew 40 mi into

[0:50] the southern no fly zone in an apparent

[0:52] attempt to shoot down an unmanned

[0:54] American reconnaissance drone they

[0:56] retreated without firing a shot but it

[0:58] was the third attempt in less than a

[1:00] week to shoot down a surveillance

[1:02] aircraft Saddam Hussein seems once again

[1:05] on a collision course with a president

[1:07] named Bush there's no question that

[1:09] Sadam Hussein is still a menace and a

[1:11] problem and the United States and our

[1:13] allies must put the pressure on him the

[1:15] president said he is still analyzing an

[1:17] incident earlier this week in which a U2

[1:19] spy plane patrolling over Southern Iraq

[1:21] was almost hit by a surfac to- a missile

[1:24] that close call came just days after a

[1:27] Navy radar plane operating over Kuwait

[1:30] reported being fired on by an Iraqi

[1:32] missile that was in The Sovereign

[1:34] airspace of another nation and that's a

[1:36] a reckless and aggressive behavior that

[1:39] uh we all condemn but what is

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