CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-18 - 9 a.m. (E)
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[0:00] Warehouse sale.
[0:20] You're watching CBS News continuing
[0:23] coverage of Showdown in the Gulf. From
[0:25] CBS News headquarters in New York, here
[0:28] are Harry Smith and Paula Aison.
[0:31] >> We continue now with our special
[0:33] coverage of Operation Desert Storm. I'm
[0:35] Harry Smith.
[0:36] >> And I'm Paula Aison. Here are the
[0:38] headlines as our coverage continues. The
[0:40] US Gulf Commander promises to destroy
[0:42] Iraq's Scud missiles, but seven Scuds
[0:45] hit Israel, causing damage and injuries.
[0:48] More Allied losses and casualties are
[0:51] confirmed in the Gulf. And anti-war
[0:53] protests continue. The American
[0:56] commanding general in the Persian Gulf
[0:57] gave his first assessment this morning
[0:59] of just how well things are progressing.
[1:02] General Norman Schwarzoff unveiled
[1:04] pictures shot from US war plananes
[1:05] showing the accuracy of their bombing
[1:07] runs. The video was shot with night
[1:10] vision cameras aboard F-111 fighter
[1:12] bombers and F-17 stealth fighters. They
[1:15] show laserg guided smart bombs going
[1:18] literally down chimneys and through
[1:20] front doors of Iraqi installations.
[1:22] Among the targets, Scud missile
[1:24] launchers and the Iraqi Air Force
[1:26] headquarters in downtown Baghdad. At
[1:29] least six more mobile missile launchers
[1:31] were destroyed today and General
[1:33] Schwarzoff promised to go after the rest
[1:36] of them. We found eight more mobile
[1:39] erector launchers in the same location.
[1:42] Uh we are currently attacking those
[1:44] launchers and we have confirmed
[1:47] confirmed the destruction of three more
[1:49] of those mobile erected launchers and we
[1:52] are continuing to attack the others and
[1:54] I assure you we