CBS Evening News - 2003-03-19 (first half of one-hour edition)
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[0:06] Showdown with Saddam. The deadline for
[0:08] war. Commando missions set up inside
[0:11] Iraq as huge force prepares to invade on
[0:14] a moment's notice. Marine helicopters
[0:17] conduct their final practice flights.
[0:19] Next time, it's the real thing. With war
[0:21] coming, Iraqis board up their homes and
[0:24] get out of Baghdad. And once the new war
[0:27] begins, the US will try to find an
[0:29] airman missing from the last Gulf War. A
[0:32] man once given up for dead.
[0:40] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:43] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:45] headquarters in New York.
[0:47] >> Good evening. He said he wouldn't.
[0:49] There's no indication he did. No
[0:51] indication Saddam Hussein left Iraq
[0:53] tonight. the deadline for avoiding a US
[0:56] invasion. An invasion that could come as
[0:59] soon as tonight, in a matter of hours,
[1:01] or in a few days. As the 800 PM deadline
[1:05] approached, President Bush met with his
[1:07] war council and notified Congress of his
[1:09] intention to attack Iraq. The White
[1:11] House said Americans should prepare for
[1:13] what's hoped to be a short conflict, but
[1:16] also should be prepared for loss of
[1:17] life. For months,
[1:19] >> US war planes shoted artillery and
[1:21] dropped warning leaflets on Iraq as US
[1:24] troops moved to forward positions.
[1:27] >> A contingent of CBS News correspondents
[1:29] is also in position to bring you this
[1:30] critically important story. We begin
[1:32] tonight with the latest on the war plan.
[1:34] And we got that from David Martin at the
[1:36] Pentagon. David
[1:38] >> Dan, as the hours tick down toward the
[1:41] start of the war, the US is sending
[1:43] increasing numbers of special operations
[1:45] teams into Iraq to pave the way for the
[1:48] invasion.
[1:50] War is imminent and everybody knows it.
[1:52] The soldiers and Marines moving to their
[1:54] attack points in northern Kuwait. The
[1:57] air crews who today attacked Iraqi
[1:59] missile and artillery batteries that
[2:01] threaten American troops now that they
[2:03] have moved so close to the border. and
[2:05] the sailors aboard the carrier Lincoln
[2:07] who listened to a pep talk from the
[2:09] commander of naval forces.
[2:11] >> I think it very likely that within a
[2:14] couple of days jets are going to be
[2:16] going off the front end of Abraham
[2:17] Lincoln.
[2:18] >> Today the US dropped a record 2 million
[2:20] leaflets over southern Iraq warning
[2:22] Iraqi soldiers to lay down their arms
[2:24] and go home. 17 Iraqis walked across the
[2:28] border into Kuwait and surrendered. the
[2:30] first in what is expected to be a flood
[2:32] tide of Iraqi soldiers who come out with
[2:34] their hands up once the shooting starts.
[2:38] >> The air campaign has been designed to
[2:40] convince the Iraqis they don't stand a
[2:42] chance.
[2:43] >> The effects that we are trying to create
[2:45] is to make it so apparent and so
[2:47] overwhelming at the very outset of
[2:50] potential military operations that the
[2:52] adversary quickly realizes that that
[2:54] there is no real alternative here other
[2:56] than to to fight and die or to give up.
[2:58] The Air Force has already showcased the
[3:01] 21,000lb so-called mother of all bombs.
[3:04] And today, the Pentagon talked about
[3:05] another weapon that will be used for the
[3:07] first time. This one able to destroy
[3:10] multiple tanks at the same time. The
[3:12] military also made clear that in this
[3:14] war, American planes will have a much
[3:16] easier time dominating the skies because
[3:19] after 12 years of knocking out missile
[3:21] sites in the no-fly zones, there aren't
[3:23] many air defenses left. It is a
[3:26] significantly less hostile place than it
[3:28] was in northern and southern Iraq on the
[3:30] opening night of the Gulf War.
[3:31] >> A row of what appears to be American
[3:33] special operations helicopters was
[3:35] spotted sitting across the border in
[3:37] Jordan, but they won't be sitting there
[3:39] much longer.
[3:42] >> Weather could cause a delay or the
[3:43] Iraqis could start shooting first. But
[3:45] if everything remains on schedule, we
[3:47] are now 24 to 48 hours away from the
[3:51] start of the final battle with Saddam
[3:52] Hussein. Dan
[3:54] >> David Martin reporting live from the
[3:55] Pentagon. Now let's touch base with CBS
[3:57] News correspondents who are with US
[3:59] forces just south of the Iraq Kuwait
[4:01] border. Byron Pitts is with the US
[4:03] Marine Corps attack helicopter unit
[4:05] called the Vipers. Their camp now so
[4:08] close to the Iraqi border no lights are
[4:11] allowed. Byron's report was taped using
[4:13] a special night scope lens.
[4:17] >> Dan, tonight the mood here is as dark as
[4:20] a desert skyline. US and British forces
[4:22] now have the sense the time for war is
[4:25] near. Here at the secret US air base
[4:27] while I'm positioned, all the practice
[4:29] runs are over.
[4:32] >> US and British forces are massing at the
[4:34] Iraqi border by the tens of thousands.
[4:36] The Army, Marines, Navy Seals, all on
[4:39] high alert, hidden under the cover of
[4:41] darkness. One can only see through a
[4:43] night vision lens. Technology believed
[4:46] to be in short supply in the Iraqi army.
[4:49] Tonight, for the first time here, all of
[4:51] these Marine Super Attack Cobra
[4:53] helicopters sit on the runway fully
[4:55] loaded with live ammunition.
[4:57] >> So, you feeling good about the
[4:58] preparation?
[4:59] >> Absolutely. I mean, I we're ready.
[5:02] >> This is the commanding officer of Litech
[5:04] Helicopter Squadron 169 from Camp
[5:06] Pendleton, California. For security
[5:09] reasons, we cannot give his name.
[5:11] >> We're pros. I mean, this this is what we
[5:13] do and and we're just tremendous at it.
[5:16] Still concerned Saddam may use chemical
[5:19] weapons, all troops are now under orders
[5:21] to keep their gas mask at their side and
[5:23] their Kim suits nearby. When the war
[5:25] steps off, the Kim suits go on. This is
[5:29] video obtained exclusively by CBS News.
[5:32] It's the last practice run of Marine
[5:33] Cobra helicopters using live missiles.
[5:36] The pilots fire four tow missiles. All
[5:39] four hit the target.
[5:41] >> There you go.
[5:45] >> Good. Good. Good hit. Good hit. Two good
[5:48] hits.
[5:49] >> The commanding officer of this squadron
[5:51] has told his Marines to get ready. I
[5:54] don't know when the fight will start, he
[5:56] says, but quote, "It will be violent. It
[5:58] will be rapid and we will overwhelm them
[6:02] with the US Marine Viper Squadron."
[6:04] Byron Pittz, CBS News.
[6:07] >> CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod is
[6:09] with one of the US Army's heavy armor
[6:11] units, the third infantry division.
[6:14] Jim's report was also taped in darkness
[6:16] with a night scope lens.
[6:19] >> These are some of the 10,000 vehicles of
[6:21] the Army's Third Infantry Division,
[6:23] tanks, Humvees, trucks that have now
[6:26] been repositioned to within miles of the
[6:28] Iraqi border. Although we can't report
[6:30] exactly where the troops at this
[6:32] position, the third infantry division's
[6:34] first brigade combat team, have now been
[6:37] given ammunition, small arms, tank
[6:40] rounds, explosives. They are wearing
[6:42] their Kevlar and their helmets. Although
[6:45] the troops here at least are not in
[6:46] chems as they make their final
[6:48] preparations for war. It is quiet
[6:51] tonight, very dark. Troops asleep on CS
[6:54] right next to their vehicles. Talked to
[6:56] one major today who told me when he
[6:58] spoke to his troops, he said, "It's okay
[7:00] to be scared. Fear is not a bad thing as
[7:03] long as it doesn't break a soldier's
[7:05] focus." This could well be the last
[7:08] quiet night for the troops of the First
[7:09] Brigade Combat Team. And that's because
[7:11] they could well be among the first
[7:13] ground troops into Iraq if the president
[7:16] gives the order to invade. Jim Axelrod,
[7:19] CBS News with the Third Infantry in
[7:22] Kuwait.
[7:24] Another frontline US Army unit poised in
[7:26] Kuwait and expected to be in the thick
[7:28] of the coming fight is the 101st
[7:30] Airborne Division. CBS's Mark Stman is
[7:33] with the 101st and joins us now by video
[7:36] phone. Dan, for this brigade, this was
[7:39] another day of refining plans for
[7:41] several combat missions. Also here
[7:43] today, the commanding general of the
[7:45] entire 101st Airborne Division was here
[7:48] being briefed on those plans. So there's
[7:50] an edge here tonight and expect an air
[7:53] among troops and their commanders. At
[7:56] Camp Pennsylvania, the pace keeps
[7:58] quickening. Any day now, troops here
[8:00] expect to move north toward the Iraqi
[8:02] border.
[8:05] This was practice for combat.
[8:07] Positioning a 105 howitzer within 6
[8:10] minutes. Artillery sections here believe
[8:13] their time for camp rehearsals is almost
[8:15] over.
[8:16] >> Mainly now ser we basically train as we
[8:18] fight like getting used to different
[8:20] types of terrain and also uh working
[8:22] with all the equipment.
[8:23] >> More of that equipment arrived here
[8:25] today. Part of the American military's
[8:27] massing of forces for war. For the US
[8:30] military, one of the big worries all
[8:32] along has been that the Iraqis would set
[8:34] fire to their oil fields. Tonight,
[8:36] commanders here shared this
[8:38] intelligence. In the last week, civilian
[8:40] technicians were spotted in the Ramala
[8:42] oil fields of southern Iraq. It's
[8:45] believed they were setting explosives.
[8:48] Dan
[8:48] >> Mark, what kind of targets will the
[8:50] 101st be after?
[8:52] >> Dan, this is a rapid air assault force.
[8:54] They could pretty much strike anywhere
[8:55] at any time. an important bridge, a
[8:58] suspected chemical weapon site, even
[9:00] strategic points inside Baghdad. It's an
[9:03] airborne capability that's unmatched by
[9:05] any other military in the world. Dan
[9:07] >> Mark Rushman with the 101st Airborne in
[9:10] Kuwait. Thanks.
[9:14] About 300 miles northwest of where US
[9:16] forces are assembled, the people of
[9:17] Baghdad are spending what must be a
[9:19] difficult and unsettling night, perhaps
[9:22] their last night before war begins. This
[9:24] is a live picture of Baghdad tonight.
[9:28] Eerily quiet this evening.
[9:31] One of the very few Western reporters
[9:33] still in the Iraqi capital is David
[9:35] Chaiter of CBS affiliated Sky News in
[9:38] Britain. A short time ago, I asked him
[9:41] by telephone what the situation is
[9:43] there.
[9:45] >> And I've never known this city so quiet.
[9:48] It's like everybody here is holding
[9:50] their breath, looking upwards, looking
[9:52] southwards, expecting the attack to come
[9:55] any minute now. The whole of the city is
[9:57] still lit very brightly, but nobody's
[10:00] moving on the streets whatsoever. The
[10:02] only people I have seen are army units
[10:05] with steel helmets and Kalashnikov
[10:07] assault rifles taking up position at
[10:10] every strategic corner of the city in
[10:12] sandbagged position. But there are many
[10:15] forces we don't see. There are many
[10:17] forces like the Republican Guard.
[10:19] They're deployed inside a dense, dense
[10:22] urban areas. We've seen trenches being
[10:25] dug all around the city, trenches filled
[10:27] with oil.
[10:28] >> David, who is left in the capital of
[10:30] Iraq now?
[10:31] >> Very few people have been able to get
[10:34] out. There have been very long uh cues
[10:36] of petrol stations. Essentially, this is
[10:39] a capital city that's used to war, but
[10:42] many people have got bomb shelters.
[10:44] They've taken to those bomb shelters in
[10:46] their backyards. Uh there are many
[10:48] civilian large civilian bomb shelters,
[10:50] but uh many people don't want to go in
[10:52] those. They all remember the casualties
[10:54] from the last Gulf War. They'd rather
[10:56] make it on their own, go in their own
[10:58] back gardens with their own children and
[11:01] fend for themselves. It's been a very
[11:03] difficult time. They talk about the 12
[11:05] years of sanctions. They talk about so
[11:07] many children who died because of the uh
[11:10] the regime of sanctions imposed by the
[11:11] United Nations. And I think perhaps what
[11:14] they'd like to say is that maybe the
[11:16] casualties that will come this time will
[11:18] be the end of the end of their
[11:21] suffering. At least they can see perhaps
[11:23] some light at the end of the tunnel.
[11:25] >> David, you mentioned that there are
[11:26] trenches dug with oil in the trenches.
[11:29] To what purpose are those oil filled
[11:32] facilities?
[11:33] >> Very clear what they will do as soon as
[11:34] they see that the opening at the start
[11:37] of the aerial campaign. Uh they're going
[11:39] to set lights to those oil fil trenches.
[11:42] I've seen them everywhere. I've seen
[11:44] them coming back from Cree
[11:48] >> and the phone went dead at that point.
[11:49] For what reason, we do not know. That
[11:51] was David Chedar in Baghdad. President
[11:55] Bush mostly stayed out of public view
[11:57] this day, preparing for the new war with
[11:58] Iraq. CBS's Bill Plant has that part of
[12:00] the story from the White House.
[12:04] Members of the president's war policy
[12:05] group made two trips to the White House
[12:07] today to review their planning. Hours
[12:10] before the deadline for Saddam Hussein's
[12:12] departure, which the White House clearly
[12:14] never expected.
[12:15] >> Tonight, the American people will know
[12:16] Saddam Hussein has committed his final
[12:18] act of defiance. The president has urged
[12:21] Saddam Hussein to leave the country so
[12:23] that military conflict can be avoided.
[12:25] We have no indications that he has
[12:27] chosen to do that, unfortunately.
[12:29] >> Mr. Bush, who has had no public events
[12:31] and few meetings in recent days, did sit
[12:33] down today with New York's mayor, who
[12:35] wants more money for homeland security.
[12:38] And as Mr. Bush sent Congress the formal
[12:40] notification required by law to justify
[12:43] the use of military force, the
[12:45] president's decision to abandon
[12:47] diplomacy for war was denounced in the
[12:49] UN Security Council.
[12:51] >> Peaceful means have therefore not been
[12:53] exhausted. Also for that reason, Germany
[12:57] emphatically rejects the impending war.
[13:00] >> The US decided it didn't need the UN to
[13:02] go to war. But it does want the UN to
[13:05] help with the peace. And the same
[13:06] nations who bitterly oppose the war are
[13:09] now trying to hold the UN together. When
[13:11] time will come to rebuild Iraq, we want
[13:15] the United Nation to be the key player
[13:17] because it is the only one who can make
[13:19] accept and who can minimize the
[13:22] difficulty very important difficulty
[13:24] that we may face. Without hinting when
[13:27] the war will begin, the White House has
[13:29] started to warn that it may not be short
[13:31] or easy. And also one more thing which
[13:34] has barely been mentioned that it's time
[13:36] to prepare for the fact that American
[13:39] lives will be lost. Dan
[13:41] >> Bill Plant reporting live from the White
[13:43] House. Coming up next on the CBS Evening
[13:46] News, he was shot down in the first Gulf
[13:48] War. Now there's new hope and American
[13:51] airman might still be alive.
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[16:27] >> One mission for US forces heading into
[16:29] Iraq is really a long delayed effort to
[16:31] complete a mission begun more than 12
[16:34] years ago to find the US Navy fighter
[16:36] pilot Scott Spiker. CBS News has been
[16:39] following his improbable story for years
[16:42] now. And as correspondent Wyatt Andrews
[16:44] reports tonight, a new chapter and
[16:46] perhaps an unlikely conclusion is about
[16:49] to unfold.
[16:51] >> Hello Jacksonville. I'm Scott Spiker of
[16:53] VFA 81.
[16:54] >> You may never have heard of Navy Captain
[16:56] Scott Spiker, but finding him is one of
[16:59] the quiet missions of the coming war.
[17:02] >> 12 years ago, then Lieutenant Commander
[17:05] Spiker flew the first air strike of the
[17:07] first Gulf War. He was shot down,
[17:10] declared dead, and given a tomb in
[17:12] Arlington. Then the CBS broadcast 60
[17:15] Minutes 2 reported on growing evidence
[17:17] he was alive, that he may have ejected
[17:20] safely and according to an Iraqi
[17:22] defector was driven from the desert to
[17:24] Baghdad. That defector even picked
[17:26] Spiker from a photo lineup. So the
[17:29] Pentagon changed Spiker's status. He's
[17:31] now thought to be a P, the only American
[17:35] prisoner from the 91 war. We are
[17:37] pursuing it as if Captain Scott Spiker
[17:40] is alive and being held by the Iraqis.
[17:42] >> I believe he's alive.
[17:44] >> Today, Senator Bill Nelson of the Senate
[17:46] Armed Services Committee told CBS News
[17:49] the military has fresh information on
[17:51] Spiker it hopes but does not know is
[17:54] accurate and that US forces will attempt
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[17:59] commanders have as one of the top of
[18:02] their priority items to go and look for
[18:06] Scott Spiker.
[18:07] >> A rescue mission.
[18:08] >> Clearly on their list of things to do is
[18:12] going to be to look for Scott.
[18:14] >> In Jacksonville, Spiker's hometown, the
[18:17] search is personal. John Kern, a former
[18:20] shipmate of Spikers, is now a middle
[18:22] school teacher. His class of sixth
[18:24] graders has written letters demanding
[18:26] Spiker's return.
[18:27] >> I had one student actually write the
[18:29] Iraqi embassy. They want Scott Spiker's
[18:31] release. They want to see him come home.
[18:33] >> To the military, this is also personal.
[18:36] There's a man out there left behind.
[18:38] Scott Spiker flew the first mission of
[18:40] the first Gulf War. Saving his life is
[18:43] the unpaid debt of this one. Wyatt
[18:46] Andrews, CBS News, Washington. The US
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[19:09] Next here on the CBS Evening News,
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[22:13] when President Bush set tonight's
[22:14] deadline for Saddam Hussein to be out of
[22:16] Iraq or face war. The president included
[22:19] Saddam's sons, two of whom hold
[22:22] important positions in the Iraqi regime.
[22:24] Kus Saddam Hussein is head of the elite
[22:27] Republican Guard and of the Iraqi
[22:29] Intelligence and Security Service. U
[22:32] Saddam Hussein, the eldest son with a
[22:35] special reputation for ruthlessness,
[22:37] controls the Iraqi state media. But Uday
[22:40] was given another position as well, head
[22:42] of the Iraqi Olympic program. And as
[22:44] CBS's Sandra Hughes reports, that was
[22:47] bad news for the athletes.
[22:51] These former elite Iraqi athletes once
[22:54] prayed for Olympic glory.
[22:57] >> But it was a quest that turned into
[22:59] torture before escaping Iraq after the
[23:02] first Gulf War. They trained to win
[23:04] under Saddam Hussein's son Uday, head of
[23:06] Iraq's Olympic program. Champion
[23:09] volleyball player Isam Al Dwan says
[23:12] losing brought the ultimate threat.
[23:14] >> We receive calls from UD. If you lose
[23:17] the game that's mean nobody come to Iraq
[23:22] or will kill you and will execute all
[23:25] your family inside Iraq.
[23:27] >> Isam says he was jailed and tortured
[23:30] while athletic victories were celebrated
[23:32] in the streets of Baghdad. He claims
[23:34] other players were beaten, had their
[23:36] children burned with acid, or just
[23:38] disappeared. Ibraham Alwan was on Uday's
[23:42] handpicked soccer team when he missed a
[23:44] practice. They put me in the jail. I get
[23:47] in the jail. Seven days.
[23:50] >> This national wrestling hero, Najim
[23:52] Alakabi, took part in a political march
[23:55] and was shot by Iraqi police.
[23:57] >> Soldier sat down and shot me in my back
[24:00] and
[24:02] this hole in the side in my chest. After
[24:05] documenting the abuses, a London human
[24:07] rights organization sent this formal
[24:09] complaint to the International Olympic
[24:12] Committee, asking it to expel Iraq from
[24:14] competition. The IOC is investigating,
[24:17] but tells CBS News its findings so far
[24:20] are confidential.
[24:22] >> In the headquarters of the Iraqi
[24:23] National Olympic Committee, there's a
[24:25] prison and a torture chamber, and we
[24:27] believe that hundreds of athletes have
[24:28] been tortured and as many as 50 athletes
[24:31] have been killed. Isam now runs the
[24:33] Iraqi Olympic Council, a group opposed
[24:35] to Iraq's government.
[24:37] >> Saddam Hussein, he is war criminals. We
[24:40] welcome the one who saved us from Saddam
[24:42] Hussein.
[24:43] >> But for now, they wait and watch,
[24:46] remembering how their dreams of Olympic
[24:48] glory were destroyed. Sandra Hugh, CBS
[24:51] News, Elcohone, California.
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[27:33] Tomorrow, we'll have live on the scene
[27:36] reports from Kuwait and Iraq, plus
[27:38] complete details and analysis. So, wake
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[27:44] Now updating the showdown with Saddam as
[27:46] Saddam Hussein defies tonight's US
[27:48] deadline to leave Iraq. A huge US and
[27:50] British forces now poised just south of
[27:53] the Kuwaiti border in position for
[27:54] attack which is expected to come within
[27:57] days if not hours. Some special
[27:59] operations force commandos are already
[28:01] inside Iraq. US aircraft today dropped 2
[28:05] million leaflets over southern Iraq
[28:07] urging Iraqi soldiers to surrender. They
[28:09] also knocked out some artillery
[28:11] positions. And a handful of Iraqi border
[28:13] guards and troops, 17 soldiers of some
[28:16] kind, did just that, walking across the
[28:18] border into Kuwait. With the United
[28:21] States of America now on a war footing
[28:23] and under a terror alert, one managed to
[28:25] tie up much of the nation's capital for
[28:27] two days. But this bizarre story finally
[28:30] ended today. 52-year-old Dwight Watson,
[28:32] a farmer unhappy with government tobacco
[28:35] policies, stepped out of the tractor
[28:37] that he had driven unnoticed and
[28:38] uncontested into the pond on the
[28:41] National Mall. He finally backed away
[28:43] today and surrendered to US Park Police.
[28:45] Watson had claimed he had weapons and
[28:47] explosives. Turned out he had neither.
[28:49] Now, some CBS stations will be returning
[28:51] to local programming at this point for
[28:52] others. We'll be right back.
[28:58] This is CBS.