CBS Evening News - 1991-02-01
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[0:04] [music]
[0:05] Kofji Saudi Arabia after the war's first
[0:08] sharp clash of armor. Iraqi units on the
[0:11] move pounded from the air. And at home,
[0:14] layoffs, [music] even at defense plants,
[0:16] add to unemployment.
[0:19] [music]
[0:20] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:22] reporting tonight with a special war
[0:24] update edition. Good evening. US and
[0:27] allied commanders said today that three
[0:29] days of hot combat with Iraqi troops
[0:31] near the Kuwaiti border produced, and I
[0:34] quote, "a military disaster for Iraq."
[0:37] They say an Iraqi force that seized the
[0:39] Saudi town of Kafi was all but wiped
[0:42] out. And Iraqi tanks spotted along the
[0:44] border are being pounded by hundreds of
[0:47] air strikes, breaking up any chance, the
[0:49] US military says, for another ground
[0:52] thrust into Saudi Arabia. Three days
[0:54] ago, Kafji was just a ghost town on the
[0:57] Saudi coast. Today, it was a graveyard.
[1:00] Eric Inberg reports.
[1:04] The three-day battle for Kafgi ended
[1:06] today as 500 Iraqi troops surrendered to
[1:09] Saudi and Qataran armored columns that
[1:12] stormed the city.
[1:14] The streets of the largely abandoned
[1:15] bordered town, littered with destroyed
[1:17] vehicles from both sides, provided
[1:20] evidence it had been a bigger battle
[1:21] than US commanders had first
[1:23] acknowledged.
[1:26] >> Jubilant Saudi soldiers, surprised and
[1:28] confused in the early fighting, won
[1:30] praise from US officers for their final
[1:33] assault. US and Saudi commanders
[1:36] ridiculed Iraqi tactics.
[1:38] >> I think they were pushed for this. It's
[1:40] like it's it's it's a suicide mission
[1:42] for them. The Iraqis, who were still
[1:44] sniping at the Allied troops at midda