CBS Evening News - 1991-03-02
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[0:04] Freedom at last for an American news
[0:06] team held by Iraq.
[0:08] And on the eve of truce talks, a new
[0:11] battle near Basra.
[0:13] >> [music]
[0:17] [music]
[0:17] >> This is the CBS Evening News, Bob
[0:19] Schieffer reporting. Good evening.
[0:22] It has been almost 6 weeks since they
[0:24] disappeared in the Saudi Arabian desert,
[0:26] but today on the eve of a meeting that
[0:28] Allied and Iraqi field commanders have
[0:30] scheduled to discuss a formal ceasefire,
[0:33] our CBS News team, Bob Simon, Peter
[0:36] Bluff, Roberto Alvarez, and Juan
[0:38] Caldera, were finally set free in
[0:40] Baghdad. Betsy Aaron is in Baghdad and
[0:43] has the details.
[0:50] The crew we're going home, which is the
[0:53] just the place you go to after war when
[0:56] you've been as lucky as we've been. They
[0:57] were released to CBS News before dawn
[1:00] this morning at the Al Rashid Hotel.
[1:03] Correspondent Bob Simon, producer and
[1:05] London bureau chief Peter Bluff,
[1:07] cameraman Roberto Alvarez, sound man
[1:10] Juan Caldera.
[1:12] As you can see, we've lost a little
[1:14] weight.
[1:15] We've aged a little, but we're fine.
[1:18] This is a story that could have ended
[1:20] another way, but
[1:24] it's had a happy ending.
[1:26] I think we're all grateful to friends,
[1:29] colleagues,
[1:31] and people we've never met, never heard
[1:33] of, but who
[1:35] worked on our behalf to make it all come
[1:36] out all right. I want to uh
[1:39] apologize to my family for what they've
[1:42] gone through.
[1:43] And hopefully God blesses everybody that
[1:45] still out there.
[1:48] >> [snorts]
[1:48] >> And uh
[1:49] I hope I hope they're all be okay soon,
[1:52] and God bless all of them. Thank you.
[1:57] Um I want to thank everybody involved in
[1:59] our release.
[2:01] Above all, I want to th