CBS Evening News - 1991-02-14
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[0:01] The [music] US says the Baghdad bunker
[0:03] raid will not affect the battle plan.
[0:06] Anger in Iraq as the dead are declared
[0:08] martyrs and Allied troops are reported
[0:11] [music]
[0:11] ready for the ground offensive.
[0:15] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rattle
[0:18] report. Good evening. The start of the
[0:20] Allied ground offensive against [music]
[0:22] Iraqi forces holding Kuwait may be near.
[0:25] Allied air strikes are being shifted
[0:27] south now away from Baghdad to Iraqi
[0:30] troop concentrations in southern Iraq
[0:32] and inside Kuwait. Iraq said today it
[0:35] pulled 288 bodies from the wreckage of a
[0:38] Baghdad bunker. The United States bombed
[0:40] yesterday and vowed revenge for civilian
[0:43] deaths. The United States again was
[0:45] emphasizing it has done all it can to
[0:47] prevent civilian deaths, that some
[0:48] civilian casualties are inevitable in
[0:50] war, and especially when Saddam Hussein
[0:53] mixes military targets with civilians.
[0:56] David Martin at the Pentagon begins our
[0:58] coverage.
[1:00] >> The US strengthened its insistence today
[1:02] that the bunker was a legitimate
[1:03] military target and that despite the
[1:05] tragic loss of life, there would be no
[1:07] change in American battle plans. What we
[1:09] can't do is is uh let Iraq stop us from
[1:14] pursuing this war uh by using civilians
[1:17] as shield.
[1:18] >> But even before the building was hit,
[1:20] the US had drastically reduced the
[1:21] number of aircraft targeted against
[1:23] Baghdad from hundreds a night at the
[1:25] start of the war down to dozens. The
[1:27] only aircraft now flying bombing
[1:29] missions over Baghdad is the stealth
[1:31] fighter, and there are only 40 of those
[1:33] planes flying