CBS Evening News - 1991-02-28
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[0:03] Kwait [music] City at the end of the
[0:05] war. Marines and special forces secure
[0:07] the US embassy as President Bush
[0:09] dictates the terms of peace. Allies
[0:12] question Iraqi troops about reports of
[0:14] atrocities. [music] And the people of
[0:16] Kuwait celebrate their freedom.
[0:20] This [music] is the CBS Evening News.
[0:23] Dan Rather reporting tonight live from
[0:25] Kuwait City. Good evening. The guns of
[0:28] the 100 hours Gulf ground war fell
[0:31] silent today. President Bush says Iraq
[0:33] has agreed to talk about the terms of a
[0:35] ceasefire. All around in Kuwait City, a
[0:38] people caught between joy and grief.
[0:41] Saddam Hussein says he won the war.
[0:44] Defense Department correspondent David
[0:45] Martin begins our coverage.
[0:51] and we're going to destroy every piece
[0:53] of Iraqi equipment we find in zone with
[0:56] engineers and demolitions.
[0:57] >> First, the allies cut off the Iraqi
[0:59] army. Then they killed it. Now they're
[1:02] reducing it to scrap metal. Everything
[1:04] from aircraft shelters to personnel
[1:06] carriers.
[1:06] >> No Iraqis in the vehicle this time.
[1:09] Destroying the sights on the weapon
[1:10] system, unloading the weapon system.
[1:13] Make sure vehicle's clear. The Allied
[1:15] armies have settled into defensive
[1:17] positions like a cat outside a mouse
[1:19] hole, one officer said, while what's
[1:21] left of the Iraqi army creeps home. But
[1:23] after 42 days of air strikes, like this
[1:25] F-16 chasing a tank across the desert
[1:28] and 4 days of high-speed maneuver on the
[1:30] ground, the Iraqis had precious little.
[1:33] We torched probably a couple of hundred
[1:35] trucks in this general area. Uh they
[1:38] were all escaping back toward th