Iraq War - CBS's John Roberts reports from the "Secret Squirrel"

Name: Iraq War - CBS's John Roberts reports from the "Secret Squirrel"
Uploaded: 2025-06-28
Duration: 2540 s
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Uploaded: 2025-06-28

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Read a transcript preview of “Iraq War - CBS's John Roberts reports from the "Secret Squirrel"” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-06-28.

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[0:02] This is a light armored reconnaissance

[0:04] battalion. Its main task in any conflict

[0:07] is to roam far ahead of the main battle

[0:10] group. It seeks out the enemy. It

[0:12] engages the enemy. It draws it out, if

[0:14] you will, so that the follow-on forces

[0:16] can can wrap up that particular unit,

[0:18] and then this unit will leapfrog ahead

[0:20] again to try to draw the next one. We're

[0:23] right now in the middle of the so-called

[0:25] no-man's-land between Iraq and Kuwait

[0:27] that has existed since the 1991 Gulf

[0:30] War. What you're looking at now is the

[0:31] electric fence uh that separates uh the

[0:34] two countries. Uh from there, it's

[0:36] another uh 2 km to the uh the Iraqi

[0:39] border. So, the enemy lies just on the

[0:43] other side of that fence.

[0:45] This unit doesn't quite know what to

[0:48] expect. It is hoping that the

[0:50] bombardments uh that the uh enemy uh

[0:53] underwent uh during the course of the

[0:56] night and and through part of yesterday

[0:57] will have been demoralized into the

[0:59] point where it would just basically give

[1:02] up. There's a There's a couple of main

[1:04] regular army divisions, the 18th

[1:06] division, the 51st division. The United

[1:08] States has done a lot of intelligence on

[1:10] on these particular units, and they

[1:11] believe that given the opportunity and

[1:14] an overwhelming show of force by the

[1:16] United States that these two divisions

[1:18] would probably rather choose to not

[1:20] fight than to fight. But, judging by the

[1:23] bombardment that we witnessed all night

[1:24] here, as you take a look at the end of

[1:25] the column that's following us on here,

[1:27] judging by the bombardment that we saw

[1:29] taking place all nigh