CBS Evening News (first feed) - 2004-09-06
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[0:04] This [music] is the CBS Evening News
[0:07] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:10] headquarters in New York.
[0:12] >> Good evening. It was sudden, powerful,
[0:14] and deadly. On a highway in Iraq's
[0:16] western desert, a suicide attacker in a
[0:18] car packed with explosives raced into a
[0:21] US Marine convoy and detonated his bomb.
[0:25] Seven Marines were killed. It's the
[0:27] worst single day for American forces in
[0:29] Iraq since early May. This attack pushed
[0:32] the total number of American troops
[0:34] killed in the Iraq War to at least 989.
[0:38] CBS's Barry Peterson reports. It
[0:40] underscored the many problems still
[0:43] facing American forces in Iraq.
[0:47] The suicide car bomb targeted a US
[0:49] convoy outside Fallujah in a vicious
[0:52] part of Iraq where US military control
[0:54] has long since vanished. Fallujah is
[0:57] where four US contractors were massacred
[0:59] then hanged from a bridge where
[1:02] Americans fought fierce battles with
[1:03] insurgents last April. The US withdrawal
[1:07] left behind a population now living
[1:09] under the ironfisted rule of Islamic
[1:11] fundamentalist in Fallujah. They have
[1:14] created what some call a Taliban-like
[1:16] existence where crimes are punished by
[1:18] beheadings and working with Americans is
[1:21] a death sentence. It is certainly a
[1:23] no-go area for the authorities in Iraq
[1:25] and it's been a no-go area since the
[1:27] fall of Saddam.
[1:28] >> It is part of Iraq's Sunni heartland
[1:31] where tribal warlords and religious
[1:33] leaders are the only rule of law and
[1:35] where terrorist stage attacks like this
[1:37] one today, sometimes trained by outside
[1:40] experts.
[1:41] >> And the no-go zones provide a base for
[1:43] quite