World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-12-02
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[0:00] was involved. This
[0:03] >> closer look tonight at the general
[0:05] [music] threat from these surfaceto-air
[0:06] missiles. They are portable and widely
[0:09] available. The UN weapons inspectors in
[0:12] Iraq [music] say things are going well.
[0:14] So why does President Bush disagree? The
[0:18] Christmas shopping season begins with a
[0:20] bang. Americans flood the malls over
[0:23] Thanksgiving [music] weekend. and the
[0:25] new police chief in Los Angeles fighting
[0:27] the gangs and some of the old ways in
[0:31] his new department.
[0:34] [music]
[0:34] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:37] with Peter Jennings reporting tonight
[0:40] from California. [music]
[0:43] Good evening from Los Angeles. First of
[0:44] all, we hope you had a good
[0:45] Thanksgiving. Millions of Americans
[0:47] certainly followed it with an outburst
[0:49] of shopping. We'll get to that. and to
[0:51] the challenge here in Los Angeles
[0:53] tonight where a new police chief has a
[0:55] real problem on his hands. We're going
[0:57] to begin, however, with the terrorism in
[0:58] East Africa. Investigators everywhere
[1:01] have spent the weekend trying to nail
[1:03] down whether the attack on an Israeli
[1:05] owned hotel and the attempt to shoot
[1:07] down an Israeli aircraft were really the
[1:09] work of al-Qaeda. Their big issues here,
[1:11] the use of very mobile surfaceto-air
[1:13] missiles and where the attacks took
[1:16] place. We're joined by our investigative
[1:18] units, ABC's Brian Ross. Brian
[1:21] >> Peter, officials at the FBI, the
[1:22] Pentagon, and the CIA tell ABC News
[1:25] tonight there are now two direct
[1:27] connections pointing to the role of
[1:28] al-Qaeda in the Kenya attacks.
[1:32] >> The first connection is the se