CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 12 midnight (E)
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[0:04] that he will now ask his parliament to
[0:06] let US war plananes use bases in Turkey.
[0:10] Note that that could be key because
[0:12] F-111s, not to be confused with the
[0:14] stealth, but F-111s, a very powerful
[0:17] low-level attack bomber, are stationed
[0:19] in Turkey by a permit from the Turks,
[0:21] but they had not given the right to use
[0:23] them and still haven't. But the
[0:24] indication is they may. CBS News
[0:27] coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf
[0:29] continues.
[0:47] You are watching CBS News continuing
[0:49] coverage of Showdown in the Gulf. From
[0:52] CBS News headquarters in New York, here
[0:55] is Dan Rather.
[0:57] >> CBS News correspondent Walter Kankite is
[0:59] again joining our coverage from CBS News
[1:01] headquarters in New York. Uh Bob Simon
[1:04] covering for us with Scott Py in Saudi
[1:06] Arabia. Alan Pizzy covering in inside
[1:09] Iraq in Baghdad with Doug Tanell and
[1:11] Aman Jordan and the worldwide resources
[1:13] of CBS News. 24 hours after the UN and
[1:16] US deadline for Saddam Hussein to get
[1:19] out of Kuwait, the war is underway and
[1:22] well underway in terms of a tremendous
[1:25] air attack. Saddam Hussein breaks his
[1:27] silent, calls President Bush a quote
[1:29] hypocritical criminal. No casualty
[1:31] reports yet from the wave after wave of
[1:34] US and Allied air attacks. Turkey's
[1:36] premier has asked his parliament for war
[1:38] powers. So US war plananes, including
[1:41] the F-111s on Turkish bases, can fly off
[1:44] of Turkish bases. On radio Baghdad,
[1:47] Saddam Hussein moments ago had his first
[1:49] words on the fighting. Saddam Hussein
[1:51] vowed to crush the United States in what
[1:53] he called the mother of all battles,"
[1:55] unquote. Earli