CBS Evening News - 1991-01-29
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[0:03] [music]
[0:06] With ground skirmishes along the border
[0:08] increasing, US planes shoot up an Iraqi
[0:10] tank column. Iraq says a captured pilot
[0:14] was killed in the bombing of Baghdad.
[0:15] [music]
[0:16] And Allied planes fly 2600 missions in
[0:19] the last 24 hours.
[0:22] [music]
[0:23] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:26] reporting tonight with a special war
[0:28] summary edition. Good evening. Iraq said
[0:30] today one of its human shield captives
[0:33] has been killed. It said he died when
[0:35] Allied bombs hit a government building
[0:37] in Baghdad. The prisoner was not
[0:39] identified. US officials said they could
[0:41] not confirm the death. But President
[0:43] Bush had his spokesman condemn Iraq's
[0:45] treatment of prisoners and the State
[0:47] Department called in Iraq's top diplomat
[0:49] in Washington to raise concern about PS
[0:54] newsmen missing presumably in Kuwait. At
[0:57] the Pentagon, US military officials
[0:59] tonight talked up the largest hit yet on
[1:01] Iraqi ground forces. Allied air strikes
[1:04] are said to have wiped out a troop and
[1:06] tank convoy. David Martin has more about
[1:08] this. David. Dan. The standoff along the
[1:11] border intensified today as Iraqi units
[1:14] apparently tried to retaliate for the
[1:16] continuous uh bombing and artillery fire
[1:19] they've been under. Officials here have
[1:21] received a preliminary report, not yet
[1:24] confirmed, that one Iraqi unit actually
[1:26] crossed into Saudi Arabia and was
[1:28] engaged by US Marines. A press pool
[1:31] reports that Allied war plananes caught
[1:33] an Iraqi convoy moving across the desert
[1:36] under cover of darkness and destroyed 24
[1:38] tanks, armored personnel carriers, and
[1:40] supply veh