CBS Evening News - 2002-01-21

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[0:00] We bring good.

[0:00] >> See the Oregonian for details. [music]

[0:03] >> The Golden Globes. Liz Hurley pregnant

[0:05] and Kelly Rip's baby next.

[0:08] >> Jailed and dangerous. The US defends the

[0:12] treatment of terror suspects held at

[0:14] Guantanamo, saying they are still

[0:17] threatening to kill Americans. American

[0:20] Taliban John Walker sent home to face

[0:23] charges he aided and abetted terrorists.

[0:27] A 48 hours exclusive. US missionaries

[0:30] held by Islamic terrorists in the

[0:32] Philippines plead for mercy. And Eye on

[0:36] America investigates a highstakes game

[0:39] of hideand seek between the smugglers

[0:42] and customs agents.

[0:49] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:52] Rather reporting from [music] CBS News

[0:55] headquarters in New York

[0:57] >> on this Martin Luther King Day. Good

[0:59] evening. They were captured in a war

[1:01] that began when terrorists slaughtered

[1:03] thousands of innocent Americans

[1:05] September 11th. Today, the United States

[1:08] aggressively defended the way it is

[1:10] treating more than 100 of what it

[1:12] considers to be hardcore terrorist

[1:14] suspects now held in a makeshift prison

[1:17] on the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay,

[1:19] Cuba. In the face of criticism from some

[1:22] human rights groups and others, the US

[1:24] countered that the detainees are being

[1:26] treated as what they are, dangerous.

[1:30] CBS's John Roberts reports on a public

[1:33] perceptions battle in the war on terror.

[1:37] Administration officials today insisted

[1:39] that suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban

[1:41] prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been

[1:43] treated humanely, but among the

[1:45] detainees says the military are the

[1:47] worst of the worst and precautions mus

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