CBS Evening News - 2003-03-17 (first half of one-hour edition)

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[0:04] Showdown with Saddam. War likely soon.

[0:08] Tonight, the endgame. An ultimatum to

[0:11] Saddam Hussein. Get out of Iraq. US

[0:14] forces are coming in. Iraq says no.

[0:19] Diplomacy fails. An invasion now appears

[0:22] days, maybe hours away. from around the

[0:25] world. Tonight, comprehensive coverage

[0:27] of the US and Iraq on the Razor's Edge

[0:30] of War.

[0:36] >> This is a special expanded edition of

[0:39] the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

[0:42] reporting from CBS News headquarters in

[0:44] New York.

[0:46] Good evening and it is a solemn sobering

[0:49] evening because America is going to war

[0:51] this week unless there is some

[0:53] unexpected dramatic new development.

[0:56] President Bush addresses the nation and

[0:58] the world tonight. He will say time is

[1:01] up. Saddam Hussein has not disarmed. The

[1:04] United States is ready to invade Iraq to

[1:06] make him disarm and remove him from

[1:08] power. Here are today's major

[1:10] developments. The United States withdrew

[1:12] a proposed UN Security Council

[1:14] resolution in effect authorizing war

[1:17] because it was clear it could not pass.

[1:19] Secretary of State Powell said the time

[1:21] for diplomacy has ended. President Bush

[1:24] is giving Saddam an ultimatum tonight.

[1:27] Leave Iraq or US-led forces will invade.

[1:30] But Iraq says Saddam will not leave. So

[1:34] in all probability, it's war in a matter

[1:37] of days if not hours. And CBS News has

[1:39] mobilized all our resources to cover it.

[1:41] We have correspondents in key positions

[1:43] around the world, including inside Iraq

[1:45] to report on the military moves, the

[1:46] political implications, and the national

[1:48] security concerns here at home. We begin

[1:51] at the White House with Bill Plant.

[1:52] Bill, the president tonight will give

[1:55] Saddam Hussein an ultimatum. Leave Iraq

[1:57] within the next 48 to 72 hours or the US

[2:00] and its partners will attack. Mr. Bush

[2:03] will also warn outsiders that it's time

[2:05] to get out of Iraq. He'll remind them

[2:07] that in the last Gulf War, Sodom Hussein

[2:10] held some Westerners as hostages.

[2:13] With war now likely, in a matter of

[2:15] days, the United Nations ordered all its

[2:17] people, arms inspectors, aid workers,

[2:19] and peacekeepers out of Iraq. Tonight,

[2:22] Mr. Bush will let the world know that

[2:24] Sodom Hussein has only one option left.

[2:27] The only way to avoid the serious

[2:29] consequences is for Sodom Hussein and

[2:31] his immediate cohort uh to leave the

[2:34] country and to allow uh this matter to

[2:37] be resolved through the peaceful entry

[2:39] of force and out of conflict.

[2:41] >> The president who was seen only briefly

[2:43] today on the south lawn of the White

[2:44] House conferred with officials in

[2:46] Britain and Spain as he prepared for his

[2:49] speech drafted over the weekend by

[2:50] writers who accompanied him to

[2:52] yesterday's summit. That was a

[2:54] three-hour meeting of US allies in the

[2:56] Azors, where Mr. Bush squarely blamed

[2:59] France's veto threat for the allies

[3:01] inability to get a final UN resolution

[3:04] authorizing force.

[3:05] >> One country voted at least show showed

[3:08] their cards. I believe it's a old Texas

[3:10] expression, show your cards when you're

[3:11] playing poker. France showed their

[3:14] cards.

[3:15] The French fired back today saying that

[3:17] in any case the US never had a majority

[3:19] of votes in the UN and suggesting that

[3:22] the president was tactless.

[3:24] >> I think this expression is unfortunate.

[3:26] I don't think that we can compare uh war

[3:30] to any kind of game.

[3:31] >> And so the final day of diplomacy came

[3:34] to a formal end this morning when

[3:35] Britain's ambassador announced that his

[3:37] nation, the US and Spain would not call

[3:40] for a vote on the final resolution. The

[3:42] co-sponsors reserve their right to take

[3:46] their own steps to secure the

[3:48] disarmament of Iraq.

[3:51] >> The president will say again tonight

[3:52] that he believes the US has the legal

[3:55] authority under previous UN resolutions

[3:57] to take military action. Dan

[3:59] >> Bill Plant at the White House. CBS News

[4:02] will of course bring you live coverage

[4:03] of President Bush's address beginning at

[4:06] 8:00 Eastern time tonight, 7 central.

[4:09] So, when can you expect military action

[4:12] to begin? CBS's David Martin at the

[4:14] Pentagon is following the planning and

[4:16] has the latest on a possible timeline.

[4:18] David,

[4:20] Dan, most of the president's advisers

[4:22] wanted a 48 hour deadline to the

[4:24] ultimatum, but Defense Secretary

[4:25] Rumsfeld, who is responsible for the

[4:28] readiness of the troops, wanted 72

[4:30] hours. Either way, officials expect the

[4:32] war to start before the week is out.

[4:36] There are now a quarter million American

[4:38] troops in position for the start of the

[4:40] war. 150,000 of them in Kuwait where UN

[4:43] observers continued their pull out from

[4:45] the border area and the US embassy told

[4:48] all Americans to get out.

[4:50] >> Come on. Come on. Move.

[4:51] >> We're telling them that uh they should

[4:54] they should leave. We're we're urging

[4:56] them in the strongest possible terms to

[4:58] uh to leave Kuwait. The Iraqi military

[5:01] is gearing up to make the American march

[5:03] on Baghdad as costly as possible. Five

[5:05] of the six Republican Guards divisions,

[5:07] Saddam's best fighting units, have now

[5:10] left their garrisons and dispersed. It

[5:12] appears to be an effort to ride out the

[5:14] initial wave of air attacks, which could

[5:16] include as many as 600 cruise missiles

[5:18] in the first 24 hours and wait for the

[5:21] American forces to come to them.

[5:24] Intercepted communications indicate one

[5:26] division southeast of Baghdad is about

[5:28] to be issued chemical weapons to be used

[5:30] against the invaders. Although officials

[5:33] say the weapons themselves have not yet

[5:35] been spotted. Trenches have been dug and

[5:37] in some cases filled with oil all the

[5:39] way from the foul peninsula in the south

[5:41] to Mosul in the north. A satellite photo

[5:44] taken two weeks ago shows trenches near

[5:46] the town of Kerk. Pentagon officials say

[5:49] many of them are located near schools

[5:50] and mosques and predict the Iraqis will

[5:52] light them off and claim the fires were

[5:54] set by the Americans. And in the

[5:56] southern oil fields, US aircraft have

[5:59] spotted a 2,000yard oil spill, which

[6:01] could be the start of another tactic

[6:03] designed to slow American troops.

[6:06] So far, officials say none of the Iraqi

[6:09] preparations pose a serious enough

[6:10] threat to American forces to justify

[6:13] launching the attack before the

[6:15] ultimatum expires. But they do not rule

[6:18] out the possibility this war could begin

[6:20] ahead of schedule. Dan

[6:22] >> David Martin reporting live from the

[6:23] Defense Department. Along with the UN

[6:25] weapons inspectors and aid workers,

[6:27] diplomats and other foreigners are

[6:29] leaving Baghdad while they can. The US

[6:32] and Britain are urging their citizens to

[6:34] leave Kuwait, Israel, and other Middle

[6:36] Eastern nations as well. CBS News

[6:39] correspondent Larara Logan is one of the

[6:41] few Western reporters remaining in

[6:42] Baghdad. A short time ago, I asked her

[6:45] how the Iraqi government reacted to the

[6:47] UN evacuation.

[6:50] >> Well, Dan, the Iraqi trade minister, Dr.

[6:52] Maddi Sali, tonight expressed dismay at

[6:55] the UN's departure, but he made it clear

[6:58] they really weren't surprised that it

[7:00] had come to this. He told me the

[7:01] leadership had known from day one that

[7:04] the US was determined to invade and

[7:06] occupy Iraq.

[7:08] >> What about the American offer for Saddam

[7:10] to leave the country in order to avoid

[7:12] invasion?

[7:14] There's been no indication the Iraqi

[7:16] president has any intention of leaving.

[7:18] When I put that to the trade minister

[7:20] tonight, he was adamant Saddam Hussein

[7:23] will never leave his country. And

[7:25] earlier, Saddam acknowledged that Iraq

[7:28] used to have weapons of mass destruction

[7:29] to defend itself in the past, but he

[7:32] stressed again that he no longer has any

[7:34] such weapons.

[7:36] >> And you're out among regular people all

[7:39] day, every day. What is their sense?

[7:42] What is their mood now that they know

[7:44] that the invasion is coming?

[7:47] >> Well, the mood is quite tense and people

[7:49] are getting jittery. You know, you see

[7:51] long lines of cars at the gas stations

[7:53] around the clock. People frantically

[7:55] buying up bottled water, flashlights,

[7:58] generators, and tape for the windows to

[8:00] try and protect themselves from flying

[8:02] glass. Although, at the same time, Dan,

[8:04] there is still a thin veneer of

[8:06] normality. The schools are open and

[8:09] people went to work today as usual. But

[8:11] the feeling is that these really are the

[8:14] last few hours of calm before people

[8:16] here are thrown back into the horror of

[8:18] previous bombings. Dan

[8:20] >> there. Logan in Baghdad. Take care of

[8:22] yourself.

[8:24] In the Kuwaiti desert tonight, tens of

[8:26] thousands of US and British combat

[8:28] troops are preparing to move into final

[8:30] position for attack. CBS's John Roberts

[8:32] is with an advanced unit of the US

[8:35] Marine Corps. John, what with security

[8:37] in mind can you tell us?

[8:40] >> Well, Dan, the US military has moved

[8:42] into deep operational security mode

[8:44] tonight, tightly restricting what we can

[8:46] say about what lies ahead. But here's

[8:48] what we have been cleared to tell you.

[8:50] The Marines and Army units are expected

[8:52] to break out of the large camps that

[8:54] they have been living in for the past 6

[8:56] weeks to await orders to move into their

[8:58] attack positions. We can't tell you

[9:00] exactly when that's going to happen, but

[9:02] we can tell you that the Marine unit

[9:04] that we're attached to, the Second Light

[9:06] Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, which

[9:07] typically roams far ahead of the main

[9:09] battle group, has canceled an overnight

[9:11] training mission that it was planning

[9:13] for tomorrow and Wednesday. There are

[9:16] also new concerns here that with nothing

[9:18] to lose, Saddam Hussein may attempt to

[9:20] get off a first shot by opening up with

[9:22] some of those artillery units that he

[9:24] has moved close to the border with

[9:26] Kuwait. And there is another sign that

[9:28] war is coming. Every member of this

[9:30] battalion was today issued these

[9:32] laminated cards of Arabic phrases.

[9:34] Everything from good morning to drop

[9:37] your weapons. Dan John Roberts with the

[9:40] US Marines reporting live from Kuwait.

[9:43] The 65,000 US Marines now in northern

[9:46] Kuwait know they'll be among the first

[9:48] to fight in a war with Iraq. And while

[9:50] most Marines will take on Saddam

[9:52] Hussein's forces the old-fashioned way

[9:54] with boots in the sand, flying just

[9:57] overhead will be the Vipers. As CBS's

[10:00] Byron Pitt reports,

[10:04] in these next few days, Marine

[10:06] helicopter pilots will wind down their

[10:08] practice runs with real bullets

[10:11] and real rockets. The time has come,

[10:14] they've been told, to conserve

[10:16] ammunition. These Marines are part of a

[10:18] light attack helicopter squadron from

[10:20] Camp Pendleton, California. HMLA 169,

[10:24] nicknamed the Vipers. Their commanding

[10:26] officer called them together Sunday for

[10:28] what felt like a last minute pep talk.

[10:31] >> And you'll just go forward lean and mean

[10:33] cuz you're only going to need what you

[10:34] need to fight.

[10:36] >> These Cobras and Hueies can operate 50

[10:38] ft off the ground at well over 120 mph.

[10:42] If need be, gunners will lay down fire a

[10:44] h 100red yards in front of their very

[10:46] own marines on the desert floor in order

[10:48] to push back Iraqi soldiers. One Cobra

[10:51] can destroy eight Iraqi tanks, hit a

[10:54] target the size of a Volkswagen 2 miles

[10:56] away.

[10:57] >> My mission is to go out there and deny

[10:59] the enemy from hurting one of our

[11:00] Marines. So, I go and I if I need to

[11:02] kill one of the enemy, I will kill the

[11:04] enemy.

[11:04] >> At this hour, at this distance, it's

[11:07] just that simple. Thanks to new night

[11:09] vision technology, unlike the first Gulf

[11:12] War, the Cobras and Hueies will do the

[11:14] bulk of their business this time at

[11:16] night under the cover of darkness. CBS

[11:19] News is now flying with the Vipers on

[11:21] routine missions. From 100 ft above the

[11:24] desert, we could see US and British

[11:26] forces massing at the Iraqi border.

[11:28] Those lights are tanks, trucks, and

[11:30] troops as far as the eye could see in

[11:33] both directions. Tonight, there are 5.5

[11:36] million pounds of bombs and bullets

[11:39] stacked up in the Persian Gulf. That's

[11:41] the largest stockpile of American

[11:43] aviation munitions in one place at one

[11:45] time since the Vietnam War. If there is

[11:49] a war with Iraq, the Marines hope to

[11:51] make it overwhelmingly one-sided and

[11:53] unforgiving.

[11:55] With the Vipers, Byron Pittz, CBS News.

[11:58] And with America facing war with Iraq,

[12:01] security is being tightened against a

[12:02] possible terror attack here at home. CBS

[12:05] News correspondent Bob Ore reports

[12:07] what's being done on the home front.

[12:10] >> In the opening days of war, Coast Guard

[12:12] cutters will be pulled back closer to

[12:14] shore to protect US harbors. Border

[12:17] inspections will be tightened. Heavily

[12:19] armed guards will ring key government

[12:21] buildings, national landmarks, and

[12:22] nuclear power plants. Thousands of

[12:25] police officers will be reassigned to

[12:27] trains and subways and aerial

[12:29] surveillance will be stepped up over New

[12:30] York and Washington. Two cities already

[12:33] targeted by terrorists. Americans once

[12:35] again will soon be living under code

[12:37] orange. Sources say intelligence

[12:39] pointing to possible retaliatory attacks

[12:42] is behind the government's plan to raise

[12:44] the terror threat level from yellow or

[12:45] elevated to orange or high. During the

[12:49] first Gulf War, terror attacks around

[12:50] the globe increased threefold. All of

[12:53] those were overseas, but analysts say

[12:55] this time the threat could come home.

[12:58] >> Ever since September the 11th, the

[12:59] United States has greatly raised its

[13:01] guard uh to protect the homeland. But in

[13:05] the context of international conflict,

[13:07] we should be prepared that there may be

[13:09] sleeper cells that will take strikes at

[13:11] us here in the United States.

[13:12] >> While there is no specific threat from

[13:14] Iraq, al-Qaeda, or any terror group,

[13:16] security officials are increasingly

[13:18] worried about possible suicide bombers.

[13:21] small-cale attacks against hard to

[13:22] secure places like shopping malls and

[13:24] stadiums. In response, the federal

[13:27] government is urging local law

[13:28] enforcement agencies and private

[13:30] security forces to increase police

[13:32] presence.

[13:32] >> We're doing a routine security check of

[13:34] vehicles.

[13:35] >> Security will also be tightened around

[13:36] airports. Observation decks, public

[13:39] areas, and parking garages could be shut

[13:41] down. Despite thousands of new air

[13:43] marshals and billions spent on airport

[13:45] security, jetliners are still

[13:47] vulnerable, particularly to shoulder

[13:49] fired missiles. As for people, the

[13:52] government will once again urge everyone

[13:54] to make individual emergency plans. The

[13:56] goal is to prepare the public without

[13:58] causing panic. And the challenge for the

[14:00] government clearly is to avoid the kind

[14:02] of confusion that triggered last month's

[14:04] code orange run on duct tape and plastic

[14:06] sheeting. Dan

[14:08] >> Bob our reporting live in Washington.

[14:10] Wall Street's worries about war have

[14:12] turned to confidence about a quick

[14:13] victory. Stock prices soared today. The

[14:16] Dow gained 282 points, the Nasdaq nearly

[14:19] 52. But the prospect of war also has

[14:22] gasoline prices soaring. An energy

[14:24] department survey today found the

[14:26] national average price for self-service

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[17:24] America. This is based on what a top

[17:26] al-Qaeda leader captured in Pakistan has

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[17:34] impact on another high-profile terror

[17:36] case.

[17:38] >> Khaled Shake Muhammad, the man who

[17:40] masterminded 9/11, has thrown the

[17:42] Justice Department a major curveball in

[17:44] its effort to prosecute the only man

[17:46] charged as a conspirator in those

[17:48] attacks. Muhammad has flatly told his

[17:50] interrogators that Zakarius Mousawi was

[17:53] not a part of the September the 11th

[17:55] plot, but instead was to have been part

[17:57] of a second later wave of attacks in the

[17:59] United States. That would seem to

[18:01] support what Masawi has been telling the

[18:02] court all along that yes, I am a member

[18:04] of al-Qaeda, and yes, I am dedicated to

[18:07] attacking America, but no, I was not

[18:09] part of this particular attack.

[18:11] Prosecutors contend Mousawi was to have

[18:13] been the 20th hijacker and missed his

[18:15] flight only because he was arrested just

[18:17] before the attacks on an immigration

[18:19] violation. If convicted, he faces the

[18:22] death penalty. The theory that a second

[18:24] wave of attacks was in the works has

[18:26] long intrigued investigators. Agents

[18:28] have always puzzled, for example, over

[18:30] why both ring leader Muhammad Ata and

[18:32] Mousawi were studying crop dusters. And

[18:35] FBI Director Robert Mueller has openly

[18:37] worried over whether terrorists are

[18:39] still hiding here awaiting orders.

[18:42] >> Our greatest threat is from al-Qaeda

[18:43] cells in the United States that we have

[18:45] not yet been able to identify.

[18:48] >> Officials have not provided any more

[18:50] detail about Muhammad's claim, which

[18:51] analysts say is sure to complicate

[18:53] Mousawi's trial.

[18:55] >> If they can't leak him to 9/11, they

[18:57] can't ask for the death penalty, and

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[19:00] him if he's convicted. As for Khaled

[19:02] Shake Muhammad, officials say he began

[19:04] cooperating shortly after his capture

[19:06] following several days of sleep

[19:08] deprivation. They say he is extremely

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[19:12] exactly where he is, but he expects to

[19:14] be returned to New York to face trial.

[19:16] And Muhammad even says he anticipates

[19:18] hiring Johnny Cochran as his defense

[19:20] attorney. Jim Stewart, CBS News,

[19:23] Washington.

[19:24] >> There's an update to report on the

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[19:28] The trustees now say Social Security

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[19:34] a year longer than last year's estimate.

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[22:50] The mysterious respiratory ailment first

[22:52] showed up in mainland China, but its

[22:54] rapid spread through Asia, coupled with

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[22:58] medication, has health officials

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[23:02] >> We know that the disease is so far

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[23:07] contact with cases.

[23:08] >> To date, there have been at least 167

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[23:54] >> Infectious disease expert Dr. Philip

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[24:13] >> It shouldn't be cause for panic, but it

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[24:18] seems to be very progressive. It's a

[24:21] rapid spreader.

[24:22] >> How rapidly it spreads to this country,

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[24:27] >> It will not be surprising to us if we

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[24:32] we have not identified cases here yet.

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[27:28] Coming up on News Channel 5 at 6, an

[27:30] Ashvillian born and raised in Baghdad

[27:32] talks about the pending military action

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[27:36] surprise you.

[27:41] A bulletin to update tonight's top story

[27:42] in tomorrow's headlines in the showdown

[27:44] with Saddam. Just in from the White

[27:46] House, President Bush is giving Saddam

[27:48] Hussein 48 hours, not 72, to leave Iraq

[27:51] or face a US invasion. Secretary of

[27:53] State Powell says, quote, "The time for

[27:55] diplomacy has passed. US forces in

[27:58] Kuwait appear ready to move into

[27:59] position for attack. Turkey says now

[28:02] that tomorrow it will reconsider,

[28:04] letting US forces operate from

[28:05] Turkeykey's soil. UN inspectors, foreign

[28:08] diplomats, and many Western reporters

[28:10] are pulling out of Baghdad. And in

[28:12] Washington, more than 50 anti-war

[28:14] demonstrators were arrested when they

[28:16] crossed police lines during a small

[28:17] protest at the US capital. CBS News will

[28:20] bring you live coverage of the

[28:22] president's address to the nation

[28:23] tonight. that will begin at 8:00 7 in

[28:26] the central time zone. Now, some of you

[28:29] will be leaving us at this point to

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[28:36] Evening News will continue in just a

[28:38] moment. The president's giving Saddam

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[28:53] This is CBS

[28:57] from your news and information leader.

[29:02] This is News Channel 5 at 6.

[29:07] >> Good evening. War with Iraq seems

[29:09] imminent tonight.

[29:10] >> President Bush will address the nation

[29:11] in one hour. He is expected to give

[29:13] Saddam Hussein an ultimatum, leave Iraq

[29:16] in 24 hours or face the US military.

[29:19] This morning, the US, Britain, and Spain

[29:22] withdrew the UN resolution that would

[29:24] force Iraq to disarm.

[29:27] Became clear that uh uh it would be best

[29:30] at this time to withdraw the resolution

[29:32] and I can think of nothing uh that

[29:34] Saddam Hussein could do diplomatically.

[29:36] I think that that time is now over. He

[29:39] had his chance. He's had many chances

[29:41] over the last 12 years and he has blown

[29:43] every one of those chances.

[29:45] >> Saddam Hussein is vowing to resist any

[29:47] US invasion. He's rallying his troops

[29:49] and preparing for war. President Bush

[29:52] will address the nation on the situation

[29:53] tonight at 7:00. Secretary Powell and

[29:56] President Bush say the US mission is to

[29:58] remove Saddam Hussein and liberate the

[30:01] Iraqi