World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-02-26
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[0:00] Good night.
[0:06] >> On World News Tonight this Thursday, is
[0:08] the CIA secretly planning to overthrow
[0:10] Saddam Hussein? A lot of talk about
[0:12] something that's meant to be secret. The
[0:15] FBI is going to pay one of its employees
[0:18] a lot of money to go away. Why would
[0:20] they do that? And the debate over a
[0:23] record broken in a basketball game.
[0:25] We'll take a closer look at whether that
[0:28] should have happened. You got it.
[0:35] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:38] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:42] Peter Jennings.
[0:43] >> Good evening. We're going to begin
[0:44] tonight with something that may seem
[0:45] fairly ridiculous to many people. The
[0:47] possibility of a secret plan to
[0:49] overthrow Saddam Hussein that everyone
[0:51] in Washington is talking about in a very
[0:53] public way, as if he somehow were not
[0:56] listening. Now that the United Nations
[0:58] has agreed with Hussein that the UN
[1:00] weapons inspectors can go back to
[1:01] looking for any weapons of mass
[1:03] destruction that Iraq may have. And now
[1:06] that the Clinton administration has
[1:07] agreed with the agreement, there is
[1:09] noisy confusion in Washington about
[1:11] whether anything is being done to get
[1:13] rid of the Iraqi leader himself. ABC's
[1:16] John McQuey has been listening.
[1:20] >> There is a torrent of advice from
[1:22] Capitol Hill. One senator calling Saddam
[1:25] Hussein a cancer that cannot be allowed
[1:27] to survive.
[1:28] >> But you can't compromise it. You have to
[1:30] kill it or cut it out.
[1:31] >> Force either our own or that of
[1:33] dissident Iraqis will be required to
[1:36] remove this regime.
[1:37] >> There is more of a congressional
[1:40] response that he has