CBS Evening News - 1991-02-04
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[0:03] [music]
[0:04] Air attacks cut Iraqi supply lines. The
[0:07] battleship Missouri shells Iraqi
[0:09] positions [music] as the prelude to
[0:12] ground war intensifies.
[0:15] [music]
[0:16] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rattle
[0:19] reporting tonight with a special [music]
[0:20] war update edition. Good evening.
[0:23] Overview of the war at this hour. The
[0:25] concentration is on air attacks to
[0:27] soften up the Iraqi military for a
[0:29] possible allied ground offensive. A
[0:32] clear pattern of naval operations has
[0:34] emerged. It suggests possibly the
[0:36] largest amphibious operation since
[0:38] Inchan during the Korean War, or at the
[0:41] very least a faint at such an amphibious
[0:43] landing. Iraqi forces are lying low.
[0:46] American and Allied war plananes are
[0:49] keeping up their relentless attacks
[0:50] inside Iraq and Kuwait with a steady
[0:53] shift to the south to Kuwait. Reports
[0:55] from Baghdad and Bashra tell of
[0:57] widespread devastation in Iraq's two
[0:59] main cities. A refugee from Bashra is
[1:01] quoted as saying people there are
[1:03] collecting drinking water from puddles
[1:05] in the street. Correspondent Eric
[1:07] Ingberg has details of the war from
[1:09] Saudi Arabia.
[1:11] The Allied Air Forces, now flying one
[1:14] bombing mission a minute against the
[1:16] Iraqis, today offered photo evidence
[1:18] they can also channel that destruction
[1:20] with precision. RAF planes using laserg
[1:24] guided bombs yesterday put an enemy
[1:26] bridge on the crosshairs then took it
[1:29] out. The allies have used their control
[1:32] of the skies to grind down Iraq's
[1:34] ability to deliver food and ammunition
[1:36] to its troops in Kuwait. They now claim
[1:39] 27 of the 35 main bridges are wrecke