NBC Nightly News - 1991-04-17 (missing intro)
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:00] still inside northern Iraq.
[0:03] >> If United States use his its power, you
[0:06] know, it will be safe for for the
[0:08] people.
[0:10] >> But another said, "No way will they
[0:11] leave. They prepare to die here better
[0:14] than going back to Iraq by
[0:19] >> US soldiers are digging in. Almost
[0:21] overnight, they set up a cargo depot at
[0:23] a Turkish air base. C130s out with food,
[0:26] giant C5s in with gear. Today, Marine
[0:30] helicopters evacuated 65 Kurds from the
[0:32] mountaintop. The very ill, pregnant
[0:35] women. Kurds who have told one another
[0:37] for decades that they have no friends
[0:39] had never met helicopter crewman Patel
[0:41] Camre from Lake Charles.
[0:43] >> How's my big girl doing? You okay? Give
[0:46] me a high five. All right, give me a
[0:48] high five.
[0:48] >> We always say it's business. It's
[0:50] business. It's business. And a lot of
[0:51] guys saying, "Hey, it's getting a lot
[0:53] personal." Now, the US and its allies
[0:56] must coach the 500,000 Kurds suffering
[0:58] on the mountaintop to return to Iraq.
[1:00] Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said
[1:02] the goal is to get the camp up and
[1:04] running, then turn them over to the
[1:05] Kurds themselves. Number one, it is
[1:08] strictly a humanitarian operation, and
[1:10] number two, it's a temporary operation.
[1:12] >> The Kurdish fighters interpret the
[1:14] resettlement as a green light to launch
[1:16] a new attack on Saddam Hussein.
[1:18] >> We will continue our fighting. Uh so we
[1:21] want from uh a collision troop to
[1:23] support us politically and also
[1:25] militarily.
[1:26] >> If the Kurds battle Saddam and if he's
[1:28] provoked to respond, the US and allied
[1:31] soldiers may find they've chosen sides
[1:33] in a c