CBS Evening News - 2003-03-13
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[0:02] Tonight's headlines. US officials tell
[0:05] CBS News al-Qaeda is basically defeated.
[0:08] US and Iraqi forces now within shooting
[0:11] range of each other. Elizabeth Smarts
[0:14] first night at home in 9 months. Also
[0:17] tonight, new details about where
[0:19] Elizabeth was for those months and about
[0:22] her bizarre capitals. The worst
[0:24] sandstorm yet hits the huge US force in
[0:27] northern Kuwait's desert. And
[0:29] heartwarming news about an infant back
[0:31] home for a US Marine serving thousands
[0:34] of miles away.
[0:38] [music]
[0:41] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:44] [music] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:46] headquarters in New York.
[0:48] >> Good evening. It has been 1 and 1/2
[0:50] years now since the attack on America.
[0:52] one and a half years since the United
[0:54] States declared war on the terror
[0:56] network behind the murders of nearly
[0:58] 3,000 people. And US officials are
[1:01] telling CBS News tonight the war against
[1:04] al-Qaeda as they see it has been won.
[1:07] And while that undoubtedly would be
[1:09] great news, they are quick to point out
[1:10] that the overall war on terror is far
[1:13] from over. CBS's Jim Stewart reports
[1:16] tonight on the apparent collapse of
[1:18] al-Qaeda.
[1:20] The training tapes they left behind
[1:22] still look scary. And the voice of Osama
[1:25] bin Laden has never been more
[1:26] threatening.
[1:28] >> But privately, several senior US
[1:31] officials have concluded that al-Qaeda
[1:32] has effectively been defeated and are
[1:35] now planning on how to battle its
[1:36] successor. Officials say they have
[1:38] detected that supporters of al-Qaeda
[1:40] have also begun exploring a postbin
[1:43] Laden future. Rather than choose a
[1:45] successor from a