CBS Evening News - 1994-10-07
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[0:04] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:08] with Dan Rather and Connie Chung.
[0:12] >> Good evening. US military forces are on
[0:14] the move again tonight to head off a
[0:17] possible new threat from Saddam Hussein.
[0:19] >> It's all quiet tonight on the border of
[0:21] Iraq and Kuwait, but tens of thousands
[0:23] of Iraqi troops are massing not far
[0:25] away. The reasons are not clear, but the
[0:28] danger is. So, President Clinton has
[0:30] fired off a warning and ordered a
[0:32] military buildup in the Gulf region.
[0:34] National Security Correspondent David
[0:36] Martin has the latest from the Pentagon.
[0:40] >> Saddam Hussein has moved a Republican
[0:42] Guard division to within 20 m of the
[0:44] Kuwaiti border, the most threatening
[0:46] Iraqi troop movement since the end of
[0:48] the Persian Gulf War. The movements are
[0:51] not routine and they're not typical of
[0:53] what we have seen in the past and
[0:55] therefore they do cause us concern.
[0:57] >> A German journalist just back from
[0:58] southern Iraq saw some of the troops
[1:00] moving toward Kuwait.
[1:02] >> The troops that I have seen, well, the
[1:04] convoys were about 30 kilometers long.
[1:06] >> There are now 40 to 50,000 Iraqi troops
[1:09] just north of Kuwait, well short of the
[1:11] 120,000 Saddam masked along the border
[1:14] just before he invaded Kuwait in 1990.
[1:16] >> We are watching it very closely. We are
[1:19] taking the necessary steps
[1:22] uh as a precaution to deal with this
[1:25] issue.
[1:26] >> The US has considerably more force in
[1:28] the area now than it did back in 1990.
[1:31] 2,000 Marines and two Navy warships
[1:33] armed with cruise missiles are already
[1:35] in the Persian Gulf. The Air Force has a
[1:37] total of 70 combat