World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-01-29
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[0:00] See you back here at 6.
[0:03] >> From ABC, this [music] is World News
[0:06] Tonight with Peter Jennings.
[0:07] >> Good evening. In the last 24 hours of
[0:09] war, the Iraqis say that one of the
[0:11] Allied prisoners of war has been killed
[0:13] during an Allied bombing raid on a
[0:15] government building in Baghdad. The oil
[0:17] slick in the Persian Gulf is spreading
[0:18] out and still moving south towards Saudi
[0:21] Arabia. And more Iraqi aircraft have
[0:23] left the battle altogether and taken off
[0:26] for Iran, which is the subject with
[0:28] which we begin. First at the Pentagon,
[0:30] ABC's Bob Zelnik.
[0:33] >> According to the Pentagon, about a dozen
[0:35] Iraqi aircraft fled to Iran during the
[0:37] past 24 hours. Overall, Iraq has sent at
[0:40] least 75 top-of-the-line combat aircraft
[0:43] to Iran, including about 40 F1 Mirage
[0:47] jets and 15 MiG 29s. Publicly, the
[0:50] military says there is no cause for
[0:52] concern.
[0:53] >> They have fleeed the battlefield. they
[0:56] don't have their maintenance facilities
[0:58] with them. Therefore, it is more
[1:00] difficult for them to participate in a
[1:02] battle. So, from my perspective, yes, I
[1:04] see it as a as a net plus for the
[1:06] coalition.
[1:07] >> But Pentagon officials privately
[1:08] expressed concern about the 30 transport
[1:11] planes also sent to Iran since these
[1:13] could well have carried weapons and
[1:15] spare parts for later use by the
[1:17] fighters. Military officials say Iran's
[1:20] airfields are now being closely
[1:22] monitored by satellite and Awax radar
[1:24] planes to make sure the Iraqi planes do
[1:26] not move any closer to US ground or
[1:29] naval forces than they are now.
[1:31] >> They're further away now from American