CBS News - Operation Desert Fox begins - 1998-12-16
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[0:01] These sights and sounds of Baghdad, it's
[0:04] after midnight now just coming up soon
[0:07] after 1:00 a.m.
[0:10] Baghdad time.
[0:12] It is in the darkness, among the darkest
[0:15] hours of the night that this attack
[0:16] began.
[0:17] Uh within the last hour.
[0:21] From time to time
[0:23] these sporadic rumblings in the
[0:24] background. We pause to see if we can
[0:26] pick some of those up.
[0:28] Those of you have been with us saw
[0:30] before bursts of fire, uh anti-aircraft
[0:33] fire.
[0:35] Here comes some more.
[0:41] Mark Phillips.
[0:45] There is anti-aircraft fire all over the
[0:47] sky one more time.
[0:49] Flashes, dozens,
[0:51] hundreds I'd say at this point of
[0:53] anti-aircraft uh flashes. We were
[0:55] hearing for a long time deeper deeper
[0:58] rumblings off in the distance, which
[1:00] might have been incoming fire.
[1:02] And then Baghdad sky has lit up one more
[1:04] time here.
[1:08] Tracer fire up to my left over here.
[1:10] We're I'm going to step back out of the
[1:11] sight here because we're getting some
[1:14] What goes up must come down, and some
[1:16] stuff is coming down around us right
[1:18] now.
[1:21] Well, if the hour of attack
[1:23] designated by President Clinton was 5:00
[1:25] p.m. Eastern time USA,
[1:28] and the first cruise missiles landed
[1:29] within 1 minute of that target hour.
[1:39] How close was that um
[1:42] We're still here. It's gone quiet again
[1:43] here now. It's gone quiet again, Dan, uh
[1:46] here in Baghdad. Uh there was that uh
[1:48] flurry Here comes some more now. Uh
[1:50] there was a flurry of activity here uh
[1:52] about a minute ago, and it looks like it
[1:54] might open up again. Anti-aircraft fire
[1:56] with deeper rumbles that would indicate
[1:58] incoming uh cruise missiles perhaps.
[2:00] Cannot confirm