World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-01-20
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[0:00] war.
[0:04] From ABC [music] News, World News
[0:07] Sunday. From New York, here's Diane
[0:10] Sawyer. Good evening. Saddam Hussein
[0:12] decided to make his presence felt today
[0:14] as evidenced in two major stories from
[0:16] the Gulf tonight. In Saudi Arabia, in
[0:19] the capital of Riyadh and in the eastern
[0:21] city of Dhahran, it has been a night of
[0:23] sirens and racing to the air raid
[0:25] shelters. Iraq has fired off three Scud
[0:28] missiles at Dhahran. US interceptor
[0:30] missiles streaked into the sky to shoot
[0:32] them down. Then later, more of those
[0:34] improved Scud missiles streaked in on
[0:36] Dhahran and Riyadh. Again, Patriots were
[0:38] launched to intercept them. At the same
[0:41] time, 600 miles away in the Iraqi
[0:43] capital of Baghdad, Americans are being
[0:45] held prisoner. Iraqi television paraded
[0:48] seven men in front of the cameras today.
[0:50] Iraq claims all seven are captured
[0:52] flyers. Three of them are American. We
[0:55] begin with the missile attack on Saudi
[0:57] Arabia and ABC's Forrest Sawyer who is
[0:59] there.
[1:05] Bright dots in the night sky, streams of
[1:08] US Patriot missiles chasing Iraqi Scuds.
[1:14] In Dhahran, it has been a night of air
[1:16] raid alerts driving local residents and
[1:18] journalists into shelters where they
[1:20] huddled with gas masks and chemical
[1:22] suits. This has been the toughest test
[1:24] the Patriots have had to face so far.
[1:27] Earlier in the day, at the Kuwaiti
[1:28] border, Marine Harrier jets dropped
[1:30] flares to confuse surface-to-air
[1:32] missiles and then moved in to bomb Iraqi
[1:35] positions.
[1:38] Coalition aircraft have flown over 7,000
[1:41] sorties in 72 hours. Despite hazy
[1:43] weather, they have broken co