Iraq War - CBS News - 2003-03-21 - 4 p.m. (E)
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[0:05] This CBS News special report is part of
[0:08] our continuing coverage of America at
[0:11] War
[0:12] from CBS News headquarters in New York.
[0:15] Here is Dan Rabbit. 400 p.m. in the East
[0:18] USA. Midnight in Baghdad. Badly hit
[0:22] Baghdad. Headlines at this hour. The US
[0:25] launched its quote shock and awe. the
[0:27] shock and all air attack on Baghdad and
[0:29] other Iraqi targets including uh Mosul
[0:32] and this afternoon. This attack on B on
[0:37] Baghdad was spearheaded by more than 300
[0:40] sea launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
[0:43] Parts of the presidential complex along
[0:45] the Tigers River in the capital have
[0:48] been hit. At a Pentagon briefing earlier
[0:50] this afternoon, Secretary of Defense
[0:52] Rumsfeld said Saddam Hussein's regime is
[0:54] quote losing control of its country. On
[0:57] the ground, CBS News correspondents in
[0:59] the field report and show Iraqi troops
[1:02] have been surrendering to they and US
[1:04] forces drive deeper into southern Iraq.
[1:07] American soldiers are now more than 100
[1:09] miles deep into the country. Baghdad is
[1:12] a roughly 300 miles from the Kuwait
[1:14] border uh to Baghdad. The third infantry
[1:17] division has reached up more than 100
[1:19] miles in. What you're looking at are
[1:21] pictures of surrendering troops. And the
[1:23] Pentagon says two US Marines have been
[1:26] shot have died in combat thus far. Now
[1:30] just in and this has been back and forth
[1:32] for days. Washington now says has
[1:35] confirmed that Turkey has agreed to open
[1:37] its airspace to US aircraft to attack
[1:40] Iraq and that eases some frustration.
[1:43] Yesterday Turkey had officially notified
[1:46] that they would open the airspace but
[1:47] earlier th