NBC Nightly News - 1991-02-01
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[0:00] Baby
[0:00] >> NBC Nightly News with Tom Bro. Tonight,
[0:04] America at war.
[0:07] >> Good evening. As we approach the end of
[0:09] week three of the war in the Persian
[0:11] Gulf, the Iranians now are trying to get
[0:13] involved as peace brokers while the
[0:16] Allied air war continues without letup.
[0:18] The Iranian offer remains just that, an
[0:20] offer to mediate. However, as NBC's Fred
[0:23] Francis at the Pentagon tells us now,
[0:25] American military strategists are much
[0:27] more concerned with Iraq's military
[0:29] planning. Fred,
[0:31] >> Tom, that's right. Pentagon intelligence
[0:33] analysts say they expect Saddam Hussein
[0:35] to again order some of his ground
[0:37] troops, to go on the attack before US
[0:39] troops are ready for their own
[0:40] offensive.
[0:43] Saddam has his Republican guards,
[0:45] 150,000 men with tanks on the northern
[0:47] border. But in Kuwait and near Saudi
[0:50] territory are tens of thousands of other
[0:52] combat ready troops with heavy tanks. As
[0:55] US forces spread out facing those troops
[0:58] and the Iraqi border, there is a
[1:00] constant surveillance, spy satellites,
[1:02] warning aircraft, and reconnaissance
[1:03] patrols waiting to spot an Iraqi thrust
[1:06] south. Unlike last week's probing action
[1:09] with 5 to 600 men in four locations, it
[1:12] would not surprise Pentagon sources if
[1:14] Saddam sent at least 10,000 men into
[1:17] Saudi Arabia. More important, say the
[1:19] sources, lightly dug in US divisions
[1:22] would be unable to repel the attack
[1:24] immediately. But by the second day of
[1:26] the assault, the sources believe it
[1:28] would evolve into a killing zone. US
[1:30] tanks would close on Iraqi flanks.
[1:33] Artillery would block a retreat. An