CBS Evening News - 1991-01-21
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[0:04] Iraq threatens to use Allied prisoners
[0:07] as human shields. President Bush says
[0:09] Saddam Hussein will be held accountable
[0:11] for any mistreatment. And US war
[0:14] plananes keep up attacks despite bad
[0:16] weather over Iraq.
[0:20] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:22] reporting. Good evening. 5 days into the
[0:25] Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein is
[0:27] bidding to shift the focus onto a
[0:29] potentially vulnerable point for
[0:31] Americans prisoners of war. Iraq said it
[0:33] now holds more than 20 US and allied
[0:36] airmen. It showed some of them bruised
[0:39] and bewildered on television and
[0:41] indicated they would be used as human
[0:43] shields at what were described as
[0:45] civilian, economic, and other targets
[0:48] inside Iraq. President Bush said
[0:50] immediately that he's angry. He said
[0:52] Saddam Hussein had violated
[0:54] international law, but said it would
[0:56] make no difference in the conduct of the
[0:58] war. Allied warplanes have now flown
[1:00] more than 8,000 sorties against Iraq and
[1:03] Kuwait. But many of Saddam's Scud
[1:06] missile launchers are apparently still
[1:07] intact. For his part, President Bush
[1:10] said he was outraged at Iraq publicly
[1:12] displaying American PS, putting words in
[1:14] their mouths under duress, and
[1:16] threatening to use them as human
[1:18] shields. He said this gave Saddam
[1:20] Hussein no psychological or military
[1:22] edge, but could leave Saddam open to
[1:25] prosecution as a war criminal. White
[1:27] House correspondent Wyatt Andrews has
[1:29] the latest. Wyatt. Dan. It was an angry
[1:32] President Bush who today bitterly
[1:34] denounced that what he called the brutal
[1:36] parading of those down pilots on
[1:38] television