CBS News - Desert Storm - ground war begins - 6 of 6
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:07] you're watching CBS News continuing
[0:09] coverage of the war in the Gulf from
[0:12] Saudi Arabia here is Dan
[0:15] Rather from the US and Allied side from
[0:19] its point of view so far so good in the
[0:22] launching of the ground war offensive
[0:23] but it's still in the early stages here
[0:25] are the headlines of the hour Operation
[0:27] Desert Storm enters what President Bush
[0:29] is called its Final Phase with the
[0:31] battle on the ground the Pentagon puts
[0:33] the lid on all information from the
[0:35] front from the American side the British
[0:37] French and Arab sources are still
[0:39] talking the US charges Iraq with last
[0:41] minute atrocities inside Kuwait after
[0:44] more than 5 weeks of a fierce war in the
[0:48] air the ground war has finally begun
[0:51] Arab and British sources say now that
[0:53] the Allied Forces are as far as 18 Mi
[0:56] inside Kuwait they have attacked on at
[0:59] least two other front and possibly an
[1:01] amphibious assault is underway there are
[1:03] also British reports of an Allied
[1:04] incursion into Southern Iraq that's the
[1:07] one that General Christen Bob sheer
[1:08] talking about a moment ago which is
[1:10] expected to be the main attack There is
[1:12] almost no information available from the
[1:14] US military understandably defense
[1:16] secretary Dick Cheney uh says the
[1:18] Pentagon is going to be
[1:21] silent when it is safe to begin
[1:24] discussing the operation we will do so
[1:26] in as much detail as we prudently can
[1:29] but for for now our regular briefing
[1:32] schedule here at the Pentagon and in
[1:34] Riad is suspended until further
[1:37] notice as the battle was about to begin
[1:40] US military spokesman at the Pentagon
[1:42] and here i