World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-01-24
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[0:04] [music]
[0:05] >> From ABC, this is a special edition of
[0:08] World News Tonight [music] with Peter
[0:09] Jennings.
[0:10] >> Good evening. At the beginning of this
[0:11] eighth day of the war, the Pentagon said
[0:13] that it was very satisfied. Saddam
[0:15] Hussein told the Iraqi people it's only
[0:17] a matter of time before the invaders
[0:19] leave.
[0:20] From Congress and the White House again,
[0:22] some cautionary words that the country
[0:23] may well be in for a long campaign to
[0:26] get the Iraqis out of Kuwait. And in the
[0:28] battle itself, 51 Iraqis taken prisoner
[0:31] as a speck of Kuwaiti territory falls
[0:34] into Allied hands.
[0:36] We begin with the specific campaign to
[0:37] get at the 150,000
[0:39] soldiers of the Republican Guard. Here's
[0:42] ABC's Bill Redeker.
[0:51] >> The air campaign is beginning to shift
[0:53] gears. Navy pilots in the Gulf say they
[0:56] are deliberately concentrating now on
[0:58] isolating and weakening the Republican
[1:01] Guards.
[1:01] >> Our target was a ammo dump, arms
[1:04] factory, and a Scud warhead site like
[1:06] you talked about.
[1:09] >> Did you get it?
[1:10] >> Pardon me?
[1:10] >> Did you get it?
[1:11] >> You bet.
[1:12] >> We're hitting military targets and we
[1:14] are not being restrained. We're being
[1:15] allowed to pick those targets.
[1:18] >> Aboard the aircraft carrier Ranger,
[1:20] clues to the next phase of the Allied
[1:22] campaign. Officers talked openly about
[1:25] isolating Iraqi troops in Kuwait and
[1:28] southern Iraq, targeting air and shore
[1:30] defenses in preparation for a possible
[1:33] marine amphibious assault.
[1:35] >> We've also gone after naval bases and
[1:37] the naval ports up the river just south
[1:40] of Basra in a place called Umm Qasr.
[1:42] And uh
[1:44] we have r