World News Tonight (ABC) - 1993-01-17
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[0:02] The skies over Baghdad explode again as
[0:05] the US launches a new attack.
[0:10] >> Saddam Hussein is already vowing to
[0:12] retaliate. And while the Bush
[0:14] administration spends its final days
[0:16] tangling with an old enemy,
[0:18] President-elect Clinton arrives in
[0:20] Washington to take over the reigns of
[0:22] power. [music]
[0:25] From ABC News World News Sunday, here's
[0:30] Forest [music] Sawyer.
[0:31] >> Good evening. Once again, the United
[0:32] States has launched an air assault
[0:34] against Iraq, attacking what the US
[0:36] describes as a nuclear weapons research
[0:38] plan. The assault comes on the heels of
[0:40] Saddam Hussein's defiant rejection of
[0:42] the coalition's no-fly zones and his
[0:45] refusal to permit UN inspectors to move
[0:47] freely through Iraq. The flash point
[0:49] came early this morning with
[0:51] confrontations inside the northern
[0:53] no-fly zone and the US response came
[0:56] quickly. We begin with ABC's national
[0:58] security correspondent John McQuey.
[1:05] 2 years and a day after the beginning of
[1:08] the Gulf War, the skies over Baghdad
[1:10] again lit up with anti-aircraft fire.
[1:13] But this time, there were no airplanes
[1:15] involved in the attack, only low-flying
[1:18] cruise missiles launched from three
[1:20] American ships in the Persian Gulf and
[1:22] another in the Red Sea. Roughly 40
[1:24] cruise missiles were aimed at a single
[1:27] target in the suburbs of Baghdad. White
[1:29] House press secretary Marlon Fitzwwater
[1:31] said the target was the Zaffronia
[1:33] nuclear fabricating plant, which is
[1:35] roughly 8 miles from downtown. This
[1:38] plant made components for Iraq's nuclear
[1:40] enrichment program, including parts for
[1:43] its electromagne