CBS Evening News - 2003-01-18
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT1759S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 2003-01-18” from malgent, uploaded on 2026-01-18.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:02] from Lanica, Cyprus. Chief UN weapons
[0:05] inspector Hans Blicks tells CBS News,
[0:08] "Iraq must open itself more fully to
[0:10] scrutiny and fast.
[0:12] >> Time is running out and the situation is
[0:14] very tense."
[0:15] >> In Iraq today, inspections at a faster
[0:18] pace, but also more evidence of foot
[0:21] dragging.
[0:22] Also, a day of protest. Tens of
[0:25] thousands rally across the country to
[0:27] oppose military action against Iraq. And
[0:31] soaring [music] prices for natural gas,
[0:33] putting a chill on the US economy.
[0:37] [music]
[0:41] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:44] Rather [music] reporting tonight from
[0:46] Lica, Cypress, and Russ Mitchell from
[0:48] New York. Good evening from Cyprus from
[0:50] where Chief UN arms inspector Hans
[0:52] Blicks is preparing to leave tomorrow
[0:54] for Baghdad. Today his search team
[0:57] stepped up the pace visiting at least
[0:59] five sites including a complex just
[1:02] south of Baghdad that once was the home
[1:04] of Iraq's nuclear program. But an effort
[1:07] to inspect sites in the northern no-fly
[1:09] zone was stymied by Baghdad's insistence
[1:12] that the teams let Iraqi helicopters
[1:14] come along, which of course are banned
[1:17] from that area. There's also word
[1:19] tonight that the papers seized Thursday
[1:21] from the home of a top Iraqi scientist
[1:24] appear to relate to laser enrichment of
[1:26] uranium mafia. For his part, that
[1:29] scientist claimed today that the
[1:31] inspector used quote mafia-like tactics,
[1:34] including an effort to lure him out of
[1:36] the country by promising medical care
[1:38] for his ailing wife. I discussed all of
[1:40] this a short while ago in an interview
[1:42] with Hans Blicks and Muhammad Alvardi