CBS Evening News - 2003-02-26
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[0:02] Tonight's headlines, the march toward
[0:05] war. Iraq repositions its forces. Saddam
[0:09] tells CBS [music] News he will not seek
[0:11] asylum.
[0:12] President Bush tells the nation why
[0:14] Saddam must go.
[0:16] Also tonight, engineers, it turns out,
[0:19] warned of an impending shuttle disaster
[0:22] less than a day before it happened. And
[0:25] they blew the whistle on security
[0:27] violations at the Los Alamos nuclear
[0:29] weapons lab. Now, they're blowing it
[0:32] again.
[0:36] >> [music]
[0:39] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:42] Rather [music] reporting from CBS News
[0:44] headquarters in New York.
[0:47] >> Good evening. A new war with Iraq
[0:48] appears more likely than ever tonight
[0:50] and sooner rather than later. The United
[0:53] States today dismissed a Canadian plan
[0:55] to give Saddam Hussein a March 28th
[0:57] deadline saying it is, quote, only
[1:00] procrastination. And as more US forces
[1:03] deployed near his borders, Saddam
[1:05] finally began openly maneuvering some of
[1:07] his forces to new positions. Iraqi
[1:09] police set up defensive fortifications
[1:12] at key sites in western Baghdad today.
[1:15] And CBS's David Martin reports some of
[1:17] Saddam's best army units are on the
[1:20] move.
[1:21] >> In the face of an American build-up
[1:23] which has now reached 210,000, Iraq has
[1:25] begun the first major repositioning of
[1:28] its forces in preparation for war.
[1:30] A Republican Guard division in northern
[1:32] Iraq has begun moving south, probably to
[1:35] Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit,
[1:37] possibly all the way to Baghdad.
[1:39] Saddam is still trying to avoid war by
[1:42] making concessions to the weapons
[1:43] inspectors. But in case that fails, he
[1:45] is pulling his elite