CBS Evening News - 2001-02-16
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[0:00] On News Channel 5,
[0:04] >> a surprise strike at Sodom Hussein. US
[0:08] and British warplanes blast military
[0:10] targets on Baghdad's doorstep. Having
[0:13] fun on a nuclear sub. In the wake of the
[0:17] disaster, the Navy says enough of that.
[0:21] Renting legislators. How Firestone
[0:24] delays tire failure lawsuits in Texas.
[0:27] And everybody has a story. This one's
[0:30] about the healing power of love.
[0:37] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:40] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:43] headquarters in New York.
[0:45] >> Good evening. Less than one month into
[0:47] his presidency, George W. Bush ordered
[0:49] his first military action and on the
[0:51] receiving end today was his father's old
[0:54] nemesis, Saddam Hussein. A self-defense
[0:57] measure is what the Pentagon calls it.
[0:59] The surprise air strike was the sharpest
[1:01] against Iraq in more than two years. The
[1:04] targets, as CBS News national security
[1:06] correspondent David Martin reports, were
[1:08] Iraqi air defense control centers on the
[1:11] outskirts of Baghdad.
[1:13] Some of the targets were just 5 miles
[1:15] from Baghdad, and you could hear the
[1:17] Iraqi anti-aircraft guns open up. US and
[1:20] British aircraft struck 20 radar sites
[1:22] that had been used to direct
[1:24] increasingly accurate anti-aircraft fire
[1:26] at Allied planes policing the southern
[1:29] no-fly zone.
[1:30] >> Both the frequency and the
[1:33] more sophisticated command and control
[1:35] of their operations
[1:38] had yielded an increased threat to our
[1:41] aircraft and our crews. Strikes against
[1:44] Iraqi anti-aircraft sites like this one
[1:46] in 1999 are routine, but this was the
[1:49] first time in more than two years
[1:51] American planes had