CBS News - Desert Storm - ground war begins - 5 of 6

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[0:00] 5 more news more experience more

[0:03] [Music]

[0:07] often you're watching CBS News

[0:10] continuing coverage of the war in the

[0:12] Gulf from Saudi Arabia here is Dan

[0:15] Rather here are the headlines of this

[0:18] hour us and Allied troops began the

[0:20] ground push into Kuwait and perhaps into

[0:22] Southern Iraq the Pentagon clamps a lid

[0:25] on virtually all news from the war zone

[0:27] the French say that they're going to

[0:28] brief the p uh Iraq answers with another

[0:31] scud attack into Saudi Arabia part of a

[0:33] scud hit a school in Riad what President

[0:36] Bush calls now quote the Final Phase of

[0:38] Operation Desert Storm is well underway

[0:41] and unfolding on the desert that is the

[0:44] border between Saudi Arabia Kuwait and

[0:47] Iraq American Allied troops massed on

[0:49] the border between Saudi Arabia and

[0:51] Kuwait they've begun to move into

[0:53] occupied Kuwait details are hard to come

[0:56] by at this hour since the Pentagon has

[0:58] blacked out almost all information uh

[1:01] saying that it did not in any way want

[1:03] to endanger US troops US News

[1:05] organizations or cooperating uh an Iraqi

[1:08] scud missile struck the Iraq the capital

[1:12] of Riad the Saudi Arabian Capital doing

[1:14] some heavy damage to what appears to be

[1:16] a school there are no reports of

[1:18] injuries in this latest missile attack

[1:20] on Riad there are now reports that

[1:22] President Bush made up his mind some

[1:24] time ago that the moment of attack if

[1:26] possible could come on Saturday night

[1:28] eastern US times

[1:30] among the reasons were what Mr Bush

[1:32] called Iraq's scorched Earth policy

[1:35] inside Kuwait latest reports from the

[1:37] Pentagon say that as many as 300 Kuwai