CBS Evening News - 2003-03-08
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[0:01] Defiance in Baghdad. Facing a
[0:03] disarmament deadline, Saddam Hussein
[0:05] makes a demand of his own. President
[0:08] Bush tries diplomacy by telephone in the
[0:10] search for UN votes. Friend or foe, the
[0:14] high-tech systems the military hopes
[0:16] will prevent deadly mistakes. And the
[0:19] innovator who's struggling for a toe
[0:20] hold in the ballet shoe market.
[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:31] with Russ Mitchell.
[0:36] And good evening. In the war of words
[0:38] between Washington and Baghdad, Saddam
[0:40] Hussein struck back today. One day after
[0:43] UN weapons inspectors said Iraq is
[0:44] slowly cooperating with their mission,
[0:46] the Iraqi leader called on the UN to
[0:48] lift 12 years of sanctions against his
[0:50] country. Then he took direct aim at the
[0:52] US. CBS News correspondent Larara Logan
[0:55] in Baghdad has the latest.
[0:58] >> This is how Iraqi people saw their
[1:00] leader today. Calm and in control as he
[1:03] met with his government. President
[1:05] Saddam Hussein making it clear he's not
[1:08] backing down in the face of a possible
[1:10] war with the United States. In fact,
[1:13] he's on the offensive. Defiant as ever,
[1:16] he called on the Security Council to
[1:18] strip first Israel and then America of
[1:20] their weapons of mass destruction.
[1:23] But around the capital, there were signs
[1:25] the Iraqi leadership is not quite as
[1:27] confident as it appears in public.
[1:30] Uniformed soldiers were seen for the
[1:31] first time defending road junctions in
[1:34] Baghdad. More sandbagged fighting
[1:36] positions and foxholes appeared in the
[1:38] city streets.
[1:41] We are building defenses in case the
[1:43] Americans attack. He said there are over
[1:46] 5 million peo