America Tonight (CBS) - 1991-01-15
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[0:00] situation. News Channel 5 is airing this
[0:02] special edition of America Tonight. Stay
[0:04] tuned. Entertainment Tonight will follow
[0:05] this program at 11:30.
[0:11] Now, a special hourlong edition of
[0:13] America Tonight. The deadline is here.
[0:16] Are we a half hour from war? Will Iraq
[0:18] move first? We'll go live to Israel,
[0:20] Saudi Arabia, Baghdad, the Pentagon, the
[0:23] White House, and Aman, Jordan.
[0:26] A new report pinpoints likely Iraqi
[0:29] terrorist targets in the United States.
[0:31] Warnings are already spreading across
[0:33] the nation.
[0:35] And new waves of descent as the war
[0:37] deadline arrives
[0:49] from CBS News. This is America Tonight
[0:53] with Dan Rather and Charles Caralt in
[0:55] New York and Leslie Stall in Washington.
[0:58] >> Good evening. The minutes are ticking
[1:00] away. Midnight is the time appointed by
[1:03] the world for Iraq to leave Kuwait. And
[1:06] as far as we can tell, not one of the
[1:08] 545,000
[1:09] Iraqi soldiers in that little country
[1:11] has budged. So now they face 680,000 US
[1:15] and allied troops authorized by the UN
[1:18] to attack anytime after the next few
[1:21] minutes have passed. We will be here
[1:23] with you to see the deadline come and
[1:24] go. The diplomats are talked out,
[1:27] exhausted and desparing after doing
[1:29] their best. Western ambassadors have
[1:32] left Baghdad for their safety. And
[1:34] tonight, Iraq's ambassador to the United
[1:36] States, Muhammad al- Mashhat, left
[1:38] Washington.
[1:39] We do not want war. We have said it time
[1:43] again. We will not be the first one to
[1:46] attack at all. We are only defending
[1:50] ourself. But if we are attacked, then
[1:53] God knows where the flame where the
[1:55] flame will reach.