World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-01-30
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[0:00] We'll be back here tonight at 6:30.
[0:05] >> From ABC, this is a special edition of
[0:08] World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
[0:11] >> Good evening. In the war, the first
[0:13] Marines have died in ground combat, and
[0:14] the commander-in-chief of the Allied
[0:16] Forces in the Persian Gulf has made it
[0:17] clear that he thinks the Iraqi army is
[0:20] in very serious trouble.
[0:22] It is 2 weeks tonight since the war
[0:23] began. General Norman Schwarzkopf said
[0:25] today that a third of all Iraqi command
[0:28] and control facilities have been
[0:29] destroyed. It's early warning system in
[0:31] case of air attack has completely
[0:33] failed. Hundreds of tons of bombs are
[0:36] being dropped on Iraq's best soldiers.
[0:38] Those in Kuwait have been, says the
[0:41] general, dramatically cut off from
[0:42] reinforcements.
[0:44] In a moment, a full report on those
[0:45] broad strokes of the overall war effort,
[0:48] but we begin with Iraq's first defensive
[0:50] on the ground inside Saudi Arabia, and
[0:53] the 12 Marines who died trying to drive
[0:55] them back.
[0:56] Here's ABC's Bill Redeker.
[0:59] >> Gunner, STAND BY.
[1:02] FIRE.
[1:06] >> MARINES FIRING long-range howitzers
[1:08] tried to drive back Iraqi forces that
[1:10] invaded Khafji 6 miles inside Saudi
[1:13] Arabia. At one point, they thought the
[1:16] Iraqis had surrendered.
[1:17] >> It looks like uh two battalions of uh
[1:21] Iraqis are wishing to surrender, and
[1:23] that uh they comprise approximately 80
[1:25] tanks.
[1:28] >> Instead, Iraqi tanks turned and fired on
[1:31] Saudi positions. The Marines took cover,
[1:34] thinking they too might be hit. But
[1:36] there was no return fire.
[1:38] >> I think that if anything, it's more of
[1:40] harassing move, and know t