CBS Evening News - 1991-02-26
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[0:01] [music]
[0:04] CBS News exclusive report. Inside a free
[0:07] Kuwait city. Iraqi soldiers surrendering
[0:11] by the tens of thousands. And the noose
[0:14] is tightened on Saddam's encircled
[0:16] [music] army.
[0:20] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:22] reporting live [music] from Saudi Arabia
[0:24] with a special war update edition. Good
[0:27] evening. Saddam Hussein's best troops,
[0:30] his Republican guard, is encircled in
[0:32] the desert night. It's in the process of
[0:34] being annihilated if it doesn't
[0:36] surrender. With his army collapsing and
[0:39] his guards caught in an ever tightening
[0:41] vice. Saddam himself tried today to
[0:44] declare victory and beat it out of
[0:45] Kuwait. President Bush called that quote
[0:48] an outrage and said the war will go on
[0:50] with unddeminished intensity. Tonight,
[0:54] Kuwait city is free and Allied forces
[0:57] are driving on.
[0:59] >> The Iraqi army is in full retreat.
[1:02] >> There are areas of resistance, but many
[1:05] of those who weren't retreating were
[1:07] giving up. Allied commanders said the
[1:09] prisoners came in so fast they couldn't
[1:11] even count them. The latest estimate,
[1:14] 30,000 plus. Nearly half the Iraqi army
[1:17] is considered out of action now.
[1:21] Allied forces tightened their noose with
[1:23] a series of swift encircling movements
[1:25] that stretched nearly 300 m across the
[1:27] desert battlefield. From the west, an
[1:30] American airborne brigade, the 82nd
[1:32] leaprogged to the Euphrates River. Their
[1:34] mission block the escape of the
[1:36] Republican Guard northward. To the east,
[1:39] the main US Army's armored force, the
[1:42] Giant Seventh Corps and British armored
[1:44] units are engaging the Iraqi Repu