World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-03-02
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[0:02] From ABC News, World News Saturday,
[0:07] here's [music] Carol Simpson. Good
[0:08] evening. Allied leaders spent this
[0:10] Saturday getting ready to hammer out the
[0:12] terms of Saddam Hussein's surrender. The
[0:15] United Nations Security Council moved
[0:17] toward adopting an official ceasefire
[0:19] resolution as the deadline neared for
[0:21] formal talks with Iraq's defeated
[0:23] generals tomorrow. At the same time,
[0:26] there are reports today that the war's
[0:28] aftermath has brought about a total
[0:30] collapse of civil control in the
[0:32] southern Iraqi city of Bazra. More from
[0:35] ABC's Bill Riker.
[0:39] >> When Allied bombers attacked Bazra 3
[0:42] weeks ago, they crippled a city already
[0:44] ravaged by 8 years of fighting during
[0:46] the Iran Iraq War. Now, reports that
[0:49] Iraqi soldiers returning from the
[0:51] battlefield have plunged the city into
[0:53] chaos. These Sri Lankan workers say they
[0:56] were freed from a prison in Bazra by
[0:58] Iraqis angry with Saddam Hussein.
[1:01] >> Basra city is everybody fighting. I mean
[1:04] the people who support for government,
[1:06] the people who is not supporting for
[1:07] government. Now 90% of Iraqi people hate
[1:12] hate Sdan tanker and lorries and army
[1:16] track everyone everywhere fire
[1:18] >> in Riad at the Allied Central Command.
[1:21] General Richard Neil says aerial
[1:23] reconnaissance confirms the disorder.
[1:25] >> Um some of our overhead uh um pictures
[1:29] have indicated a lot of chaos and I
[1:33] think the soldiers are bringing back
[1:34] stories of uh disenchantment.
[1:36] >> To the west of Bazra, US forces in
[1:39] southern Iraq report another 1,000 Iraqi
[1:41] soldiers surrendered today and became
[1:44] the latest priso