Today (NBC) (Western) - 2003-03-20 - Iraq War begins

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[0:37] from NBC News. This is a special edition

[0:40] of Today with Katie Curry and Matt Blau.

[0:48] Good morning. Did the US get Saddam?

[0:50] That is the question being asked at the

[0:52] Pentagon today, Thursday, March 20th,

[0:55] 2003.

[0:57] [Music]

[1:12] And welcome to this special edition of

[1:14] Today on a Thursday morning. I'm Matt

[1:16] Lowau at Central Command headquarters in

[1:18] Cutter. Katie is back in New York and

[1:20] she's holding down the fort there.

[1:21] Katie, good morning.

[1:22] >> Matt, good morning to you. Of course,

[1:23] it's 10 a.m. Eastern time, 7 a.m.

[1:26] Pacific. The US bombing of Baghdad

[1:28] started Wednesday evening about 9:30

[1:30] Eastern time, 5:30 a.m. in Baghdad. This

[1:33] initial US attack on the city was aimed

[1:36] at a target of opportunity after the CIA

[1:38] told President Bush that Saddam and his

[1:40] top military leaders were meeting at a

[1:42] house there. The initial bombing used

[1:44] about three dozen tomahawk missiles

[1:46] launched from Navy ships and submarines

[1:48] in the Persian Gulf in the Red Sea and

[1:50] bombs from stealth fighter jets. Saddam

[1:53] appeared to deliver a defiant address on