Iraq War - "Shock and Awe" - ABC News - 2003-03-21
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[0:00] really really really bad
[0:04] idea this is an ABC News special
[0:09] report war with
[0:12] Iraq now reporting Peter
[0:15] Jennings well that didn't take long that
[0:17] didn't take long we said we'd be back at
[0:19] a moment's notice Baghdad is being
[0:23] hit 8:59 just before 9:00 in the evening
[0:27] just seconds after we went off the air
[0:30] we're back on the
[0:31] air to see this
[0:36] bombardment Richard angle in Baghdad
[0:39] tell us what you know yes I'm here Peter
[0:41] go
[0:43] ahead well it just as soon as we got off
[0:46] the LA off air it just wow the whole Sky
[0:49] just lit up is lighting up in front of
[0:52] me you can hear the they are right on
[0:56] the other side of the water I guess
[0:58] these are presidential uh sites
[1:01] basically the entire western side of the
[1:04] uh of the uh of the river is now is now
[1:07] smoking there's another blue Supply I
[1:10] guess you'll hear
[1:12] the there it is um that'll give you
[1:16] intense the idea of how close uh
[1:19] unfortunately uh this is right now all
[1:21] of the small buildings these main
[1:23] government buildings that are on the
[1:24] other side of the river are now on fire
[1:29] the this is this is like nothing we've
[1:31] seen before if this is this is uh this
[1:34] is shocking uh and this is all inspiring
[1:38] I don't know if that's what this is
[1:39] intended to be and if that's the
[1:41] technical military thing but this is
[1:43] much much more intense than than
[1:45] anything we've had earlier uh it's hard
[1:48] to even see the western side of the city
[1:51] because it's it's just all up in smoke
[1:54] uh there's occasional
[1:57] missiles uh explosions coming down uh
[2:00] large
[2:01] explosions uh I don't know what what can
[2:04] you see on the on the