CBS Evening News - 1994-10-09
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[0:00] American
[0:01] troops are on the
[0:04] American troops are on the move headed
[0:06] back to the Persian Gulf where Kuwaiti
[0:08] forces are already drawing a line in the
[0:10] sand against Saddam Hussein.
[0:13] And in Haiti, General Sadas has decided
[0:16] to give up power tomorrow.
[0:20] This is the CBS Evening [music] News.
[0:26] [music]
[0:26] Edie Magnus reporting. Good evening
[0:28] everyone. Is he bluffing or could Saddam
[0:31] Hussein really be contemplating a second
[0:34] invasion of Kuwait? With that question
[0:36] hanging in the air and some 60,000 plus
[0:39] Iraqi soldiers amassing along the border
[0:41] between Iraq and Kuwait, the United
[0:44] States and its allies are taking no
[0:46] chances. US troop movements toward the
[0:48] area have increased dramatically and so
[0:50] has the hardline rhetoric. We have a
[0:52] series of reports beginning with David
[0:54] Martin at the Pentagon.
[0:56] Corpal Hoover.
[0:58] >> The leading edge of an 18,000man Marine
[1:00] brigade flew out of California for the
[1:02] Persian Gulf today as the Clinton
[1:05] administration scrambled to head off a
[1:07] possible Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
[1:09] >> Been there before, know what to expect,
[1:12] so yes, I'm prepared.
[1:14] >> But it is an agonizingly slow operation.
[1:17] The first to go were not combat troops,
[1:19] but cargo handlers to unload ships
[1:21] carrying combat equipment.
[1:24] With more than 60,000 Iraqi troops now
[1:26] on the Kuwaiti border and with no
[1:28] American ground combat forces yet in
[1:30] position, the Pentagon today began
[1:32] building up its air power in Saudi
[1:34] Arabia, ordering the deployment of about
[1:36] 50 warplanes from US bases. Saddam
[1:40] Hussein will be watching all these
[1:41] deployments on t