CBS Evening News - 2002-01-15
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT1738S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 2002-01-15” from malgent, uploaded on 2026-01-19.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:01] Northwest.
[0:02] >> The new JFK Jr. book, plus the stars
[0:04] wedding. Next,
[0:07] the case against the American Taliban.
[0:11] John Walker is charged today with
[0:12] conspiring with terrorists to kill
[0:14] Americans. No death penalty, but he
[0:17] could get life. We'll show you how close
[0:20] terrorists got to US forces in
[0:22] Afghanistan. And Dan Rather talks to
[0:25] al-Qaeda prisoners near Kabell. CBS News
[0:28] shows you new evidence that Enrod may
[0:30] have misled its stockholding employees.
[0:33] And the Health Watch takes you to the
[0:35] front lines of the war against the
[0:38] common [snorts] cold.
[0:44] [music]
[0:46] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:50] Rather.
[0:51] >> And good evening, Dan. We'll be
[0:52] reporting from Afghanistan later on in
[0:55] this broadcast. I'm John Roberts.
[0:56] President Bush has decided that John
[0:58] Walker, the American Taliban, will be
[1:00] tried in a US civilian court, not for
[1:03] treason, but for a conspiracy to kill
[1:05] Americans in Afghanistan and for
[1:08] providing support for terrorists.
[1:10] Terrorists he knew were behind the
[1:12] September 11th attacks that killed
[1:14] thousands of his fellow Americans.
[1:16] Walker, held now aboard the USS Baton in
[1:19] the Arabian Sea, will be tried in
[1:21] Virginia federal court. Jim Stewart
[1:24] reports in the case of the United States
[1:26] versus John Walker.
[1:29] >> The headline from the government's
[1:30] charge against Walker is that this was
[1:32] far from being a naive youth who
[1:34] stumbled into terrorism, but rather was
[1:36] a dedicated al-Qaeda rifleman who worked
[1:38] his way up Osama bin Laden's network.
[1:41] >> At each crossroad, Walker faced a
[1:44] choice. And with each choice, he chose
[1:49] to