CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 3:37 a.m. (E)
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[0:00] Colonel, your name. Can you spell your
[0:03] name for us, please? K L I N E,
[0:17] tell us tell us what happened last
[0:19] night.
[0:21] Well, the uh we got the execute order uh
[0:24] late yesterday afternoon and we uh went
[0:27] through our mission planning and uh
[0:30] tried to get what sleep we could and
[0:32] then uh got up uh early this morning,
[0:34] went and executed uh our mission.
[0:37] >> And can you what what can you tell us
[0:39] something about what you did? Did you uh
[0:42] fly into Iraq? Did you escort a a a
[0:46] strike force? What did you do last
[0:48] night?
[0:49] We uh we flew into Iraq and uh we did
[0:52] escort. We uh escorted multinational
[0:56] force and uh had the ability uh to go in
[1:01] there. I can't get into numbers of
[1:02] different type of aircraft for what
[1:04] targets were, anything like that, but uh
[1:07] we uh went in with a group of guys and
[1:10] uh we got everybody out and that was the
[1:12] most important thing to us. So, our
[1:14] entire package got in and out and uh we
[1:16] felt pretty happy about that.
[1:19] >> Now, did you encounter any resistance?
[1:22] >> We encountered a few airplanes coming
[1:26] up. Nothing that really came close
[1:28] enough to us to uh deliver ordinance or
[1:30] anything. They were mainly coming up and
[1:32] going north. So, uh they they didn't
[1:36] come through to the south for us. Colon,
[1:39] what
[1:40] >> verifying this morning? Uh, that's some
[1:42] brand new Department of Defense tape
[1:44] that uh has just been released of a
[1:46] pilot that was involved in the attack in
[1:48] Iraq. Verifies what we've been hearing
[1:50] all night long that the resistance to
[1:52] the American attack has been uh minimal
[1:55] at uh at best. Bob Simon mentio