CBS Evening News - 2003-02-24

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[0:01] [Music]

[0:03] tonight from Baghdad

[0:05] Iraq a CBS News exclusive one-on-one

[0:09] with Saddam Hussein the Iraqi president

[0:12] challenges President Bush to a worldwide

[0:14] radio and television satellite debate

[0:17] and he indicates he will not comply with

[0:20] United Nations orders to destroy his

[0:22] alamu

[0:24] missiles and here in New York at un

[0:27] headquarters the US Britain and Spain

[0:29] introduce a War resolution saying Saddam

[0:32] has missed his final chance to disarm

[0:34] peacefully and turkey takes another step

[0:37] toward allowing us ground troops to use

[0:39] Turkish bases to attack

[0:48] Iraq this is the CBS Evening

[0:51] News with Dan Rather reporting tonight

[0:54] from

[0:56] Baghdad and John Roberts from New York

[1:01] good evening there are only two men in

[1:03] the world now that can prevent a new

[1:05] us-led war with Iraq and tonight A Rainy

[1:09] Night in Baghdad with thunder and

[1:11] lightning about I sat down with one of

[1:14] them the president of Iraq Saddam

[1:17] Hussein in his first interview with an

[1:19] American journalist in about a decade he

[1:21] talked for some 3 hours about the

[1:23] looming war and about what he described

[1:25] as his efforts to head it off now

[1:28] because of the length of the interview

[1:30] the complications of double translations

[1:32] and the time it will take for CBS News

[1:34] to get a full and accurate transcript I

[1:37] can only bringing the headlines from two

[1:39] of the stories right now we begin with

[1:42] Saddam Hussein's response to the UN

[1:44] demand that he destroy some prohibited

[1:47] missiles the now Infamous Al samood 2

[1:50] missile is at the heart of this week's

[1:51] dispute with the UN inspectors the

[1:54] Iraqis insist it does n

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