CBS Evening News - 1991-02-24
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[0:00] More often,
[0:05] >> allied forces sweep into Iraq and
[0:07] Kuwait, and Iraqi troops by the
[0:10] thousands line up to give up. But in
[0:13] Baghdad, Saddam Hussein vows never to
[0:15] surrender.
[0:20] This is the CBS Evening News. Connie
[0:22] Chung reporting. Good evening. The
[0:25] Allied ground offensive is just about 24
[0:28] hours old. And the Pentagon is reporting
[0:30] that Iraqi soldiers are surrendering so
[0:32] fast. The number is now more than
[0:34] 10,000. That's at least 10,000 Iraqi
[0:38] prisoners. Allied Commander General
[0:40] Norman Schwarzoff called the early hours
[0:42] of the operation a dramatic success. Dan
[0:45] Rather is in Saudi Arabia heading up our
[0:47] coverage, including the first pictures
[0:49] from the battlefield. Dan,
[0:51] >> Connie, the story line of this hour is
[0:53] it's a blowout. So far, General Norman
[0:55] Schwarzoff now has ordered his
[0:57] commanders to accelerate the battle
[0:59] plan. The first day of the assault went
[1:01] farther and faster than anyone had
[1:03] expected.
[1:08] Behind a curtain of artillery fire, an
[1:11] endless line of Allied armor poured
[1:13] through the border fortifications and
[1:15] rolled into Kuwait with little
[1:16] resistance.
[1:18] >> In half a day, they reached all their
[1:20] first day objectives. Thousands of
[1:22] Iraqis surrendered. Whole columns
[1:25] walking across the line without a fight.
[1:28] Just inside Kuwait, artillery fire
[1:30] struck the Iraqis first line of defense.
[1:32] A row of bunkers and the troops either
[1:35] fled or surrendered. Many were wounded.
[1:40] Saudi troops fired into the bunkers to
[1:42] make sure no one was holding out.
[1:44] No one was. 10 hours into the ground
[1:47] war, more than 5,500 prisoners had bee