CBS Evening News - 2004-09-21 - 1 of 2 (partial)

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[2:26] >> Tonight, Iraqi terrorists say they have

[2:28] beheaded another American hostage. You

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[3:00] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[3:03] Rather reporting from CBS News

[3:06] headquarters in New York. Good evening.

[3:08] For the second time in two days, an

[3:10] American civilian held hostage in Iraq

[3:12] reportedly has been beheaded. An Islamic

[3:15] website reported that Jack Hinsley, a

[3:17] 48-year-old husband and father from

[3:19] suburban Atlanta, was executed today. A

[3:23] short time later, a body was found. The

[3:25] US military reported that two more US

[3:27] Marines also have been killed, killed in

[3:30] action west of Baghdad. CBS's Barry

[3:33] Peterson has more from the Iraqi

[3:34] capital.

[3:37] American Jack Hensley, who came here

[3:39] saying he wanted to help rebuild this

[3:40] country, was apparently executed far

[3:43] from home, far from his family and

[3:45] teenage daughter. An Islamic website

[3:48] reported he was killed because the

[3:50] kidnappers demand for the release of

[3:51] women prisoners in Iraqi jails was not

[3:54] met.

[3:55] >> My name is Jack Hinsley.

[3:57] >> Hinsley was among three men abducted

[3:59] last Thursday from this Baghdad house.

[4:03] The US believes the kidnappers are led

[4:05] by Abu Masab al- Zarqawi. It was his

[4:08] voice believed to be on the execution

[4:10] tape yesterday and he allegedly carried

[4:13] out the beheading personally. He's been

[4:16] an American target since the war began.

[4:18] In a series of air raids on Fallujah,

[4:21] the US has tried to kill Zarqawi, but

[4:23] failed. The hostage taking has added to

[4:26] a sense of insecurity here. A feeling by

[4:29] ordinary Iraqis that despite the

[4:31] American military presence, things are

[4:33] not getting better, they're getting

[4:35] worse.

[4:37] There was fresh evidence of that today.

[4:39] A car bomb targeted a US convoy on the

[4:41] vital road to Baghdad's airport. Four US

[4:45] soldiers were wounded, as were several

[4:47] civilians.

[4:49] The carbomb has become the insurgents

[4:51] weapon of choice. 30 attacks in the last

[4:54] three weeks, the most in any month since

[4:56] the beginning of the war, and September

[4:59] is not over.

[5:00] >> I think at this point, the idea of

[5:01] defeating the insurgency is becoming

[5:03] unattainable, at least in the short to

[5:05] medium term. Nobody can quite see how to

[5:07] do that or if it's even feasible.

[5:10] The trend in these last months is not

[5:12] what the American military wants. There

[5:14] are more insurgents on the streets, more

[5:17] attacks on US soldiers. As one expert

[5:20] put it, there is not much good news from

[5:22] Iraq at all. Barry Peterson, CBS News,

[5:26] Baghdad. This was, of course, a

[5:29] wrenching day for the family of Jack

[5:30] Hinsley. They knew he faced a deadline

[5:33] set by terrorists who had proven their

[5:35] lack of pity or remorse. CBS's Mark

[5:38] Stman reports from Marietta, Georgia.

[5:42] >> From outside Atlanta, Jack Hensley's

[5:44] family tried to say and do all the right

[5:46] things. Something that would touch the

[5:48] hostage takers sense of mercy before her

[5:51] husband's reported execution. Patty

[5:54] Hensley, a can do person, admitted she

[5:56] felt helpless.

[5:57] >> That's been the hardest part for me

[5:59] because

[6:01] I really cannot do. I I can only sit

[6:04] back and take advice and uh do whatever

[6:08] I'm advised to do.

[6:10] >> That advice came from FBI agents right

[6:12] in the family's living room. Teams of

[6:14] them apparently from the bureau's

[6:15] counterterrorism task force. They urged

[6:18] her in public statements to emphasize he

[6:20] was a civilian, a non-military

[6:22] contractor helping to rebuild Iraq. In

[6:25] Iraq, Kenneth Biggley is now apparently

[6:28] the sole surviving hostage in this

[6:30] drama. And it's a wrenching time for his

[6:33] family in Great Britain.

[6:34] >> We feel absolutely helpless.

[6:39] We do not have the power to save Ken's

[6:42] life.

[6:43] >> Philip Biggley, the hostage's brother,

[6:45] pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair

[6:47] to intervene.

[6:48] >> To save Ken's life. Prime Minister, we

[6:52] as a family are begging you, please help

[6:56] us. But officially, London, like

[6:59] Washington, does not negotiate with

[7:01] terrorists.

[7:02] >> But our response has not got to be to

[7:04] weaken. Our response has got to be to

[7:07] stand firm.

[7:08] >> Tomorrow would be Jack Hensley's 49th

[7:10] birthday. But there's nothing to

[7:12] celebrate on his family's ordinary

[7:14] American street. A family now caught in

[7:16] an extraordinarily senseless moment.

[7:19] Mark Straman, CBS News, Marietta,

[7:21] Georgia. A US Army judge today

[7:24] recommended a general court marshal for

[7:26] private Lindy England in the Iraqi

[7:28] prisoner abuse case. England is seen in

[7:30] photographs of Iraqis as they're being

[7:32] mistreated and humiliated at Abugrade

[7:35] prison near Baghdad if convicted on the

[7:37] 17 counts of abuse and indecent acts

[7:40] recommended today. England could face

[7:42] more than 30 years in prison. Here in

[7:45] New York today, President Bush went

[7:47] before the United Nations General

[7:48] Assembly. The same UN he once warned was

[7:51] becoming irrelevant. The president,

[7:53] among other things, today defended his

[7:55] Iraq policy. CBS News chief White House

[7:58] correspondent John Roberts has more on

[8:00] the address and how it was received.

[8:03] >> It was President Bush's statesman at the

[8:05] UN today, an election year speech to

[8:07] beat back charges. His policy in Iraq is

[8:10] single-minded and wrong.

[8:12] >> Every nation that wants peace will share

[8:14] the benefits of a freer world.

[8:17] And every nation that seeks peace has an

[8:19] obligation to help build that world.

[8:21] >> The president moved to the diplomatic

[8:23] center. Kaling is a great organization

[8:26] the UN he once derided. He even worked a

[8:28] little Texas charm on the man who just

[8:30] last week claimed the Iraq war was

[8:33] illegal.

[8:34] >> Hey.

[8:36] >> But diplomacy only went so far. Meeting

[8:38] with Iraq's prime minister after the

[8:40] speech, President Bush ripped John

[8:42] Kerry's statement Monday that he would

[8:44] not have invaded Iraq. absurd. The

[8:46] president said,

[8:47] >> "My opponent has taken uh

[8:50] so many different positions on Iraq that

[8:53] uh his statements are hardly credible at

[8:56] all."

[8:57] >> Kerry fired back today that President

[8:58] Bush has his own credibility problems

[9:01] for failing to come clean about the

[9:02] realities in Iraq.

[9:04] >> He has no credibility with foreign

[9:05] leaders who hear him come before them

[9:07] and talk as if everything's going well

[9:10] and they see that we can't even protect

[9:11] the people on the ground for the

[9:13] election. While the president

[9:15] acknowledged Iraq still has problems,

[9:17] his speech gave a mostly upbeat

[9:19] assessment. And he downplayed as

[9:20] guesswork the dire predictions for

[9:22] Iraq's future contained in a new CIA

[9:24] report. But other new questions are

[9:26] swirling. Can the US stick with its

[9:28] timetable for January elections? Will

[9:31] the US need more troops to provide

[9:33] security? And will President Bush stick

[9:35] it out in Iraq or start drawing down

[9:37] troops shortly after Iraqis vote?

[9:39] Analysts say you're not likely to hear

[9:41] answers before November 2nd. Incumbent

[9:44] presidents almost always hold all bad

[9:47] news until the week or the month after

[9:50] the election. Uh it's just human nature.

[9:53] President Bush also tried to minimize

[9:55] the criticisms of several Republican

[9:57] senators who complain he needs a new

[9:59] action