CBS Evening News - 2002-01-08
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[0:00] for helping us deliver happy holidays to
[0:03] our communities.
[0:05] >> Michael Jackson with Britney Sarah plus
[0:07] the president. Next,
[0:10] >> new fallout from the attack on America.
[0:13] The US is going on the hunt for
[0:14] thousands of Middle Easterners in this
[0:16] country illegally. And relatives of the
[0:19] coal terror attack victims say they want
[0:22] compensation, too. Eye on America
[0:25] investigates faulty batteries on smart
[0:27] bombs. Did some get into the deadliest
[0:30] bombs of all? And at the hockey dad's
[0:33] manslaughter trial, a father listens as
[0:36] his son defends him.
[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:47] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:49] headquarters in New York.
[0:52] >> Good evening. The Justice Department is
[0:54] beginning a massive new manhunt for
[0:56] thousands of Middle Eastern men in the
[0:59] United States illegally. They have all
[1:01] dropped from sight, ducking deportation
[1:03] after their visas expire. The focus is
[1:06] on finding Arab and Muslim men from
[1:08] nations known to harbor members of the
[1:11] Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda terror networks.
[1:13] But as CBS's Bob or reports, some see
[1:16] this as unjust racial profiling and
[1:19] doubt the deportations would do much
[1:21] [music] anyway to fight terror.
[1:23] The Bush administration's war on
[1:25] terrorism could soon target US cities
[1:27] like Dearborn, Michigan and Patterson,
[1:29] New Jersey, places with large Arabic
[1:32] speaking communities. The Justice
[1:34] Department today declared it a top
[1:35] priority to find, arrest, and deport
[1:38] some 6,000 Middle Eastern men. It's not
[1:40] at all clear if they have any connection
[1:42] to terrorism, but all are Arab nationals
[1:45] from cou