CBS Evening News - 1991-01-24
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[0:06] The air war heats up for top guns over
[0:09] the Persian Gulf, artillery exchanges on
[0:11] the ground across the Kuwait border, and
[0:14] a look at bomb damage around Baghdad.
[0:19] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:22] reporting tonight with a special 1-hour
[0:24] war update edition. Good evening. The
[0:27] Gulf War intensified in its ninth day
[0:30] today. Allied forces seized an island
[0:32] off Kuwait. Skies cleared over Iraq and
[0:35] Kuwait. US bombers staged allout attacks
[0:39] over the Persian Gulf. An Americanmade
[0:41] Saudi jet fighter shot down two Iraqi
[0:44] planes. There is no solid sign of enemy
[0:47] morale cracking. President Bush's
[0:50] spokesman warned that the war may not be
[0:52] over for months. David Martin is at the
[0:54] Pentagon with the latest on the major
[0:56] military developments of the day. David.
[0:58] >> Dan. Iraq made its first attempt today
[1:00] to launch an air strike of its own,
[1:02] apparently against Allied warships in
[1:04] the Persian Gulf, but according to
[1:06] Allied accounts, it was a total failure.
[1:09] Saudi Arabian F-15 jet fighters
[1:11] intercepted the Iraqi planes along the
[1:13] Saudi coast. A camera in the Saudi jet
[1:15] captured both the action and the
[1:17] adrenaline. Sections of the screen were
[1:19] blacked out by military sensors. Target
[1:21] destroyed. The first target destroyed.
[1:24] >> I can confirm that two of these aircraft
[1:26] were intercepted and destroyed by Saudi
[1:28] fighters. The third dis discharged its
[1:31] weapon out of range of any target and
[1:34] fled to base. Meanwhile, Allied planes
[1:37] continue to attack targets throughout
[1:38] Iraq and Kuwait. This is an Iraqi view
[1:41] of the damaging casualt