DESERT STORM: DAY 30 : Military
The war pressed on. Allied bombers continued their onslaught, methodically working to isolate Iraqi forces in the Kuwait theater by destroying bridges, roads and supply lines. “I think the President made it abundantly clear that our mission remains fundamentally the same,” Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal said.
CBS News reporter Bob Simon and three crew members who disappeared in the northern Saudi desert last month have been held in Baghdad for two weeks, CNN reported.
Haunted by unrelenting American air strikes, hungry and worn out, a growing number of Iraqi soldiers are crossing the Kuwaiti border and surrendering to allied forces, military officials reported.
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