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Live News Desks Capture Baghdad War Onset
ABC and CNN reporters in Baghdad witnessed nighttime anti aircraft fire and massive airbursts as U S air attack began. Journalists stayed at the Al Rashid Hotel despite pleas to evacuate with network crews reporting from distance to the city center under bombardment.
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New York
ABC
Gary Shepard
Baghdad
CNN
Peter Arnett
John Holliman
U.S
Iraq
White House
Shepard
Holliman
Arnett
Bernard Shaw
NBC
Tom Aspell
al- Rashid Hotel
CBS
Allen Pizzey
Pizzey
Libya
Tom Brokaw
Shaw
Dan Rather
Associated Press
Saudi Arabia
Peter Jennings
Aspell
Rather
Washington
Walter Cronkite
Atlanta
Marlin Fitzwater
United Nations
Kuwait
Saddam Hussein
Washington Post
New York Times
Dilip Ganguly
New Delhi
Salah Nasrawi
Dominique Molliard
CNN International
Eason Jordan