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A communist commando unit, probably viet cong, has slipped into saigon and dug itself beneath this american bridge over the saigon river. above them south vietnamese helicopter gunships circle and fling down their salvo rockets. soldiers behind me are firing at viet cong units who are 500 yards away, no more. this is the closest the fighting has ever come in saigon since the communist offensive in 1968. reporting from abc news, saigon. >> now there are reports that the communists have the city within artillery range, at least the airport. >> many americans on the ground in south vietnam at tha...

A commando unit has slipped into saigon and above them, south vietnamese gun ships circle. so does mind them 500 yards away. this is the closest the fighting has ever come to saigon since the communist offensive in 1968. >> now there are reports that the communists have the cities on raid. >> many felt a serious obligation to vietnamese who they had worked with and knew. >> my family, i had maybe one

Came forward with 30 car bombs in dropped entire city blocks. one commando unit was destroyed by those. they say some of those car bombings were as large as the oklahoma city bombing. we could have stopped the car bombing with effective air power or anti-tank weapons which we've now rushing fwoo into those forces. why weren't they there before? this is about strengthening the hand on the ground. it's not about bringing u.s. combat troops. get the iraqis what they need. >> at least operational command on the ground to direct the targets and to improve our intel there as well. general, we have t...

When an israeli commando unit went in for about half an hour and did what they said they had to do and got out. you know, as far as the prime minister of israel is concerned, very interesting the politics here, jake. he's getting a lot more criticized, a lot more hammered are from his own right wing base than he is from his left wing base. in fact, the opposition labor party leader isaac herzog spoke with me earlier today and basically endorsed netanyahu's military strategy. listen to this. >> i think the israeli government showed restraint throughout. and accepted the egyptian proposal and wa...

Latest. good morning, david. >> good morning, brit. for the first time since this current got under way, israeli forces crossed the border. early this morning under cover of darkness, a commando unit attacked long-range rocked launchers in gaza city during a fire fight four israeli soldiers were wounded. this all happened only hours after militants fired a barrage of rockets into central israel. residents of tel aviv in the surrounding area much of saturday night were racing to bomb shelters hamas issued a vague threat about an impending attack. at 9:08, a barrage of rockets rained down on cen...