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Katie Couric traveling to Iraq and Syria
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-couriciraq29aug29,0,6136585.story?coll=la-home-center ^

Posted on 08/28/2007 8:30:28 PM PDT by World_Events

NEW YORK -- Katie Couric, who will mark her one-year anniversary as anchor of "CBS Evening News" next week, is embarking tonight on a 10-day trip to Iraq and Syria, the first network evening news anchor to visit the war zone in six months.

It will be Couric's first visit to both countries, and the network plans to devote substantial air time to her coverage, with 16 stories by the anchor and chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan slated to run over four days. Beginning Tuesday, Couric will anchor the broadcast live from Baghdad for two nights and from Damascus another two nights.

CBS executives declined to provide other details about her travels, citing the U.S. military's request that the network withhold specifics about her movements for security reasons.

Iraq has been an especially treacherous terrain for journalists, including some high-profile television correspondents. Last year, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff was nearly killed and his cameraman Doug Vogt was seriously injured as they traveled in an Iraqi personnel carrier north of Baghdad. Four months later, a car bomb in a Baghdad neighborhood killed a CBS crew and gravely wounded CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier. And last week, Anwar Abbas Lafta, a translator for CBS' Baghdad bureau who would have worked with Couric during her visit, was abducted from his home and murdered.

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To: ExTexasRedhead

She could entertain them with an endoscopy.


21 posted on 08/28/2007 9:10:11 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: World_Events

I hope she ends up being the sex slave of some big fat hairy Imam.


22 posted on 08/28/2007 9:18:25 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: World_Events
I think Nancy Pelosi should join her and they should both visit Iran's Ahmadinejad while in the neighborhood.

Maybe Iran would want to "detain" them to bargain for the Iranian spies, saboteurs, and weapons smugglers we have caught in Iraq.

23 posted on 08/28/2007 9:19:22 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
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To: World_Events

Why doesn’t she go to Gaza, Darfur or Somolia?


24 posted on 08/28/2007 9:28:50 PM PDT by BigFinn (isa 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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To: World_Events
Iraq has been an especially treacherous terrain for journalists...

For the love of Pete. Don't go there!How many "journalists" did they list as being killed or injured? Five or six? Hell, four "journalists" died when their helicopters collided over Phoenix a couple of months ago.

I know, I know, technically speaking helicopter pilots are not "journalists" but neither are cameramen, sound men and other "crew" cited in the article.

25 posted on 08/28/2007 9:34:23 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: World_Events
Syria is directly responsible for deaths and injuries to American forces. That will make her a TRAITOR by my understanding of the Constitution.

Ptuh!

26 posted on 08/28/2007 10:24:30 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: World_Events

Have watched c.bs news a total of one minute since she became anchor. Just long enough to grab the remote.
Would be funny to watch how she is accepted by our soldiers.
Would bet the farm they won’t treat her like missed family.


27 posted on 08/29/2007 1:50:59 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Texas Eagle
how many journalists

Sorry, but you are unqualified to be a journalist since you have this weird fetish about counting things to gain perspective on events.

A couple of years at a top notch journalism school would teach you to be a "progressive force for change" and stop counting stuff.

:-(
28 posted on 08/29/2007 1:57:02 AM PDT by cgbg (There are two Americas--those who have the blackmail files and those who don't.)
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To: World_Events

Katie Couric,...embarking tonight on a 10-day trip to Iraq and Syria...

Why Syria? Will she be looking for those stashed WMDs ??

She had better pray that Israel doesnt decide to take action against Syria and Iran while she is there.


29 posted on 08/29/2007 7:04:32 AM PDT by UglyinLA
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