Posted on 01/29/2006 5:25:40 AM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
hope hes ok love his watergate work
Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt were injured in an IED attack near Taji, Iraq today. They were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division, traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi mechanized vehicle.
Statement from ABC read on FOX said they were in serious condition and being treated in a US military facility.
Please correct...
beat me by 30 seconds
And it was Woodruff.
Hope he is ok, the cameraman , too
Anyone have a picture? Prayers
Fixed, thanks.
"January 29, 2006 - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff has apparently suffered head injuries and is undergoing surgery after an explosion while he was doing some reporting from Iraq.
The reports came during ABC's Sunday edition of Good Morning America.
Woodruff was apparently taping a report about the Iraqi military from inside one of their mechanized military vehicles. It encountered an improvised explosive device.
Some small arms fire followed, according to reports on Good Morning America.
Woodruff and another news staffer working for Good Morning America both suffered head injuries and are being treated. They are listed in serious condition."
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=3855686
Regardless of who the journalist is, The Libs will feel they deserve a Purple Heart. Hell, give everyone a Purple Heart. They don't have any meaning anymore anyway!
— - Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC News' World News Tonight in January 2006.
Woodruff also contributes reports to Nightline, and other ABC News broadcasts. Most recently he covered the presidential campaign of Senator John Edwards.
He has also reported extensively on the continuing unrest in Iraq from Baghdad, Najaf, Nassariya and Basra. During the initial invasion Woodruff reported from the front lines as an embedded journalist with the First Marine Division, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
Before moving to New York in 2002, Woodruff worked out of ABC News' London Bureau. After the September 11th attacks he was among the first Western reporters into Pakistan and was one of ABC's lead foreign correspondents during the war in Afghanistan, reporting from Kabul and Kandahar on the fall of the Taliban.
His overseas reporting of the fallout from September 11th was part of ABC News coverage recognized with the Alfred I. Dupont Award and the George Foster Peabody Award, the two highest honors in broadcast journalism.
Before becoming a journalist, Woodruff was an attorney. But in 1989 while teaching law in Beijing he was hired by CBS News to work as a translator during the Tiananmen Square uprising and a short time later he changed careers.
As ABC's Justice Department correspondent in Washington in the late 1990s, Woodruff covered the office of Attorney General Janet Reno, the FBI and ATF. In 1999, he reported from Belgrade and Kosovo during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Since then, he has reported extensively on Europe and the Middle East.
Woodruff has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Colgate University.
Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC News' World News Tonight in January 2006.
Woodruff also contributes reports to Nightline, and other ABC News broadcasts. Most recently he covered the presidential campaign of Senator John Edwards.
He has also reported extensively on the continuing unrest in Iraq from Baghdad, Najaf, Nassariya and Basra. During the initial invasion Woodruff reported from the front lines as an embedded journalist with the First Marine Division, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
Before moving to New York in 2002, Woodruff worked out of ABC News' London Bureau. After the September 11th attacks he was among the first Western reporters into Pakistan and was one of ABC's lead foreign correspondents during the war in Afghanistan, reporting from Kabul and Kandahar on the fall of the Taliban.
His overseas reporting of the fallout from September 11th was part of ABC News coverage recognized with the Alfred I. Dupont Award and the George Foster Peabody Award, the two highest honors in broadcast journalism.
Before becoming a journalist, Woodruff was an attorney. But in 1989 while teaching law in Beijing he was hired by CBS News to work as a translator during the Tiananmen Square uprising and a short time later he changed careers.
As ABC's Justice Department correspondent in Washington in the late 1990s, Woodruff covered the office of Attorney General Janet Reno, the FBI and ATF. In 1999, he reported from Belgrade and Kosovo during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Since then, he has reported extensively on Europe and the Middle East.
Woodruff has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Colgate University.
Apparently Woodruff and his camara man are in serious condition.
It is unfortunate. Yet this may change how the media refers to "insurgents". Hope they live.
" Yet this may change how the media refers to "insurgents""
Interesting point. As of 3 days ago:
"ABC's Bob Woodruff Reluctant to Label Hamas a Terrorist Group
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on January 26, 2006
On ABC's World News Tonight on Wednesday January 25, anchor Bob Woodruff showed some reluctance to label Hamas as a terrorist organization outright, but instead qualified the label by calling it a "militant" group "which the U.S. calls a terrorist organization." Woodruff also referred to Hamas once as a "radical group" and once simply as a "group."
http://newsbusters.org/node/3755
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