ABC's "World News Tonight" Co-Anchor Bob Woodruff and His Cameraman Are Injured in Iraq by IED

ABC news ^ | January 29, 2006

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Bob Woodward and photographer injured in IED attack.

[ecomcon]

Don't hold your breath. This event will be Bush's fault by tonight's broadcast of ABC news

Not enough body armor.

[50sDad]

1) This is terrible.
2) Pray for their families.
3) How are the Old Media going to spin this against the cause?

[nmh]

They only care about their own.

How many heroes and heroic actions did this reporter witness? Most likely countless. Have you heard about that from the liberal mainstream media?

NO! Only causualty counts and when our men die because it suits their sick agenda.

[wildcatf4f3]

Mick shows his report card to mums and dad

[RonDog]

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ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, above, and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an explosion while reporting from Iraq.

ABC News Anchor, Cameraman Injured In Iraq

POSTED: 8:56 am EST January 29, 2006

UPDATED: 8:59 am EST January 29, 2006

NEW YORK -- ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.

Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, and were in serious condition at a U.S. military hospital, ABC News President David Westin said.

The two were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and traveling with an Iraqi Army unit.

The U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad confirmed that the ABC News team was involved in an attack but declined to provide further details to The Associated Press. An official military statement was expected to be issued later Sunday.

Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC News' "World News Tonight" with Elizbeth Vargas this month after the death of Peter Jennings. In an unusual approach to evening news shows, one of the two co-anchors typically reports from the studio in New York while the other reports from the field, as Woodruff was doing in Iraq.

Woodruff grew up in Michigan and became a corporate lawyer in New York. He took a leave of absence to teach at a school in China, helped CBS News during the Tiananmen Square uprising and became hooked on journalism.

"When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me," he told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

He has covered the Justice Department and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Belgrade and Kosovo.

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[dmw]

She must be his mother. No, second thought, grandmother. ;-)

[LoudRepublicangirl]

They both deserve respect for going into harm's way. They certainly get mine.



Mine as well. On FNC they said he is married with 4 children. Prayers to him and his family.

[Kimmers]

This morning on FOX of one the anchors referred to them as killers and terrorists....something we have been calling them all along....

[fox0566]

Chetry and Phillips are a couple of left-wing idiots.

[DejaJude]

Regardless of his slant, he is an American injured in a war zone. I pray for his recovery and the recovery of those injured with him

Amen.

[texianyankee]

It was reported that Woodruff has 4 children.

I hope & pray for all of those injured in this attack.

[Caipirabob]

Prayers for our brave soldiers. May they recover quickly. Nuts to the seditious media.

From Newsbusters.org...

Unlike CBS and NBC, ABC Again Refuses to Label Hamas as “Terrorist” Posted by Brent Baker on January 27, 2006 - 00:04.

While CBS and NBC reporters were willing Thursday night to outright tag, without any qualifiers or attributions to others, Hamas as a “terrorist” group, for the second night in a row, ABC's World News Tonight distanced itself from the term -- even avoiding it during a friendly profile of a terrorist. ABC anchor Bob Woodruff teased from Jerusalem: “Tonight, a monumental shake-up in the Middle East. Hamas declared the winner of the Palestinian elections. The U.S. calls them terrorists.”

But that was it for the label. Woodruff proceeded to refer to Hamas as “the militant Islamic group that calls for the destruction of Israel” and he conceded “there is no question that Hamas is more militant and more overtly Islamic than the secular leaders it defeated.” Woodruff also noted that “through its military wing,” Hamas “has led the fight against Israel,” but he then put a nice and generous face on Hamas, adding that “through its charities” Hamas has “provided free schooling, medicine and food.”

Following his opening story on the election victory by Hamas, Woodruff set up a piece on how “one of its most-celebrated figures,” a woman who won a seat, “is a mother who sent her sons to their deaths.” With “A Bombers' Mother” as the on-screen tag, Wilf Dinnick provided a non-judgmental look at how “Palestinians voted for Miriam Farahat because she's made astonishing sacrifices in her quest to destroy Israel. Farahat has sent three of her six sons on suicide missions. That's why her supporters call her Um Nidal, the 'Mother of the Struggle.'” Without ever calling her or her murdering sons either “murderers” or “terrorists,” Dinnick concluded with her “sacrifice” for the cause: “Today, she vowed to do whatever Hamas asks of her. 'I am ready to serve,' she says. And if that means sacrificing her three remaining sons, Um Nidal says she's willing.” (Full transcripts of ABC's stories, as well as the labeling aired by CBS and NBC, follows.)

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So Woodruff at least ackowledged that Hamas is an advocate for the destruction of Israel. There are those at ABC who would coddle terrorists and portray them as anything other than Anti-Semetic/Anti-Christ Terrorists. If you refuse to choose between good and evil, the net result is that you side with evil.

Perhaps this close encounter with the enemy will change Bob's heart further? Let's hope he recovers and lives long enough to truly understand the threat we face as a people. All of us.

[TADSLOS]

But can someone tell me how this eclipses the death of any US Servicemember at any one time in this conflict?

I haven't seen these headlines from the media in conjunction with the deaths of good soldiers, unless it was to criticize.

Bingo. It's more important to report about the condition of a reporter. No news, so far, as to military WIA/KIA in this incident.

[Flavius Josephus]

They both deserve respect for going into harm's way. They certainly get mine.

Not me. I'll save my tears for the WARRIORS that were protecting them. Not that I wish them ill, but it isn't really their job. It's grandstanding, and when you grandstand, sometimes you get hurt. Never watch a firefight.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Funny how the article you posted doesn't mention any soldiers getting injured.
Could they all be so lucky?
Prayers.

[YOUGOTIT]

As much as ABC news hates the US Military why are we treating him in a US military facility?

[RonDog]

They both deserve respect for going into harm's way. They certainly get mine.

See also, from abcnews.go.com:

...Iraq remains the most dangerous place for journalists.

Some 60 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to the media watchdog the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ. At least 41 of those were Iraqi, the CPJ said in a recent report.

Other media watchdogs say the toll is higher.

An Iraqi television cameraman was killed in clashes between Sunni rebels and U.S. forces on Jan 24 in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Tuesday.

A cameraman working for Reuters, Dhia Najim, was shot dead during fighting between U.S. Marines and insurgents on November 1, 2004. The exact circumstances of his killing have never been clarified despite requests to the U.S. military from Reuters.

Many journalists have also been taken hostage; some have been killed by their abductors but most have been released unharmed. American journalist Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Baghdad on January 7 and is still missing...

[leadpenny]

What do you bet that the great majority of soldiers in the 4th ID would disagree with you?

In case you haven't noticed, these are Americans who were wounded while doing their job in a war zone.

As far as I'm concerned your drivel is anti-American.