CBS News Team Hit in Baghdad

CBS Website ^ | May 29,2006 | CBS

[I still care]

CBS/AP) Two London-based members of the CBS News team, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured Monday when the Baghdad military unit in which they were imbedded was attacked. They were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED).

The attack was among a slew of car and roadside bombs left about three dozen people dead before noon Monday, including one explosion that killed 10 people on a bus. Nearly all the attacks occurred in Baghdad.

Dozier and her crew are among the latest American television journalists to become casualties in Iraq. Former ABC News "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt suffered severe injuries in a roadside bombing in Iraq Jan. 29, 2006. Woodruff is still recovering from serious head injuries and broken bones. Cameraman Vogt has returned home to France for more rehab.

On April 6, 2003, David Bloom, 39, an American journalist for NBC television, embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq died from an apparent blood clot near Baghdad.

All over the region, explosions began just after dawn, with one roadside bomb killing 10 people and injuring another 12 who worked for an Iranian organization opposed to the regime in Iran, police said.

The explosions began just after dawn, with one roadside bomb killing 10 people and injuring another 12 who worked for an Iranian organization opposed to the regime in Iran, police said.

A car bomb parked near Baghdad's main Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 25, said Saif al-Janabi, director of Noaman hospital. It exploded at noon in north Baghdad's Azamiyah neighborhood and was so powerful it vaporized the vehicle. Rescue crews and Iraqi army soldiers were carrying stretchers toward waiting ambulances, Associated Press TV footage showed.

A bomb planted in a parked minivan killed at least seven and injured at least 20 when it exploded at the entrance to an open-air market selling secondhand clothes in the northern Baghdad suburb of Kazimiyah.

Another parked car bomb exploded near Ibin al-Haitham college in Azamiyah, also in northern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding at least five others - including four Iraqi soldiers, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said.

In Baghdad's Tahariyat Square, a parked car bomb targeting an American convoy killed one civilian and injured nine , police Lt. Col. Abbas Mohammed Salman said. It was not known if there were any U.S. casualties, but at least one Humvee was seen on fire.

A second bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol near the square killed one and wounded 10 - including four police.

In other attacks, a roadside bomb killed two police officer and wounded three others in downtown Baghdad's Karradah district, while one man was killed and six were injured when a bomb hidden in a minivan used as a bus exploded.

Another roadside bomb killed two police officer and wounded three others in downtown Baghdad's Karradah district, while one man was killed and six were injured when a bomb hidden in a minivan used as a bus exploded.

The day's most serious attack targeted a public bus near Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province, an area notorious for such attacks, provincial police said.

All the dead were workers at the Ashraf base of the Mujahedeen Khalk, or MEK, which opposes Iran's regime. The group, made up of Iranian dissidents living in Iraq, said the dead were Iraqi workers heading to their camp.

The blast pushed in the side of the white public bus and peppered its blackened side with shrapnel holes. The bus, later inspected by U.S. Army troops, was streaked in blood, Associated Press TV footage showed.

"We were transporting the workers from Baqouba to the Mujahedeen Khalk when the roadside bomb exploded and killed all these people," one man who was on the bus told AP TV.

[OldFriend]

Amen to your post #7

[ARealMothersSonForever]

This is not an endearing first post. Hope you enjoyed your brief stay.

[april15Bendovr]

"They always volunteered for dangerous assignments and were invaluable in our attempt to report the news to the American public."

Attempt to report or distort the news?

[Diogenesis]

This was an atrocity for all who were hurt, including....
one brave US serviceman who was murdered and
six valiant US servicemen who were also injured - even though they have not been, or have been barely, afforded mention.

Will CBS and the other traitorous MSM stop encouraging the terrorists?
Will CBS and the other traitorous MSM stop calling the terrorists only "insurgents" and "militants"?

Will CBS and the other traitorous MSM start calling these acts of terrorism for the true atrocities that they are,
even when they do not involve CBS and MSM reporters"?

There was also reportedly a US serviceman murdered in this atrocity.

I hope this was not "staged" or setup by CBS to help with their gross immoral sick antiAmerican "reporting".

[leadpenny]

"It's stupid comments like this that soil Free Republic's reputation."

Better than half the posts on this thread make me ashamed to say I'm a Freeper.

[Fred Nerks]

"...His rules were simple. Obey, and he would provide jobs, food rations, electricity and security. Rebel, and punishment was merciless. But Saddam Hussein also gave Iraqis dignity and pride..."

The Iraqi's Saddam gave 'dignity and pride' to were those who plundered Iraq and murdered, terrorised and starved everyone else...ask the shia, the marsh arabs, the Kurds.

Just your average, loveable dictator, right?

[jennyjenny]

Horrible news. God be with them all and their families.

[CedarDave]

She is either dead or someone wishes she was.

WMAL update ten minutes ago -- from Bob Schieffer: "The best we can say is that she is alive. Very critical condition". Sounds as bad or worse than the ABC newsman.

[Diogenesis]

Tonight, cBS called the terrorists merely "agitators".

[jimbo123]

More surgery for injured reporter

http://www.13wham.com/news/world/story.aspx?content_id=D11557F0-A266-491D-8E5C-262609CC61D4

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Wounded CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier has undergone surgery for a second time since she was injured in a car bombing in Baghdad.

-snip-

A CBS spokeswoman says doctors were operating on Dozier again early Tuesday. She is listed in critical condition at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad.

[LonghornFreeper]

I can't think of anything more American than risking your life for something you believe in, even if you are wrong.

What? So then the hijackers who flew into the WTC were doing something incredibly American. They definately believed in what they were doing enough to die for it, even though they were wrong.

[berserker]

I guess you guys like to make cute comments just because a part of a CBS news crew died. Got any cute remarks this Memorial Day for the soldier who also died? Or the many more wounded?

[jennyjenny]

Wow, some of the comments on here remind me of DU and the horrible things they said about Reagan's death and Laura Ingraham's breast cancer. Shameful.

[bray]

Prayers for these reporters and the brave soldier and his family. Maybe she can learn to appreciate America.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Thanks for the photos. I certainly hope that the six servicemen that were injured receive the best care, and have a speedy recovery. The latest AP reports now omit the "curious event". Why were these "journalists" outside the armored vehicle at that place and time? We will need to wait for the official report. The previous actions of the media with regards to coordinating activities of their terrorist friends leads me to believe that there was information transfer at the least, if not outright coordination. Fake, but accurate got people killed and permanently disabled this time. I have not heard a single denial from seeBS that their people had no advance knowledge of activities related to this.

[Diogenesis]

[CedarDave]

This thread is mild. Check out this one:

Did CBS News do this intentionally after seeing all the sympathy and interest given to Bob Woodruff? Did CBS News do this in a desperate attempt for May ratings sweeps?