Kimberly Dozier
I pray that she will make a full recovery.
Prayers of comfort also for the families who lost their loved ones in this horrible act of terrorism.
Posted on 05/29/2006 8:14:56 AM PDT by 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.
Prayers lifted for Ms. Dozier's recovery, for the families of the victims, and for all of our troops.
Do you really think that's what I meant? Good grief.
While touring NBC Studios during a recent trip to NYC, saw they had a nice memorial set up for newspeople who had lost their lives covering wars. Along with brief bios and stories, they had some poignant personal items (cameras, notebooks, eyeglasses, etc.) they had with them when they were killed. It was quite a roster, going back through VietNam to WWII.
Mixed feelings: watching your mother-in-law drive your brand new Cadillac off a cliff!
this sounds rather cold, i know, but it looks like they got a hole in their bucket thanks to Jack.
This is the umpteenth story about this event.
You'd think CBS was the only people who ever got hit by an IED.
I thought the only human rights majors were full ride athletic scholarship knuckle draggers.
It was America-hating TERRORISTS that killed cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, and injured correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39.
Therefore, the title of the CBS article should read,"cBS Crew Hit By Friendly Fire."
It's the only one that counts because they are one of them, a journalist and crew. The dead and wounded American and coalition troops are only numbers to be used in stories about chaos, civil war, a quagmire, and, of course, Bush lied.
Two questions:
1) Was the CBS team attacked by INSURGENTS or TERRORISTS?
2) At what point is a MSM person gonna blame Bush for this (explicitly, that is)?
(When I find the "sarcasm off" button, I'll let you know)
Howlin, thanks for the ping. I am sorry to read this and extend sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of these reporters.
I just wish to GOD the western press could learn from this and quit helping the enemy and start helping the good guys.
Yet, I won't be holding my breath.
Sad news here, though.
Using "contrarian-think," this is exactly the strategy I'd use if I was a terrorist. Hitting media people guarantees very high-profile anti-war Western news coverage. This strategy exploits another Western vulnerability and puts more pressure on the Administration.
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Prayers, respect and hope for all who were injured in the attack, but I somewhat disagree.
Terrorists attacking the very media which is day after day, obediently spreading (the terrorists') message via their reporting, is akin to "friendly fire".
This might work against the terrorists. If journalists have even one bit of humanity and patriotism.
These reporters do not go to Iraq to report the news the the AMerican people. They go to enhance their resumes and make more money and in hopes of having an incestuous enclave of like-minded journalist vote to give them a Peabody or other award. But don't be naive enough to think these journalist are idealistic. They go thinking it cannot happen to them, and when it does, their friends, who happen to control the airwaves, lament their loss publically.
I've been reading some of Ernie Pyle's books the last month. I wish the media could report like they used to.
That aside, prayers up.
Well, at least these are some casualties the MSM ACTUALLY cares about.
I pray that she will make a full recovery.
Prayers of comfort also for the families who lost their loved ones in this horrible act of terrorism.
Harms way is harms way. Media be careful.
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