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.
The name is familiar, probably from radio reports. I don't recognize the face.
I hope she recovers. As much as I detest CBS news, I don't want any of them to be killed by terrorists.
Not just the reporters, but the innocent Iraqis who lost their lives today.
And always, always for our troops.
I hope she recovers as well but the irony is almost too much to bear.
Elitist? You're joking,no doubt.
On a side note...the State of Massachusetts maintains an interesting website which allows you to search real estate transactions (deeds,mortgages and more) which occur in most of the states counties,including the one that makes up Martha's Vineyard.
If you search "Cronkite" on this site you come up with several entries,*NONE* of which include the address of the property involved.I've read that VIPs,and only VIPs,can have such info deleted from the website.
The Kerrys also did that regarding their Boston mansion by arranging for a trust to purchase the house and apply for the mortgages.
In Massachusetts,some people are *clearly* more equal than others!
a degree in "Human Rights"?
a degree in "Human Rights"?
Prayerful bump...
I sure hope none of our soldiers [whom CBS came to defame]were injured in this attack.
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.
No offense to David Bloom but why is he even listed in this report. An "apparent" blood clot. What are they trying to insinuate??
God Bless all the victims of these demonic bastards no matter who they are.
Wow!! I wasn't familiar with the two men who were killed but I had seen her many times on TV. Bad news all around.
They're getting too much attention. Their lives are not any more important than the soldiers killed there. In fact, less so.
I agree. I'll bet they'll somehow link the attack to "American Aggression"...
Sit on it.
Prayers for her, but just damn. That's some really idiotic blather right there.
Saddam...."father figure....gave Iraqis dignity and pride..."
this is sick. i don't wish her ill but her thoughts are twisted.
I don't think they were insinuating anything. The reporter probably wasn't firm in the facts, and tossed that in from memory.
The important thing, you see, is that reporters were hurt or killed in Iraq. Everything else pales in comparison. David Bloom died, and Kimberly was severely injured. Nothing else matters.
while the real bravery, hard work and sacrifice of the Coalition soldiers bringing freedom to millions goes unnoticed, if not scoffed at by the MSM.
> maybe the media will figure out that we are not the
> enemy and stop carrying jack murthas water.
Not a chance.
This was all Bush's fault, don't you know.
The domestic enemy press will only stiffen their resolve.
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