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2 Time Magazine Journalists Hurt in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior reporter and a veteran photographer for Time magazine were wounded along with two U.S. soldiers when a grenade was tossed into their Humvee, the military and the magazine said Thursday. Time senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf and contributing photographer James Nachtwey were traveling with a U.S. Army patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday night when the attack occurred, a statement from Time managing editor Jim Kelley said. A military spokesman said they were with a unit of the Army's 1st Armored Division. The military official, who spoke only condition of...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two journalists with Time magazine were wounded, one seriously, when a hand grenade was thrown at U.S. forces they were accompanying in Baghdad, a U.S. military official said on Thursday. The official said the incident took place late on Wednesday as the journalists accompanied troops on a U.S. patrol in the Iraqi capital, where U.S. forces are struggling to restore security that collapsed after they invaded Iraq in March. He declined to name the journalists. "There were two journalists from Time magazine ...t hey were participating in a patrol in the First A.D. (Armored Division) area in...