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.
Maybe I'm Babe Ruth..........
It's obvious they are in Washington D.C. , & in the Drive-by Media.....
I'd guess there are some in the military too.
See #62. seeBS has some explaining to do. And a US soldier died, an Iraqi died, as well as the military injuries. If the "reporters" jeopardized operational security, as is currently suspected, no mercy nor compassion will be shown for them.
It seems CBS is writing about her in the past tense.
"she also reported for the CBS Evening News, CBS Evening News weekend editions, The Early Show and , the Network's 24-hour news service."
Notice "reported" not "reports." Also, there's a space before and after the comma following "The Early Show and ," which is unusual.
Someone at CBS is tinkering with her bio already.
Interesting. Either she'd dead. Or CBS is going to fire her after she recovers.
Fake but accurate CBS come clean? ROFLMAO!
They don't make up the news at CBS?
The terrorist strategy has been to inflict conspicuous casualties and hope that the U.S. public becomes demoralized. The media focus on "if it bleeds, it leads" has abetted this strategy, but had the unintended consequence of making the media a target, as dead reporters get even more coverage than dead GIs. On the perverse media scale, if a dead Iraqi is worth one point, a dead GI is worth 10 and a dead western reporter is worth 100.
What's stupid about it? The Pajamajedin have caught them making up the news. "Fake But Accurate", remember?
Both the cameraman and the sound man were Brits. The on screen reporter is, AFAIK, American though.
The cameraman and sound man were Brits. Allies, but not Americans.
True enough.But you'd think that the *caring* and *compassionate* politicians and residents (full and part-time) of *this* state would have done away with that stuff by now.
Kimberly Dozier,"Saddam Hussein also gave the Iraqis dignity and pride/his humiliation is their own."Tell that to the Kurds that he gassed,the women who were raped,the men,women,and children who were tortured and them murdered by Sadaam and his sons.I have NO sympathy for someone who writes trash like that.Face it,"journalists" like Dozier are traitors in our midst,and are working against America,Iraq,and the soldiers who are fighting and dying in Iraq.F'em
Just heard an ironic quote from the head of CBS News...he said "We pray for the recovery of Kimberly"...
No atheists in foxholes...
Do you have a source for this version of the story??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060529/ap_on_re_mi_ea/journalists_killed
This has been updated twice now. First they said IED, then suicide car bomber, and have now wettled on car packed with explosives. The news is that the military is saying "courious incident". If seeBS leaked any information to stage a story, and got soldiers killed; they should pay with lives. And may well have.
She is either dead or someone wishes she was.
Yep, our local news at noon read that statement from the CBS brass the same way, and it was printed on the screen simultaneously - I just kept thinking how strange it was to continually refer to the living correspondent in the past tense.
The scene they showed was in front of what looked like a large house - maybe it was "by the side of the road," but they weren't out on a shoulder of the highway. There was a sand-colored humvee sitting in the front yard (a large yard) that must have been another in the convoy, as it wasn't damaged.
They showed some footage after the bombing, but it was so close-up, in a tight shot on the interior of the vehicle, that you couldn't tell what or where it was.
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