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.
They were stopped, and outside the vehicle filming. All were wearing protective gear. Exactly who decided to stop in that spot, and get out to film at that place and time? Any mention of anti-American propaganda printed or spoken in English? Too many coincidental occurances. Prayers for the family of the soldier killed, and for those soldiers wounded.
Probably that no autopsy was done and so they are not sure exactly what killed him. He wasn't looking too good in the reports made just before he died. Pretty good reporting of the initial invasion from a grunt's eye view.
Thank you. This war is not going to end any time soon.
Or, in the alternative, maybe some freepers who blame the media for "not reporting all the good stuff in IRaq," might start to understand that Iraq is still a chaotic place and it's DANGEROUS to venture out in search of all this supposed "good stuff" that's happening.
I wonder what the core courses are for that degree?
No, you're part of solution.
Many folks at FR paint with a broad brush. If you really want some abuse, get a law degree.
I know it's a piddling little thing and terribly unimportant in the grand scheme of things compared to a correspondent, but were any GI's injured in this incident?
Not gonna happen. This will reinforce their inbred beliefs.
Many more Iraqis died today and their deaths with be quickly forgotten as the media climbs on it's high horse.
Look at who has died in journalism's "service" so far. It's over whelmingly foreign nationals. And I'd bet they don't get a tehth of what the networks pay their own people.
Thanks, see my #68.
You know that's a good question- and it's unlikely we'll ever know the answer..
Oh man.
There are lots of one-liners for this, but my prayers are for the families of the victims and for the recovery of the wounded.
That said, they might be victims of friendly fire.
Ridiculous statement. Saddam backed down from lots of fights. Remember "Cheat & Retreat"? IOW, it was Saddam's strategy during the sanctions-phase to push the envelope until he got smacked down -- then he'd retreat. Sounds like "Backing Down" to me.
is cbs reporting if it was friendly fire or our troops that did the shooting? i could see the crocodile tears wailing down perky katies make up already.
they were embedded. God bless them and their loved ones.
That's the way I see it, they were taking the same chances
as the troops, not writing from some bar.
May her recovery be short.
http://learning.berkeley.edu/AIUSA-syl/posner.html
"is cbs reporting if it was friendly fire or our troops that did the shooting? "
When you consider CBS is insurgent-friendly, then the answser is yes, it was from a friendly IED.
Very sad. Prayers go out to the loved ones of all who were killed, and for the total recovery of Kimberly!
There was an autopsy done. It also seems that there were warning signs that he didn't follow up on. (see links below) Not saying that he brought this on himself but I don't understand why he is listed in this article. I'm just waiting for them to try and blame it on our troops.
Sorry to get off topic but that bit in the piece just confused me.
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-04-08
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/08/lkl.01.html
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