ABC anchor, cameraman in Iraq seriously wounded

[tennesota]

ABC anchor, cameraman in Iraq seriously wounded

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman were seriously wounded Sunday in a roadside bomb attack near Taji, according to a statement from ABC News president David Westin.

Woodruff, who co-anchors "World News Tonight" with Elizabeth Vargas, and cameraman Doug Vogt "are in serious condition and are being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq."

ABC reported that it was hearing from its Baghdad bureau that the two were in the hatch of a military vehicle taping at the time of the explosion, which was followed by small-arms fire.

ABC said the two have head injuries, and Woodruff was undergoing surgery at the U.S. military hospital in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad.

The two were embedded with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division and traveling in an Iraqi mechanized vehicle at the time of the attack.

Taji is about 20 miles north of Baghdad

 

[GTaudiophile]

Oh no. The press shifts from anti Iraq war to SUPER anti Iraq war when it's one of their own.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Oh no. The press shifts from anti Iraq war to SUPER anti Iraq war when it's one of their own.

:roll: What is "SUPER anti-Iraq war" about this article? Since you're SUPER pro-Iraq war, why aren't you in Iraq right now?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Oh no. The press shifts from anti Iraq war to SUPER anti Iraq war when it's one of their own.

:roll: What is "SUPER anti-Iraq war" about this article? Since you're SUPER pro-Iraq war, why aren't you in Iraq right now?

I am just saying the tone of the press (outside of Fox News) will change. The amount of Iraq war coverage will also increase sharply in the short term. Simply because a reporter was killed. Same thing happened when that WSJ reporter (Daniel Pearl) was killed a while ago.

 

[Lucky]

Just because the amount of press coverage increases (if it does at all) does not mean that coverage is anti-war.

 

[Drakkon]

how awful hope he pulls through and no crappy focus is put on being "anti" war or "pro" war or the president uses this in someway in his address this week, lets just take this for what it is, an act of attempted murder of a great news journalist. I hope he pulls through and gets right back out there reporting this war to us.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
how awful hope he pulls through and no crappy focus is put on being "anti" war or "pro" war or the president uses this in someway in his address this week, lets just take this for what it is, an act of attempted murder of a great news journalist. I hope he pulls through and gets right back out there reporting this war to us.

Hardly. They were in a military vehicle, so they would be collateral damage if anything. The targets were US troops.

As far as being "anti" Iraq war, the entire world has held that opinion from the onset. Americans are slowly awaking from their comas and coming to the same realization.

 

[vexingv]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: Drakkon
how awful hope he pulls through and no crappy focus is put on being "anti" war or "pro" war or the president uses this in someway in his address this week, lets just take this for what it is, an act of attempted murder of a great news journalist. I hope he pulls through and gets right back out there reporting this war to us.

Hardly. They were in a military vehicle, so they would be collateral damage if anything. The targets were US troops.

As far as being "anti" Iraq war, the entire world has held that opinion from the onset. Americans are slowly awaking from their comas and coming to the same realization.

he was in an iraqi vehicle that wasnt heavily armored. so the targets were not US troops.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: vexingv
he was in an iraqi vehicle that wasnt heavily armored. so the targets were not US troops.

The two were embedded with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division and traveling in an Iraqi mechanized vehicle at the time of the attack.

 

[Jadow]

his body wasn't protected by a thick barrier of tumor body armor like his predessor.

hope they (cameraman got hit too) are ok

 

[meltdown75]

i still scratch my head when i think of reporters embedded with the military.

hope Bob is ok... hate to say it but thank goodness it wasn't Elizabeth Vargas, she's one of my favourite MILFs.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
hate to say it but thank goodness it wasn't Elizabeth Vargas, she's one of my favourite MILFs.

You're going to hell for that one.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: vexingv
he was in an iraqi vehicle that wasnt heavily armored. so the targets were not US troops.

The two were embedded with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division and traveling in an Iraqi mechanized vehicle at the time of the attack.

You need to update your sig now.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Muadib
You need to update your sig now.

Thanks for the reminder :thumbsup:

 

[0roo0roo]

instead of rebuilding their country they are acting like a bunch dickwads. goddamned.