Re: al-Qaidakooks fear truth, Attempt Assassination of News Media Reporter


"shogun" <shogun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The al-Qaidakooks fear the truth so greatly, they have attempted to
> assassinate an ABC news reporter to keep the truth from reaching the
> world.
> meanwhile, leftists and liberals (who have vociferously decried the
> accidental
> deaths of journalists in the past) remain strangely quiet concerning the
> deliberate assassination attempt by their terrorist brothers.


Calling libs "terrorist brothers." Wow, you've sunken to a new low
slowgun.

You are in denial and you talk about "truth." The fact that Woodruff got
blowed
up speaks a lot of truth.

People like slowgun are as dangerous to world peace as are the terrorists.


> http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.woodruff.vogt/index.html
>
> Wounded ABC crew hospitalized in Germany
> Anchor, cameraman suffered 'very significant' injuries in Iraq
>
> Monday, January 30, 2006; Posted: 8:50 a.m. EST (13:50 GMT)
>
> LANDSTUHL, Germany (CNN) -- ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman
> suffered "very significant injuries" but are in stable condition a day
> after
> they were wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the commander of the U.S.
> military hospital said Monday.
>
> Woodruff, the 44-year-old co-anchor of "World News Tonight," and cameraman
> Doug Vogt, 46, arrived in Germany on Monday morning to receive treatment
> for
> wounds they suffered Sunday near Taji, Iraq, about 20 miles (32
> kilometers)
> north of Baghdad.
>
> Col. Brian Gamble of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center said he could not
> give
> details on their injuries until doctors had consulted with their families.
>
> "They are under the care of our trauma and critical care team that we have
> up
> there, undergoing further evaluation, consultation with specialty
> consultation," he said. "... the next few days and weeks really will be
> important to determine how they do."
>
> Landstuhl is the largest U.S. military hospital outside the United States,
> but
> Gamble said the goal was to send Woodruff and Vogt to a medical facility
> in
> the United States.
>
> Both journalists were listed in serious but stable condition Sunday after
> both
> sustained head injuries, the network said. Woodruff also suffered shrapnel
> injuries to his body, and Vogt has a broken shoulder, ABC said.
>
> ABC News producer Kate Felsen said she spoke with both men. "Doug was
> conscious, and I was able to reassure him that I was getting them care,"
> she
> said. "I spoke to Bob, also."
>
> The two men had been embedded with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division.
> At
> the time of the blast, they were traveling with U.S. and Iraqi security
> forces
> in the lead of an eight-vehicle convoy of U.S. armored Humvees, ABC said.
>
> The network said the men -- wearing helmets and body armor -- were
> standing,
> videotaping a log of their trip, in the rear hatch of the vehicle when the
> bomb was detonated, apparently by a hard-wire connection. The blast was
> followed by small-arms fire from three directions, ABC said.
>
> An Iraqi soldier was also wounded in the attack, Iraqi officials said.
>
> Within 37 minutes of the attack, the men had been taken by helicopter to a
> combat-support hospital in the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone, the
> network said. (Watch the challenges of treating wounded at military
> hospital
> -- 3:29)
>
> There, doctors determined the men needed surgery, and they were taken --
> again
> by helicopter -- 50 miles north of Baghdad to the U.S. military hospital
> in
> Balad. The hospital is the most technologically advanced in Iraq.
> Experienced journalists
>
> Last month, Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas were named to replace the late
> Peter
> Jennings as "World News Tonight" anchors. They started the job this month.
> Vargas anchored the news Sunday night. (Full story)
>
> Woodruff, an attorney and former law professor, began his career in
> journalism
> as a translator for CBS News in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square
> uprising
> in 1989. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he was embedded with Marines on
> the
> front lines.
>
> Vogt has been with ABC News for 15 years and has covered global hot spots
> from
> Bosnia to Gaza to Iran.
>
> Both men were experienced in war zones, ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz
> said.
>
> The White House has offered to help "in any way we can," spokesman Trent
> Duffy
> said.
>
> "It is terrible news, and we are praying for full and speedy recovery," he
> said. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to them."
>
> Reporting from the Iraqi war zone is a dangerous proposition. According to
> Reporters Without Borders, 79 journalists and assistants have been killed
> in
> Iraq since the United States invaded in March 2003. Two CNN employees --
> translator Duraid Mohammad and driver Yasser Khatib -- were killed two
> years
> ago.
>
> CNN's Chris Burns contributed to this report.


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