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| 'CBS News Team Decimated in Baghdad |
| 2006-05-29 |
| Two members of a 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 U.S. Army unit in which they were embedded was attacked. A U.S. soldier was also killed in the attack, and six others were wounded. The CBS crew was on a patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was hit. They were reporting a "routine" story, covering American troops for Memorial Day. The trio was only planning to be out for a few hours, in order to get back to the CBS Baghdad bureau in time to edit their piece. Following what the U.S. military is calling a "curious incident" in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, Dozier, Douglas and Brolan got out of their armored vehicle. That's when a nearby car packed with explosives detonated. Douglas and Brolan died at the scene. Dozier sustained serious injuries and was flown to a U.S. military hopsital inside Baghada's Green Zone, where she underwent surgery. She is in critical condition, but doctors are cautiously optimistic about her prognosis. |
| Posted by:KBK |
| #26 Red on Red! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-29 14:35 |
| #25 This is a tough one folks. These were Americans...but then Alger Hiss was an American. I won't celebrate the deaths of the CBS crew, but I sure as hell won't shed a tear. The MSM has done NOTHING to engender my sympathy for their work, so if some get whacked in the process...that's tough luck. Nothing more. On the other hand, it does look very curious. Reporter types getting out of the vehicle...let alone the green zone....that's very new. I dunno...something definitely fish-like here. That said..my heart goes out to the families of all service members who are grieving this day. God bless 'em. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2006-05-29 23:50 |
| #24 No surprise here - IMHO the CBS team was likely the victims of a wilful, pre-planned terror attack. The Radics, despite their losses, remain dedicated to CYA vv PC expanding the war by enticing or inducing America to invade Iran, e.g. Shia holy places, even if it means simul wilfully attacking Sunnis, Shias, and neutrals, etc. whom as a class have done little or nothing against the Radics. When weak, let the enemy believe you are strong - once America is induced into de facto invading Iran, Radical Islam hopes that the US action will motivate Muslims to gener support their cause of "People's Resistance" + "defense of God/Islam" = Regional-Global Jihad for empire. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-29 23:26 |
| #23 Some reasons to exit a humvee in injun country: 1) Pre-scheduled security halt as per the convoy commander's brief before step off. Participants then do a 5&25 security sweep of the area for anything out of the ordinary. Usually includes a piss break. 2) Security halt due to whatever reason - suspected ied in the way, etc. Participants still do the above. In today's case, I have no idea. I'm not familiar w/the reporters that got killed today and so do not celebrate their demise nor do I think they deserve more notoriety than my comrades who die the same way every day in Iraq. It's just too bad it wasn't Sean Penn and Mike Moore on the cameras today out there - now, that would've been deliciously ironic. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-29 23:23 |
| #22 We need better APC's and lots more of them, regardless of whether anyone gets out of a Hummvee. |
| Posted by: Cherese Cruter8975 2006-05-29 22:23 |
| #21 Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass about them. They have celebrated my brother's and sister's deaths and dismemberment and have done their best to make Iraq and Afganistan a loosing war for them. For some to be taken out on memorial day is delicious irony. As I said before, I don't know anything about them, but I have yet to see a MSM reporter that wasn't against the US and the military. There are some out there that are not, but they either went to work for Fox or their stories are buried. Some here might not wish for celebration at their deaths, and I commend you for it. However, I have lost friends before and during this conflict and to see someone that celebrated my friend's deaths wacked by their own side (the terrorists) brings much happyness to my heart. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-29 21:55 |
| #20 Oh, was the sink-trapped comment only 3 words long? |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-05-29 21:54 |
| #19 I support the reporters, but not their mission. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-05-29 21:42 |
| #18 Was this a CBS plan that went wrong? Or the stringer's plan that went right? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-29 21:00 |
| #17 Guys, guys...c'mon here. I don't bow to anyone in my level of hatred for the fifth-column media, but I'm not going to celebrate this as a "red-on-red" story. When we're tempted to wish these traitorous bastards harm, we need to remind ourselves that we're better people than they are. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-05-29 20:53 |
| #16 The MSM have become my mortal enemy. I'm sorry for the individuals, but I am counting this a great day. Hooah ! |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-29 20:48 |
| #15 There is an argument about the length of the war and how the MSM in the US has prolonged the terrorist actions. The terrorists killed 2 of their own today. Without the US Military, there probably would not be any freedom of the press anywhere. We set the standard and the world followed. Funny how you think your fellow Americans working for MSM would take a different approach to the war on terror and try to make us look more like liberators than occupiers. However, they don't and I could care less about anyone working for CBS ABC NBC CNN..... They are traitors taking advantage of one of the greatest things Dead American Soldiers gave them. It sucks that we lost a soldier in this incident along with 6 wounded along with the death of an interpreter. Maybe if they spun the war a little differently those in todayÂ’s incident that lost their lives might be at home today enjoying what the dead American solider has given all of us. |
| Posted by: long hair republican 2006-05-29 20:13 |
| #14 Ummm... yes... I for one don't pity this lady at all. http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030922.asp |
| Posted by: FBH 2006-05-29 19:59 |
| #13 FG: Amen! But.....Why would you exit the vehicle? Probably to get a better angle. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-29 19:22 |
| #12 yep - there's one there |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-29 18:50 |
| #11 Off topic: Aren't we supposed to be able to view comments in the sink trap? |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-05-29 18:22 |
| #10 Amen! But.....Why would you exit the vehicle? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-29 17:36 |
| #9 God bless the soldier and the reporters. My best to their families. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-05-29 17:33 |
| #8 I have yet to see a CBS, ABC, or NBC reporter do anything but undermine the war effort. If this chap was different, his loss is bigger than we can count. Otherwise, he was a traitor and good riddence. When I was in, there was a joke about if you see somebody pointing a rifle at you, and you see another guy pointing a camera, shoot the guy with the camera first. He does more damage to your effort. |
| Posted by: DathVader 2006-05-29 15:42 |
| #7 Following what the U.S. military is calling a "curious incident" in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, Dozier, Douglas and Brolan got out of their armored vehicle. That's when a nearby car packed with explosives detonated... Was this a CBS plan that went wrong? |
| Posted by: Gromosh Elminegum5705 2006-05-29 15:07 |
| #6 I hate that word "decimated." One in ten of them was killed? |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-05-29 14:51 |
| #5 Dozier seemed to much more knowledgable and serious than the average CBS crew, especially compared to that Australian bimbo. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-29 14:50 |
| #4 Never get out of the |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-29 14:47 |
| #3 DV, that's beyond the pale. These are Americans, out there getting killed getting news. They don't determine what goes on the air, nor whether to 'balance' the view with that delivered to Al Jazeera. |
| Posted by: glenmore 2006-05-29 14:45 |
| #2 Unfortunate loss, but deserves no more attention than the loss of any one of our brave men and women in harm's way. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-05-29 14:45 |
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| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-29 14:35 |