Breaking - ABC says Bob Woodruff & photographer injured by IED

[watrwefitinfor]

No link, just heard it on ABC morning show.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. What the heck is Woodruff doing in Iraq?

edit: oops - mixed him up with Bob Woodward.

Woodruff is much younger and better looking.

Hope he's okay.

[maddezmom]

22. I did the same thing, too

:blush:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Watching GMA right now...

...& checked Google News - nothing on either yet.:shrug:

[Algorem]

3. both in "serious condition"-Today Show

[maddezmom]

4. on no

:(

[laruemtt]

5. he's judy's kid?

healing thoughts to him and his family. STOP THIS STUPID WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

6. GMA saying both are in surgery with head injuries...

Holy shit!!!! :wow:

[cornermouse]

12. Head injuries are not good.

I would consider that to be much worse than losing a limb.

[0007]

13. Bring the troops home

Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America

[Cooley Hurd]

14. Not Judy's son - he was born in '61, she was born in '46...

...unless she was pregnant at 15?:shrug:

[laruemtt]

16. they do resemble each other

[wildwww2]

33. It is that "I`ll lie to keep my repuke check coming in" smile.

It makes all the media prostitutes look related to each other. IMHO!
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Junkdrawer]

15. No - Her boys are named Jeff & Ben...

Husband: Al Hunt (m. 1980)
Son: Jeffrey Woodruff Hunt (b. 1981 with spina bifida)
Son: Benjamin Hunt (b. c. 1986)
Daughter: Lauren Ann (adopted, b. c. 1988)

http://www.nndb.com/people/805/000050655/

[Algorem]

7. near Haji(?),were travelling with Iraqi unit,getting 'good' care at U.S.

base

[annabanana]

8. the best, I'm sure. . . . .n/t

[Pirate Smile]

9. It is on the Breaking News banner on CNN also.

http://www.cnn.com/

[Cooley Hurd]

10. 6abc.com and Reuters links:

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=3855686

January 29, 2006 - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff has apparently suffered head injuries and is undergoing surgery after an explosion while he was doing some reporting from Iraq.

The reports came during ABC's Sunday edition of Good Morning America.
Woodruff was apparently taping a report about the Iraqi military from inside one of their mechanized military vehicles. It encountered an improvised explosive device.

Some small arms fire followed, according to reports on Good Morning America.

Woodruff and another news staffer working for Good Morning America both suffered head injuries and are being treated. They are listed in serious condition.

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29196370.htm

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a bomb attack in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. television network said.

At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi vehicle near Taji, Iraq, the network said.

"Bob and Doug are in serious condition and are being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq," the network said in a statement.
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[NNN0LHI]

11. Photo

[bananas]

20. he looks ok to me

(just kidding - i expected a phot of him injured)

[bpilgrim]

17. recently been reporting how our guys are KIDNAPPING the wives of Iraq's

was he targeted :shrug:

peace

[malaise]

19. Serious question n/t

[countingbluecars]

25. Were others injured -

or just Woodruff and his photographer?

[durablend]

18. Not to sound cold and flip, BUT...

Is everyone still going to hold the mantra "We've turned the corner and got those pesky insurgents on the run"?

[KharmaTrain]

21. So Is This "Covering The Good News?"

If he was embedded with a heavily armed force, that says a lot about how things have deteriorated in that country.

I suspect targeting is going on there and our military is being drawn so thin that its making these type of attacks easier and easier. Occupations always have a greater cost on the occupier than the occupied.

Peace...

[leftchick]

32. hopefully

some of the actual attack will have been recorded or at the least reported accurately so folks in the USA get a real sense of how damn "safe" Iraq is.

[KharmaTrain]

34. I Remember Seeing The Tet Footage...January '68

That was a shocker for a little shit like me...and for millions of others. Not that there hadn't been war on TV before, but here it was real guts, real blood, real lives. Unfortunately, this may be the only way this war really comes home.

[leftchick]

35. Hey I was 10 yrs old and I remember it vividly too.

I agree that bringing it home on our TVs raw and bloody will be the only thing that stops this war.
:(

[Ilsa]

23. The said head injuries. Not good. And not good for one's career,

either, although that isn't a primary consideration right now.

Remember, David Bloom died from illness from being inbedded (I remember it being a pulmonary embolism) back in 2003. I think he had a pretty bright future with NBC.

I hope Woodruff and Vogt pull through okay.

[DemInDistress]

24. SORRY DU-ers I thought they said,Bob Woodward MY MISTAKE.

hell its early for me and I haven't wiped the sleep from my eyes so my hat's off the the sharp individuals who caught my gaff !!!

still friends??

[Cooley Hurd]

26. Easy mistake to make.

:thumbsup:

[DemInDistress]

28. thank you DU-ers are so forgiving

:hi: :hi: :thumbsup:

[maddezmom]

27. no problem, I read it the same way the first time

:hug:

[DemInDistress]

29. In my excitement I rushed to post because frankly I wished it

were Bob Woodward.. I hate everything connected to the bush crime family, thanks for the reprieve !!:toast: :hi: :hi:

BTW, is Bob Woodward on our side (we good Americans)?

[DoYouEverWonder]

31. You weren't the only one

I had to edit my first post because I was wondering what that old man was doing in Iraq. Oops.

[leftchick]

30. ABC News link....

Jan. 29, 2006 — "World News Tonight" anchor, Bob Woodruff and his camera man, Doug Vogt, are both in serious condition after they were hit by an improvised explosive device in Taji, Iraq, today.

Woodruff is undergoing surgery at the U.S. military hospital in Balad, where Vogt also is being treated.

Woodruff, Vogt and their four-man team were traveling in a convoy with the Iraqi army. They were in a mechanized vehicle when the explosive went off. The exposion was followed by small arms fire.

Both men suffered head injuries. Woodruff sustained shrapnel wounds and Vogt was hit by shrapnel in the head and suffered a broken shoulder.


Both were wearing body armor, helmets and ballistic glasses. They had been traveling in a U.S. armored humvee, but then transferred into the Iraqi vehicle. Vogt and Woodruff are embedded with the 4th Infantry Division.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1553996&page=1

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

36. hurt, injured - notice they don't say wounded

if they said wounded, people might think there is a battle going on.

[jhain]

37. Just another last throes, right?

Nothing to see here, move along, makin' progress, fight them there instead of here, freedom on the march, democracy on the rise, want to super- size that?

[Kansas Wyatt]

38. But, But, But, the mean Liberal Media unfairly reports only the bad stuff

In Iraq.:sarcasm: