2 members of CBS crew killed in Iraq

by Mark5019 May 29, 2006 1:44AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) ? A cameraman and soundman for CBS were killed and a CBS correspondent was seriously injured Monday after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb, the network said.
Veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed, CBS reported on its website. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured.

The three were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device, CBS said.

Dozier has been reporting on the war in Iraq for nearly three years, CBS said.

i still say they dont belong in a war zone.

sorry for the loss but unarmed means unsafe.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-05-29-cbscrew_x.htm

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Being "armed"

by JP Bill May 29, 2006 2:28AM PDT

NO defense against a "roadside bomb"

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In that case

by duckman May 29, 2006 2:34AM PDT

tell all the Liberals to quit sqealing that the hummers are underprotected and that they don't have enough body armor

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Armed

by JP Bill May 29, 2006 2:47AM PDT

is NOT ARmor

Just because they begin with AR, they aren't the same.

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(NT) (NT) NO defense against a "roadside bomb"

by duckman May 29, 2006 2:48AM PDT

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Read the entire post

by JP Bill May 29, 2006 2:53AM PDT

Mark said they shouldn't be "unarmed"

I replied

Being "armed" NO defense against a "roadside bomb"

Confusion straightened out now?

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new up-armored humvee debuts

by WOODS-HICK May 30, 2006 4:39PM PDT

some folks question the credibility of this organization, but decide for yourself

army times eg new humvee

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new humvee article moved here's update

by WOODS-HICK May 31, 2006 11:49PM PDT

link to humvee article:

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1824332.php

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Read the entire post

by JP Bill May 29, 2006 2:51AM PDT

Mark said they shouldn't be "unarmed"

I replied

Being "armed" NO defense against a "roadside bomb"

Confusion straightend out now?

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Journalists have been killed and wounded in every war.

by EdH May 29, 2006 2:33AM PDT

It's sad, but a risk of the job.

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...and not even a mention of the military men and women...

by Jack Ammann May 29, 2006 9:46AM PDT

...accompanying the TV crew...on this Memorial day period...

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from article linked in opening discussion

by WOODS-HICK May 30, 2006 4:52PM PDT

someone can clarify. I believe the pentagon does not release the names of the killed or wounded until their families are notified. my local paper(when info released) reports the bios of those killed daily regardless of where they are from.
anyway this is the only mention of the two others killed.

from m5019 link:

'Dozier, along with cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were traveling in a U.S. military convoy working on a story about Memorial Day when a car bomb exploded. Douglas and Brolan, both British citizens, were killed. A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator also died in the blast.'

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Glad they were there, sorry this happened but Armed doesn't.

by Ziks511 May 31, 2006 11:00PM PDT

mean Safe either, especially not against IEDs. They were doing their job just like everyone else there, and I hope Kimberly Dozier recovers enough to go back on the news, just as I hope the ABC guy does. I think it is important that reporters be seen as human beings willing to risk their lives just like the fighting men, in order to report to this free and democratic society. Reporters have taken a lot of hits lately, often because they're lazy. These folks weren't. They were upholding the highest traditions of journalism. Not the Dan Rather, look at me in my Taliban hat journalism but the Ernie Pyle, Walter Cronkite sort of journalism, or the Live from Baghdad journalism of CNN during Gulf War 1.

Rob

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