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...ABC announced their show Commander in Chief is going on a six-week vacation or--as Bush calls it--August." --JAY LENO...
...mess with the nunsThe press pool was in the charge of a nun, attired in blue, who could not conceive of ABC's Ann Compton taking a laptop into the palace. The reporters had been told to bring their stuff with them because they would be running to catch the motorcade as Mrs. Bush departed. "Leave it to a colleague outside," the nun said insistently. "You don't need a computer." Finally, the nun did away with diplomacy and said, "There is no way." An Associated Press reporter from Rome asked about a tape recorder. "Absolutely no recorder...
WOUNDED. BOB WOODRUFF, 44, a co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, and his cameraman, DOUG VOGT, 46; when a roadside bomb exploded near the Iraqi armored vehicle in which they were riding while reporting a story on Iraqi soldiers; in Baghdad. Woodruff suffered a fractured skull, a broken collarbone and shrapnel wounds. Vogt had less serious head and body injuries...
...just one of at least 345 who have had amputations--a higher rate per injury than in any other modern U.S. war. Most survivors, like Braddock, are left to pick up the pieces of their lives out of public view. But last month's roadside bomb attack on ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt put the war and the fate of the wounded back in the headlines--and more important, in our thoughts...
...ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured on Sunday in a roadside bombing while traveling with a U.S. army convoy in Taji, an insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad. Woodruff and Vogt had left their U.S. Army Humvee and had climbed into the turret of an Iraqi armored vehicle to begin filming when a powerful, remote-controlled explosion ripped through their armored vehicle. ABC news reported that the group then came under fire from insurgents. Once the firefight stopped, Woodruff and Vogt were rushed by helicopter to a U.S military hospital near Baghdad. Doctors judged that...