Showing posts with label IED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IED. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Afghanistan: Soldier Killed, CBS Reporter Injured

August 28, 2009



CBS News radio correspondent Cami McCormick was injured while on assignment in Afghanistan, as Harry Smith reports. McCormick injured in an IED blast while traveling with U.S. soldiers.

Soldier killed, CBS reporter wounded in bombing

KABUL — A CBS Radio News correspondent was being treated Saturday at Bagram Air Base after being seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan that also killed a U.S. service member, officials said.

The U.S. troop death made August the deadliest month of the nearly eight-year war for American forces. The intensified fighting has raised the risk to journalists embedded with the military............

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

A Chance Encounter in Afghanistan

Bob Woodruff Thanks the Men Who Saved His Life

Three years ago ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff suffered a severe brain injury in a roadside IED attack in Iraq. He was flown to a military hospital in Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, where the medical team there saved his life.................