CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, “was critically injured [today] when a joint American and Iraqi military patrol…in Baghdad was hit by a roadside bomb.” In addition, Paul Douglas, 48, her cameraman, and James Brolan, 42, her soundman, were killed, and:
Two others, an American soldier and an Iraqi interpreter, also died in the attack, the American military command said, adding that six other soldiers were wounded.
According to CBS News, Dozier is “in critical condition, but that doctors were “cautiously optimistic about her progress.””
Police said the attack was one of eight bombings and several ambushes in Baghdad that killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens of others, in an upsurge of violence that made today one of the worst days in the capital in several weeks.
Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the Azeri regions of Iran. An official paper published a cartoon depicting a cockroach speaking Turkish Azeri, the language of our ally Azerbaijan and a large minority of the Iranian people. The paper has been shut down and the cartoonist and editor jailed, but that hasn’t stopped widespread outrage and demonstrations.
“And the second way to defeat the terrorists is to spread freedom. You see, the best way to defeat a society that is- doesn’t have hope, a society where people become so angry they’re willing to become suiciders, is to spread freedom, is to spread democracy.” -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005
You’re doing a heckuva job Georgie.
