CBS News reports that its correspondent,
Kimberly Dozier, critically injured in a bombing in Iraq, has been moved to Germany, where she is in critical but stable condition.
The explosion killed cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, as well as an Iraqi translator and a U.S. soldier.
Dozier
has multiple injuries including wounds to her head and legs. A military
spokesman said Tuesday that Dozier was opening her eyes on command and
had moved her toes on the flight to the Landstuhl Regional Medical
Center, a U.S. military hospital at the Ramstein Air Force Base.
Doctors plan to keep Dozier at Landstuhl for several days for surgery. Her family is expected Wednesday.
The
CBS news team was embedded with the 4th Brigade Combat Team,
4th Infantry Division and was doing a Memorial Day story about life for
troops in Baghdad. They had been traveling in an armored Humvee, but
were out of the vehicle when a car packed with explosives blew up
nearby.
Douglas, 48, leaves a wife; daughters 29 and 26; and three grandchildren.
Brolan, 42, leaves a wife; and two children, 17 and 12. Both men were
British.
The
Committee to Protect Journalists says that 71 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in the Iraq War and that 26 media support workers have also died.
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