ABC: Chris Cuomo's Account of an IED Attack(GMA Anchor Convoy Hit)

[RamboLiberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/IraqCoverage/story?id=2815687&page=1

Earlier today, ABC's Chris Cuomo was out on patrol with American troops training Iraqi forces when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. Despite some injuries to American troops, everyone emerged safe from the attack. Below is Cuomo's partial account of what happened:

We were out on patrol with the 410th M.P. Company. They're military police. We were going to a place in northwest Baghdad — the soldiers go there almost every day. The purpose of their mission is to work with the local Iraqi police to establish rule of law to help fundamentally. They're not there to carry out operations but just to assist.

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What happened was that there was a report of a burning vehicle, one of the Iraqi police vehicles. We went out to discover that in a convoy of four armored Humvees. The key there is "armored." If these vehicles were not armored, the situation could have turned out very differently.

When we got there, a small fire was found, and the military went to assess the situation. As we got to the back of the situation, the captain was very much in control in directing his men where to go. Then, while we were looking at it, there were bodies on the side of the road. Those bodies turned out to be booby-trapped. They were an improvised explosive device, a massive one.

It rocked the entire vehicle, blew out the tires on two of the vehicles, destroyed much of the glass, rocked the vehicles in a very, very big way. A piece of shrapnel was almost stopped by this armored door. It came within fractions of an inch of going through the entire vehicle.

Wasn't it just about a year ago ABC anchor Bob Woodruff was badly injured in attack?

[Bandit]

1. When I was in Vietnam it was Standard Procedure for us to booby trap

enemy bodies. We would do so with claymore mines or other Improvised Explosive Devices. I would say that was a war crime and I was disgusted by it. I witnessed it countless times though..

[Guaranteed]

3. That is pretty uncalled for. It's like shooting medics.

Except that medics can be shot accidentally.

[Scout1071]

2. Jeebus...what is it going to take before Bush gets our troops out?

I cannot imagine what these young men and women go through every day.

[hadrons]

4. They'll be uncomfortable silences when Cuomo shares this w/ the Bush shills at the watercooler