ABC newsman unhurt in Iraq
ABC’s Chris Cuomo escaped injury Tuesday in Baghdad when the convoy of U.S. military police with which he was riding was hit by an improvised explosive device northwest of the city.
Some of the soldiers sustained minor injuries after the roadside bomb -- hidden in bodies by the side of the road -- exploded, blowing out the tires on two of the armored Humvees and peppering the vehicles with shrapnel. Cuomo, news anchor for the morning show “Good Morning America,” was trapped inside one of the Humvees while the soldiers then exchanged gunfire with insurgents. It was the first trip to Iraq by the ABC newsman, a son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
His near-miss comes nearly a year after ABC anchor Bob Woodruff was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Woodruff, who has largely recovered from his injuries, is scheduled to return to the air next month with a prime-time special about his recovery.
“It was so painful to see what happened to Bob, and to think I put myself in the same situation, I felt a small degree of shame,” Cuomo said in an interview. “But I believe I was here for the right reason. There’s no question that you have to be in this theater, you have to be reporting on this.”
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Matea Gold
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