ABC News Anchor Bob Woodruff Seriously Injured in Iraq

ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. television network said.

At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi vehicle near Taji, near Baghdad, the network said. After the blast, the vehicle came under small arms fire, ABC news reported.

"Bob and Doug are in serious condition and are being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq," the network said in a statement.

Both men have head injuries and are being treated in Iraq, the network reported.

The men were injured by an improvised explosive device, or IED, which are often planted by insurgents on roads to attack U.S. vehicles.

Here's hoping that Woodruff and his cameraman make a speedy and full recovery from their injuries. Both were injured when the vehicle they were in was hit by an IED north of Baghdad.

UPDATE:
The following are also covering this incident: Outside the Beltway (providing multiple updates), RantingProfs who, in addition to providing updates notes that Woodruff wasn't actually embedded with the 4th ID, but rather with an Iraqi unit training with the 4ID, Memeorandum, and Confederate Yankee who wonders if any US or Iraqi soldiers were injured in the attack and finds himself more concerned with the welfare of our soldiers than the media types who jump in to the region on 24/72 hour junkets to improve their street cred:

American soldiers experience war in Iraq months at a time. Iraqi soldiers and police are there facing danger on a daily basis, with no respite but victory or death. A reporter looking to get "street cred" in a quick in-and-out 24-72 hour junket without really bothering to learn what is really going on the way, say, Ernie Pyle or Kevin Sites, or Michael Yon has, just doesn't touch me the same way.

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UPDATE:
Fixed major factual mistake - It was Bob Woodruff who was injured, not Bill Woodruff. I'm surprised that no one caught that mistake in my copy and posted a comment to that effect. You folks are supposed to be keeping me on my toes.