ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously wounded in the middle of recording a report for ABC News when an insurgent IAD went off in the midst of their report:

Vogt was filming a stand-up report with Woodruff and both were standing in the open hatch of an Iraqi military vehicle when the bomb went off.

"Immediately after the explosion he turned to his producer and said 'Am I alive?' and 'Don't tell Lee,' and then he began to cry out in excruciating pain,"

Westin, speaking Monday on "Good Morning America," said the risks news personnel face are assessed every day in a country where there were 221 attacks by explosive devices last week alone. But it's important to cover the news, he said.

221!  In one week.  Our prayers go out to Woodruff, Vogt, and everyone over there.  Its a mess.  I've had several conversations recently with a friend who returned from Iraq after a year and a half on the ground there.  The news is not good.  He never once left a building without wearing a flack jacket.  My friend ran logisitics for a large NGO doing elections work.  Apparently the most indespensible item in Iraq is a machine for counting U.S. dollars.  Nothing gets done without tons of American cash.  Carrying millions of dollars on his person was not an unheard of event. 

My friend had seen and operated in almost every hot spot in the world in the last fifteen years.  A lover of the hard life of dealing with the fallout of organized violence, Iraq wore him out.  He's done travelling for some time.