ABC News team wounded in Iraq

[Neil D]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Doctors sent wounded ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt to the United States on Tuesday for further treatment of their injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq, ABC said.

The two had been in serious but stable condition at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where they were taken after they were wounded on Sunday while embedded with a blended U.S.-Iraqi unit.

They were wounded in the chest, neck and face and head, and hospital officials said the journalists' body armor may have saved their lives.

Woodruff and Vogt were expected to arrive in Washington late on Tuesday and be sent to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, ABC News said on its Web site.

Woodruff had recently been named co-anchor with Elizabeth Vargas to replace the late Peter Jennings on World News Tonight.

[:"blue"] Heard something on the radio, while on the road. Now that this anchor has been rescued by the US Army, and is recieving care from the US goverment, would this action color the stories that he reports? IOWs, if he saw something wrong, would he be obligued to report it? Even if it was embarrassing to the conservative US goverement? [/]

[Ron Lambert]

I am concerned about the extent of the brain damage both were said to have suffered. If Woodruff's face is somewhat disfigured, that could be a badge of honor we would all accept. But if his abilities to speak, and to exercise the talents of a news anchor, are impaired, that would be a tragic end to his career.