CBS News Translator Slain By Insurgents In Iraq

[Barrett808]

Source: cbs4denver

CBS News Translator Slain By Insurgents In Iraq
Lara Logan

Editor's Note: Anwar Lafta Abbas, an Iraqi who worked as a translator for CBS News in Baghdad, has been abducted and slain by insurgents. Abbas became the third CBS News employee to be killed in the war.

Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad on May 29, 2006. Corrrespondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously injured in the same blast. She recovered and has returned to work.

In this reporter's notebook, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan remembers her slain colleague and recounts the terrible events that led to his death.

Some time ago, we hired a new Iraqi translator to work in our office in Baghdad. He was an older man, well-respected and well-known in his community.

His name was Anwar Lafta Abbas.

Read more: http://www.topix.net/content/cbs/2007/08/cbs-news-translator-slain-by-insurgents-in-iraq-4

[saigon68]

1. "Bring em on" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[Doctor_J]

2. this will put right-wing CBS news in a bind. They'll have three choices:

1. Start to tell the truth about the invasion
2. Piss on Mr. Abbas's grave
3. Blame it on Clinton

Should be interesting to watch

[Deja Q]

3. Or #4.:

Skip all the above and post yet another article on the latest Hollywood tart's misadventures.

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. #5: Chuck It All And Report Through Government Releases (eom)