With More Reporters Like This...

With More Reporters Like This... - A Time Magazine correspondent was wounded in Baghdad, in an attack on his Humvee while on patrol with the First Armored Division.

According to an NPR report, someone tossed a hand grenade into a Humvee holding Michael Weisskopf and his photographer, James Nachtwey, as well as two soldiers.

There, it gets interesting:

...a memo sent to Weisskopf's former colleagues at The Washington Post said he picked up the grenade and tossed it out of the Humvee. It exploded, blowing off his hand and wounding him in the chest and arms. The memo said Nachtwey received shrapnel wounds that were not as serious.

'According to people he works with at Time, he picked up the grenade and tossed it out, losing his right hand in the process while saving four lives,' the memo said."

Perhaps soon a Newsweek guy will grab the .50 caliber machine gun and return fire...

Posted by Mitch at December 12, 2003 08:20 AM