Courage

CBS News' Lee Cowan, reporting from Baghdad on the courage of the cameramen CBS uses to bring the war to your living room:

"...if they are caught carrying around an American press ID in some of the places we ask them to go they will certainly be less than popular in those places."

The Army says he was turned in by witnesses to his last car bombing. If so that statement has been proven true.

He's innocent until proven guilty, of course, but here are a few reasons they might have been upset:

11 Mar

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) ? Weeping relatives gathered in small groups Friday to bury 50 people killed by a suicide bomber in this northern city, after canceling a mass funeral procession for fear of another attack.

And in the northern city of Mosul, the deputy police commander, Col. Wathiq Ali, said 17 militants were killed and 14 captured late Monday after during an assassination attempt on police officials.

Also in Mosul, a roadside bomb that exploded near a U.S. patrol killed four civilians. It wasn't immediately clear if the troops suffered casualties.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - There's been another deadly suicide bombing in Iraq. Eleven Iraqi police officers were killed in the attack that occurred on the outskirts of Ramadi.

The U-S military says two American soldiers were injured in the blast, along with nine Iraqi officers and several civilians.

BAGHDAD (AP) - Insurgents reasserted themselves in a spasm of deadly attacks after days of reported setbacks, killing 17 Iraqi security forces in four separate car bombings, gunning down five Iraqi women working for American troops and assassinating a senior Iraqi military official, authorities said Friday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq Mar 30, 2005 ? A car bomb exploded Wednesday in western Baghdad, killing one person and injuring at least six others, and attackers opened fire on Shiite pilgrims heading to a major religious festival that draws some 1.5 million people.

The car bomb struck near a U.S. convoy in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib neighborhood, said police Lt. Akram Al-Zawobaie. No coalition soldiers were injured, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber blew himself up Thursday near an Islamic shrine, killing five Iraqis in the latest attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims marking a major religious holiday.

The blast in Tuz Khormato, 55 miles south of Kirkuk, killed three civilians, including a child, and two soldiers helping guard the shrine, police reported. Sixteen people were wounded, hospital officials said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Four children collecting trash were killed today by a homemade bomb in Baghdad, and masked gunmen killed an Iraqi Army officer in a restaurant in the southern city of Basra, police said.

Baghdad - A roadside bomb killed 15 Iraqi soldiers and wounded several others on Saturday morning in Latifiyah, 40km south of Baghdad, a defence ministry official said.

CBS:

CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports the military became suspicious when they examined the contents of the camera and found pictures of what appears to be the aftermath of four separate attacks by insurgents using IEDs, improvised explosive devices. The footage, taken so soon after the attacks, suggest the cameraman had to have foreknowledge that the attacks would take place, officials told Stewart. The scenes and timing of the taping are very disturbing, said one official.

More to come...