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Bob Woodruff, the former co-anchor of ABC World News traveled to the Middle East for the first time since his brains were nearly blown out in Iraq. He sought out the military interpreter, identified only as Omar, who saved his life that day, now a war refugee in Damascus. "Did you just assume at that moment that I was dead?" "When I saw you, yes. I saw your neck and probably some of your face and stuff really--you got injured and the blood was coming out." The bomb that nearly killed Woodruff was the 37th explosion Omar had experienced. He received death threats because of his work with Americans and fled to Syria. He has applied for a visa to emigrate and enlist in the USArmy, so far with no response. "He is down to his last $2,000 and when it runs out, Omar says, he may have no choice but to return to Iraq."
Woodruff was clearly using the airtime of ABC's A Closer Look as a personal repayment of free publicity to put pressure on the State Department to expedite Omar's case.
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