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All three networks filed from Iraq, each choosing a separate angle. CBS' Lara Logan stayed in Baghdad to cover a truckbomb attack "just days after a citywide curfew was lifted" on the city's oldest Shiite mosque. Almost 80 were killed and 200 hospitalized: "The injuries were massive with some victims suffering 100% burns, their clothes literally blown off their bodies."
ABC and NBC concentrated on US military actions elsewhere in Iraq. NBC's Jim Maceda told us about Operation Marne Torch, a 4,000-troop sweep in the southern Baghdad suburb of Arab Jabur, suspected of being "a center for carbomb and suicide bomb factories." ABC's John Hendren (subscription required) followed the 10,000-strong Operation Arrowhead Ripper, a helicopter-led attack on Baqubah in Diyala Province, northeast of the capital. Hendren pointed out that the Pentagon's so-called surge of troops "was meant to secure Baghdad--but with today's operations to the north and south nearly half of all US forces are outside the capital."
CBS' Logan also followed up on her Exclusive yesterday about the sordid conditions at a Baghdad boys' orphanage, which was "a big story on Arab TV channels, with excerpts of our report shown over and over." She obtained an interview with Inspector General adel-Abdullah Muhsin of Iraq's Health Ministry: "All sin, we believe, is forgiven--except to harm the orphans. The orphans are something holy." Logan observed: "He was clearly stunned by what he saw."
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