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All three newscasts covered the war in Afghanistan--in a manner of speaking. ABC's Bob Woodruff split his A Closer Look from Bagram AFB between Afghanistan and a sandstorm in Kirkuk in Iraq. Woodruff was traveling in both theaters with Chairman Michael Mullen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as he inspected the troops. NBC's Stephanie Gosk used pictures from the English market town of Wootton Bassett to illustrate the toll of the war on the British military. The town is on the route between the air base and the morgue when coffins are flown home. Mourners lined the streets en masse to salute eight war dead from Helmand Province. "These Green Berets are on a night mission to take out several high value Taliban leaders," narrated CBS' Lara Logan over Exclusive night vision videotape of a commando raid. She called them "elite soldiers at the Tip of the Spear," borrowing Richard Engel's logo for his coverage of firefights in the Korengal Valley. Except Logan was nowhere near Afghanistan. She was following "mock assaults" against "paper targets" in the Dugway Proving Grounds in the Utah desert.
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