CBS: Wounded Reporter 'Awake and Alert'

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Correspondent Kimberly Dozier, seriously injured by a car bomb in Iraq, was ``awake and alert'' at a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Thursday but remained in critical condition, the network said.

The 39-year-old journalist was flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center after being wounded in the head and lower body Monday. Her two British colleagues, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, were both killed in the attack, along with a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator.

Their bodies were flown from Kuwait to London's Heathrow Airport, where a ceremony was held Thursday with their families. Brolan's wife, Geri, described her husband as ``always happy, never down or angry.''

``I don't think he would have done anything differently,'' she said. ``He was very proud of what he did.''

Dozier has been under heavy sedation and is breathing on a ventilator, but she reacted well when her family and boyfriend arrived Wednesday at her bedside, according to hospital officials. The hospital would give no further updates Thursday, saying CBS had taken over all media inquiries.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5859435,00.html

1. I hope she is OK

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2. Awake and alert while under heavy sedation and on a ventilator?????