CBS: Reporter injured in Iraq 'awake and alert'   (AP)  Updated: 2006-06-01 22:08  
CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier, seriously injured by 
a car bomb while reporting in Iraq, was "awake and alert" at a U.S. military 
hospital in Germany on Thursday but remained in critical condition, the 
television network said.
   
  
U.S. Air Force 
medical personnel carry CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier from the U.S. on a 
stretcher out of an aircraft into an ambulance bus at Ramstein airbase in 
southwestern Germany May 30, 2006. Dozier was seriously wounded as a roadside 
bomb killed cameraman Paul Douglas, sound technician James Brolan, an U.S. 
soldier and an Iraqi contractor travelling with a U.S. military unit in 
Baghdad.  [Reuters]  
 
 
Dozier, an American, was flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on 
Tuesday after sustaining head and lower-body injuries in the Memorial Day blast 
in Iraq. 
 Her two British colleagues, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, 
were both killed in the attack Monday, along with a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi 
translator. 
 The coffins with the bodies of the two Britons were flown from Kuwait to 
London's Heathrow Airport, where a ceremony was being held Thursday afternoon 
with their families. 
 Dozier, 39, has been under heavy sedation and is on a ventilator to breathe, 
but 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. 
 The network's office in London would only say there was no change in Dozier's 
condition from Wednesday -- critical but stable -- but CBS said on its Web site 
that she is now "awake and alert." 
 "Dozier is unable to speak because she is still on a ventilator, but she has 
been writing questions and communicating with her family and CBS colleagues," 
the network reported. "She has also asked about cameraman Paul Douglas and 
soundman James Brolan, and has been told of their deaths." 
    
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