ABC - CUOMO NEARLY INJURED IN IRAQ

CUOMO NEARLY INJURED IN IRAQ

Good Morning America's Chris Cuomo narrowly missed becoming the latest journalist to join the wounded in the war in Iraq. On Tuesday a roadside bomb ripped into the armored Humvee in which he was riding, but the shrapnel missed him. "I got very, very lucky," Cuomo said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post. The incident, Cuomo suggested, was regarded as routine by the American soldiers with whom he was riding. "They go out day after day while people are trying to blow them up," he said. ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said that Cuomo had volunteered for the Irasq assignment. "It reminds you once again that Iraq is a terribly dangerous place, but a place where we owe it to our audience to tell the story of what soldiers go through on a daily basis," Schneider said.

24/01/2007