Details Emerging from Haditha Killings
KYRA PHILLIPS, HOST: Hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Responsive, but critical. That's the update. Now the initial moments captured on tape after the blast that injured a correspondent and killed her crew. Haunted by Haditha. What really went down the day those Iraqi civilians died? And ready to blow: could this region's latest quake cause a simmering volcano to erupt? You're watching LIVE FROM. Critical care, first in Iraq, now in Germany. CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier and one of the soldiers wounded alongside her have been transferred to the U.S. military's largest overseas hospital. Their families are on their way. CNN's Chris Burns brings us the latest now from Landstuhl.</s>CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: After doctors fought to save her life in Iraq, Kimberly Dozier is now at Landstuhl Medical Center here in Germany, before she's transferred back to the states. On her flight over here, doctors noticed some positive signs. She wiggled her toes. She opened her eyes and acknowledged the presence of at least one person. So doctors see that as a positive sign, for her having suffered severe head wounds, shrapnel to the head. She underwent two operations in Iraq to remove that shrapnel. But she also has a lot of serious injuries to her legs. Doctors will be looking to make sure that she is stabilized over the next few days before she is allowed to go back to the states. Her family is to arrive early tomorrow, Wednesday morning, to see her and to visit and to talk with doctors about her condition. The accounts coming from Iraq are quite remarkable. There are doctors and medics who talked about how they did fight to save her life.</s>CAPT. TIFFANY FUSCO, U.S. MILITARY HOSPITAL, BAGHDAD: Her blood pressure dropped to a point where we could barely see what it was anymore. We could barely assess it. Basically it means that she was going down and she did pretty hard. But we were able to get her back by giving her fluids and medications.</s>LT. COL. BOB MAZUR, U.S. MILITARY HOSPITAL, BAGHDAD: At one point, she -- her pulse stopped. She didn't have a heartbeat. She was as sick as you get. The fact that she's alive, of course, is great, it's a miracle pretty much. She's lucky to get to the 10th CASH. She's lucky the 10th CASH is here.</s>MAJOR SAM MEHTA, U.S. MILITARY HOSPITAL, BAGHDAD: If this would have happened back home in the states, she would have probably died. I think for me, Memorial Day will never be the same. While I do remember those who have died for our country in past wars and previous conflicts, for me this will also be a day that I remember as the memory of people who have lived, because we are a team, saved the life, I believe, of seven soldiers and Ms. Dozier.</s>BURNS: The commander here at Landstuhl Medical Center says that Kimberly Dozier is still alive thanks to the protection she was wearing. She had on a Kevlar vest and helmet. He says thanks to that, Kimberly Dozier survived. Chris Burns, CNN, Landstuhl Medical Center.</s>PHILLIPS: Landstuhl makes headlines when it treats high-profile casualties. But Kimberly Dozier will be one of hundreds of surgical patients treated there this week alone. The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside the U.S. It opened to patients in 1953 and now treats casualties of U.S. military operations in Europe, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. The staff is half army personnel, 15 percent Air Force and 35 percent civilian. Unarmed Iraqis, men, women and children, not combatants, not insurgents, just possibly the victims of a Marine massacre. A Pentagon investigation is under way, and the Senate Armed Services Committee plans hearings. Kathleen Koch is live from the Pentagon. Kathleen, the Haditha killings happened last November. But joint chiefs chairman General Peter Pace says the investigations didn't begin until recently. What happened?</s>KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, after virtually every incident in which coalition forces kill an Iraqi civilian, there is a claim -- and it does generally turn out to be erroneous -- that that killing was deliberate. So initially, the Pentagon believed this was simply another one of those incidents. However, it was in February that the Pentagon was confronted with this evidence from "TIME" magazine, some of it actually provided to them by the Hammurabi human rights organization, this very compelling evidence that made them then open up this investigation. And it's taking awhile, they say, because they're having to interview witnesses, interview survivors, interview the Marines involved, collect forensic evidence, as at any site of a potential crime, bullet holes, lots and lots to be examined. So they say this isn't going to be concluded overnight, Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: So exactly how many Marines might be involved? And there's been talk about pictures circulating, possibly from a cell phone and elsewhere. Do we know if anybody has seen those pictures?</s>KOCH: Don't know exactly who took those pictures, if they exist, who's seen them. Sources do tell CNN that between four and eight Marines were involved in the original incident, they from the Kilo Company, and that there were also Marines, not with that company, who were aware, at least, of the aftermath, because they were brought in to basically clear the bodies and to document what had happened. The sources do tell CNN that the investigation into what these Marines may or may not have done is substantially complete and that charges, indeed, possibly even murder charges, could be filed as soon as next month.</s>PHILLIPS: Something else that came across the news today. We're hearing that more U.S. troops are heading to the troubled Anbar Province. What can you tell us about that?</s>KOCH: Well, basically, the Pentagon believes they need more boots on the ground there, Kyra. They're bringing in some 1,500 troops from Kuwait. These are troops that are held in reserve there to be moved to any hot spot in Iraq at a moment's notice. So they're bringing two battalions from the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division. And they follow some 750 forces from that same brigade that had already been moved to Baghdad, and that was in March. They're still in country. We're told that this deployment of 1,500 troops, this is temporary, but the Pentagon won't say when they'll be pulled back out.</s>PHILLIPS: Kathleen Koch, live from the Pentagon. Thanks, Kathleen.</s>KOCH: You bet.</s>PHILLIPS: One of the Marines who documented events in Haditha the very day they occurred was Lance Corporal Ryan Briones. Briones told "The Los Angeles Times" he took pictures of at least 15 bodies. Briones' mother says that he's now suffering from post-traumatic stress.</s>SUSIE BRIONES, RYAN BRIONES' MOTHERS: It was horrific. It was a terrible scene. The biggest thing that keeps to his mind is the children. He had to carry, since he was part of the cleanup crew, is carry that little girl's body and her -- her head was blown off or something that her brain splattered on his boots. And that's what affects Ryan the most.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How many bodies did he tell you he saw?</s>BRIONES: Twenty-three. Around 23, 24, 23 is what I remember.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Were any of them alive?</s>BRIONES: No, they were all dead.</s>PHILLIPS: Brian Briones says that he was a good friend of Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, the Marine whose death in a roadside bombing is suspected of touching off the reprisal attacks on civilians. 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