IRAQ | Other developments

The latest developments in Iraq:
A CBS News correspondent seriously wounded by a car bomb that killed two colleagues in Iraq briefly regained consciousness during a flight to Germany, where she will be treated at a U.S. military hospital, the network said Tuesday. Kimberly Dozier was being treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center for injuries to her head and legs, and was in critical but stable condition, the "CBS Evening News" reported. CBS said Dozier, a 39-year-old American, underwent two operations in Baghdad before being transferred to Landstuhl, the U.S. military's largest medical facility abroad.
Iraq's new ambassador to the United States was officially received by President Bush at the White House on Tuesday, and hours later accused U.S. troops of murdering his unarmed cousin and conducting a flawed investigation. Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie, renewing an allegation he first made last summer, said U.S. troops killed 21-year-old Mohammed Sumaidaie during house-to-house searches in the western Iraqi town of Haditha on June 25, 2005. Haditha is now the focus of a U.S. military investigation into allegations that U.S. Marines may have killed as many as 24 civilian Iraqis, including women and children, last November.
Some of the 148 massacre victims whose deaths have been attributed by prosecutors to deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his top aides never died, witnesses told a startled courtroom Tuesday. At least 23 of the victims allegedly slaughtered by the former Baath Party regime in retribution for a failed assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982 are living openly in the mainly Shiite town of Dujayl, said anonymous townspeople who testified in the former dictator's defense. The two witnesses, who spoke from behind a floor-length curtain, insisted that many of the people who were thought to have been put to death actually fled to Iran. But when pressed for names, both witnesses balked, arguing that they would be vulnerable to revenge attacks in Dujayl if they gave up the names.
Source: Combined dispatches