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Covering the Baghdad Battlefields

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Aparisim “Bobby” Ghosh is TIME magazine’s Baghdad Bureau Chief and has been covering the fighting in Iraq since the US-led invasion back in 2003. He has been caught in crossfire, seen two colleagues badly wounded, and was part of the team of journalists that first reported on the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha. He'll talk about why he keeps going back.


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  • [1] RC from Queens July 19, 2007 - 01:35PM

    Lenny,

    I found this article to be fascinating. Please book this guy on the show:

    Saving Iraq

    Robert Dreyfuss

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070716/dreyfuss

    He is also interviewed here:

    http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/07/03/robert-dreyfuss-2/
  • [2] Russell July 19, 2007 - 01:43PM

    What are some current outrageous realities that Mr.Ghosh believes go underreported in American news media?

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