Triumph Of The Desk Jockeys

July 2, 2012

There are those who serve and those who snark. A diplomat and a journalist learned that when push comes to shove, the snarks win.

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Cairo Spring

January 31, 2011

There is a chance that, by the time you read these words, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will have checked into the five-star King Abdullah Hostel for Displaced Dictators in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. More likely, it will take a little while — days or perhaps weeks, though I don’t think so — for Mubarak to board the helicopter that will carry him to a private jet, which, in turn, will whisk …

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The War We Were Not Meant To See

April 9, 2010

On a scorching July morning in 2007, American troops, supported by Apache attack helicopters, investigated a report of shots fired in the mostly Shiite suburb of New Baghdad. Not far away, Namir Noor-Eldeen, a 22-year-old Reuters photographer, and Saeed Chmagh, a 40-year-old father of four who was a Reuters driver and staff assistant, heard that there was an American military raid in progress and set off to check it out. …

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