Being a recounting of my journalistic ventures in Iraq
Hello all. I’ll be in the Northern Arabian Gulf for a few days starting tomorrow to check out the training of the Iraqi Navy, the two oil terminals there (which supply Iraq with 90%+ of its income) and maybe I’ll even bump up against some Iranians. Stay tuned…
One of the things writing the U.S. media roundup on IraqSlogger allows me to do is get a high dudgeon up over the crap that passes for analysis on op-ed pages … or sloppy writing in the middle of reporting. (Michael Gordon of the New York Times has been raked over the coals for his …
My latest for IraqSlogger is up, and there’s a howler of an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. As I wrote for the Slogger: Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the Wall Street Journal‘s op-ed page, calling him the “nearest thing Iraqis currently possess to a genuine walk-and-talk democratic politician.” For …
A story I wrote appeared Monday in the Newark Star-Ledger, a great smaller paper that cares about foreign news. The story dealt with the plight of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Lives suspended by war AMMAN, Jordan — Rana crosses her legs on the threadbare carpet in her living room in this poor Palestinian section …
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