News: September 2007 Archives
Leaving the Palace
The soldiers lead a semi-nocturnal existence between guard shifts and operations. Reveille is usually a salvo of incoming mortar fire. Almost every man smokes and few could tell me what day it is, let alone the date.They have already suffered......more
Owning up to war
Since leaving them 20 years ago I have always wanted to film my old army regiment, the Grenadier Guards, on operations and I have just returned from staying with them in Helmand, in southern Afghanistan, where they have been involved......more
Legacy of Ashes: The History of CIA
The only CIA man I've ever had dealings with, knowingly at least, was a nerdish fellow with thick glasses who used to hang around the bar of the Camino Real hotel, eavesdropping on the foreign journalists covering the 1980s civil......more
A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja
After Saddam Hussein's warplanes dropped poison gas on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in March, 1988 a cameraman found among the dead the bodies of a mother and her small son, "her arm outstretched as if to beg for......more
Inside Out - October 07
There's something startling about passing by the most hallowed Serbian monument in Kosovo en route to a bold new journalism school in Kosovo.There you are driving by Kosovo Polje when you come across the monument commemorating the 1389 Ottoman Turk......more