The New York Times Magazine | December 14, 2003
New tools for an occupation.
The New York Times Magazine | October 19, 2003
Kim Jong Il, the world’s most dangerous dictator, has always been a figure surrounded by mystery and myth. But, from defectors and former aides, a portrait is emerging of family dysfunction, palace intrigue and imperial menace.
Outside | July 2003
This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn’t come back.
The New York Times Magazine | June 8, 2003
Dathar Khashab had what it took to maneuver his way up through the ranks in Saddam Hussein’s oil bureaucracy. When his new managers showed up wearing U.S.-issue fatigues, he didn’t miss a step.
Slate | June 2, 2003
How do I know Baghdad’s famous blogger exists? He worked for me.
The New York Times | May 11, 2003
The New York Times Magazine | May 11, 2003
Moqtadah al-Sadr wants an Iraq run by God’s laws. But first he has to outsmart his rivals, outmaneuver the Americans and get Iraq’s millions of Shiites behind him.
The New Republic | May 3, 2003
Dispatch from Baghdad
The New York Times Magazine | April 20, 2003
To get to Baghdad, the marines of the Third Battalion fought the old-fashioned way—by shooting as many of the enemy as they could. Their victims weren’t all soldiers.
The New York Times Magazine | April 13, 2003
The New York Times | April 6, 2003
Food, Too, Can Be a Weapon of the War In Iraq.
The New Republic | March 31, 2003
Dispatch from Kuwait
The New York Times | March 8, 2003
Security and retribution in a murky world.
The New York Times Magazine | February 2, 2003
An Arab journalist’s close encounter with terrorists.
The Digital Journalist | January 2003
A photographic reminder of evil.
The New York Times Magazine | November 10, 2002
The Special Forces are being engineered not only for the traumas of battle but also for its aftermath.
The New Republic | November 2002
How America’s friends really fight terrorism.
The New York Times | July 5, 2002
Outside | June 2002
#1 You must merge with the energy of the mountain. #2 That nagging headache may be an avalanche that crushed your tent. #3 You will ascend the most harrowing face in the Himalayas, alone. #4 Go home, break both legs, and start over again.
The New York Times Magazine | January 6, 2002
It’s kissing the ring, cash stuffed in envelopes and bloody lawlessness again in Kandahar. The warlord has returned.
Dissent | January 2002
The illusions and delusions behind 200,000 deaths in Bosnia.
The New Republic Online | December 15, 2001
How to change a tire in Kandahar.
Slate | November 20, 2001
The strange last days of the mullahs in black turbans.
The New York Times Magazine | November 18, 2001
Every refugee camp has its own social hierarchy. In Shamshatoo, on the Pakistani border, it all begins with a man named Nusrat.
The New York Times Magazine | October 21, 2001
Which is not unusual, and helps explain why Peshawar’s youth are tinder for Islamic extremism.
The New York Times Magazine | October 7, 2001
Finding love on the battlefield.
Slate | October 4, 2001
Terrorism, suicide and the Quran.
The New York Times Magazine | September 30, 2001
Getting ready for the jihad.
Slate | September 28, 2001
The unnoticed perils of working in the Third World.
Slate | September 23, 2001
The Mossad and 9/11. A dispatch from Peshawar.
