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Kurt Pitzer
Author / Journalist
Kurt Pitzer is a former commercial longline fisherman and relief worker who has reported from many of the world's turbulent regions, including the Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He was embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq, then jumped his embed as Baghdad fell. He met Dr. Mahdi Obeidi soon afterward and helped him go public with Saddam Hussein's remaining nuclear secrets. He and Obeidi cowrote The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind, which was published in paperback in September 2005.
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Starting with Afghanistan in the late 90s, Kurt Pitzer says digital technology is bringing a new immediacy to war reporting.
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Though media attention has shifted from the region, it’s still a hotbed of ethnic discontent, Kurt Pitzer says.
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Above all, journalists should make us see through a different lens, Kurt Pitzer believes.
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Kurt Pitzer tells how soccer star Zidane broke the ice with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade.
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Kurt Pitzer has met killers who have just as much humanity as he does.
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When the house is fire, you jump in with a bucket of water, as Kurt Pitzer did with Mahdi Obeidi.
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Coverage has been poor all around except for some Iraqi reporters in Kurt Pitzer’s opinion.