The Hurt Locker: Ouch

I'll be watching the Oscars on Sunday night, though this year, I am not as excited as I usually am. I've only seen two of the movies nominated for best…

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About journalists and trauma

"Hey! Welcome back. How was Iraq?"That's something I heard often in the hallways of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when I was freshly returned from war. But how do you answer such…

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85,000

That's how many Iraqis died in the war between 2004 and 2008. Iraq's human rights ministry released that grim number a week ago.We keep an exact count of the number…

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A wretched anniversary

It’s been four years since AJC photo journalist Bita Honarvar and I took a C-130 military transport from the safety of Kuwait into the horrors of Iraq.We were just starting…

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