A conversation with Richard Engel of NBC News

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A conversation with Richard Engel of NBC News about his book War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq.

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    1. MaryK  07/25/2009 03:11 PM Report

      To: RS Milant:

      Get a copy of "Fist in the Hornet's Nest" by Engel read it and then please comment. Please pay special attention to his discussion about his relationships with the translators and guides.

    2. Cameron  10/22/2008 02:48 AM Report

      I have been watching Richard's field reports in Afghanistan, and I pray for him. He is in very dangerous areas and I fear for his life. Richard, please, please, please stay safe. We need more books from you.

    3. courtney  07/02/2008 08:35 AM Report

      RS Millant obviously has no idea what he is talking about.

      Richard Engel is the only reporter in Iraq that I trust with telling me the truth.

    4. binoj joseph matthew  06/07/2008 11:57 PM Report

      To RS Milant:

      FYI Richard Engel speaks fluent Arabic. He spent years in Egypt after graduating from Stanford.

    5. RS Millant  06/07/2008 04:05 PM Report

      If this gentleman does not speak Arabic, he has no idea what is really going on.

      Do you know who are the most powerful people in Baghdad?? Its the _translators_ who guide the US Marines and these "reporters". If they claim a man to be an "insurgent", the marines take him to the dungeons of abu-ghraib. the extortion is horrible. Now how useful is a book made by a man who learns about Iraq from extortionist?

      anyway, Charlie, please please have more interviews with Iraqi citizens. please.

    6. none  06/07/2008 04:26 AM Report

      if he says the truth they will problably fire him,like cnn had to do to Peter Arnett.

    7. flummoxed  06/05/2008 01:17 AM Report

      Alqaeda-in-Iraq is an administration red herring, or an ill defined reality. Engel's depiction flummoxed me. His definition excluded the equivalent of "non-Iraqis." He talked of Sunni malcontents and others but did not imply they were foreign fighters, which I thought was an imperative to fit the definition???? Are they a phantom as much as WMD's, mushroom clouds and say Bosnia sniper fire?

    8. RE Mant  06/05/2008 12:34 AM Report

      IMHO this young man has a considerable future