August 30, 2003

Jon Lee Anderson And Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim

Prior to and during the war in Iraq, New Yorker reporter Jon Lee Anderson offered what I considered the most balanced, insightful, and prescient on-site reporting of conditions in Baghdad and the region available. Last February the New Yorker published Anderson’s account of his interview with Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, the Shia cleric killed in Friday’s Najaf car bombing (al-Hakim was in exile in Tehran at the time), and they have just re-posted the article on the New Yorker site. I read the article in February and found it extremely insightful, and given the increasing conflict in the Sunni triangle it’s even more so now. I offer it as recommended reading to all who visit this site.

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