About Me

I'm a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. I was TIME magazine's Baghdad bureau chief in 2003 and 2004 and most recently covered the Justice Department and State Department. I've eaten goat's head with the imam who helped John Walker Lindh memorize the Koran in Pakistan, met blindfolded with insurgent leaders in a pomegranate grove in Fallujah and turned down a katyusha rocket fin cheerfully offered by an Afghan warlord as a souvenir. What is it they say about the company you keep?