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CNN foreign correspondent to discuss war in Iraq tonight 2:45 p.m., Oct. 15, 2003--“Under the Guns: A Global Journalist's View of War from Afghanistan and Iraq” will be the topic addressed by Nic Robertson, senior international correspondent for CNN, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Mitchell Hall. The event, part of UD’s “America and the Global Community Program,” is free and open to the public.
Even before the United States retaliated for 9/11 with the war in Afghanistan, CNN's Nic Robertson was on the ground in Kabul, tracking Afghanistan's Taliban movement and its role in international terrorism. He was the only Western television journalist in Afghanistan on Sept. 11, 2001. When the guns began blazing a few weeks later, Robertson reported on the Afghanistan war for a global audience. Last spring, Robertson was on the ground in Iraq long before the United States bombed Baghdad and occupied the country. Saddam Hussein's government considered him such a threat that it expelled him just hours before U.S. bombs struck the Iraqi capital. But Robertson continued reporting on the war as he fled the country and beyond. Robertson has long been reporting “under the guns." He covered the wars in the Balkans and the religious conflict in Northern Ireland. He also reported on the U.S. invasion of Haiti and on the first Gulf War in 1991, as well as on the genocide in Rwanda in the mid-1990s. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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In addition, Robertson will hold a special question-and-answer session for UD students from 2:30—4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center.