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Kurt Pitzer on Technology and War Correspondence 3:02 Discuss
Kurt Pitzer on The Balkans, Then and Now 3:40 Discuss
Kurt Pitzer on The Chief Responsibility of Journalists 1:16 Discuss
An Intense War Story From Kurt Pitzer 3:51 Discuss
A Global View of Human Nature 1:54 Discuss
When The Journalist Becomes the Story 3:06 Discuss
Kurt Pitzer on The American Media and the Iraq War 2:19 Discuss
A Shocking Story From Afghanistan 1:53 Discuss
Kurt Pitzer on Confronting Death in the Field 1:30 Discuss
Kurt Pitzer on Assimilating Back To America 2:23 Discuss

User_rkeb_600da2bde Kurt Pitzer is a former commercial longline fisherman and relief worker who has reported from many of the world's turbulent regions, including the Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He was embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq, then jumped his embed as Baghdad fell. He met Dr. Mahdi Obeidi soon afterward and helped him go public with Saddam Hussein's remaining nuclear secrets. He and Obeidi cowrote The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind, which was published in paperback in September 2005.

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