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“IRAQ & THE NEXT AMERICAN PRESIDENT”
a conversation with
BRIAN BENNETT
former Baghdad Bureau Chief for TIME magazine
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Victoria Club*
2521 Arroyo Drive (at Victoria Ave.)
Riverside, California
* Please note that denim is not allowed on Victoria Club grounds.
5:30pm - Reception
6:30pm - Talk and Discussion
ABOUT THE PRESENTOR:
Brian Bennett is the former Baghdad Bureau Chief for TIME magazine. Now a contributor to TIME and other publications, Bennett is a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN, talking about foreign affairs.
Bennett’s award-winning cover stories from Iraq took him inside the lives of Saddam’s sadistic sons, and, blindfolded, into meetings with the commanders of the Iraqi insurgency. Embedded during the invasion, Bennett stayed in Iraq as TIME’s bureau chief in late 2003 and 2004. He has written investigations about the country’s troubling dependence on security firms like Blackwater and the treatment of Iraqi refugees desperate to find safe haven in the U.S.
Brian Bennett’s career began as a reporter in TIME’s Hong Kong bureau, writing stories from across Asia. After September 11, he traveled extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan, reporting on the hunt for the 9/11 masterminds, the U.S. military’s uneasy relationship with warlords, and the religious education of American Taliban John Walker Lindh.
After arriving in Washington in 2005, Bennett covered national security stories, writing about the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. He’s continued to travel back to Iraq, making more than a dozen reporting trips in the past five years. A native of Riverside, California, and son of Bruce and Merilee Bennett, he graduated from Princeton University and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Anne.
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