Nir Rosen Video

October 15, 2008
On Afghanistan with Amy Goodman

Investigative journalist Nir Rosen has just returned from Afghanistan, where he embedded with the Taliban and traveled far from the capital city of Kabul, “Afghanistan’s version of the Green Zone.” He doesn’t think the US-led NATO occupation is winning in Afghanistan. His latest article for Rolling Stone magazine is “How We Lost the War We Won: A Journey into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan.”
From Democracy Now!.

Nir Rosen

10 minutes

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1 hour 10 minutes

In the Belly of the Green Bird:

The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq

May 2006

New America Foundation

Journalist, author and Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, Nir Rosen speaks Arabic and has managed to gain exceptional access to occupied Iraq and Afghanistan as well as to Somalia and other areas.

New America Foundation biographical information: “Mr. Rosen covered the elections in Afghanistan and the differences between the American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has also reported from Somalia, where he investigated Islamist movements; Jordan, where he investigated the origins and future of the Zarqawi movement; and Pakistan, where he investigated the madrassas and pro-Taliban movements. Mr. Rosen’s book on postwar Iraq, In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq, was published by Free Press in 2006. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, Boston Review, Time, Mother Jones, and World Policy Journal.”

From The New America Foundation.

Nir Rosen debates Fred Kagan

Iraq Surge

PBS NewsHour

March 11, 2008

15 minutes