The Lede -- New York Times Blog
New York Times correspondent
Khalid W. Hassan, who was shot and killed on his way to the Times Baghdad bureau Friday, "was young, eager, hungry for Americans to understand Iraq, and most of all, to care about its people," writes
Damien Cave. |
Jeffrey Gettleman: "He was a full person, in three very big dimensions. He weighed about 300 pounds and threatened to eat me on some days." |
Dexter Filkins: "For some inexplicable reason, this bright, brash 23-year-old Palestinian Iraqi had taken to America and its gadgets and its liberties like no other foreigner I had ever met."
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Hassan was willing to venture into some of Iraq's riskiest war zones (NYT)
