4: Multi-tasking and unembedded, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is hard to beat

When it comes to sheer bravery and commitment to the cause, there are few journalists that match Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.  A leading light in the effort to document post-Saddam Iraq in its troubled and tragic descent into seemingly endless sectarian conflict, Abdul-Ahad has taken to the frontline, reporting free from the shackles that hinder most western journalists embedded with the US army. In fact, he narrowly escaped death and had to have stitches to a wound after he was hit during a U.S. helicopter strike in 2004. Thirteen Iraqis who had... Read The Rest →