Photos of the author

Being greeted by President Bill Clinton at the White House.
being beaten up by Lebanese gendarmes during a student demo.
South Lebanon, 1982
SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger
With Lebanese President Emile Lahoud
With Mrs. Myriam Rajavi, head of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq
With King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. British PM Tony Blair is behind me.
Desert storm
Desert Storm, Kuwait
Riding atop a Marine Amtrak on the way to rescue villagers trapped in the worst snow storm in memory.
On Fox News (one of the rare times).
Desert Storm — note the burning oil wells.
TV in Washington, DC
Beirut summer ’82 a French doctor from Doctors Without Borders tends to my broken ankle, the result of an Israeli 155 mm white phosphorous shell that crashed into the UPI office, throwing me down a flight of stairs. Cindy, who later became my wife, is behind me.
Paris
At Kuwait Airport, trying to get a flight out. Notice the oil on my jeep.
Desert Storm — on the Iraqi border
SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger
Me being helped into the Commodore Hotel in Beirut on Aug. 2, 1982 by Vincent Schodolski and Cynthia Nuckolls (who later became my wife). Frank Dougherty is on the left. I had suffered a broken ankle when an Israeli 155mm White Phospherous shell hit the UPI office.
With PLO leader Yasser Arafat
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South Lebanon, 1982

With Lebanese President Emile Lahoud
Me being helped into the Commodore Hotel in Beirut on Aug. 2, 1982 by Vincent Schodolski and Cynthia Nuckolls (who later became my wife). Frank Dougherty is on the left. I had suffered a broken ankle when an Israeli 155mm White Phospherous shell hit the UPI office.
SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger
With King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. British PM Tony Blair is behind me.
With Mrs. Myriam Rajavi, head of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq
Desert Storm, Kuwait
Paris
Beirut summer ’82 a French doctor from Doctors Without Borders tends to my broken ankle, the result of an Israeli 155 mm white phosphorous shell that crashed into the UPI office, throwing me down a flight of stairs. Cindy, who later became my wife, is behind me.
TV in Washington, DC
Desert Storm — note the burning oil wells.
On Fox News (one of the rare times).
Desert storm
Riding atop a Marine Amtrak on the way to rescue villagers trapped in the worst snow storm in memory.
At Kuwait Airport, trying to get a flight out. Notice the oil on my jeep.
Desert Storm — on the Iraqi border
With PLO leader Yasser Arafat