Letter from Baghdad

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Listen Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 1:06 p.m. in Conflict

You may know George Packer from his lengthy "Letter from Baghdad" columns in The New Yorker Magazine. For the past few years, he has documented the aftermath of the U.S. invasion and explored the stories of individual Iraqi citizens, American military, and government officials who are there.

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George Packer

staff writer, The New Yorker Magazine; and author "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq" (Farrar Strauss Giroux)

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