Word: carlson
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...Still, Carlson says he had no desire to live out his decades-old flirtation with reporting from the frontlines at last...
...Carlson says journalists staying in Kuwait advised him to call off the trip, citing their own near-death experiences as evidence that no driver could be trusted to protect his life in such a setting...
...Embedded and in person, Carlson often cites a back-of-the-envelope statistical calculation that, as a group, journalists were about ten times as likely as coalition soldiers to die during the three-week ground phase of the Iraqi war. The book concludes with a list of 16 journalists (out of 2700) known to have died in Iraq between March 22 and July 6, 2003—13 of them during the earlier three-week period, in contrast with 135 coalition soldiers (out of 250,000) killed in that initial phase...
...Carlson’s own safety, he ultimately found a driver who managed to ferry him in and out of the country intact—indeed, Carlson says, the man Katovsky awards “an honorary NASCAR membership” in Embedded’s acknowledgements saved his life...
...long road to Baghdad—“It reminds me of Mad Max,” he says of the ravaged city—Carlson says his driver’s car was passed by a truck with weapon-bearing men inside. When the truck returned a few minutes later with a second truck, no more friendly, Carlson says his driver’s agile stuntwork at the wheel might well be the only thing that prevented an instant death in the desert...