November 21, 2006

AP correspondent to talk about Iraq War

Associated Press correspondent-at-large Bob Reid will discuss his first-hand experience covering the war in Iraq on Monday, November 27, at 5 pm in USC’s Russell House Theater.

Reid’s presentation is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and open to the public.

With President Bush assessing U.S. military options, Reid recently wrote that it will be “tough for the U.S. to steer Iraqi leaders toward the kind of political compromise that American military commanders believe is the only way to guarantee long-term stability.”

Reid was named AP correspondent-at-large in 2005 to help direct coverage of major military, political and diplomatic events outside the U.S. He has spent much of the past several years directly covering the war in Iraq and earlier reported on war in the Balkans, the Iran-Iraq war, civil war in Lebanon and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Reid is a native of Asheville, N.C., a graduate of Davidson College and a long-time AP foreign correspondent. He joined the Associated Press in 1969.