On the Thunder Run 
Ed Harriman
- A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq by Todd Purdom
Few Western journalists saw much of the war in Iraq. Some were corralled in US central command headquarters in Qatar and dependent on Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks’s daily news briefings, some were stuck in Baghdad hotels under the protective wing of Saddam’s information minister, Muhammad al-Sahhaf, some were embedded with the coalition forces: they were all in different ways in the dark. News organisations did their best to pull together their teams’ reports, but they delude themselves and their readers and viewers if they think they were reporting the full story.
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Ed Harriman is a journalist and television documentary film-maker.
Other articles by this contributor:
Cronyism and Kickbacks · The economics of reconstruction in Iraq
Where has all the money gone? · On the Take in Iraq
Burn Rate · The Iraq Disaster
The Least Accountable Regime in the Middle East · On the Take in Iraq, Part 3
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