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Yahoo News
April 14, 2018
22 cover story “My return to China,” I was brought to tears by the connection writer Ann Scott Tyson made with the Chinese journalist in Ritan Park. Encounters with others, especially from other countries and cultures, bring some of the most memorable times in one's life. The Monitor Weekly and the DailyÃâà...
UN Dispatch
April 9, 2018
Journalist Steve Coll is a staff writer at the New Yorker, dean of the Colombia School of Journalism and former president of the New America Foundation think tank. Tn 2005 he wont he Pulitzer for his book Ghost Wars, which examines the secret history of the CIA in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion toÃâà...
Voice of America
April 6, 2018
Journalist and author Steve Coll, whose latest book Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, offers a detailed behind-the-scene look at the protracted Afghan conflict claims. He claims there have been proxy war developments between India and Pakistan in recentÃâà...
KUOW News and Information
April 5, 2018
Steve Coll is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winner “Ghost Wars,” is “Directorate S: The ... Steve Coll spoke at Seattle University's Pigott Auditorium on February 15. His appearance was co-presented by The Elliott Bay Book Company and Town Hall Seattle.
The Express Tribune
March 27, 2018
Steve Coll is a meticulous researcher, a seasoned journalist, an articulate author. In his latest book, which is a sequel to Ghost Wars, which focused on the background that led to 9/11, is called Directorate S. It has the same Coll style of telling a story with perspective, stunning and relevant details, chillingÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 21, 2018
Steve Coll, a staff writer, is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and reports on issues of intelligence and national security in the United States and abroad. He is the author of “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.” Read more Ãâû. More: Immigration Ãâ÷ ImmigrationÃâà...
The Quint
March 17, 2018
Well into its first 200 pages, celebrated American journalist-writer-professor Steve Coll's book Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 offers a gripping account of ... Not many American writers have delved so deep into Pakistan's “deep state” like Coll has.
CBC.ca
March 15, 2018
Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan because Pakistan was supporting the Taliban, says author. Pakistan's ... author. What's more, Steve Coll says, the U.S. and NATO knew about the actions of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), but did not intervene for fear of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands.
Toledo Blade
March 13, 2018
This fascinating, if dispiriting, story is told in Steve Coll's new book Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. There cannot be many secrets about this subject that are not in Mr. Coll's almost 700 pages. He reports when Gen. Stanley McChrystal went to Afghanistan inÃâà...
Dallas News
March 10, 2018
Free admission for 18 years old and younger. dfwworld.org/steve-coll. Diane DeSanders will discuss Hap and Hazard and the End of the World at 7 p.m. Friday, March 16 at Interabang Books. Ken Ingle will sign Who Killed the Killer and other works at 3 p.m. Friday, March 16 and at 10 a.m. March 17-18 atÃâà...
Daily Times
March 2, 2018
The highly decorated American writer and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes Steve Coll, has recently published his new book titled, Directorate S — the CIA and America's secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Coll's earlier book titled, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden,Ãâà...
The Guardian
February 25, 2018
Steve Coll's deeply impressive new book picks up the story where his acclaimed Ghost Wars left off, in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2001. ... Coll, a former south Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, Pulitzer prize winner and staff writer on the New Yorker, is a deft guide through a labyrinthineÃâà...
NPR
February 15, 2018
There are other credible journalists who have quoted anonymous sources saying that they believe the Pakistanis did have a cell. I didn't find those sources myself. I do think - you know, you look at all the letters that bin Laden wrote that had been declassified since the 2011 raid, and he was very interestedÃâà...
NPR
February 14, 2018
Off his shelf, he pulled not a fat, classified file but a copy of "Ghost Wars," the book by journalist Steve Coll that chronicled the history of the CIA, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden. It's like the Bible, the CIA veteran told me - closest thing we've got to a definitive public record of what happened.
theday.com
February 14, 2018
Author Steve Coll has covered Afghanistan for almost 30 years, an odyssey that began when The Washington Post dispatched him to India in 1989 to ... It's deeply sourced — Coll, a New Yorker writer and dean of Columbia University's graduate school of journalism, conducted more than 550 interviews.
Atlantic Council (blog)
December 31, 1999
In 2002, The European Voice, a leading publication following EU affairs, selected Kempe as one of the fifty most influential Europeans, and as one of the four leading journalists in Europe. At the Wall Street Journal, he served as a roving correspondent based out of London; as a Vienna Bureau chief covering EasternÃâà...
KJZZ
December 31, 1999
The United States has been fighting in Afghanistan for more than 16 years and in Iraq for nearly that long. We know about some of the obvious problems and challenges that have come with those efforts — the loss of lives on all sides, political conflict and financial costs. But there are stories that haven'tÃâà...
WRKF
December 31, 1999
... legend Mickey Gilley is joined by fellow singer Johnny Lee to reflect on the legacy of the film, “Urban Cowboy,” which propelled them both to stardom; Veteran journalist Mark Whitaker on his critically acclaimed book about the Black heritage in Pittsburgh, “Smoketown” and Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll,Ãâà...
PBS NewsHour
December 31, 1999
The U.S. has been fighting in Afghanistan for more than 16 years, and mostly against the Taliban, a group that exists in large part due to the intelligence services of Afghan neighbor Pakistan. Steve Coll's new book "Directorate S" is perhaps the definitive story of the war's aftermath and tense U.S. relationsÃâà...
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