Brian Bennett is the former Baghdad Bureau Chief for TIME magazine.
Now a contributor to TIME and other publications, Bennett is a frequent
guest on FOX and CNN talking about foreign affairs.

Bennett's award-winning stories from Iraq took him inside the lives
of Saddam's sadistic sons and blindfolded into meetings with the
commanders of the Iraqi insurgency. Embedded during the invasion,
Bennett stayed in Iraq as TIME's bureau chief in late 2003 and 2004.
He's written investigations about the country's troubling dependence
on security firms like Blackwater and the treatment of Iraqi refugees
desperate to find safe haven in the U.S.

His career began as a reporter in TIME's Hong Kong bureau, writing
stories from across Asia. After Sept. 11, Bennett traveled extensively
in Pakistan and Afghanistan, reporting on the hunt for the 9/11 masterminds,
the U.S. military's uneasy relationship with warlords, and the religious
education of American Taliban John Walker Lindh.

After arriving in Washington in 2005, Bennett covered national security stories,
writing about the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the State
Department. He's continued to travel back to Iraq, making over a dozen
reporting trips in the past five years.

A native of Riverside, Calif., Bennett graduated from Princeton University
and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Anne.





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Updated 09/11/08