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Why me?

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May 2005, no. 271

Absurdistan: A bumpy ride through some of the world's scariest, weirdest places by Eric Campbell

HarperCollins, $29.95 pb, 334 pp

Why me?

by
May 2005, no. 271

The foreign correspondent Eric Campbell is lucky to be alive. In March 2003 he was filming in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, with Paul Moran, a freelance cameraman whom he had just met, when a car bomb exploded in front of him. Moran was killed instantly, his body shielding Campbell from the worst of the blast. Both Moran and Campbell were new fathers. Although vastly experienced in covering conflicts, both men had decided at the start of the Iraq war that they would stay at the tail of the media pack when entering dangerous areas. They wanted to see their children grow up; Moran’s daughter was only six weeks old.

Absurdistan: A bumpy ride through some of the world's scariest, weirdest places

Absurdistan: A bumpy ride through some of the world's scariest, weirdest places

by Eric Campbell

HarperCollins, $29.95 pb, 334 pp

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