- Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.
- Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn (pronounced) (born March 5, 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the "Financial Times" and the "Independent ". Among the most experienced commentators on Iraq, he was one of the few journalists to remain in Baghdad during the first Gulf War. He is based in [Iraq] as a correspondent for the "Independent", and has been filing reports on the war in Iraq.
- Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford, born 12 August 1970 in Fairfield, California, is a United States Marine and author of the book "Jarhead", published in 2003. He was a lance corporal while serving as a sniper with the STA (Surveillance and Target Acquisition) Platoon of 2nd Battalion 7th Marines. His book is based on his accounts of various situations encountered in the first Gulf War. This memoir was made into a movie in 2005.
- Peter Arnett
Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born November 13, 1934 in Riverton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American journalist. Arnett worked for "National Geographic" magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, …
- Jay Garner
Jay Montgomery Garner (born April 15, 1938) is a retired United States Army general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by L. Paul Bremer. Born in Arcadia, Florida, Garner served a hitch with the Marines before attending Florida State University, where he received a degree in history in 1962.
- April Glaspie
April Catherine Glaspie (born April 26, 1942) is an American diplomat, best-known for her role in the events leading up to the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
- Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating.
- Hussein Kamel
Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and took to helping the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kamel rose through the army ranks to become Iraq's minister of military industries, …
- Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffrey (b. November 17 1942, Taunton, Massachusetts) is a retired United States Army General. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the United States Military Academy, where he had been the Bradley Professor of International Security Studies from 2001 to 2005. He is also a NBC and MSNBC military analyst as well as a consultant for BR McCaffrey Associates. In addition to serving as a professor at the USMA, …
- Michael Gordon
Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for "The New York Times". He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written two books together: "The Generals' War", which covers the 1991 Gulf War, and the bestseller "Cobra II", which covers the Iraq War begun 2003. He wrote most of the coverage of the administration's case for war in 2002. During the first phase of the Iraq war, …
- Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson (born 1952, in Munich) is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes. Atkinson was born in Munich. His father was an Army officer and he grew up at military posts. He earned his bachelor degree from East Carolina University in 1974 and a master of art degree from the University of Chicago in 1976. His first reporting job was at the The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas He started working at the Kansas City Times in 1977.
- Andy McNab
The secretive and dangerous work of the Special Air Service (SAS) has been brought to the attention of a wider public by bestselling author Andy McNab . He was the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army when he left in 1993. He now lives on a farm in Middlesex with his daughter and wife, Jenny
- Bernard E. Trainor
Bernard E. Trainor (born 2 September 1928) is a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general who is military analyst for NBC. He worked for "The New York Times" as chief military correspondent from 1986 to 1990 and at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government as Director of the National Security Program from 1990 to 1996. Later he was a Senior Fellow for National Security at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Nic Robertson
Nic Robertson (born Dominic Robertson on 8 June 1962) is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN. He began his career at the network in 1989, starting as a satellite engineer. He first came to public attention when he stayed in Baghdad with Peter Arnett at the start of the Allied invasion of Iraq in 1991. Later that year, he was moved to Chicago, where he became a producer in CNN's Chicago Bureau.
- Steve Buyer
Stephen Earle "Steve" Buyer (born November 26 1958) has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993 for. He was born in Rensselaer, Indiana, was educated at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and the Valparaiso University School of Law, served in the United States Army, and was a lawyer, Indiana state deputy attorney general, …
- Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and a former Prime Minister of Russia. He was also the last Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet, and the Russian Foreign Minister responsible for changing the foreign policy from largely unconditional support of the United States to a more nationalist defense of Russia's interests. Primakov was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.
- Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan was born in Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, 1961. He joined the regular SAS in 1984 after seven years in the territorial SAS and he was later was one of the members of the disastrous "Bravo Two Zero" mission, during which a patrol from the Special Air Service (SAS) were sent behind enemy lines in the first Gulf War.
- Abdul Rahman Yasin
Abdul Rahman Yasin helped make the bombs used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack. Yasin is of Iraqi heritage, having grown up in Baghdad, Iraq. The history of his childhood and early adult life in Iraq up until 1992 would be the most direct connection possibly implicating the Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq to the 1993 attack in Manhattan, which occurred on the 2nd anniversary (February 26) of the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait, thus ending the Gulf War.
- Joe Lockhart
Joseph Lockhart served as White House Press Secretary from October 5 1998 to September 29 2000 during the administration of President Bill Clinton. He handled the press during the Clinton impeachment trials. Lockhart, who grew up in Suffern, New York, is the son of Raymond Lockhart, a longtime NBC producer associated with the Huntley-Brinkley Report and special-events coverage. He volunteered for the Jimmy Carter 1976 presidential campaign, …
- Hugh Shelton
General Henry Hugh Shelton (born January 2, 1942) is a retired American career military officer. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001. Born in Tarboro, North Carolina, Shelton attended North Carolina State University and was a member of Pershing Rifles. He earned a degree in textiles while earning his Army commission through ROTC training.
- Paul William Roberts
Paul William Roberts is a Canadian writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a second in English Language and Literature, Roberts moved permanently to Canada in 1980. He lived for several years prior to this in India, where he taught at Bangalore University and studied Sanskrit at the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi. While working on his first novel, "The Palace of Fears", …
- H. R. McMaster
Col. Herbert Raymond McMaster (better known as H.R. McMaster) is best known for commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (as then-Capt. McMaster) at the Battle of 73 Easting in Operation Desert Storm. During the battle, Eagle Troop overran and destroyed Iraqi Republican Guard units which significantly outnumbered it, in conjunction with other 2nd ACR units. Eagle Troop suffered no casualties in the attack, …
- Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf studied journalism in Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. One of her first jobs was working for Reuters. In 1984, she was a bureau chief in Montreal. Then she moved on to a desk editor in New York City in 1987. In 1990, she went to Jordan to be the Amman bureau chief before returning to her desk-editing job in New York City and later in Washington, D.C. Her last job in Reuters was as a correspondent in RFTV (Reuters Financial Television).
- Khidir Hamza
Khidir Hamza is an Iraqi scientist who worked for Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme in the 1980s and early 1990s. Following the Gulf War, he went into exile in the United States and provided evidence to Western intelligence agencies suggesting that Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programmes were active and ongoing. Dr. Hamza first came to the United States in the 1960s, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Florida State University, …
- Pete Williams
Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He has been covering the Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court since March 1993. Williams was also a key reporter on the Microsoft anti-trust trial and Judge Jackson's decision. Prior to joining NBC, Williams served as a press official on Capitol Hill for many years. In 1986 he joined the Washington, DC staff of then Congressman Dick Cheney as press secretary and a legislative assistant.
- John Nichol
John Nichol is a retired Royal Air Force navigator who was shot down and captured during the first Gulf War. He co-authored a book, "Tornado Down", with his pilot John Peters, about this experience. He has gone on to write fiction. He now makes occasional appearances on British television and is available as a motivational speaker.
- Bob Simon
Bob Simon (born c. 1941) is a CBS News correspondent. From 1964-67, Simon served as an American Foreign Service officer and was a Fulbright Scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar. From 1969-71, he served a tour in the CBS News London bureau. From 1971-77, he was based in the London and Saigon bureaus where he served as a Vietnam War correspondent. From 1977-81, he was assigned to the CBS News Tel Aviv bureau. From 1981-82, he spent time in Washingon, D.C., …
- Simon Mann
Simon Mann (B. 26 June 1952) is a security expert, mercenary and former British Army officer, and South African citizen presently facing extradition to Equatorial Guinea, against which he is accused of leading a failed coup d'etat. Once extradited and convicted, he is likely to serve a minimum 30 year prison sentence at Black Beach prison.
- Hamad bin Khalifa
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani became the Emir of the State of Qatar on June 26 1995, continuing the rule of the Al-Thani family that began nearly two centuries ago. Sheikh Hamad was acclaimed Crown Prince in 1977 and at the same time was appointed Minister of Defense. In the early 1980s he led the Supreme Planning Council, which sets the Qatar's basic economic and social policies.
- Turgut Özal
Halil Turgut Özal was a Turkish political leader, prime minister and the 8th president of Turkey. As prime minister and later president, he transformed the economy of Turkey by paving the way for the privatization of many state sectors. This improved relations with the western world, especially the United States; Özal even described Turkey as a "little America", for the preponderance of goods that became available during his leadership.
- Rupert Smith
General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM (with a bar on his DSO) (born 1943) was an officer in the British Army until his retirement in 2002. He was educated at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College and later at Sandhurst. Smith enlisted in 1962 and was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1964. He has served in East and South Africa, Arabia, the Caribbean, Europe and Malaysia.
- Peter Snow
Peter Snow CBE (born April 20, 1938 in Dublin, Ireland) is a British television and radio presenter. He is the cousin of Jon Snow, the main presenter of "Channel 4 News", and the brother-in-law of historian-writer Margaret MacMillan. He was educated at Wellington College and subsequently read Greats at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was taught by R.M. Hare. Snow was a newscaster for Independent Television News (ITN) from the 1960s, …
- Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass (b. August 13, 1955 in Cheam, Surrey) is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English writer and film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He first worked as a director in the 1980s, for the ITV current affairs programme "World in Action".
- Richard Roth
Richard Henry Roth (1949-)is an American journalist, a CNN correspondent who covers the United Nations and was the host of "Diplomatic License" (until its cancellation in January 2006), a weekly program that was devoted to United Nations affairs. Roth is a CNN "original" - one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980. He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, …
- Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley (b. July 28, 1957) is an American television journalist, currently working as a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Pelley grew up in Lubbock. He got his first job in journalism at age 15, as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He stayed close to home, graduating from the journalism school at Texas Tech University and beginning his career as a reporter at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975.
- Julian
Julián Ríos or Julián Ruíz, commonly known by the aliases Julian, Julian Andretti or Jordan Rivers, (born October 12, 1970 in West Covina, California) is a male pornographic actor. He was raised in Everett, Washington. Julián Ríos entered the world of adult films at the age of 25, after serving as a Marine in the Gulf War and working as a personal trainer.
- Nihad Awad
Nihad Awad is the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based American Muslim political and civil rights group. After studying civil engineering at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, he worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. After the Gulf war, he was Public Relations Director for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), described by U.S. government officials as a Hamas front organization.
- Jesse Brown
Jesse Brown (March 27,1944 - August 15,2002) was the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, appointed in 1993 by Bill Clinton. Brown was born in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Catholic University in Washington D.C. and Roosevelt University in Chicago, and graduated from Chicago City College. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1963, and served as a Marine in the Vietnam War, where he was seriously injured in 1965 near Da Nang.
- Montgomery Meigs
Montgomery Meigs (b. January 11, 1945 in Annapolis, Maryland) is a retired United States General. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1967. He served as a cavalry troop commander in the Vietnam War. After study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a year at the Army's Command and General Staff College, …
- Robert Ray
Robert Francis Ray (born 8 April 1947), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate since July 1981, representing the state of Victoria. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at Monash University, Melbourne, where he graduated in arts and education. He worked as a teacher in government schools and as a taxi-driver before entering politics. A leading member of the right-wing faction of the ALP, …