Muqtada Al-Sadr

Muqtada Al-Sadr

male, 36 years old
Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is also the so...
Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn

male, 58 years old
Patrick Cockburn (pronounced) (born March 5, 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the "Financial...
Al-Mahdi

Al-Mahdi

male, deceased (785)
Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur. Al-Mahdi, whose name means "Rightly-guided" or...

Richard Engel

male
Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the...
Michael Ware

Michael Ware

male
Michael Ware is an Australian journalist reporting for CNN as an international correspondent based in Baghdad. He joined CNN in May 2006, after...
Salam Pax

Salam Pax

male
Salam Pax is a pseudonymous blogger from Iraq whose site "Where is Raed?" (see external links) received notable media attention during (and after)...
Mark Kimmitt

Mark Kimmitt

male
Mark T. Kimmitt (born 21 June 1954), formerly a Brigadier General in the US Army, is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense...
April Fool

April Fool

female
"April Fool" is the codename for the spy and double agent who allegedly played a key role in the downfall of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein....
Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi

male, 75 years old
Lakhdar Brahimi (born January 1, 1934 in Algeria) was a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005....
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

male
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is currently assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994....