Imperial Life in the Emerald City (35 page)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of
The Washington Post.
He was the newspaper's bureau chief in Baghdad from April 2003 to September 2004, and he has reported from more than two dozen countries in Asia and the Middle East. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Copyright © 2006 by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.

Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone / Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Postwar reconstruction—Iraq. 2. Coalition Provisional Authority. 3. Iraq War, 2003– 4. United States—Politics and government—2001– 5. Political corruption—United States. I. Title: Inside Iraq's green zone. II. Title.

DS
79.769.
C
53 2006 2006041014

956.7044'31—dc22

eISBN: 978-0-307-26592-0

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