‘I’m Sorry We Couldn’t Do More’
Newsweek, April, 2008 by Michael Hastings
In a forthcoming memoir about Iraq, a NEWSWEEK correspondent relives a relationship that blossomed, and ended tragically, in Baghdad.
On Jan. 17, 2007, a group of armed insurgents ambushed and killed an idealistic 28-year-old American who was working in Baghdad for the nonprofit National Democratic Institute, along with three private security contractors who were accompanying her. Bef ore her death, Andrea (Andi) Parhamovich and NEWSWEEK reporter Michael Hastings had been preparing to announce their engagement, and the tragedy impelled him to write a book about this extraordinary woman and the vision that took her to Iraq while the bloodshed was at its worst. In this excerpt, Hastings reconstructs the day she died.
Andi wakes up Wednesday morning in...
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