The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.