As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

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

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

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