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Profile: Bill Roggio

Mar-31-2008 » Filed Under: Iraq News

Paul McLeary, who was recently embedded with the 2/25 SBCT, just published a long profile of Bill Roggio of The Long War Journal. In my opinion Bill and his staff provide some of the best reporting and analysis of the war in Iraq. His website is one of the very few that I consistently consider a "must-read". Excerpt:

For the past several years, Roggio, working largely as a one-man bureau, has been at the forefront of reporting on these groups and how they’re being confronted militarily. His process, as he explains it, is to scour English-language media that he has learned to trust in these countries, and vet, amplify, and contextualize what he finds there with his own sources in the U.S. intelligence community, Israel, Iraq, and elsewhere. To this he adds his own expertise. “Bill has what a lot of journalists reporting on the conflict lack: a background in military science and history,” says B. A. Patty, a reporter whom PMI helped send to the Philippines last year. “It’s not just that ‘x happened’—a bomb went off, a sniper rifle was found, etc. It’s what that means… at a strategic or operational level; and in the local situation, to understand what it means tactically.”

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