Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post where he heads the Post's continuous news department, which provides breaking news stories to the paper's website, washingtonpost.com. Mr. Chandrasekaran joined the Post in 1994 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff and later became a foreign correspondent for the paper. In the months following September 11, 2001, he was part of a team of Post reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan. From April 2003 until October 2004, he was the Post's bureau chief in Baghdad, where he was responsible for covering the American occupation of Iraq. He also spent much of the six months leading up to the war in Baghdad reporting on the United Nations weapons-inspections process and the build-up to the conflict. Mr. Chandrasekaran has appeared on National Public Radio, the NewsHour, CNN, Fox News, Nightline, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He is the author of the book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City. A native of the San Francisco bay area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of The Stanford Daily.