Fred Francis has seen it all; from the Arab street to the teeming jungles of Central America; from the corridors of Pentagon power to the U.S. embassy held hostage in Iran. Few journalists today have covered as many wars, tracked the shadowy global footprints of terrorism, interviewed the likes of Arafat, Qaddafi, Sharon and Karzai and traveled with five American presidents.
With war clouds looming, two months before the invasion of Iraq, the CIA and US Special Forces had completed the infiltration of agents, warriors and assets into that country. So did NBC, secretly basing Fred Francis 10 miles from Iraqi front lines.
In January, 2003, in a bold move unmatched by any other worldwide broadcast news operation, Francis, as a senior correspondent for NBC News, covertly slipped into Northern Iraq from the mountains of Iran, with a five man news crew.
By the time the war began, Francis had assembled a team of fifteen journalists, armed guards, ...View Full Bio
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