"Described in the piece as an "Associated Press Writer", she is much, much more than that. Between 1986 and 2005, Gannon was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She is currently the Iran Bureau Chief-designate.
Her work has been published in Foreign Affairs and The New Yorker. "I is for Infidel" — on the history and politics of Afghanistan during her years working in the region — is her first book. In 2002, she was the recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism award and in 2004, she was the Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
This is no lowly staff hack doing a routine "filler". This is the "big guns", out to do a hatchet job. And thus does she begin her account"
