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University of New Hampshire alumni yesterday remembered former classmate Michael Kelly, who was killed while covering the war in Iraq, for his “clever chutzpah” and talented reporting. Kelly, 46, editor-at-large of the Atlantic Monthly and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, was killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division near Baghdad. UNH alumni and faculty recalled Kelly as a high-energy, larger-than-life figure who often melded his intellect and antics into great news stories. “We’ve been telling funny stories about him for the last couple of hours,” said Dover native and USA Today reporter...

April 5, 2003 -- Michael Kelly filed this column late Wednesday. He was killed in the war zone yesterday.- THE EDITORS NEAR the crest of the bridge across the Euphrates River that Task Force 3-69 Armor of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division seized Wednesday afternoon was a body, which lay twisted from its fall. He had been an old man, judging from his blood-matted gray hair, and he was poor and not a regular soldier, judging from his clothes. He was lying on his back, not far from one of several burning skeletons of the small trucks...

Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been killed while traveling with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.

Kelly was one of the good guys. He started off calling President Bush a "pinhead" but then came to admire him. He was sending great dispatches from Iraq. RIP

JEEP CRASH LEAVES TWO DEAD An American soldier and a US reporter traveling with Coalition forces have been killed in an accident involving their Humvee military jeep. US Defence officials said the circumstances and cause of the accident were still under investigation. The identities of the two people killed were being withheld pending notification of their families. More to follow... Last Updated: 14:28 UK, Friday April 04, 2003

<p>The death of Michael Kelly is a sin against the order of the world. He was a young man on his way to becoming a great man. He was going to be one of the great editors of his time, and at the age of 46 he was already one of its great journalists. And one's first thought about him, after saying the obvious--that he wrote like a dream, that he was a great reporter with great eyes, that he was a keen judge of what is news and what should be news--is this. He was an independent man. He had an indignant independence that was beauty to behold. He knew what he thought and why, and he announced it in his columns and essays with wit and anger.</p>

By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 4, 2003; 10:48 AM Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.

<p>EAST OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq--Near the crest of the bridge across the Euphrates River that Task Force 3-69 Armor of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division seized Wednesday afternoon was a body, which lay twisted from its fall.</p> <p>He had been an old man, judging from his blood-matted gray hair, and he was poor and not a regular soldier, judging from his clothes. He was lying on his back, not far from one of several burning skeletons of the small trucks that Saddam Hussein's willing and unwilling irregulars employed. The tanks and Bradleys and Humvees and bulldozers and rocket launchers, and all the rest of the massive stuff that makes up the American Army on the march, rumbled passed him, pushing on.</p>

Just announced 5 minutes ago, journalist Michael Kelley embedded with US troops for the Atlantic Monthly Magazine was reported killed during the military action at Baghdad International airport.That's all.

<p>EAST OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq--Near the crest of the bridge across the Euphrates River that Task Force 3-69 Armor of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division seized Wednesday afternoon was a body, which lay twisted from its fall.</p> <p>He had been an old man, judging from his blood-matted gray hair, and he was poor and not a regular soldier, judging from his clothes. He was lying on his back, not far from one of several burning skeletons of the small trucks that Saddam Hussein's willing and unwilling irregulars employed. The tanks and Bradleys and Humvees and bulldozers and rocket launchers, and all the rest of the massive stuff that makes up the American Army on the march, rumbled passed him, pushing on.</p>

WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, Iraq--Friday morning, after a gas scare (an Air Force plane bombed an Iraqi fuel or cargo truck nearby and the resulting fire had triggered a false reading), Sgt. Federico Alzerreca, of Bangor, Maine, took off his gas mask, his rubber boots, his rubber gloves and his cloth gloves underneath. He loosened the hood of his nuclear-biological-chemical suit. He lit a cigarette and pulled in some smoke and said, ``It's a shame America is so (blanking) nice. Otherwise, we would have taken this (blanking blank) out in a day.'' The war that the United States is...

<p>WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, Southern Iraq--On Monday afternoon, in a stifling hot tent that had been rigged up as the tactical operations center for the 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade, Maj. Benjamin Matthews sat half-slumped in a metal folding chair by a metal folding table in the sand. He looked very tired. Outside, a moderate sandstorm was beginning to kick up, and the air in the tent was hazy with brown dust.</p>

I know this article is couple days old and has been posted before, but I feel it needs to be re-introduced to FReepers so that we will not forget it. PARIS -- Last weekend, across Europe and America, somewhere between 1 million and 2 million people marched against a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. All protests against war are ultimately ethical in nature, and Saturday's placard-wavers did not break with tradition: "Give Peace a Chance," "Make Tea, Not War," "Bush and Blair -- the Real War Criminals." These are statements of sentiment, not power politics, and the sentiment is, or...

PARIS -- Last weekend, across Europe and America, somewhere between 1 million and 2 million people marched against a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. All protests against war are ultimately ethical in nature, and Saturday's placard-wavers did not break with tradition: "Give Peace a Chance," "Make Tea, Not War," "Bush and Blair -- the Real War Criminals." These are statements of sentiment, not power politics, and the sentiment is, or is meant to be, a moral one.

PARIS -- Last weekend, across Europe and America, somewhere between 1 million and 2 million people marched against a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. All protests against war are ultimately ethical in nature, and Saturday's placard-wavers did not break with tradition: "Give Peace a Chance," "Make Tea, Not War," "Bush and Blair -- the Real War Criminals." These are statements of sentiment, not power politics, and the sentiment is, or is meant to be, a moral one. Of course, not all the marchers can be counted as 99.9 percent pure moralists. Some -- perhaps many -- marched out of simple...

When Senator Ton Daschle, in the grip of post-party depression two weeks after his job as Senate Majority Leader was swept away in the midterm elections, held a press conference in Washington, D.C., he pretended to cast blame for the loss on talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular. This was preposterous, of course, a hissy fit unbecoming a grown-up much less a senator of these United States. Daschle was ridiculed,--even worse, he was quoted--but much of the media response wasn't quite on target. No one asked him why he had not divulged Limbaugh's nefarious machinations way back...

By Michael Kelly Wednesday, September 25, 2002; Distasteful as it may be, some notice should be paid to the speech that the formerly important Al Gore delivered Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. This speech, an attack on the Bush policy on Iraq, was Gore's big effort to distinguish himself from the Democratic pack in advance of another possible presidential run. It served: It distinguished Gore, now and forever, as someone who cannot be considered a responsible aspirant to power. Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now...