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New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins reads an excerpt from his book, The Forever War, in which he was in the middle of a B-52 attack on Northern Afghanistan in 2001.
New York Times Reporter Dexter Filkins remembers the nightly attacks in 2006 on the Ramadi Government Center located in the heart of the Al-Anbar Province. Filkins was reporting from the Marines post protecting the Government Center and tells the story from their perspective.
New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins has been covering Iraq since 2003 and Afghanistan since since 2001. Having recently returned, Filkins says that both the surge and the Sunni awakening have made living conditions in Iraq safer.
"Is it fragile? Absolutely. Will it last? No way to know. It could collapse tomorrow," says Filkins.